Realscreen West Brings Together the Best in Unscripted Programming and Industry Leaders
The 5th annual Realscreen West conference, held in early June at Santa Monica’s Fairmont Miramar Hotel is quickly rivaling its East Coast flagship event as the place to be at the cutting-edge of unscripted/reality television. For two content-packed days, Realscreen attracted a record 900 attendees, including top-level speakers, up a whopping 50% from last year, when about 600 people participated. Network...
Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards Encompass Mad Women, Star Wars and the Bling Ring
Although it is their male counterparts who get title billing, it was the women of “Mad Men” who took center stage at the Women in Film 2013 Crystal + Lucy Awards in Beverly Hills on June 12, which also marked the landmark occasion of WIF’s 40th anniversary. Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Jessica Paré and Kiernan Shipka were honored with the Lucy Award for Excellence in Television, which since...
Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad Share Critics’ Choice Love, Tatiana Maslany Becomes a Drama Queen
Critics are a notoriously picky lot, and members of the Broadcast Television Journalists Association are certainly no exception. That’s why it was such a surprise — and a testament to the quality of television programming over the past season — that there were not one, not two, but three ties in highly contested categories whose winners were revealed at the 3rd annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards held June 10 at...
From Affleck to Vaughn and Eastwood to Foxx and Kimmel, It’s a Man’s World at The Guys Choice Awards
Walking into a rain forest-themed soundstage at Sony Pictures Studios for the taping of the 2013 Spike TV Guys Choice Awards, several things were immediately apparent. The level of testosterone in the room was off the charts– and when you threw in a dancing bow-tied giraffe, a bevy of leopard print dress-clad beauties and a sizable contingent of American service people in uniform into the mix, you just knew this was not...
The Sopranos, Seinfeld, Mad Men, MASH Top TV’s Best Written Series List
When you have Norman Lear and Carl Reiner in the house – two of television’s most brilliant, legendary creators who go back to the original golden age of the medium – it’s assuredly going to be a night to remember. Hearing from those two giants was the shot across the bow as the Writers Guild of America revealed its 101 Best Written TV Series in a two-hour event at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills on June 2, sponsored by...
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