Holy *#$%! South Park is Bigger, Better and Entering Season 20
It’s a staggering concept, but Eric Cartman, Kyle Marsh and Stan Broflovski should be 28 by now. Instead, the crudely animated characters that sprung from the imaginations of Trey Parker and Matt Stone are perennially 8 years old—but always up to new tricks– as “South Park,” the animated series that put Comedy Central on the map, enters its 20th season on the cable network September 14. Here are some other astounding...
Kevin James is Back with CBS Fall Preview of New Shows
Can’t wait for Kevin? Kevin James, star of the upcoming comedy “Kevin Can Wait,” hosts “CBS Fall Preview” September 12, a week before his own show premieres on The Eye. James has not toplined a network series since “The King of Queens” ended its nine-season run on CBS in 2007. Since then, he’s starred in two “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” films and two “Grown Ups” movies, as well as other features. “CBS Fall Preview” has been a staple on the...
From ‘Divorce’ to ‘Berlin Station’ to ‘Mars,’ A Preview of Cable’s Most Buzzworthy Shows
It’s inevitable that there will be some verbal fireworks mixed in with the vast slate of programming presented at the cable portion of the TCA summer press tour held at the Beverly Hilton. Last year, there was a media-manufactured showdown between Michael Lombardo and Chris Albrecht over the similarities of HBO’s “Ballers” and Starz’ “Survivor’s Remorse,” with Albrecht conclusively admonishing the assembled television journalists to...
Streaming Services Bring Their A-Game to TV Critics Summer Press Tour
Streaming services have not only joined the summer TCA fray in full force, but in the case of Netflix, which reportedly spent $6 billion on content this year, have doubled down on traditional broadcast and cable networks in how their programming is presented during press tour at the Beverly Hilton. Netflix, as it has with content distribution in general, upended the linear format by presenting several concurrent panels from which...
FX Scores Big at the TCA Awards with ‘O.J.’ and ‘The Americans’
There were handshakes, high fives, kisses and hugs all around as FX had a big night at the 32nd annual TCA Awards with wins in four of the 10 categories in a ceremony hosted by Jaime Camil at the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom Saturday night, Aug. 6. The first award of the evening, for individual achievement in drama, went to Sarah Paulson, who memorably played prosecutor Marcia Clark in FX’s “American Crime Story: The People...
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