LOS ANGELES–Tori Spelling and Canadian-born hubby Dean McDermott were among the former child stars, rehab regulars and assorted D-listers scrambling for cash this weekend at the Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show.The autograph market, which was held at the Burbank Marriott airport hotel, is a surreal experience for even the most devout TV fan. The hotel’s
LOS ANGELES–Now that the contract for the Screen Actors Guild has expired, many in Hollywood are getting nervous that the horror of last winter’s writers’ strike could shut down Hollywood again.The subject keeps coming up on press tour. Here to promote a Lifetime network bio of Coco Chanel, Shirley MacLaine came right out and said,
LOS ANGELES–Remember The Electric Company? PBS, as we learned this morning at press tour, is bringing back the educational kiddie franchise; the new series premieres in January. It will feature “literacy super heroes.” Wycliff Jean contributes some new songs.I also learned, because I was sitting next to Alan Sepinwall (from The New Jersey Star-Ledger, who
LOS ANGELES–Elvis Costello rocked the house this week here at press tour. I spoke with his Canadian entourage, three dudes from Winnipeg, who are behind Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…, a new series of intimate conversations with the rich and famous. Elton John (also a producer on the series), Tony Bennett, Lou Reed and Bill Clinton
LOS ANGELES–May the force fed be with us.In a highly unusual move, critics were forced to watch television this morning at press tour. Naturally, there was hell to pay.An entire’ 22-minute episode of George Lucas’s animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars was shown on giant, high definition screens in the main ballroom of the
LOS ANGELES–Like a sniper high up in a protected perch, USA Today TV critic Robert Bianco took lethal aim at Flashpoint this morning. “Here’s yet one more thing we can blame on the writers’ strike,” he begins. “Surely had CBS not been terrified that it would run out of product, it would not have imported
Sometimes a lot of negative talk lowers expectations to the point where a little good news goes a long way. That was the feeling I had entering the Beverly Hilton today as I joined the TCA July 2008 press tour. The session rooms were well attended and, despite the sharp downturn in the newspaper business,
Heading down to LA in the morning to join the TCA press tour, which officially began yesterday and runs through until July 22. There has been much speculation that this is the last tour, that the newspaper business and the TV business are in a mad dash to see who goes over the cliff first.TV