Moraes on TV Archive: Summer TV Press Tour 2007
Snowpocalypse TV coverage: too much, too little, or just right?
"We are not under enemy attack...we are having a snowstorm, blizzard..whatever...do we really need constant coverage of it on commercial TV?" one TV Column fan writes to us in re Snowpocalypse 2010 Day 6. "I want my real news reports.. I'm sick of cute dogs in the snow, bent trees,...
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Flatbed Funny
ABC's new "Carpoolers" is a comedy about a group of guys who carpool to work. Naturally the actors are going to spend a certain amount of time in a car in this series. And one TV critic wondered whether they would have to "do a lot more with your face...
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Maura McCarthy
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August 3, 2007; 3:09 PM ET |
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Mulling Mandy
After Mandy Patinkin announced he had walked off the CBS series "Criminal Minds" in the early days of Summer Press Tour 2007, TV critics dove enthusiastically into the "Wither Goeth Mandy" mystery, asking any actor or producer who'd ever come within spitting distance of Patinkin what he is like in...
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Maura McCarthy
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August 3, 2007; 11:31 AM ET |
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Devilish Product Placement
CW's new dramedy "Reaper" is widely regarded by critics to be one of the best new series of the coming TV season. It's about a slacker guy whose parents sell his soul to the devil and the devil comes to collect on his 21st birthday. Only Satan doesn't want to...
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Maura McCarthy
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August 3, 2007; 8:45 AM ET |
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Vampire Sleuthing
David Greenwalt of "Angel" fame, is an executive producer on CBS's new vampire detective drama "Moonlight." Is it any wonder, critics asked him, to compare and contrast the two vampire dramas? Greenwalt was not originally attached to the new CBS project. "My agent said in May, 'You've got to read...
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Maura McCarthy
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August 2, 2007; 2:36 PM ET |
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Who You Callin' a Musical?
In CBS's new series "Viva Laughlin," characters will break into song. They'll dance on the top of blackjack tables at casinos. But don't you dare call "Viva Laughlin" a musical, the cast and executive producer Bob Lowry warned TV critics. "Viva Laughlin" is based on "Viva Blackpool." You know "Viva...
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Maura McCarthy
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August 2, 2007; 11:42 AM ET |
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