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...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 16, 2009; 09:07 PM ET | Comments (0)
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...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 16, 2009; 09:02 PM ET | Comments (0)
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...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 16, 2009; 06:30 PM ET | Comments (1)
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...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 14, 2009; 08:00 AM ET | Comments (1)
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...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 13, 2009; 05:30 PM ET | Comments (0)
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...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 13, 2009; 03:19 PM ET | Comments (2)
Will Ferrell and George W. Bush Stew
After the artful dodging of fallen evangelist Ted Haggard, the subject of an HBO "documentary," "SNL" alum Will Ferrell came as a relief to TV critics attending HBO's portion of I Think I'll Just Take Some of These Dinner Rolls Home to Feed My Hungry Children Winter TV Press...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 12, 2009; 07:40 AM ET | Comments (0)
Swayze Hospitalized, Sending TV Critics Into Overdrive
Patrick Swayze was a no-show at today's Q&A session for his new A&E cop series "The Beast" because he instead checked himself into the hospital with pneumonia, sending TV critics into an ecstasy of editor-contacting and blog-item posting. "The Beast" was by far the most eagerly anticipated Q&A session...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 9, 2009; 05:17 PM ET | Comments (1)
"Breaking Bad" Love Story
Attending a press tour Q&A session for a series critics have come to worship with a fervor which threatens to unseat their reason -- such as it is -- leaves you with the uncomfortable feeling you are eavesdropping on a sacred tryst between lovers and should apologize, leave the...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 9, 2009; 07:35 AM ET | Comments (0)
Babs Cooks Up Big Numbers Bringing Swayze Family to Tears
Interest is very high among TV critics at I Think I'll Just Take Some of These Dinner Rolls Home to Feed My Hungry Children Winter TV Press Tour 2009 over Friday's promised appearance of Patrick Swayze. Pancreatic cancer-stricken Patrick Swayze will be among the panelists at a Q&A session to...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 8, 2009; 02:56 PM ET | Comments (0)
PBS is CHURCH when it comes to Carlin
During PBS's Q&A session Wednesday for its upcoming broadcast of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for comedy, recently bestowed on the late George Carlin, one critic wanted to know about the whole Carlin-bleeping thing. Recorded Carlin was bleeped during the KenCen ceremony and will also be during the...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 8, 2009; 12:44 PM ET | Comments (0)
King Harry Lear, the Lord of the Rings -- and the Flies
During his Q&A to promote his star turn as King Lear on "Great Performances" Wednesday, Sir Ian McKellen was confronted with a certain amount of literary confusion on the part of TV critics. One critic wondered whether, when McKellen's "walking around the streets of Aukland, New York, or London" people...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 8, 2009; 06:36 AM ET | Comments (0)
NBC: RIP
Five hours into Winter TV Press Tour 2009 and the savaging of NBC has begun. Richard Belzer, cast member of NBC's "Law & Order: SVU," is on stage for a Q&A session for PBS's Feb. 4 broadcast of "George Carlin: the Mark Twain Prize." He's asked about the future...
By Lisa de Moraes | January 7, 2009; 05:18 PM ET | Comments (1)
