The CW’s new ‘Beauty and the Beast’ may steal from Whedon, cop shows and Marvel Comics, but it somehow manages to miss the …
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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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Upfronts Watch: The CW: More Beauties, More Beasts
In my upfronts post about ABC the other day, I talked about how the broadcast networks spend the week trying to distinguish themselves from each other, even though they are far more like each other than the much-more-specialized cable networks are. The CW is an exception. Its ratings are much more like cable (often below some cable …
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CW at Press Tour: Sarah Michelle Gellar and I Are Getting Older
This is what the TV obsession with demographics hath wrought: at TCA press tour session for the new thriller Ringer, Sarah Michelle Gellar, a 34-year-old woman, was fielding questions that implied she might be too old to be starring in a show on the CW network.
The meme began when one reporter at the panel began a question by …
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Upfronts 2011: Sarah Michelle Gellar Is Back, and Other Familiar Sights from The CW
The CW is TV’s newest major (if you want to call it that) broadcast network, even if you count the predecessors it was formed from—The WB and UPN—which date back to the mid-’90s. But it’s old enough by now to have a history, and the new shows it announced today, rounding out the broadcast upfronts for the year, recall that history …
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TCA Roundup: Joey Was the Setup, Here's the Punchline
Though the Television Critics Association press tour approaches two weeks (and used to go on longer), some critics would save time and money by jetting in only for a few days of big-network presentations. The conglomerates who own those networks have learned to counter this by bundling their smaller networks’ dog-and-pony-shows in with …
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The CW's Schedule: More Adding Than Subtracting
The CW was the last broadcast network to announce its fall 2010 slate today, and while Melrose Place is no longer for this world, the news was more about additions: for the first time the network will air originals every night (of the five nights it programs), rather than using “encores” of shows like America’s Next Top Model. One Tree …
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Who Cares About a Melrose Place Remake?
As the New York Times told us yesterday, only the olds use Twitter. Readers of Tuned In are uniformly young and beautiful, and so you have no idea that, over on Twitter, some of us elderly TV critics—breathing the stench of the grave with every tweet—have been debating how the new CW remake stands up to the original that aired on …
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Today's TCA Roundup
As the TV critics’ press tour continued in Pasadena, CBS (along with sibling network The CW) wrapped up its presentations and NBC has just begun its portion. Some headlines:
* NBC’s Angela Bromstad answered—or judging by early press reactions, evaded—questions about Jay Leno, Ben Silverman, Kings, Paula Abdul, Chuck and more at …
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Melrose, Placed: The CW's Fall Sked
The CW announced its fall premiere schedule, and it’s a relatively straightforward, unfancy one, with all the debuts wrapped up by the end of September, just like networks did when CW viewers’ great-great-grandparents watched TV in the 1970s. As 90210 did last year, the Melrose Place remake gets a start ahead of most broadcast premieres. …
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The CW Rolls Out More Glampires
By rights, The CW should be one of the hugest success stories on TV. This is, after all, the heyday of the Twilight books and movie(s), whose moody, romantic vampires have bewitched the young women in precisely The CW’s demographic.
The CW–in its previous incarnations of The WB and UPN–was doing spooky-romantic before …
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Corporate Press Release Theater: CW's Outsourced Sunday
One more bit of post-upfront fall-schedule news: The CW has announced its Sunday-night lineup, which it contracted out to studio Media Rights Capital. On tap, dirty jobs, family comedy—and a whole lot of product integration:
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The cast of 90210 (sans the “Beverly Hills”). / Frank Ockenfels/ The CW
I had to bail on The CW’s schedule presentation after ABC’s last night, but having heard that there were no clips of the 90210 remake—the main thing I would have wanted to see—I don’t feel quite so bad. But here’s the roundup of the network’s news in brief:
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