Who doesn't love a lovefest? And that's what the annual TCA Awards are. Members of the Television Critics Association invite folks from the shows we've named outstanding, and every year, those folks accept their awards by turning the tables and giving us praise...

2011

Aug

PRESS TOUR: SIMON COWELL SEEKS SINGERS WITH 'X FACTOR,' ON NEW SHOW PROMISING X-FACTORS ALL ITS OWN By Diane Werts

Do we really need another reality show? Do we really need another talent competition? Do we really need more Simon Cowell? Well, yes. To all three. Says Simon Cowell...

2011

Aug

PRESS TOUR: TED DANSON LIGHTENS UP 'CSI' By Diane Werts

Ted Danson is now D.B. Russell. Ashton Kutcher is now Walden Schmidt. Two famous faces are making familiar shows fresh again this fall on No. 1-viewed network CBS. Kutcher didn't "do" press tour for his new Two and a Half Men character. But TV standby Danson made the CSI panel Wednesday, seeming substantially refreshed himself...

2011

Jul

FLICK PICKS: STARS SHINE ON TCM By Diane Werts

Monday is the start of the annual Summer Under the Stars festival on Turner Classic Movies. Each day gives us 24 hours of films saluting a single actor (starting daily at 6 a.m. ET), including kickoff star Marlon Brando, first-week fellows Bette Davis and Lucille Ball, and subsequent names from Orson Welles to Anne Francis. For silent film fans like me, there's one particularly special treat -- an entire day of Lon Chaney, the legendarily chameleon "man of a thousand faces"...

2011

Jul

PRESS TOUR: DUBYA, DACHSHUNDS, DOCTOR WHO AND A GUY NAMED WEDDINGDRESS By Diane Werts

Here's the vibe of press tour in a nutshell. Had dinner at Trader Vic's lounge by the hotel pool Thursday night surrounded by the strangest conglomeration of people: NASA rocket scientists, U.S. border agents, an Australian bush copter pilot, a large animal vet from the Netherlands, a sleek babe who just happens to chronicle the Mexican drug wars, and a guy who spent two days at George W. Bush's house recollecting 9/11. And, oh yeah, 300-pound boxer Butterbean...

2011

Jul

PRESS TOUR: DARABONT NO LONGER 'DEAD,' BUT 'HELL' IS HOT FOR AMC By Diane Werts

Frank Darabont is the walking dead. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) The director who brought "The Walking Dead" to life for AMC has left the building, the network confirmed Thursday morning at press tour. Former "The Shield" writer and onetime "Crash" showrunner Glen Mazzara steps up to take his place, and AMC senior vice president of programming Joel Stillerman said the show is on track for its Oct. 16 Season 2 return...

2011

Jul

PRESS TOUR: ROSEANNE, RIN TIN TIN AND THE BAYONNE BLEEDER By Diane Werts

TV critics' press tour is a crazy place. It's two weeks of 10-a-days, every day, with Q&A panels every half-hour, stars upon stars, writers, directors, execs, dogs, snakes. And those last two aren't even the human kind...

2011

Jul

STREAMING TV: CNN NOW LIVE VIA WEB, MOBILE By Diane Werts

Now you can watch CNN just about anywhere. The cable newser is boasting this week on-air and online of launching "the new CNN video experience," which provides high-quality live streams of its TV networks CNN and HLN via both web and mobile apps. But here's the small print...

2011

Jul

FALL FLASH: NBC ROUNDS OUT THE BROADCAST SCHEDULE By Diane Werts

NBC completes the quinfecta (is there such a word?) as all five broadcast networks have now announced their fall 2011 premiere dates. The network is introducing six new series. Up All Night and Free Agents launch before Nielsen's official season start (the week of Sept. 19), while Grimm won't arrive until late October. Here's NBC's rollout...

2011

Jul

FLICK PICKS: ARABIAN NIGHTS, OR TCM'S LATEST LOOK AT RACE AND HOLLYWOOD By Diane Werts

It's all we can do here at TVWW not to turn into a nonstop Turner Classic Movies website. The film-focused and ad-free channel continues to be that good. And on Tuesday and Thursday nights in July, TCM digs deep into the archives of cinema for another of its fun and fascinating Race and Hollywood festivals -- Arab Images on Film...

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Diane Werts

Associate Editor

Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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