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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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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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The CW, CWickly

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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