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Yesterday was a set-visit day for the writers at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles; today begins the first full day of sessions from cable networks. (I expect full reports from that Weather Channel panel, folks!) But there’s already some news emerging out of the TV-meets-journalism confab at the Beverly …
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With Comic-Con having just wrapped up, the reporting-about-TV business shifts immediately to LA, where the Television Critics Association summer press tour begins today. I’ll be going back this year, but only for part of it—I admire and weep for my colleagues who do the entire two-week stint, plus Comic-Con. I’ll be in LA next week, …
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Critics spend much of the rest of the year griping about the awards choices of other organizations, so it’s only fair that once a year we allow you to do the same to us. The Television Critics Association (of which I’m a member) today announced its nominations for the 2011 TCA Awards. (The group is no relation to the Broadcast …
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Another round of headlines from the Television Critics’ Association winter press tour, which is winding down at the lovely Langham Hotel in Pasadena, and it was NBC’s turn to face the critics and reporters…
* …except no executives were on hand to do so. NBC has a new team coming in to run the network once the deal with Comcast is …
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More headlines from the Television Critics Association press tour out west:
* Don’t expect Conan O’Brien to make a Super Bowl commercial with Jay Leno this year either.
* Glee’s Heather Morris is ready to do more parody videos. And she has her own Flipcam now, so she can make that happen.
* Kevin Reilly asks reporters not to write …
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I was away from my desk on personal business yesterday, which means that not only was I absent from the TCA press tour, I was absent from not being at TCA press tour. Herewith, a selection of headlines from the last two days, as the broadcast networks began presenting to assembled TV reporters:
* Fox’s Kevin Reilly does not believe …
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While I shiver at my desk and another snowstorm practices on the South before heading up the East Coast, my TV critic brethren are still sitting through hours of TV executive presentations at the TCA press tour. Who has it worse? You be the judge! Over the weekend, the people-who-write-about-TV heard from the remaining cable …
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The cable portion of the Television Critics’ Association winter press tour has begun in Los Angeles. As appealing as Southern California—or even the inside of a hotel conference room—sounds from Brooklyn right now, I am not attending, for reasons personal and professional. But here
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The Television Critics Association press tour wrapped up over the weekend, with a blast of announcements from various cable channels. Whether it was the swords of Spartacus and Game of Thrones, the gangland pistols of Boardwalk Empire, or the ripped-bicep gun show that is Jersey Shore, they came heavily armed. (And look! Someone’s …
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It was PBS Day yesterday at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, and you know what that means: drugs, swearing and cattiness! By which, of course, I mean: steroids in baseball, a respectful discussion of FCC policy and The Cat in the Hat. The too-hot-for-TV highlights follow:
* Ken Burns gave a presentation for The Tenth …
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The Television Critics Association press tour usually has the assembled journalists peppering network executives with difficult, sometimes even hostile questions. But then there are networks like FX, which airs a roster of critical darlings. President John Landgraf took the stage yesterday and was greeted with questions about how much …
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Fox, which is riding high on Glee, has the Death Star (American Idol) and has contractors busily at work on Death Star 2 (a.k.a. Simon Cowell’s X Factor), presented at the Television Critics Association’s press tour yesterday. Here’s what they had to say—and didn’t:
* The biggest news hovering over the entire TCA tour has been the …
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While you carried on blissfully unaware with your life this weekend, the Television Critics’ press tour continued making the world safe for new TV shows. Or is that from them? In any event, a roundup of the news from NBC and ABC’s presentations:
* The producers of NBC’s sci-fi/thriller/mystery serial The Event would like your …
