PASADENA, Calif.–Comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham wanted to help critics out by offering some headlines for his TCA visit today. Dunham is the dude with all those big-headed dummies (no not the critics) he carts up to Just Four Laughs every summer. You know them–his cranky old man Walter, Peanut, Bubba Jr. and Achmed the Dead Terrorist
PASADENA, Calif.–Maybe its just because I’m sitting next to the constantly clicking still photographers, but the buzz level seems to have jumped a notch on Day Two of press tour. I’m in a session now for The History Network with Matt Damon and Marisa Tomei, both very involved with a program called The People Speak.
Flying in to LA for the semi-annual TCA press tour was like one big promo for NBC Universal. That’s because I flew in on American Airlines,which has a deal to show NBC Universal content on their airlines. The 737 I jetted in on did not have those cool new individual plasma screens on the seat
On a day when he was deflecting persistent questions about his citizenship, U.S. president Barack Obama turned up in the strangest place–the start of the semi-annual Television Critics Association press tour.TCA’s summer sessions began today in Pasadena, Calif., and Obama appeared via video in a session for his campaign chum, George Lopez. Lopez was live
Ratings for the CBC miniseries The Summit didn’t exactly hit any peaks last Sunday. Part One scored 415,000 viewers according to overnight BBM Canada estimates. Part Two of the political thriller, starring Bruce Greenwood as a defiant Canadian PM and Christopher Plummer as a prickly U.S. president, airs this Sunday.Other recent ratings numbers across Canada:
On this week’s radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson, we touch on news of a Seinfeld reunion on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Curb‘s Larry David, who co-created Seinfeld–considered one of the if not the funniest TV sitcom of all time–is going to have Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards all on his
Tonight, Hell’s Kitchen–the No. 1 show in the greater Toronto market last summer–returns to Fox and Citytv. The sixth edition opens with a two hour premiere at 8 p.m. Hell’s Kitchen also launches a new feature here at TVFMF–video reviews. These weekly “Box Score” reviews will tell you in one minute whether or not a
In general, TV critics are a pretty jaded bunch. Some of us have seen a few generations of Jonas Brothers, for example, come and go. Every once in a while, however, a real TV heavyweight makes a stop at one of the semi-annual Television Critics Association press tours in Los Angeles and everybody remembers why