The ladies of Downton Abbey. Whot? Us scrum? Cheeky. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–PBS days on TCA press tours are always a step up. After two weeks of new network comedies and cop shows, of high concepts and low brow time wasters, PBS really does challenge critics to think beyond the box, to be more.Not that it’s
Doyle’s leap to Sundays probably looked easier at the start of the season It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. CBC’s Republic of Doyle was coming off its third and highest-rated season ever. Every single week last Winter and Spring, the Newfoundland-based cop drama pulled over a million total viewers. With high
Josh Groban and the late Jimmy Kimmel. Todd Wawrychuk/ABC Nobody was paying me to watch The Emmy Awards last night, so I missed the cold opening and Kimmel’s monologue. I caught up Monday morning on YouTube, however. That was the best way to go, because YouTube, unlike CTV, had it with the sound on–a big
McGovern and MacLaine. Rahoul Ghose/PBS As one might have expected, Shirley MacLaine stole the show at the Downton Abbey press conference Saturday night at TCA. If anything, the 78-year-old Oscar-winner didn’t speak enough–and skipped the post conference social–but when she did talk she was blog gold. MacLaine will appear this coming season (beginning Jan. 6