Moraes on TV Archive: Winter TV Press Tour 2009

Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato Honored; Press Thrilled

The Jonas Brothers came to the press tour to hawk their new Disney Channel TV series, "Jonas," and were asked "How do you feel about the honor" of performing the night before Barack Obama's inauguration. "First of all, it's absolutely an honor to be able to perform," Nick Jonas...

Press at the Trough

When CBS late night host Craig Ferguson appeared at the press tour earlier this week, one TV critic asked if he would send pizza to the hotel -- like he'd done once before -- during NBC and ABC's day at the tour because, the critic complained, NBC and ABC...

Izzie Necrophilia: It's Complicated

Denny the Ghost (and lover to Katherine Heigl's Izzie) on "Grey's Anatomy" isn't actually a ghost, ABC programming chief Steve McPherson revealed to a giddy press corps at I Think I'll Just Take Some of These Dinner Roles to Feed My Hungry Children Winter TV Press Tour 2009. Is...

Lie to Me

Fox's upcoming "Lie to Me," the luckiest TV drama on broadcast TV, is about the world's leading deception expert, who can see if you are lying or telling the truth just by looking at your facial ticks, your voice, your speech pattern, your body language, the direction of your...

Prison Break not Getting the Hook -- Officially

"Prison Break" did not get "the hook," as one TV critic suggested at the press tour, Fox programming chief Kevin Reilly said emphatically. Rather, it has "played out" and gotten to the point where "everyone feels enough stories were told creatively," he said, stating the obvious since, at four...

NBC: Kevin Reilly's Crazy Ex-Wife

"NBC for me is like the crazy ex-wife I can't get away from," Fox programming chief (and former NBC programming chief) Kevin Reilly told TV critics at I Think I'll Just Take Some of These Dinner Rolls to Feed My Hungry Children Winter TV Press Tour 2009 --- setting...

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