LOS ANGELES–Today is getaway day here at the TCA press tour, and what have we learned? Some random thoughts.1. Jay Leno is not an attractive bald man.2. Howie Mandell is an attractive bald man, but he bobble head doll is a little creepy.3. A network that sells toasters which burn imprints of Star Wars characters
LOS ANGELES–Executive producer John Wells confirms that Fox has passed on Intelligence, the CBC drama he was re-developing as an American series with creator Chris Haddock (Da Vinci’s Inquest).“We developed it at Fox, they have passed on it and we’re taking it to other places because it’s a great script,” said Wells, interviewed on the
Flashpoint‘s second episode drew 7.1 million U.S. viewers, Friday night, down about a million from the CBS premiere one week before. Still healthy and respectable for a Friday night in July, says Mediaweek’s Programming Insider Marc Berman.
LOS ANGELES–Jay Leno–disguised as a TV critic in a bald-wig, fake beard and glasses–did a Jimmy Kimmel here Monday, crashing the NBC executives session with pointed questions about the whole late night transition deal. Kimmel showed up last week at the ABC session, doing a funny bit as a reporter off the top, asking questions
LOS ANGELES–What’s the expression–life is all about showing up? I showed up late at the NBC press tour party last night and missed out on a big deal–the surprise appearance of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott. Their celebrity reality show, Tori & Dean: Inn Love, airs here on the Oxygen Network, an over-looked cable service
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– “It’s a great time to be in broadcast television, isn’t it?” Tina Fey said last night at the 24th Annual TCA Awards. “It’s like being in vaudeville in the ’60s.”Fey was accepting one of two awards she picked up last night, one for Individual Achievement in Comedy, one for her show 30 Rock
LOS ANGELES–It was confirmed at press tour today that Shannen Doherty will be joining the new version of 90210.Last seen in ther short-lived reality series Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty, the 37-year-old actress played teenager Brenda Walsh on the original series. She’ll play the same character, now a drama teacher, on 90210 (premiering Sept. 2