BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly came out swinging at Thursday’s TCA press tour, with charts and graphs showing his network hasn’t slipped as far as CBS CEO Leslie Moonves suggests.Moonves was here a few days ago and dissed Fox, saying he always knew those years of A18-49 dominance would end once “Idol crashed”
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Back when I was at the Toronto Sun, I wrote a column praising Whose Line is it Anyway? as a very funny show the whole family could enjoy. That certainly was the case at my house.To my surprise, the day the story appeared, Colin Mochrie emailed out of the blue to thank me
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Nobody knows television like Mr. TV, Marc Berman. I’ve known Marc for years, shared a podium with him a while back at a BRC luncheon in Toronto and just generally rely on him, as many in the industry do, to break down the numbers and analyze how network shows perform.Marc posts a daily podcast
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–The big buzz on press tour Tuesday was not inside the hotel, but overhead. As critics picked through a Dexter-themed lunch outdoors at the Beverly Hilton’s Oasis Courtyard, a small aircraft circled in the sky, pulling a banner which read, “D NEVINS SHO FANS YOU CARE SAVE THE BORGIAS.COM.”The plea was aimed at
Williams (centre) flanked by Crazy colleagues Gellar and EP Jason Winer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Want to make Robin Williams laugh? Call his a Sad Clown.That’s what one critic did Monday on CBS’s TCA press tour presentation for The Crazy Ones. The comedy, coming this fall to CBS and City, stars Williams as the head of an
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–I have long told new kids attending these TCA press tours that they aren’t on this beat until they’ve been in a scrum with Leslie Moonves. The CBS CEO was on stage before critics because CBS president Nina Tassler–scheduled to take questions at the executive session–had to fly back East Saturday due to
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–“It’s the gunshot that echoed around the world–but who pulled the trigger?”That’s how the folks behind an upcoming documentary on the Kennedy assassination are hyping JFK: The Smoking Gun. The documentary premieres in November on the U.S. cable channel Reelz and on Discovery in Canada.Montreal-based Muse Entertainment–who produced the highly-rated 10-part miniseries The
Fox (right) with co-star Jack Gore BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Michael J. Fox says his Parkinson’s will be as much a part of his new NBC TV show as it is a part of his life.“Parkinson’s itself, there’s nothing horrifying about it to me,” he told critics at Saturday’s packed NBC TCA session. “There’s nothing horrifying about