Music For “Losers”

NBC’s TCA panel for upcoming spy drama Allegiance (Thursdays beginning FEb. 5), starring Hope Davis, Scott Cohen, Gavin Stenhouse and Margarita Levieva, didn’t do much to quell the notion that the show is too similar to FX’s The Americans. Given the lukewarm reception to NBC’s other spy drama, State of Affairs, we’re thinking Allegiance‘s cover will get blown quickly. Now onstage at #TCA: cast of upcoming NBC spy thriller series #Allegiance, Israeli import with similarities to FX’s The Americans. — Channel Guide Magazine (@ChannelGuide) January 16, 2015 “Allegiance” EP George Nolfi says difference between this show and FX’s “The Americans” […]

By Tom Comi Pop quiz: What does Las Vegas headliner Terry Fator have in common with no-names like Bianca Ryan, Neal E. Boyd, Kevin Skinner and Michael Grimm? Answer: All of them won their respective seasons on NBC’s talent show America’s Got Talent. The difference is that only Fator (an accomplished ventriloquist) has come close to becoming a household name, and that’s only for those households who have visited the Mirage hotel and casino in Sin City. And so it goes for the talent show that portends to find the country’s hidden gems and turn them into stars. As you […]

Dick Wolf, legendary executive producer of the Law & Order franchise and the recent wave of shows in the Chicago franchise — Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med — was at the Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour today to talk about the Chicago shows in the wake of a successful crossover among his series last week. “The crossover last week was so incredibly satisfying,” Wolf told reporters, “because I think we got new eyeballs to all three shows. Whether they’ll stay around, I don’t know, but in the two nights, the four shows, including SVU, hit on an L3 basis 49.26 million people. I don’t want to […]