One of the smartest people in television, in my estimation, is John Landgraf (left). Had the pleasure of chatting on the phone with the president and general manager of FX Wednesday for this CP piece on the deal behind FX Canada.I had flown home early from the TCA press tour in Los Angeles and missed
News that TBS has canceled Lopez Tonight isn’t a total surprise. Comedian George Lopez was working it hard in recent weeks with appearances on Late Show with David Letterman (his first sit down with Dave ever!) and a memorable turn on Piers Morgan Tonight. For my money, that was one of Morgan’s best CNN hours,
Now that the damn thing is over, a few observations looking back at the summer 2011 TCA tour: Pauley Perrette is not the star with the highest Q score in television, I don’t care what David Poltrack says. CBS should have had Ashton Kutcher at press tour, that would have been the session of the
The hardest part about having to leave the summer 2011 TCA press tour early was missing Saturday’s 27th Annual TCA Awards, especially the shout out to The Dick Van Dyke Show. The ’60s TV classic was honoured with the critics’ Heritage Award this year and ever-spry creator/executive producer Carl Reiner was on hand to accept it.
American Horror Story was by far the biggest scare thrown into critics at press tour–even more unsettling than the cash bar at the Lifetime session. Last week during the summer TCA press tour, FX hosted a screening of the gothic horror series at two old school Hollywood-style screening rooms right on the Fox lot, about a mile
UPDATE: I’m on The National tonight at 9 p.m. on CBC News Network and at 10 p.m. on CBC talkin’ Lucy. Miss Lucy’s 100th? You’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do.TCM has done it again by scheduling a Lucille Ball marathon in honour of the 100th anniversary of her birth. Smart programming–but why doesn’t Comedy Gold,
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.—It’s been a pretty good press tour when you can say you were in on sessions with Harry Belafonte, Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Lewis, Gloria Steinem, Davy Jones, Rosie O’Donnell, Hugh Laurie, Ken Burns, Anna Paquin, Smokey Robinson, Kelsey Grammar, Ted Danson, Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Cameron Crowe, Laura Dern, Al Jean, Sarah Michelle
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Who has the highest Q score in television? The Q score measures the popularity of entertainers. In the past, big names like Tom Hanks and Oprah have been at the top of the list, but the new champion, according to longtime CBS chief reseach whiz David Poltrack, is none other than–drum roll please–Pauley