Daily Archives: January 9, 2012

When Charlie Sheen turned around with a big gold-toothy smile, my first instinct was to seek an apology for the two (!) live appearances I was assigned to cover last spring, in the midst of his career meltdown/media frenzy. He seemed to agree that his shows didn’t have that much content. “Twenty-one cities, 33 days, […]

J.J. Abrams’ new series has an island, a time-traveling intrigue and Jorge Garcia. But the new “Alcatraz,” his new show starting next week about prisoners from that fabled prison who begin returning to menacing the world 50 years later, is no “Lost” he told skeptical critics at press tour. “In theory, you know, any land […]

Kiefer Sutherland wasn’t keen to return to TV after eight seasons and 200 episodes of the iconic series “24.” Then someone handed him a script while he was on Broadway for “That Championship Season.” “I was on about page 35,” he told reporters at the TV Critics winter press tour, and he knew he was […]

The college football season, and the parade of bowl games, finally culminates in the BCS Championship Game (ESPN, 8:30 p.m.) in New Orleans, with No.1 LSU vs. No.2  Alabama. The rigors of the TV press tour have made these daily TV columns tardy. It usually doesn’t matter with the primetime highlights, but it’s already too […]

When it came time to expand the late night Bravo talk show “Watch What Happens Live,” the first thing host Andy Cohen had done was expanding the liquor options. “We built a bar in the Clubhouse in preparation for going five-night-a-week, which will be great because we serve our audience drinks during the show,” Only […]

In his short time as NBC enertainment chief, Robert Greenblatt has gotten used to the pattern of its network’s executive sessions : They start with confessions, admitting failure and apology. “I just want to get right to it,” he said. “We had a really bad fall, worse than I’d hoped for but actually.” But, he […]