John Noble says working the twin storyline this season on Fringe has been a “delicious” challenge. “As an actor, I just love taking risks,” he says. “Anything they’ve thrown at me, I’ve just grabbed it.”I chatted with the 62-year-old Australian on the phone yesterday in advance of tonight’s mid-season return of Fringe, which was has
One of the joys of working the TCA press tour in Pasadena earlier this month was chatting with the cheery cast members of Outsourced. The NBC comedy has defied early predictions to emerge as a success story this season, especially creatively. Back before it launched, when I asked my teenage son Daniel if he found the pilot hilarious
CBC’s Stewart: not big on numbers at the moment Yesterday in the Globe and Mail, CBC entertainment president Kirstine Stewart suggested she was going to get rid of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune and get the public network back to all-Canadian happy land. Stewart knows this plays well with Globe readers, including the political movers
Leave it to Piers Morgan to explain why he and all he other blunt Brits do so well on American TV. Morgan was at the cable portion of press tour over a week ago to promote the launch tonight of his new series Piers Morgan Tonight (CNN, 9 p.m.). Morgan, of course, is replacing two
Glee’s Cory Monteith PASADENA, CA–People have this impression of press tour as this non-stop party deal, just free booze and party snax and endless mingling with Paris, the cast of Glee and all the beautiful people of television. They probably get this impression from blog postings like this one. For there are evening events throughout
PASADENA, CA–First question at CBS president Nina Tassler’s executive session: what up with Charlie Sheen.Tassler knew that was coming and had a joke about knowing it was coming ready. Then she got serious. “He knows the level of concern we have,” she said. She mentioned that Sheen is a father and she has concerns on
PASADENA, CA–Despite being touched by Oprah Winfrey, I’ve been sick as a dog this press tour. Like NBC executives at this TCA deal, I’ve almost completely lost my voice.This makes working the parties down here very difficult. The networks cram in as much talent as they can limo to their evening events and we all have
PASADENA, CA–Smart move, CBC, moving the second season premiere of Republic of Doyle away from last week’s finale of the World Junior Hockey Championships.Alan Hawco’s free wheelin’ P.I. hour came roaring back Wednesday night at 9 with 1,038,000 viewers. Following Dragon’s Den probably didn’t hurt–it hit what I believe is a series high of 2,182,000 overnight estimated viewers.CBC had a