Category Archives: Winter Press Tour 2019

A dozen Errol Flynn movies seems right for a late summer Saturday. It starts today on Turner Classic Movies with “Footsteps in the Dark” (6 a.m.), “Northern Pursuit” (8 a.m.), “The Master of Ballantrae” (10 a.m.), “The Sea Hawk” (11:45 a.m.), “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (2 p.m.), “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” […]

Greeting a group of weary reporters nearing the end of the more than two week TV Critics Association winter press tour, Hulu senior vice president of originals Craig Erwich tied it into a recent documentary hit on his network. “Thanks for being here,” he said, “basically living through Fyre Festival 2.” Food was nominally better […]

There was an extra reminder at a well-attended session of the TV Critics Association winter press tour that pictures were not allowed, since the ever-photogenic George Clooney was entering for a session for a six-part adaptation of “Catch-22” coming to Hulu May 17. Clooney not only produces and directs, he also strains his neck muscles […]

Documentary films seemed to take a greater portion of HBO’s high-profile programming. There were panels for two impending films, Alex Gibney’s look into the implosion of the Silicon Valley startup Theranos, whose valuation went from $9 billion to zero, “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” running March 18, and Laura Berg’s four part […]

After an afternoon of mostly dour documentaries of fraud, and a bracing limited series about nuclear meltdown After days of rain, cool weather and clouds, the sun came out at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena and in an HBO session kicking off six days of cable and streaming services, HBO brought […]