I’ve got two stories in my new favorite newspaper, the Toronto Star. The first is the front of the Saturday Entertainment section, a report off the press tour on all the Canadians on new U.S. network shows this fall. Rob Salem sez they usually call it the Frostback feature. At the Sun we just called
Wish I was in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse meditation room right now.Tuesdays tour of the enormous set–one of five studio production visits crammed into the final day of press tour–was both cool and cruel. After a grueling TCA, with three weeks of network sessions crammed into two, it would have been nice to kick back and
Despite a CSI lead in (those summer reruns aren’t the draw they used to be), CBS’s move to Thursday night did little to boost Flashpoint‘s U.S. ratings in Week Three. The Toronto-produced thriller scored 6.7 million viewers last night, down slightly from Week Two (7.1 million), which was down 13% from Week One (8.13 million).Still,
LOS ANGELES–Today is getaway day here at the TCA press tour, and what have we learned? Some random thoughts.1. Jay Leno is not an attractive bald man.2. Howie Mandell is an attractive bald man, but he bobble head doll is a little creepy.3. A network that sells toasters which burn imprints of Star Wars characters
LOS ANGELES–Executive producer John Wells confirms that Fox has passed on Intelligence, the CBC drama he was re-developing as an American series with creator Chris Haddock (Da Vinci’s Inquest).“We developed it at Fox, they have passed on it and we’re taking it to other places because it’s a great script,” said Wells, interviewed on the
Flashpoint‘s second episode drew 7.1 million U.S. viewers, Friday night, down about a million from the CBS premiere one week before. Still healthy and respectable for a Friday night in July, says Mediaweek’s Programming Insider Marc Berman.
LOS ANGELES–Jay Leno–disguised as a TV critic in a bald-wig, fake beard and glasses–did a Jimmy Kimmel here Monday, crashing the NBC executives session with pointed questions about the whole late night transition deal. Kimmel showed up last week at the ABC session, doing a funny bit as a reporter off the top, asking questions
LOS ANGELES–What’s the expression–life is all about showing up? I showed up late at the NBC press tour party last night and missed out on a big deal–the surprise appearance of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott. Their celebrity reality show, Tori & Dean: Inn Love, airs here on the Oxygen Network, an over-looked cable service