A Trip to the Playboy Mansion
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…
Friday TV: Thunder! Thunder! ThunderCats!
Cartoons never fade, they just get reimagined. After recent remakes of “Looney Tunes,” "He-Man" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," here comes a renewed version of the 1980s “ThunderCats” (Cartoon Network,…
Flap Has No Effect on Common, Rapper Turned Actor
Being the center of a manufactured controversy over an appearance at the White House may have made the name of rapper Common more recognizable among whole new audiences. But on…
AMC Defends ‘The Killing,’ Unveils ‘Hell on Wheels’
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…
Thursday TV: Ninth Season Start for ‘Runway,’ ‘Shore’ Refresher
Twenty designers have been assembled to start season nine of "Project Runaway" (Lifetime, 10 p.m.), the most in series history. But they will immediately have to plead their case before…
Afternoon with Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper, CNN’s biggest primetime name, had his start in daytime talk shows at age 8 on “The Mike Douglas Show,” dressed as a Munchkin in an original costume from…
Among ‘The Simpsons’ Animators
In the large dark room of the nondescript building across from the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank where “The Simpsons” is produced, rows and rows of artists slump over their…
Why ‘The Simpsons’ are Yellow
David Silverman, the longest serving director on “The Simpsons” and director of record on the “Simpsons” movies says the family – and most of the townspeople of Springfield – are…
How Twitter is Changing Television
When show host Jeff Probst sent his first tweet in February for last season’s “Survivor” premiere, his network was not exactly keen on it. “CBS did not like me tweeting…
Angie Harmon Fights the Law
Rail thin Angie Harmon leans back in the chair of her desk – supposedly a Boston homicide unit – on the Paramount set of the hit cable show “Rizzoli &…