Press tour is winding down, but some of our TVWW contributors are still wound up about everything the networks have said and done at their 2011 fall-season presenations. So we'd like to point you to links where you can find coverage from our ace Eds -- Ed Bark and Ed Martin.
Bark is byting here for the folks at Locate TV, while Martin's mix is here at MediaBizBloggers.
And though we always love to repurpose him for TVWW, Bill Brioux is based, as always, at his own blog TV Feeds My Family.
(Until TVWW starts bringing in the big bucks, we'll all be toiling away elsewhere to pay the bills. Which reminds me: PLEASE click through to our advertisers to purchase products returning a tiny commission to keep the site running.)
All of our TVWW contributors will have more to say as the broadcast and cable networks move forward with their just-touted plans. Bianculli and I still have piles of press tour posts to come, too, because there's been so much going down, we haven't had time to regurgitate it all.
Give us a chance to catch our breath. And then give us a read as we write about what you'll be seeing in the TV weeks and months ahead.
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In the meantime --
Enjoy this little treat from the CBS folks, who showed a special TCA press tour video on the big screens in the hotel ballroom between press conferences. Most critics were off making potty stops, refilling coffee cups or checking to see whether, after days indoors hearing TV hype, there was actually still sunlight outside.
But a few of us were in the room to catch David Letterman introducing a special Top 10 lampoon list, beautifully sung for our edification by Josh Groban --
Top 10 Little Known Songs About Television:
10 - Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a place that has not been
Home to a CSI
(Sung to the tune of "Somewhere")
9 - I see Keith Olbermann rant on Current TV
Attacking Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity
And I think to myself,
What an enormous head
(Sung to the tune of "What a Wonderful World")
8 - What is the deal with my TiVo
It recommends odd programs to see
I only watch Glee and Project Runway
But TiVo says Swamp People's right for me
(Sung to the tune of "Wind Beneath My Wings")
7 - I've got 900 channels
Coming into my TV
And I'd estimate two-thirds of them
Are selling costume jewelry
(Sung to the tune of "God Bless the USA")
6 - Check out Big Brother
Stay for the hour
And if you're lucky
You might see someone shower
(Sung to the tune of "Climb Ev'ry Mountain")
5 - Whenever I watch Two and a Half Men
I ask myself just what they mean
How's the kid still a "half man"?
He's 19
(Sung to the tune of "Let It Be")
4 - NCIS - Who the hell knows what that stands for?
(Sung to the tune of "You Raise Me Up")
3 - Why do the terrorists hate us so?
The answer's plain to see
Try to watch 30 seconds of
Real Housewives of NYC
(Sung to the tune of "I'll Be Seeing You")
2 - Before you critics craft your reviews
And dole out your 1-to-5 stars
We here at the CBS network
Invite you to our open bars
(Sung to the tune of "Impossible Dream")
1 - Those Cialis and Viagra
And Levitra ads you see
Pay for your favorite shows
All hail E.D.!
(Sung to the tune of "God Bless America")