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–Sometimes when you are down here filing to six or seven different media outlets at once you get stuck in your room filing on deadline and you miss something unexpected. Like this exchange this morning from the ABC executive session with network programming president Stephen McPherson (thank God for transcripts): JIMMY KIMMEL (from the
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
Last week in New York for my birthday, I treated myself a taping of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. I’ve had that privilege several times in the past and always found it the fastest hour you can spend in Manhattan. Plus, well, tickets are free. The show is taped in Studio 6A deep within that
The Hollywood Reporter has posted Jimmy Kimmel‘s best lines from the ABC upfront this week. Kimmel has hosted the Manhattan bash the past few years. Among his keepers from Tuesday’s event: “Here at ABC we’re very excited about both our new shows.” And: “NBC are calling it their ‘infront’ this year because they’re just in
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
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
Steve Allen may have invented late night, but by the time I spoke with him in 1992, at the age of 71, he rarely watched it anymore. This excerpt from that conversation was unearthed for a book on late night TV I am in the process of writing. If you missed Part One of my