Holy Schitt’s! Canada swept the comedy categories this year at the 36th annual Television Critics Association Awards. It was announced Monday that the CBC/Pop-TV sitcom Schitt’s Creek, for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy, and Catherine O’Hara, for Individual Achievement in Comedy (playing Creek’s richly eccentric Moira Rose), were the tops in their categories as deemed by
The wait will soon be over for fans of Fargo. The series returns Sept. 27 for a fourth season — two-and-a-half years since Season Three premiered. The hold up is simply FX waiting for creator/writer/executive producer Noah Hawley to catch his breath. The man has been busy with other projects, including the fourth movie in
It’s always a good day to attend a TCA FX Networks press tour session — even if it is strictly a virtual, on-line experience. That was the case Wednesday as TV critics logged into three show panels as well as the always welcome executive session master class conducted by “The Mayor of Television,” FX Chairman
Dan Levy found himself in some heady company Wednesday. The Schitt’s Creek executive producer and co-star took part in the virtual press day hosted by Warner’s Media, part of the cable/streaming portion of this summer’s TCA. Levy, Bette Midler, Issa Rae, Kaitlyn Dever and Sarah Paulson all take part in the socially distanced comedy Coastal
Sarah Paulson was queen of the virtual press tour scene Tuesday, helping to promote the upcoming Netflix drama Ratched. The Emmy-winning actress will put a chill in bedpans everywhere next month as the nurse from Hell in a prequel to 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” The role won an Oscar for Louise Fletcher,
Happy birthday to Ken Burns. America’s documentarian turns 67 today. With all the new projects he has on the go, it will be a wonder if he has enough wind left to blow out his candles. Burns joined PBS’s President and CEO Paula Kerger, news anchor Judy Woodruff and historian Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Finally, a Television Critics Association press tour where I stand an even chance of not gaining any weight. Tuesday marks the start of three days of virtual press conference sessions from the viewers like you who run and program PBS. This will kick off the very first virtual, at home version of a TCA press
Today, Paul McCartney turns 78. He’s still fab, even if he now sounds more like a 78 than a 33 and a third. A colleague — Will Harris of Virginia — just posted on Facebook about the time he asked Paul McCartney a question. It was at a 2011 Television Critics Association press tour session.