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SFGate: Tim Goodman
Uh-oh. That's what the broadcast networks must have thought when the ratings started coming in for the fall season. They were not good. They were down. Networks that took gambles on bringing back freshman series that were cut short by the writers strike -...
SFGate: Tim Goodman
The mere mention of the words "reality television" makes most sensible viewers recoil. It conjures up bug-eating 20-year-olds on MTV or D-list actors shamelessly trying to make ill-conceived and improbable comebacks. It brings up visions of Flavor Flav on...
SFGate: Tim Goodman
After a lengthy, divisive election, two lingering wars and an economy that's a couple of tumbles away from visions of people selling apples, maybe this is a good time to laugh. And hard. In television, bad times bring on sitcoms. Good times bring on gritty,...
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Group to gather Jan. 7 - 16 -- The Television Critics Assn. has set the calendar for its next trip through Hollywood.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Bravo, Sci Fi highlight reality shows -- The NBC Universal cable networks had an extremely busy Sunday at the Television Critics Assn. confab in Beverly Hills, announcing shows both in development and picked up for series.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Network says fall TV season to bow in July -- The CW is looking to launch its 2009 fall sked as soon as next July.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Edie Falco series titled 'Nurse Jackie' -- Showtime has brought the Edie Falco pilot to series and given Mary-Louise Parker two more seasons to sell dope.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Network nabs 10 nominations -- HBO led all networks with 10 mentions as the Television Critics Assn. announced its nominees for the TCA Awards.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Tuning in: The TV Critics Assn.'s January tour is over, leaving behind the mystery of why the major networks still participated when they had practically no new series to showcase. Yet as the haze of cocktails and stench of mendacity fades, unfinished storylines linger filed under the following headings:
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Surprisingly, nets prefer low-key approach -- There are more buzzworthy TV skeins this season than at any time in recent memory. But you'd never know it from hanging out at the TV Critics Assn. winter press tour.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Tassler trying to create buzz with pilots -- CBS has the viewers. Now it wants some buzz. CBS Entertainment prexy Nina Tassler told reporters Thursday that she deliberately set out this pilot season to find more attention-getters, developing outside of the network's procedural-drama comfort zone.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: GSN rolls with 'Prejudice' -- The end of "Queer Eye" and a potentially controversial U.S. remake of a Blighty gameshow format were among the slew of programming announcements cablers unleashed late last week at the semi-annual TV Critics Assn. press tour.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: TCA becomes land of 'Lost' -- As Emmy campaigns begin, nominee "Desperate Housewives" found big support this weekend from the nation's TV critics, who named the ABC sudser their pick for program of the year.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Net flogs the Frog -- Michigan J. Frog has croaked -- and with his passing, execs at the WB hope to finally shed their image as the Clearasil net. WB topper Garth Ancier made it very clear that the Frog net would no longer be using the classic Warner Bros. animated amphibian as a mascot.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Bailey, Afflect, Tanz to exec produce skein -- Spike TV and LivePlanet are taking care of business. Cabler has greenlit "American Start-Up," ordering 10 episodes of the reality series that mixes elements of "The Apprentice" and "American Idol."
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Gay web lineup revealed -- Anchored by projects from Cher and Chastity Bono, Alan Cumming and Margaret Cho, MTV Networks' digital gay-themed cable network Logo unveiled its premiere development slate on the final day of the TV critics summer press tour.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Chief hopes to spark ratings with hit shows, 'News' tweaks -- Just 10 days into his new gig, E! topper Ted Harbert made his first appearance at the cable portion of the TV Critics Assn. tour, declaring that he wanted to bring more comedy and attitude to the network.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Albrecht optimistic as Chase hasn't said no -- Never say die: HBO topper Chris Albrecht still hopes he can squeeze a few more episodes out of "The Sopranos" and creator David Chase. That's a good sign for fans, who face an 18-month wait before HBO bows the final season of the smash mob drama.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Showtime's 'Huff' gets quick re-up -- Showtime has greenlit "Fat Actress," an unscripted comedy co-created by and starring Kirstie Alley, and given an early second-season order to yet-to-premiere drama "Huff."
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Moonves: Hot sked could mean profit for UPN -- If ad sales remain strong and some of its frosh skeins catch on with viewers, Viacom co-prexy/co-chief operating officer Leslie Moonves said the "P" in UPN could soon stand for "profitable."
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Television Critics Assn. tour: Net fed up with salary shenanigans -- Make no mistake: CBS execs Sunday said they're fed up with TV's contract renegotiation tango.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: McShane honored after Emmy snub -- The nation's TV critics love "Arrested Development" -- but they love HBO even more.
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Television Critics Assn. tour: TCA tour opens with Fox accusations -- It's hard to know who to trust in TV land. According to NBC's Jeff Zucker, Fox TV is a thief that who rips off reality show ideas from others and rushes those shows onto the air first.