The Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles continued its second week, as a chorus line of cable networks …
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TCA Roundup: Elementary, My Not-Too-Dear Watson
I’m back from the TCA press tour, but the show went on yesterday and Sunday at the Beverly Hilton, as CBS, The CW and Showtime presented their new fall shows (and some returning ones) to the nation’s TV critics and reporters. …
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TCA 2012: Homeland, Louie Win Big at TCA Awards
Last night at the Beverly Hilton, the Television Critics Association gave out the annual TCA Awards for the best in television at our annual summer meeting. And it may not surprise you that, since critics like me were voting, the …
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TCA 2012: ABC’s Tea Party Screw-Up Overshadows a Ratings Win
When ABC News scheduled a panel to open the Disney/ABC session of the Television Critics Association press tour, it was probably expecting to take a victory bow. It’s been a good several months in particular for the Good Morning …
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TCA 2012: Palins, Monkey Join NBC Media Circus
When you have a successful lineup of acclaimed shows at the Television Critics Association, all you need to do to get attention is to bring out the talented stars and creators who made the shows. When your network is in a, er, “rebuilding year,” you haul out all the stunts you can.
At NBC’s “meet the stars” cocktail party, poolside at …
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TCA 2012: Fringe—They Did It Their Way(s)
Fringe has never exactly done things the easy way. Having begun life, to all appearances, as a kind of early-X-Files anthology show about weird occurrences, the show got steadily more ambitious, involved and challenging–parallel …
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Programming Note: TCA, Here I Come
The Television Critics Association summer press tour in LA began over the weekend, two weeks of presentations, panel interviews, screenings and schmoozing with the makers and stars of new and returning fall TV shows.
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You Be the Critic: The TCA Awards Nominations Are Out
I spend enough time over the course of my year griping about awards and awards ceremonies that it’s only fair I should open the floor to comments when the one award-giving body I belong to takes its turn. The Television Critics’ …
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TCA Roundup: ABC, Where the B Stands for “Bitch”
So ABC had its turn to present at the Television Critics Association press tour yesterday, and recently installed network head Paul Lee addressed the question that I’m sure you were dying to hear answered: “So yeah, Paul, how …
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TCA Roundup: One Way or Another, You Are Stuck with Ryan Seacrest, America
While the Republican candidates were debating twice in ten hours and Tim Tebow was proving the existence of a football-obsessed God in the AFC wild card game, the TV networks continued to preview their midseason schedules at the …
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TCA Roundup: Critics Migrate Back to Pasadena, Romney Battles Big Bird
The Television Critics Association press tour got under way in Pasadena yesterday, kicking off nearly two weeks of presentations from broadcast and cable networks about their upcoming midseason shows. I’m not going this year—what? and leave Brooklyn in January?—but I’ll be reblogging highlights from the coverage of my various …
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TCA Roundup: ABC Plays Dress-Up
I checked out of the TCA television critic’s press tour a day and a half early, missing out on the final network to present, ABC, but plenty of TV writers have stayed to the bitter (except for the network-provided chocolate-chip-cookie swag) end. Here’s what they have to report.
* As I wrote earlier this summer, ABC this season will …
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Game of Thrones, Mad Men and Nick Effing Offerman Top TV Critics' Awards
Sunday night, the TCAs—the Teen Choice Awards—will be handed out on Fox, with millions watching. Saturday night, a less-lauded TCAs—the Television Critics Association awards—were handed out at the Beverly Hilton, away from the cameras but with (I have to assume) much better winners.
Among the winners (full list appears after …