TCA Press Tour: What a Long, Strange Trip It’ll Be
Barely an hour after I set foot into the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, Piers Gibbon offered me a shrunken head to eat. The heads in question were made of marzipan and cake, and part of promoting Gibbon’s...
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HBO Renews “Entourage,”“True Blood” and “Hung”
HBO wants to do keep on doing bad things with its current Sunday lineup next summer. In the channel’s executive session, HBO co-president Richard Plepler and Michael Lombardo, president of its...
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Davies, Tennant on Vacating “Doctor Who”
The longest running science fiction series in television history, “Doctor Who,” is a beloved pop culture icon in its native U.K. Among U.S. viewers, however, coming out as a Whovian used to be a bit...
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Will Starz Rise on the Strength of “Spartacus”?
Premium cable is in no way a necessity. That’s why the onus has been on channels such as HBO and Showtime to give us a reason to pony up those extra bucks for a subscription. HBO’s answer was “The...
View ArticleE!: Living “The Lamas Life”
When, in the history of entertainment, have you heard of anyone switching on an E! reality show, taking a deep cleansing breath and saying out loud, “Let the healing begin”? Take your time, we’ll wait....
View ArticleWinners Announced for the 25th Annual TCA Awards
It isn’t often that you find Betty White as well as the casts of “True Blood” and “Yo Gabba Gabba!” congregating near an open bar. The Television Critics Association Awards ceremony, however, is a...
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TCA Quick Hits: Set visits to “NCIS: Los Angeles,”“Dollhouse”
This post was originally going to be titled “Quick Shots of False Hope,” in both homage to comedienne Laura Kightlinger’s entertaining essay collection, and in acknowledgment that even good TV news...
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Quick Shots of False Hope: CBS Takes a Day
Some networks have more reason to be legitimately positive about their place in the world than others, CBS topmost among them. The Eye only has four new primetime series premiering this fall, one of...
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Continuing Education and “The Vampire Diaries”…Discuss.
Let me be clear, this writer understands the allure of vampires in popular culture. I was fully on board for Anne Rice’s Lestat books back in their day. “The Hunger,” “Near Dark,” “The Lost Boys,”...
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Quick Shots of False Hope: Notes from The CW. Mostly “Melrose”.
New faces, new dramas, same pool. That could refer to Press Tour itself, since most of the conference involves around 250 electronic and print journalists being trapped in a hotel, but no. This...
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