Ted Danson’s Tearful Tribute to ‘The Good Place’ Caps NBC’s TCA Day
Ted Danson was choking back tears. It was the final session of the final day of the Television Critics Association summer press tour at the Beverly Hilton and he was getting misty-eyed talking about the fourth and final season (September 26) of NBC’s “The Good Place.” “It’s a gift,” he said when asked what he would take away from the Michael Schur drama, in which he stars with Kristen Bell. “We are all full of respect because Mike...
NBC Universal, Fox and Telemundo Put on a Show for TV Upfronts
What a difference a year makes. Mergers, acquisitions and an ignoble fall from grace meant many of the pieces on the chessboard were rearranged during last week’s series of major network presentations for the 2019 TV upfronts, held in a variety of venues across New York City. Last May, CBS chairman Les Moonves appeared on stage at Carnegie Hall to huge applause as he battled a potential merger with Viacom. By the end of the year, he’d...
Family Comedies Rule as ABC and NBC Present New Shows at TCA
Two of the Big Four broadcast networks, ABC and NBC, capped off the TCA summer press tour held at the Beverly Hilton hotel. But unlike Fox and CBS, neither net provided its entertainment division presidents for what are commonly known as executive sessions – basically press conferences in which the executives field questions from journalists. The omissions were especially jarring in that CBS Entertainment chief Kelly Kahl knuckled...
Dick Jokes? With Andy Samberg and Seth Meyers, How Could There Not Be.
‘Tis this season for TV show panels and receptions, whether they are officially billed as FYC events or not. Yet an event last night, sponsored by the Writers Guild Foundation at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills was unlike any other this season. Huge lines to get in? Sure. Not an empty seat in the house? Undoubtedly. But it was a unique hour-long plus Q&A that set this evening apart as it upended some typical traditions. Like, the...
‘The Menendez Murders’ Expands ‘L&O’ Franchise to True Crime
It was the other trial of the century in the 1990s, before that of O.J. Simpson. Actually, two of them. Broadcast live on Court TV, millions of viewers nationwide could not look away from the grisly spectacle of two handsome, young, rich brothers, Lyle and Erik Menendez, being tried for gunning down their mother and their father as the couple watched TV in their Beverly Hills home on a warm August night in 1989. The trials, which...
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