LOS ANGELES–Jay Leno–disguised as a TV critic in a bald-wig, fake beard and glasses–did a Jimmy Kimmel here Monday, crashing the NBC executives session with pointed questions about the whole late night transition deal. Kimmel showed up last week at the ABC session, doing a funny bit as a reporter off the top, asking questions
LOS ANGELES–What’s the expression–life is all about showing up? I showed up late at the NBC press tour party last night and missed out on a big deal–the surprise appearance of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott. Their celebrity reality show, Tori & Dean: Inn Love, airs here on the Oxygen Network, an over-looked cable service
LOS ANGELES–At this morning’s all important TCA general membership meeting, one issue blazed about all others–where was breakfast! No network had stepped forward at this meeting to buy us silver trays full of fluffy whipped egg yokes, sausages, bacon, toasted bagels or even pancakes. Critics who had been guzzling down vats of freshly squeezed orange
LOS ANGELES– “It’s a great time to be in broadcast television, isn’t it?” Tina Fey said last night at the 24th Annual TCA Awards. “It’s like being in vaudeville in the ’60s.”Fey was accepting one of two awards she picked up last night, one for Individual Achievement in Comedy, one for her show 30 Rock
LOS ANGELES–It was confirmed at press tour today that Shannen Doherty will be joining the new version of 90210.Last seen in ther short-lived reality series Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty, the 37-year-old actress played teenager Brenda Walsh on the original series. She’ll play the same character, now a drama teacher, on 90210 (premiering Sept. 2
LOS ANGELES–The stars were out last night at the CBS press tour party, held at the latest hot spot, Hollywood club Boulevard3. Wandering throughout the crowded cabana or indoors in the library or courtyard bars were stars from CBS, Showtime and The CW.Chatted with Price is Right host Drew Carey for a while; he’s somebody
LOS ANGELES– You can’t kill MVP with a hockey stick.The “desperate hockey wives” soap may be out of the CBC playoffs but it is still in contention south of the border, where it airs on ABC Soapnet.I was standing with my Globe and Mail colleague John Doyle at the tragically under-air conditioned ABC party last
Fresh off the tour: CBS is so pleased with those surprise summer Flashpoint numbers they may order more episodes. Here’s my just-posted CP brief from this morning’s CBS press conference: LOS ANGELES — “Flashpoint” may be much more than a U.S. flash in the pan.CBS is so pleased with last Friday’s premiere ratings for their