On the Bat-phone: “Hi, I’m Adam West. You now owe me ten dollars” BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Holy photo-op Batman! PBS delivered blog gold on wheels Monday, parking the Batmobile out front of the Beverly Hilton.This wasn’t the original Batmobile from the 1966-68 ABC series–that car sold at auction in Phoenix in January for US$4.62M–but the No.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Back when I was at the Toronto Sun, I wrote a column praising Whose Line is it Anyway? as a very funny show the whole family could enjoy. That certainly was the case at my house.To my surprise, the day the story appeared, Colin Mochrie emailed out of the blue to thank me
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Nobody knows television like Mr. TV, Marc Berman. I’ve known Marc for years, shared a podium with him a while back at a BRC luncheon in Toronto and just generally rely on him, as many in the industry do, to break down the numbers and analyze how network shows perform.Marc posts a daily podcast
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–The TV on Film Project comes to California. TV reporters attending the summer Television Critics Association press tour at the Beverly Hilton will have an opportunity on Sunday, July 28 at 12:45 p.m. to step back nearly 40 years. “See The Best…CBS” was shown at the 1974 upfront in New York and made
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Just as one Canadian network prepares to turn down the music, a new venture in the U.S. is about to crank it up.Sean Combs was at the Television Critics Association press tour Friday morning to hype Revolt, a new music-focused cable channel coming to 25 million U.S. homes this fall.The 43-year-old rapper, record
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–There are times when it seems as if half the actors on American television are Canadians–if not Brits, Aussies or Kiwis. It’s as if Hollywood was trying to address the growing number of Americans in the National Hockey League by allowing more Canadians into Hollywood.Besides the usual suspects such as Tyler Labine (NBC’s notorious
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Jeff Probst usually does more listening than talking at Survivor tribal councils.On Sunday, he spoke up, telling critics an amazing story about how his Tikki torch first got lit on the long-running reality show.The 50-year-old was before critics to promote his new daytime talk series, The Jeff Probst Show. Probst joins Katie Couric and Rikki
“Stop tweeting my jokes, dammit!” Rahoul Ghose/PBS This is legendary comedian Dick Gregory. He’s mad I`m not at his TCA press tour session this morning. Calm down, Dick, I’ll be there soon.The summer 2012 Television Critics Association press tour kicked off this morning with Day One of two days of PBS. (The tour runs through