Most Exciting New TV Shows Honored by Critics’ Choice
Some of them you may have already seen, like AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire and Showtime’s Penny Dreadful. But the rest are coming soon to a screen near you soon. These are the just-announced television programs being honored as the Critics’ Choice Television Awards for Most Exciting New Series: · Extant – CBS · Gotham – FOX · Halt and Catch Fire – AMC · The Leftovers – HBO · Outlander...
Realscreen Honors Top Reality Television Shows with Host Howie Mandel
Poolside, just a stone’s throw from the Pacific. Turquoise-clad Aqualillies performing their synchronized swim routine. The host: Howie Mandel. There’s not much else that could have added up to be a better setting for the 2014 Realscreen Awards. Discovery series Deadliest Catch was the winningest program, coming away with five trophies, for best directing, music and editing as well as the Docureality prize and the Award of...
Inspiring Shows Merit TV Academy Honors
Television, in its finer moments, seeks to entertain, inform and educate. But when programs also serve to inspire, they reach an entirely new level of audience engagement. Those are exactly the kind of shows that the Television Academy– recently rebranded from its previous and lengthier moniker, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences– awards in its Honors ceremony, the seventh annual edition of which was held June 1....
Critics’ Choice TV Awards Nominations are Out, FX and HBO Lead the Pack
Nominations were just revealed by The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) for the 4th annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards. Cable net FX leads the fray with 19 nominations, followed by HBO with 18 nods for the honors that will be handed out June 19. Topping the list of nominated series are The Big Bang Theory (CBS), Fargo (FX), The Good Wife (CBS), Masters of Sex (Showtime) and The Normal Heart (HBO) with five...
One Night Only. And What a Night For Don Rickles and Spike TV
Remember the old Dean Martin celebrity roasts that ran for 10 years on NBC starting 40 years ago, where Martin skewered the top names of the day like Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Jimmy Stewart, Phyllis Diller, Jack Klugman and even Ronald Reagan? When it came to roasting Martin himself, it was Don Rickles who did the honors. Cut to 2014, specifically Spike TV on Wednesday night. It is the inestimable Rickles’ turn to be the man of the...
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