LOS ANGELES–Remember The Electric Company? PBS, as we learned this morning at press tour, is bringing back the educational kiddie franchise; the new series premieres in January. It will feature “literacy super heroes.” Wycliff Jean contributes some new songs.I also learned, because I was sitting next to Alan Sepinwall (from The New Jersey Star-Ledger, who
LOS ANGELES–Elvis Costello rocked the house this week here at press tour. I spoke with his Canadian entourage, three dudes from Winnipeg, who are behind Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…, a new series of intimate conversations with the rich and famous. Elton John (also a producer on the series), Tony Bennett, Lou Reed and Bill Clinton
LOS ANGELES–May the force fed be with us.In a highly unusual move, critics were forced to watch television this morning at press tour. Naturally, there was hell to pay.An entire’ 22-minute episode of George Lucas’s animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars was shown on giant, high definition screens in the main ballroom of the
LOS ANGELES–Like a sniper high up in a protected perch, USA Today TV critic Robert Bianco took lethal aim at Flashpoint this morning. “Here’s yet one more thing we can blame on the writers’ strike,” he begins. “Surely had CBS not been terrified that it would run out of product, it would not have imported
Sometimes a lot of negative talk lowers expectations to the point where a little good news goes a long way. That was the feeling I had entering the Beverly Hilton today as I joined the TCA July 2008 press tour. The session rooms were well attended and, despite the sharp downturn in the newspaper business,
Heading down to LA in the morning to join the TCA press tour, which officially began yesterday and runs through until July 22. There has been much speculation that this is the last tour, that the newspaper business and the TV business are in a mad dash to see who goes over the cliff first.TV
Let me tell you about this crazy dream I had. I dreamt that I was deep inside Television City–CBS’s post-modern, black and white broadcast bunker. It looms large in Los Angeles at the corner of Beverly and Fairfax, just north of the famed Farmer’s Market. The building was built way back in 1952–56 years ago,
We now resume our regular programming. Among the things to catch up on here at TV Feeds My Family are some tales from my trip to Los Angeles late last month. One of the highlights was a visit to the set of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. This was especially interesting coming exactly