The Gracie Awards Honor the Best Women’s Work–In the Media
Gracie Allen would have been proud. This 36th annual edition of the awards bearing her name, the Gracies, went off without a hitch – and with a lot of laughter and applause along the way. Hosted by Patricia Heaton and presented by The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation and title sponsor Dove, the Gracies honor exceptional programming and individual contributions of those who create portrayals of women in all forms of media,...
The Good Wife, Men of a Certain Age and Justified Score New Gold
Ray Romano definitely knows what a George Foster Peabody Award is now. The co-executive producer and costar of TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age” is the new owner of one of the prestigious golden statuettes awarded in New York at the 70th annual Peabody Awards presentation. Just days earlier, at the technically challenged TNT/TBS upfront held at the Hammerstein Ballroom, Romano was one of the network’s talent– along with...
Unlikely Fans for NBC’s New Music Competition Show ‘The Voice’ Join Teams
Having never been a consistent fan of reality shows, reality competition shows or music competition shows like, um, the pop-culture dominant for a decade “American Idol,” we are surprisingly entranced with “The Voice,” which premiered to great hype on NBC. Having succumbed to some of that hype, our plan was to sample the first few minutes and then move on to other pursuits which would surely be more productive....
A Funny Thing, Or a Number of Them, Happened at the Comedy Awards
File this under the category of “Why didn’t we think of this before?” Twenty years in, Comedy Central inaugurated its first awards telecast Sunday night with its Comedy Awards, even as its corporate cousins MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon,TV Land and Spike have had successful kudocasts for years. Using that corporate synergy, the show was simulcast across a swath of those networks. Was it worth the wait? The show definitely...
Sheen to Lorre: See You in Court, Chuck E. Cheeseball
Pumped up with a blend of Tiger blood and Adonis DNA, Charlie Sheen didn’t waste any time firing back against Warner Bros. and their star show-runner and his hated nemesis, Chuck Lorre, after they fired him on Monday. Team Sheen just unleashed a $100 million lawsuit against the parties, plus punitive damages on behalf of the cast and crew, claiming his dismissal was an orchestrated plot to push him out of his contract. The...
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