It's So Fox
At the end of the day, it’s still going to be very difficult to say goodbye to Jack Bauer. (Losing Renee was hard enough.) At Fox’s upfront presentation–during which Keifer Sutherland made somewhat infamous remarks last year, just after his Met head-bashing incident, the network was clearly moving on from ’24.” This time, Hugh Laurie and Jane Lynch were the talent with speaking roles, with Laurie charming...
NBC Does Look More Colorful
It was NBC’s first actual upfront in several years, and it got off to a rousing opening at the NY Hilton with a taped opening from Jack Donaghy, er, Alec Baldwin, who urged several thousand attendees to get drunk at the lunch and blow off Fox. That probably didn’t happen, as there were several hours of recovery time in between presentations. The peacock net has been working overtime to make up for the 10 p.m. Jay debacle,...
White is Golden on SNL
Betty White didn’t—and couldn’t—physically bound out on stage to take the reins of Saturday Night Live, but her highly-rated hosting gig Saturday will go down in history as one of the 35-year old show’s sweetest moments. See what a little Facebooking can do for a gal? Hard to believe the 88-year old comedienne had never hosted the venerable late night show, although truth be told, it turns she turned down the offer several...
A Wiggy Night at DWTS
I just spoke with “Dancing with the Stars” contender and ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews and complimented her on the blonde wig she wore last night to perform the theme from “Pulp Fiction” with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy. But there was high drama backstage right before the show and it all centered on the Uma Thurman black wig that Andrews had been wearing all day. She said she doesn’t let the hair people...
Another Awards Show? Maybe Not a Bad Idea…
Still pondering the surprising news that the Emmys could be in for some competition—and after the initial knee-jerk reaction of “Oh, great, another awards show,” coming around to the notion that it’s probably a good idea. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is one of the few award-granting entities that have an open field with no other awards competition anywhere near its time slot. The show has been airing in recent years...
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