BEVERLY HILLS, CA–ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee says he loves Rookie Blue and is looking to add more scripted–and perhaps Canadian–co-productions onto his schedule next summer.“Those co-productions are super smart,” he said in Friday’s post-executive session press tour scrum. “They’re cheap, they get watched around the world but they’re high quality. It’s a good model
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Called on the Graysons today in the Hamptons but they weren’t home. Damn–I wanted to borrow some Grey Poupon!Actually, I was down in Manhattan Beach, south of Inglewood, with dozens of other TCA journalists as well as some international press. We were shuttled in to the Raleigh Studios soundstage where the ABC hit
Kerry Washington with Jimmy Kimmel. He works nights And the Emmy for the greatest Emmy Awards Nomination Ceremony photo op of all time goes to Jimmy Kimmel (above, with co-presenter Kerry Washington from Scandal and below with Washington and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences chairman Bruce Rosenblum).Kimmel is in his jammies because they announce these things
Wallenda practices Thursday untethered and alive. Ida Mae Astute/ABC This week, Scott Thompson at CHML wanted to know if I thought Nik Wallenda will be a bit hit on TV Friday night as he walks across Niagara Falls. “Is this Harry Houdini TV come back to us?” asks Scott.My take is that this is silly
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know all about this nut bar Nik Wallenda and his bright idea to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Specifically what the deal was with ABC insisting the dude be tethered to the cable as a condition of their airing the stunt (June 15; CTV is also
Dance champs Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd. Adam Taylor/ABC I’m sure there was a time when I would have said you’d have to pay me to watch every minute of a season’s worth of Dancing with the Stars. Well, TheStar.com did, and have to admit that by the time this thing ended Tuesday night I
Sandra Oh reads Grey‘s finale script, considers calling her agent The Toronto Star asked me to recap Thursday night’s eighth season finale of Grey’s Anatomy. There was a plane crash, a death, a proposal, a firing and a lost shoe. This series really wants you back, but seriously? Thought I had tuned into a Lost/Walking
The ladies of Wisteria Lane play their last hand. ABC/Ron Tom Desperate Housewives threw in the cards after eight frothy seasons with the ending Marc Cherry always had in mind. Viewers into prime time soaps will have to content with guilty pleasure Revenge next season, with CGB also canceled. (Although the grandaddy of them all,