LOS ANGELES–Like a sniper high up in a protected perch, USA Today TV critic Robert Bianco took lethal aim at Flashpoint this morning. “Here’s yet one more thing we can blame on the writers’ strike,” he begins. “Surely had CBS not been terrified that it would run out of product, it would not have imported
Sometimes a lot of negative talk lowers expectations to the point where a little good news goes a long way. That was the feeling I had entering the Beverly Hilton today as I joined the TCA July 2008 press tour. The session rooms were well attended and, despite the sharp downturn in the newspaper business,
Heading down to LA in the morning to join the TCA press tour, which officially began yesterday and runs through until July 22. There has been much speculation that this is the last tour, that the newspaper business and the TV business are in a mad dash to see who goes over the cliff first.TV
Let me tell you about this crazy dream I had. I dreamt that I was deep inside Television City–CBS’s post-modern, black and white broadcast bunker. It looms large in Los Angeles at the corner of Beverly and Fairfax, just north of the famed Farmer’s Market. The building was built way back in 1952–56 years ago,
We now resume our regular programming. Among the things to catch up on here at TV Feeds My Family are some tales from my trip to Los Angeles late last month. One of the highlights was a visit to the set of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. This was especially interesting coming exactly
Do not adjust your blog. I am up at the not so electric cottage. My brilliant plan to drive in from the lake and file every day from the lovely MacBeth Cafe in Sauble Beach–the only place around here with wireless internet access–is proving to be a bit tricker than I thought, given all the
While on the set of Dexter last Monday in Los Angeles, I had a chance to check out the famed Sunset Gower Studios. This 16 acre lot, right in the heart of Hollywood, has been around since the ‘2os and once was the home of Columbia Pictures. The Three Stooges used to wooo wooo wooo
That’s me on CHCH’s Live @ 5:30 this afternoon (with Hamilton’s broadcast Bickersons, Mark Hebscher and Donna Skelly), caught up in some hullabaloo about an outburst at a comedy club. Seems some women who identified themselves as lesbians were targeted by a stand up comedian and now the whole thing is before the B.C. human