PASADENA, Calif.–When you’re ABC, what are you going to do after NBC and Fox steal all the press tour thunder?Stephen McPherson, president, ABC entertainment played it cool, bringing his macho sneer to the stage of the Langham ballroom Tuesday morning in a low watt exec session.After all the electricity and theatrics from Fox Sunday, ABC
PASADENA, Calif.–Fox crams a lot of fun into press tour, so much that it is best to just run the photos with fat captions. Otherwise I’ll miss the shuttle to the Fox party, taking place tonight at the Villa Sorriso in Pasadena’s charming Old Town district.The day started with a Bones breakfast. Nothing says bacon,
PASADENA, Calif.–Those sneaky Fox dudes did it again. Expectations were high heading into Monday’s Fox executive session at press tour, what with rumours swirling that Conan O’Brien might bolt NBC for Fox and that Simon Cowell might walk away from TV’s No. 1 show, American Idol, if Fox didn’t bring his smash hit Brit series
PASADENA, Calif.–NBC Chairman Jeff Gaspin came straight out Sunday and addressed the big breaking story of press tour—yes, Howie Mandel will be replacing David Hasselhoff as a judge on “America’s Got Talent.”Actually there was a bigger story, something to do with Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien and NBC affiliates flipping out and forcing Gaspin’s hand.
PASADENA, Calif.–Who were those NBC executives? Critics were shocked and confused this morning when Avators disguised as NBC programming executives took centre stage at the TCA press tour and treated us like adults, with graciousness, humility and respect.The one that looked like NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin was especially impressive. Gaspin stepped up, took total responsibility
PASADENA, Calif.–Saturday night’s all right for dancing at the Survivor 10th anniversary party, held last night at CBS Television City Studios in Beverly Hills.
PASADENA, Calif.—CBS fired up the Tiki torch and passed the Doritos for their 20th edition Survivor Party. The Saturday night shindig was held in a cavernous sound stage right at CBS’s Television City studios.The network crammed the place with every Survivor contestant who could still legally cross state lines. There were 213 names on the
PASADENA, Calif.–There’s been a lot of speculation on this press tour about NBC jamming Jay Leno in at 11:30 leading into a new, midnight, half hour Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. Anybody who saw the steam coming out of O’Brien’s nostrils on Friday’s Tonight Show could tell there is some danger of this actually happening.