Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother after the jump:
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Kill Your Idols: Cowell to Quit AI, Create Rival—for Fox
Fox network made official today what has been buzzed about in TV circles for weeks: that Simon Cowell will leave American Idol after this season to import his singing-talent show X-Factor from Great Britain. Reports from the TCA TV critics’ press tour in Pasadena say Cowell literally just signed his deal with Fox, dramatically, on stage …
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Good News for People Who Like Bad News
Breaking Bad news, that is: The searing AMC drama returns for its third season March 21. With that, Justified and HBO’s The Pacific, we are looking at March coming in like a lion. Excerpts from the release after the jump:
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Palin to Fox News; MSNBC Pundits to Senate?
About a week ago, I wrote a column on the media as today’s preferred fast-track to a political career. Now I might need to update it already. The New York Times is reporting that former governor / current author-Facebook-updater Sarah Palin is signing with Fox News as a contributor and host of “an occasional series.”
Let’s see if this …
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Press Tour: More Glee, More Schadenfreude
This week, the Television Critics Association is holding the winter version of its press tour in Pasadena, where TV networks are giving presentations on their midseason lineups. I’m not there, but here are some highlights from people who are:
* Fox has confirmed a second season of Glee for next year, and they’re holding a casting search …
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Chuck Up!
There actually is some good news for NBC today, even if, naturally, it comes from a show that the network was once on the verge of ensuring would never see another season. The double-shot season premiere of Chuck got the spy comedy-drama its best ratings since its 3D stunt episode last year.
Celebrate, but don’t relax …
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Big Love Watch: Know When To Hold 'Em
Before you read the following post, mix yourself up some fry sauce and watch last night’s season premiere of Big Love:
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It's Official: NBC Cancels—and/or Promotes—Jay Leno
Presenting its midseason programming to TV reporters and critics in Pasadena this weekend, NBC made official its not-exactly a secret: after Feb. 11, The Jay Leno Show will be no more, at least at 10 p.m. NBC executives said that while Leno’s show was making money for the network (by lowering its costs even though it lowered the …
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Jaypocalypse Now: Would Conan Go to Fox?
One last Jaypocalypse post (I think) for the day: James Hibberd is quoting “a well-placed Fox source” as saying that Fox would be interested in (a presumably-ticked-off-at-NBC) Conan O’Brien, should he become available. Reportedly Conan has not yet agreed—pointedly—to a deal to push his Tonight show back to midnight to make room for …
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TV Weekend 2: Big Plans, Big Love
For those of you who didn’t see the DVD last fall, Syfy airs the Battlestar Galactica prequel movie The Plan on Sunday night. Here’s my review (“curious but inessential”) from October; I’d recommend it mainly to BSG completists who can’t wait for Caprica.
Also Sunday, a Tuned In personal favorite, Big Love, returns to HBO. I’ve seen …
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Lost Defeats Obama!
Word comes via Twitter, from both ABC News’ Jake Tapper and Lost producer Damon Lindelof, that the Lost premiere date of Feb. 2 is no longer under consideration as the date of the State of the Union address. President Obama, it appears, knows better than to risk the wrath of Smokey.
Adds Lindelof: “Okay. So Obama didn’t technically …
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TV Weekend: Chuck Vs. the Jaypocalypse
No, not everything happening in TV right now is about Jay Leno. But it could well be that Chuck, which returns Sunday before moving to its regular timeslot Monday, could find that Conan’s loss is a certain Mr. Bartowski’s gain. The show, which teetered on the brink of cancellation last spring, got a surprise order of an extra six …
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Jaypocalypse Now: You Be the Programmer
Looks like we may as well make a Jay Day of it. Over at my Twitter feed, people have been tossing out suggestions for what they’d like to see NBC toss in as stopgap programming if they have five hours of The Jay Leno Show to replace in a month and a half. (Required caveat: If it happens!) In particular, it has awakened the pangs of …