BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Full disclosure: I’ve long had a big crush on Diane Lane. The 47-year-old actress joined Meg Ryan, America Ferrera and husband-and-wife journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn at Sunday’s TCA press tour session for PBS’s Independent Lens documentary special Half the Sky (premiering Oct. 1 and 2).Lane and the others talked about their participation
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood this morning as PBS hosted a breakfast for early risers at the TCA press tour. On each table were several machine washable coffee thermos, compete with a little red knit sweater–just like Mister Rogers used to wear, only shrunk. Fred Rogers died in 2003 at
McGovern and MacLaine. Rahoul Ghose/PBS As one might have expected, Shirley MacLaine stole the show at the Downton Abbey press conference Saturday night at TCA. If anything, the 78-year-old Oscar-winner didn’t speak enough–and skipped the post conference social–but when she did talk she was blog gold. MacLaine will appear this coming season (beginning Jan. 6
“Stop tweeting my jokes, dammit!” Rahoul Ghose/PBS This is legendary comedian Dick Gregory. He’s mad I`m not at his TCA press tour session this morning. Calm down, Dick, I’ll be there soon.The summer 2012 Television Critics Association press tour kicked off this morning with Day One of two days of PBS. (The tour runs through
Kerry Washington with Jimmy Kimmel. He works nights And the Emmy for the greatest Emmy Awards Nomination Ceremony photo op of all time goes to Jimmy Kimmel (above, with co-presenter Kerry Washington from Scandal and below with Washington and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences chairman Bruce Rosenblum).Kimmel is in his jammies because they announce these things
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson seemed rattled by the possibility that I had posted a nude picture of Fabio on TVFMF. He’s referring to this shot (below) of some of the photogenic contestants from Big Brother, back for a 14th season on CBS and Global. I’m pretty sure the good folks at CBS are not
TCM salutes the late, great Andy Griffith tonight, starting at 8 p.m. with his breakthrough role in A Face in the Crowd (1957). If you haven’t seen this film,directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg, it is startlingly relevant today. Griffith plays a drifter plucked off the streets and thrust into the white-hot
When cooking shows, Big Brother (right) and Big Bang repeats top the ratings across Canada, it can only mean one thing—it’s summer. Even those shows failed to crack the two million mark. Viewers continue to sit out this summer season, with network ratings down double digits on Canadian and U.S.broadcast networks. With viewers taking a break,