Press Tour Roundup: From Beast to Belzer
The Television Critics Association winter press tour is going on now in sunny L.A., and I am following it online from freezing Brooklyn. So far, it seems, the biggest news to emerge has been something that didn't happen—cancer-sufferer Patrick Swayze was hospitalized and missed the session for A&E's The Beast. But here are some bits and pieces of the news so far:
* AMC releases some more details about its remake/reinterpretation of The Prisoner, and is streaming the original series online. Also, Mad Men will be back this summer.
* In Treatment is getting new patients and a new schedule. And Paul Weston is now my neighbor in Brooklyn. Alan Sepinwall has an interview.
* More deadliest programming from Discovery.
* Richard Belzer pronounces NBC "dying."
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hmmm... is this junket paid for by the networks, and you chose not to go? (if so, next time you should offer your credentials to one of your readers, who'll "report" back to you. I can think of one who would go
) Or is this because of cutbacks at Time? -
@plukasiak: multi-part answer. Long ago, before my time, the networks used to pay--and pay for lodging, expenses, etc. This created an obvious conflict situation, and the TCA dropped the arrangement. I have a few times while at Time but not regularly; it tends to draw more newspaper writers (who file daily, do interviews with hometown talent, etc.) and LA-based journalists. Time actually offered to send me this time, but for various boring reasons it didn't work with my schedule. Maybe the summer tour. No magazine goes out of its way to spend money nowadays, of course, but--not to exaggerate the importance of the TV beat--it's a pittance next to putting someone on a campaign plane.
- TMBG aka Baby Woodstock at Prospect Park. http://yfrog.com/0h370mj - 21 hours ago
- Any ppl with children in Park Slope NOT currently at TMBG concert? Bklyns childless finally have rest of neighborhood to themselves - 22 hours ago
- Just noticed my office DVR is still regularly recording Glenn Beck. Which explains why it's been stockpiling dried food and ammo. - 1 day ago
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