PASADENA, Calif. -- What did NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt tell critics attending TCA Friday morning? The first network executive session of the Television Critics Association tour will be hard to top for candor. Greenblatt actually answers questions...And, as usual, a few of the best goodies came in the post-session scrum...

2012

Jan

SFO SALUTES TELEVISION WHEN IT FIRST TOOK OFF By Bill Brioux

At first, I was kinda bummed my flight to Pasadena to attend the January 2012 Television Critics Association press tour would detour through the San Francisco airport, a necessary stopover in order to cash in some Aeroplan points. Mmmm -- points. Then I happened upon a treasure trove of television history. Truly, every journalist traveling to TCA should be routed back through SFO...

2012

Jan

THE IOWA CAUCUS VOTES ARE IN -- WHICH LEADS, SOMEHOW, TO PAT PAULSEN, MASON WILLIAMS, AND DICK SMOTHERS By David Bianculli

The Iowa caucus has delivered the first official votes in the 2012 race for President of the United States, and anointed yet another surging challenger to Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination...Next comes the New Hampshire primary, where, 16 years ago, President Bill Clinton took first place in his Democratic bid for re-election. In second place that year, with more than 900 votes?...

2012

Jan

FLICK PICKS: ANGELA LANSBURY, MOVIE STAR By Diane Werts

Yes, before she was TV's Jessica Fletcher -- even before she was on Broadway in Mame or Sweeney Todd -- Angela Lansbury was an MGM contract player, sharing both studio lot and screen time with Spencer Tracy and Judy Garland. Turner Classic Movies takes us back to that Hollywood "golden age" on Wednesday nights in January...

2012

Jan

CHINA CRACKS DOWN ON REALITY TV -- AND MAY BE ON TO SOMETHING By David Bianculli

Upset by both the popularity and content of certain of its country's reality TV shows, China has adopted a new, rather severe set of guidelines aimed at containing the genre's excesses and negative messages. Meanwhile, back in the United States, we have Gary Busey on ABC's Celebrity Wife Swap on Tuesday, and the fifth season of MTV's Jersey Shore premiering on Thursday...I don't want to be the subject of a modern Joe McCarthy Communist witch hunt or anything -- but in this case, maybe the Chinese are on to something...

2012

Jan

CESAR MILLAN TALKS TO THE ANIMALS -- AND US By Theresa Corigliano

It's really hard to sit across from Cesar Millan -- the man who claims to know our dogs' inner lives, who communicates with them in ways we can't -- and refrain from asking the question that's uppermost in mind: "Can you tell me why my dog --?"...

2012

Jan

HOW FIVE MIDSEASON PREMIERES STACK UP FOR FAMILIES By Jane Boursaw

It's that time of year again. The fall TV shows are wrapping up (those that survived past the first few episodes), and a brand new flock of midseason premieres are heading to our living rooms -- some are practically leaping off the screen...

2012

Jan

'OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER' REWRITES HER PLAYBOOK, AND ENDS UP A WINNER By David Bianculli

Clearly, Oprah Winfrey began the New Year determined to OWN it. She's doubling down on her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) by premiering, on January 1, 2012, the inaugural edition of her new talk show -- her first since stepping down from her syndicated empire as the Queen of All Media. Her new show, televised Sundays at 9 p.m. ET, is called Oprah's Next Chapter, and it's quite a risk, as well as quite a departure...

2012

Jan

MY 2012 TVWW NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: SEARCH FOR TOMORROW... AND IT'LL BE THERE By David Bianculli

Happy New Year! We have big plans for TV WORTH WATCHING in 2012 -- some of which will require your help and input, so rest up. Meanwhile, my personal TVWW-related New Year's resolution is one that I'm putting on the record, and implementing, today. It's one that many of you have asked for, quite understandably: a more reliable and helpful posting method for BIANCULLI'S BEST BETS...And wait, there's more...

2012

Jan

NHL UPDATE: OUTDOOR GAME MOVED By Diane Werts

Mother Nature is always in charge. And thanks to her, the NHL has moved the start of Monday's 2012 Winter Classic game back two hours. The New York Rangers will face off outdoors against the Philadelphia Flyers at 3 p.m. ET (rather than the planned 1 p.m. ET), from the Phillies' Citizens Bank Park...

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