First-Ever Paramount Upfront Features Stallone, ‘Yellowstone’ and ’60 Minutes’
Sylvester Stallone will star in “Tulsa King” for Paramount Network For years, CBS had made Carnegie Hall its home to present its slate of upcoming programming during television upfront week in New York City. So how could parent company Paramount global give up the stage in one of the world’s most vaunted venues? It couldn’t. And even though the old saying postulates how you have to practice, practice, practice to get to...
CBS Showcases ‘The Unicorn,’ ‘Evil,’ ‘Carol’s Second Act’ and ‘All Rise’ at TCA
Even as audiences continue to fragment in this multi-platform world, there’s no question that broadcast network television still got game – and lots of it. Perhaps the argument for the desirability of network TV was most succinctly made by CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl and senior executive vice president of programming Thom Sherman as they opened the Eye’s session at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour last week in...
‘One Giant Leap for Mankind:’ Networks Mark the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11
July 16, 1969 dawned bright, hot and sunny on Florida’s Atlantic coast. It was the perfect weather on Earth to send its very first three inhabitants to the moon. As the clock ticked down to the moment Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins would blast off atop a Saturn V rocket, hundreds of millions of people the world over tuned into television coverage of what would become one of the defining events in mankind’s history on...
CBS Previews Its New Programming Against a Backdrop of Scandal
It was early on a Sunday, the morning after the Television Critics Association awards, where celebrating often goes late into the night after the ceremonies. But instead of a leisurely a.m. before getting back to business of the summer press tour at the Beverly Hilton, all eyes were alert and focused on CBS Entertainment chief Kelly Kahl as he took the podium under the intense scrutiny of the assembled journalists. They all wanted to...
Highlights of TV’s Annual Upfront Programming Presentations
The dust is still settling from last week’s series of major network presentations for the 2018 TV upfronts. Despite the uncertainty in the air about potential mergers between CBS and Viacom, AT&T and Time Warner and even Disney and Fox with a rival Comcast bid coming into play, top executives across the board espoused an attitude of optimism about the future. Here’s a chronological snapshot of what went down during the whirlwind...
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