Monthly Archives: July 2011

One legend who appeared at the TV Critics Press Tour this week got into a couple of troubling exchanges with reporters who he couldn’t hear or very well understand when he paused to explain: “I’d like to remind you folks,” Jerry Lewis said, “I’m 85.” It wasn’t an excuse. He was just saying, “just so [...]

Since she stepped down from her daytime show with some hoopla last month, Oprah Winfrey hasn’t exactly been relaxing. “I get emails from friends regularly saying, ‘I hope that you’re somewhere relaxing, enjoying your time off from the show. I hope that you’re enjoying your time in the Mediterranean or whenever,’” Winfrey said Thursday, surprising [...]

The Weather Channel came to the TV Critics Association summer press tour this week to introduce a new upcoming series, “Coast Guard Alaska.” But if the year’s weather continues as it has, it’s hard to imagine they’d even have the available time to run it. When severe weather strikes, it takes precedence. And Bob Walker, [...]

A trip to the Playboy Mansion is just the kind of thing that makes the TV Critics summer press tour the kind of outing writers cannot overlook. With the growing reliance on blogging, tweets and social media, it was kind of the place to provide the kind of content and surface titillation on which such [...]

The extent to which AMC has grown as a home of original programming was seen at the TV Critics Association summer press tour Thursday when an executive session with the program chief was as intense as any with HBO. Chief among concerns was the finale of “The Killing,” which some critics took personally as an [...]