Friday TV: Further Horror on Netflix
It may seem that every original series Netflix presents turns to gold -- "House of Cards," "Orange is the New Black" and even "Derek" all got their share of Grammy…
Grohl Documents Cities for LP and HBO
Coming off his well received documentary "Sound City," about a classic Los Angeles recording studio, Foo Fighters founder Dave Grohl extends the idea of recording studios as special places by…
Thursday TV: A Couple of Wan Comedies
Scheduling new sitcoms in the middle of summer is a way for broadcast networks to show lack of faith in what they're presenting. And it's completely understandable with the pair…
Few New Names Among Emmy Noms
If this is the golden age of TV, then the Emmy nominations were crowded with repeat nods, making occasional space for only a few things — HBO’s “True Detective” and…
Channeling Dylan Thomas, Not Dying
I would like to think that ace British TV writer Andrew Davies as a child caught Dylan Thomas on one of his speaking tours, where in his day he was…
‘Naked and Afraid’ Keeps Pixilators Busy
Discovery executives presiding over the start of day two of press tour seemed to think it was heroics and drama that made "Naked and Afraid" have the biggest premiere of…
Wednesday TV: ‘Bridge’ Back, New ‘Extant’
One of the great new recent shows to emerge in the spurt of quality cable TV is "The Bridge" (FX, 10 p.m.), a remake of a Danish series into a…
Talking War and Peace with McCaffrey
I've come to expect unusual encounters at press tour, but I wasn't even in my seat long before someone came walking up to my seat with retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey,…
TV Press Tour Begins, Virtually
Even as television content spills way past the confines of the home set -- online, on laptops, mobile devices, gaming devices, and on your head via Google Glasses, the TV…
Tuesday TV: On New FYI, Love is Blind
You might be wondering what happened to the BIO channel. Well, the A&E Networks, which operates it and Lifetime and History, have changed it to the FYI, whose first new…