This is as close as I got to Adam Levine, ChristinaAguilera, Blake Sheldon and Cee Lo Green at theNBC Winter 2012 press tour party PASADENA, CA–It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that NBC needs a lift to get back in the ratings race. Nonetheless, the Peacock network held the first network party of
Who has Canada’s worst customer service? Marketplace answers the question tonight when the CBC consumer watchdog series returns tonight at 8 ET/PT.We’ve all had to wait on-line or on the phone for lousy customer service, or been treated like a hitch hiker with pets in person at a returns desk. Host Erica Johnson and her
PASADENA, CA–What did NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt tell critics attending TCA Friday morning?The first network executive session of the tour will be hard to top for candor. Unlike long time CBS programming boss Nina Tassler, for example–the Queen of the non-answer–Greenblatt actually answers questions.As usual, a few of the best goodies came in the
The one and only. Photo: Rahoul Ghose/PBS PASADENA, CA–Tony Bennett forgot a few words to one of the songs he sang for critics attending the TCA press tour Thursday night–evidence that he is mortal.Otherwise, the legendary singer ran up the steps leading to the stage, in the dark, and belted out one show-stopping tune after
Always curious Scott Thompson asks about the January Television Critics Association semi-annual press tour taking place now until mid-month in Pasadena. I give him the scoop, plus we yak about the many new shows starting this month in the U.S. and Canada, including a whole whack of goodies from CBC (Mr. D, Redemption Inc., Arctic
B-52s’ Pierson, Schneider and Wilson can still rock the Love Shack PASADENA, CA–Talk/singer Fred Schneider looks like Tintin at 60 and go-go babes Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson look like Snooki’s eccentric aunts but the B-52s got this TCA Winter press tour off to one hell of a start Wednesday. The ultimate party band that
“Lucy–you got some smokin’ to do!” SAN FRANCISCO—At first, I was kinda bummed my flight to Pasadena to attend the January 2012 TCA press tour would detour through the San Fran airport, a necessary stopover in order to cash in some Areoplan points. Mmmm–points. Then I happened upon a treasure trove of television history. Truly,
The Canadian Press reports that author, activist and former University of Toronto professor Josef Skvorecky has passed away in Toronto. Skvorecky was 87.After helping to engineer the Prague Spring, the Czech nationalist and his wife Zdena fled their homeland in 1968 when tanks rolled in from the Soviet Union. Pals with Czech heavyweights Milos Forman