UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif–Nothing gets Canadian scribes at press tour more excited than a Flashpoint reference. CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler (left) threw us a bone this morning. “Flashpoint has been a terrific experience for us,” she said, adding that her network is looking at partnering with other “foreign countries” on future TV projects.Not that she
Maybe Canadian Idol is just “resting” after all. After today’s Fox press tour session, American Idol executive producer Ken Warwick told me he had no idea Canadian Idol had been yanked off CTV’s schedule.“Oh really? I didn’t know that,” said Warwick, also surprised to learn the last Canadian Idol finale didn’t even win its timeslot.
Wow. I knew hard times had impacted the press tour and that networks were through kissing out asses down here but I never knew it had come to this.
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.–Critics at press tour had their very own Golden Globes party Sunday night–although it was a pretty unglamourous event. It was a live screening of the 66th annual statue fest, held in a small empty room at the press tour hotel.The not-so-special screening, beamed on a single Plasma screen, meant that we didn’t
I saw photographer Barb Binstein snap this photo of Drew Barrymore while I was part of the mob surrounding the actress after her HBO session. I guess that’s why I have that dumb smiley face thing happening. It’s not the most flattering shot of either one of us, although that’s not Barb’s fault. It is
Friday’s crammed cable marathon is why some press wags refer to the TCA tour as the “Baatan death march with cocktails.” Critics had 45 minutes to run, eat and file the breaking news about Patrick Swayze before getting back down to new business. The afternoon sessions were even more jam-packed, with E!, HBO and the
People often ask: what’s press tour really like? Pretty cool, even in this age of cutbacks and contraction. Pretty busy, too, especially the just concluded cable section of the tour. In one day down here, critics were marched through 23 sessions representing 13 different cable channels, including the MTV networks and HBO. The scope of
Getting up to speed on a new lap top and chasing down a replacement AC power cord left behind in Toronto has me way behind on posting off the press tour. Apologies to the extended TVFMFamily family and thanks for your patience.Here’s something that should have been posted days ago: this week’s radio chat with