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...
TCA Wrap-Up: Top Shows Set the Table for Cable TV
Adaptations of “Howards End,” “Get Shorty” and “The Right Stuff.” New comedies featuring Tracy Morgan, Jason Alexander and Sarah Silverman. Documentaries on Steven Spielberg, Elizabeth Smart and Danica Patrick. And, after five years, a new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Those are just a few of the new programs featured during last week’s cable portion of the Television Critics Association summer press tour, which wrapped up...
TV Upfronts Overview: It’s All About the Hamiltons!
It was just last week that the 2016 TV upfronts drew to a close and the music– and the spoofs– of “Hamilton” are still ringing in our ears. The smash hit Broadway show was omnipresent during the week of May 16 with cast members performing at a number of network presentations, including some unexpected ones, like ESPN. Amid all the talk of catering to millennials, who have surpassed baby boomers as the nation’s...
A Hamm-y Host it Will Be as Former Letterman and Leading Man Jon Hamm Emcees the ESPYs
Many just know him as the enigmatic Don Draper on “Mad Men.” But those who have followed Jon Hamm’s career closely over the past few years will realize that in addition to the tall, dark, handsome, brilliant, broody and deceptive Draper character that he plays so convincingly, Hamm has a light, goofy and quick-witted side as well. Those qualities will come to the fore as Hamm takes on a new gig, hosting the 2013 ESPY Awards on...
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