TV network executives may want shows with one big idea to hook viewers early, but if those viewers are going to stick around, …
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The Morning After: Stop… Pooping!
So here’s the deal: Now that Parks and Recreation is back and Archer has returned, on Thursday night we have several sitcoms that are capable of delivering a killer episode. Last season I tried for a while doing a picture gallery of Thursday comedies with paragraph reviews, but I felt I managed to hit everything without satisfyingly …
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Sponsors Won't Punish $#*! for Bad Language, Will for Bad Ratings
I’m not going to pretend you didn’t see this coming, but the Parents Television Council has called on advertisers to boycott CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, based on the Twitter feed shitmydadsays and the subsequent book. “Unless or until CBS chooses a different title for this program, we are urging advertisers to avoid sponsoring such an …
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TCA Roundup: Julie Chen's Hat Trick
News, and “news,” from CBS’s day at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles:
* Did you know that Les Moonves, president of CBS Corporation, is married to CBS personality Julie Chen? And did you know that, just coincidentally, Julie Chen happens to be the most talented person at the entire CBS network, and possibly …
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Survivor L.A.!: A TCA Roundup, From Someone Who's Not There
Another reason the McPhenestration of Steve McPherson at ABC is not such a surprise, at least in its timing, is that yesterday was the beginning of the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles. Networks often dump execs before their TCA sessions, because that allows them to get unpleasant business out of the way, while …
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Test Pilot: $#*! My Dad Says
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …
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CBS's Upfront: C, B and the S-Word
CBS began its upfront presentation making the vigorous case to advertisers that there is nothing wrong with broadcast TV, with the broadcast TV model, or with the advertisers that support it. CBS chief exec Les Moonves told the assembled admen and -women that he felt “bullish” on the economy. CBS’s sales chief Jo Ann Ross said that, no …
