PASADENA, Calif.–When the name of your cable channel is Planet Green, and tree hugger Ed Begley Jr. is your guest, you better not waste any energy. That`s why buddy to the right was hired to peddle a bicycle-powered smoothie blender contraption at Planet Green`s press tour session earlier this week. The group behind the peddle-powered
PASADENA, Calif.–Ever try to interview a Muppet? Critics got to hang with their favourite Sesame Street characters this morning on the PBS portion of the TCA press tour, where the 40th anniversary of the landmark childrens show was celebrated.Talking to a Muppet shaves 40 years off a critic. It was fun to watch and participate
PASADENA, Calif.–Joan Rivers was her usual blunt and funny self at press tour. The 76-year-old comedy legend was here to promote her new U.S. cable series How’d You Get So Rich (coming Aug. 5 to TVLand but so far not on TVLand Canada’s schedule).On the show, Rivers barges into mansions and asks people how they
Crazy, whirlwind pace to press tour today, and we still haven’t arrived at the HBO sessions.This morning, TV Critics P.R. darling Cindy Ronzoni threw a press breakfast for the Lifetime Network. The female-skewing cable net does not cross the Canadian border, but some of its shows do, including the family comedy Rita Rocks (airing on
PASADENA, Calif.–Lorenzo Lamas looks Mahvelous. The former Falcon Crest and Renegade dude was at press tour today to help promote The Lamas Life, a celebrity reality show/dysfunctional family TV intervention airing Stateside on E! Entertainment Television.Still impossibly tanned and trim, if a little Tommy Lee leathery, Lamas sat on stage with daughters Shayne Lamas, son
PASADENA, Calif.–Comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham wanted to help critics out by offering some headlines for his TCA visit today. Dunham is the dude with all those big-headed dummies (no not the critics) he carts up to Just Four Laughs every summer. You know them–his cranky old man Walter, Peanut, Bubba Jr. and Achmed the Dead Terrorist
PASADENA, Calif.–Maybe its just because I’m sitting next to the constantly clicking still photographers, but the buzz level seems to have jumped a notch on Day Two of press tour. I’m in a session now for The History Network with Matt Damon and Marisa Tomei, both very involved with a program called The People Speak.
Flying in to LA for the semi-annual TCA press tour was like one big promo for NBC Universal. That’s because I flew in on American Airlines,which has a deal to show NBC Universal content on their airlines. The 737 I jetted in on did not have those cool new individual plasma screens on the seat