Wednesday TV: Clio Awards for Ads, First Olympic Game
With the greater adherence to DVRS that zip past ads and now Dish developing a device that will automatically hop over them, the pressure is on Madison Avenue to create…
Chatting with Sarah Palin Poolside
The Palins are approaching the Kardashians in the sheer number and variety of reality shows they take part in. But even with Todd Palin on board as part of the…
With ‘Dracula,’ NBC Goes for Blood
It’s not just monkeys and talking dogs that NBC needs, it’s vampires. So trailing “True Blood” and “The Vampire Diaries” by several years, it will go back to the Transylvanian…
NBC Monkeys with its Comedy Approach
Whatever its other failures as a network, NBC could always look to its Thursday night lineup of comedies for the kind of lauded work that just doesn’t appear on any…
Tuesday TV: Finales for ‘Deadliest Catch,’ ‘Wild,’ ‘Design Star
The opillo-crab season comes to an end, as does the eighth season of “The Deadliest Catch” (Discovery, 8 p.m.) in a two hour episode that includes some critical injuries. It’s…
Cowell Conjures the Judges Drama as ‘X Factor’ Boot Camp Begins
Like the fearsome visage in “The Wizard of Oz,” Simon Cowell’s face addressed the reporters at the TV Critics Association press tour Monday with the kind of wrath of the…
Mariah Carey Confirmed as New ‘Idol’ Judge
In a bit of drama that looked a bit like a Bob Newhart bit, Fox Entertainment president announced to reporters at the TV Critics Association press tour that multiplatinum singing…
Monday TV: Here Comes ‘Bachelor Pad’
Fresh from “The Bachelor,” here comes “Bachelor Pad” (ABC, 8 p.m.) in which rejects, well honed villains, and even a couple of past winners (one of whom is an incredible…
David Geffen Meets the Press, Tight-Lipped
The second day of PBS press tour was heavy with news and information with anchors discussing election plans, grim stories of reporting in Mexico, harrowing tales of the dust bowl,and…
The Cult Singer Who Crashed David Geffen’s Press Conference
It happens sometimes: When the biggest stars and moguls appear before the press at the TV Critics summer press tour in California, outsiders can break into the room in hopes…