NBC entertainment president Ben Silverman admits the peacock network will likely lose Jay Leno once he leaves The Tonight Show in 2009. “I think it’s a reach,” Silberman tells Bill Carter in today’s New York Times. Carter was reporting on yesterday’s official announcement in New York that Jimmy Fallon will be taking over from Conan
The Cosby Show‘s Clair Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad, left middle next to Bill Cosby) was voted the Best TV Mom Ever in last weekend’s TV Feeds My Family Poll. Huxtable wins an all expense weekend for two to Sauble Beach, Ont., plus passes to the Jumpin’ Jiminy Centre. Guess she won for being a lawyer and
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there today, including my mom, Margaret (above with two of her favorite men: my dad, Ross, right, and the best man at their wedding, Jack Taglietti, left). The three of them are still raising cane(s).One other mom to single out is Sue Johanson, the grandmotherly sex educator
NBC–the network that had sworn off upfronts, pilots, fall seasons and all other broadcasting conventions, will host a scaled down upfront this Monday in New York. They’re calling it a presentation or something; there will be no party. CBS, Fox, ABC and The CW are also down playing their upfronts a little, most of them
It has been nearly a week since I was down in Walt Disney World. covering the promotional Olympics known as the Disney Channel Games. TV Feeds My Family’s younger readers (not to mention the Family Channel publicists who flew me down) are probably asking: Where are the photos of the Jonas brothers (above, with their
Paula Abdul‘s latest crack up on American Idol, the down low on next week’s network “upfronts” plus the latest on all those crazy Disney Channel kids are the hot topics this week with CHML’s Scott Thompson. Did those photos hurt Miley Cyrus among her core fans? Do five year olds read Vanity Fair? Listen in
Sue Johanson, the Toronto-based sex educator, is bringing her series Talk Sex With Sue Johanson to a close after “six sensuous seasons,” according to a release today from the Oxygen network. The call-in series will run out of Oxygen May 11.Johanson, 77, has been holding up dildos and vibrators on Canadian screens since 1985 when
We all knew that these upfronts would be different, and that the Canadian network buying spree would be more like an episode of Survivor this spring. The usual ways of doing business, due for a shake down anyway, are getting ripped up on both sides of the border. Tiki torches will be snuffed.Take today’s announcement