A Scripted Series Out of a Reality Start
Reality TV is not just taking over airwaves; it’s influencing the scripted shows as well. This fall’s example is “The Defenders,” which was based on a pilot for a proposed…
Shatner Fiddles With the Gizmos
CBS is hailing its impending comedy “$#@! My Dad Says” as the first to have been inspired by a Twitter feed. But its big name star is not one to…
Selleck Goes East
Not since “McCloud” has an iconic leading man with a mustache made the move to become lawman in New York City. But Tom Selleck is going to do just that,…
The F Word in ‘Mike & Molly’
“Mike & Molly” is a sweet new sitcom on CBS about a pair of people who almost never get to lead their shows – men and women who are plus-sized,…
Chuck Lorre's Fear of Failure
Chuck Lorre may be the busiest reigning sitcom creator on TV, with two hit shows in “Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory” and a third comedy…
Behind ‘Big Bang’s Ball Pit Bazinga
The cast of “The Big Bang Theory” was asked Wednesday on one of their most famous scenes – cavorting in a big ball pit last season in an episode called…
CBS Chief on the Departure of ABC Counterpart
Nina Tassler, the CBS Entertainment chief who was first to meet with the TV Critics Association when sessions formally began Wednesday in Beverly Hills, began by saying “it was a…
TV Critics Tour: Back on the Bus
The TV Critics press tour began yesterday with a day of set visits, mostly accomplished between the neighboring sets of Fox and Universal, up and around the narrow roads usually…
Familiar Face on Wisteria Lane
On the bustling Wisteria Lane, the famous street on a Universal back lot where facades have grown into working homes to shoot in, the colors becoming more vivid and the…
TV Critics Press Tour Begins
I don’t know much about birds or Capistrano, but TV writers and critics have returned to Beverly Hills for the summer TV critics press tour that starts today with a…