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TCA Summer Press Tour: FOX Party at the Beach

August 6, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP After yesterday’s FOX panels (more on them in a later post), FOX shuttled us out to the coast to Gladstones in Malibu for their All-Star party. Located where Santa Monica Boulevard meets the Pacific Coast Highway, Gladstones is situated on prime real estate — beachfront, on the Pacific. My shuttle arrived in time to see a spectacular sunset lending a cool glow to the establishment, the rocks along the coast, the surfers catching waves and the pelicans diving for their dinner. The smell of saltwater was in the air, and a nice, cool breeze came […]

At 100 years old, we still love Lucy

August 5, 2011 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

by Karl J. Paloucek Follow @ChannelGuide Lucille Ball enjoyed one of the most incredible show business careers of anyone in the 20th century. For more than six decades, she entertained, from her early days as a “Ziegfeld Girl” in New York to her Hollywood film career and, of course, her pioneering work both in front of the camera and behind the scenes for television. But she will forever be known, to most of us, as simply Lucy — the goofball redhead who got herself, her husband Ricky (played by real-life husband Desi Arnaz) and their two landlord friends, Fred and […]

TCA Summer Press Tour: Torture, Witches, H8Rs, Love Labs and more

August 5, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP Thursday was my first full day at the TCA press tour, and the sessions ran the gamut with mostly interesting, and sometimes odd, panels of Showtime and CW programs. Things kicked off with Damian Lewis talking about getting peed on a few days ago, and finished up with talk of Dr. Drew’s Love Lab, if that gives you any indication of the day. “Homeland” Security The first panel was for Showtime’s new drama series Homeland, which looks really good. Stars Claire Danes, Damian Lewis and Morena Baccarin were here to discuss it, along with executive […]

Showtime debuts “Homeland” trailer

August 4, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

This morning at the TCA press tour Showtime premiered a new promotional trailer for its cool-looking new drama series Homeland, which premieres Oct. 2 (following the season premiere of Dexter) and stars Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin and Mandy Patinkin. Danes plays a CIA officer who becomes convinced that the intelligence that led to the rescue of a U.S. soldier (Lewis) who had been missing and presumed dead was a set-up and may be connected to an Al Qaeda plot to be carried out on American soil. Howard Gordon (24) is an executive producer.

TCA Summer Press Tour: CBS/Showtime/CW party is a moment of Zen

August 4, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP Yesterday I made my way out to Beverly Hills to round out the relay team of Channel Guide TCA Press Tour coverage (see earlier posts from Barb Oates and Ryan Berenz for more TCA adventures and info). I’ve been doing this tour for over a decade now, and I always feel somewhat out of sorts on the first day I get here. Obviously, jet lag and a long travel day factor into this, but there is something more, I think. Something like the culture shock one may get when traveling to a foreign country, and […]

Tiger’s return should drive PGA ratings

August 4, 2011 Tom Comi Comments Off

By Tom Comi Follow @ChannelGuide There are very few people who can dramatically increase television ratings by their mere presence, and Tiger Woods is one of those people. And when the links legend returns to the tour this week, you will hear a collective sigh from TV executives and golf fans alike. Woods has been out for the past four weeks while rehabilitating several leg injuries, and it would be an understatement to say he has been missed. Golf enthusiasts will always watch tournaments regardless of the field, but the fact of the matter is Tiger’s participation in an event […]

Nicollette Sheridan Headed To Ireland For Hallmark Channel’s Latest, Honeymoon for One

August 3, 2011 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Nicollette Sheridan loves to travel and see things she’s never seen, so when Hallmark Channel approached her to shoot one of its original films in Ireland, she just couldn’t say no. In the film, Sheridan plays Eve Parker, a stressed-out ad exec whose 10-year relationship with her fiancé comes to a crashing halt when she finds out that he’s been cheating on her. With a nonrefundable plane ticket to Ireland burning a hole in her purse and a room booked at the castle resort owned by her fiancé’s company, she hops the pond on her own to get a start […]

TV reunions try to recapture that old magic

August 3, 2011 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Tonight’s episode of Happily Divorced will reunite Fran Drescher with her Nanny costar Renee Taylor, and it was recently announced that the show’s first-season finale will feature a guest spot from another Nanny alum, Charles Shaughnessy. It got us thinking about other TV reunions that have come and gone, and how getting old costars together in a new setting is often just used for a quick sight gag — and, of course, a nice ratings bump. But then there are other times when it’s a full-fledged new venture. Take Drescher and Shaughnessy, for instance, who also reunited full-time for the comedienne’s […]

“Hot in Cleveland” preview: “Arch Enemies”

August 3, 2011 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Hot in Cleveland Get More: Hot in Cleveland Video,Photos on the set of Hot in Cleveland,Betty White,Hot in Cleveland Official TV Show Website Victoria and Joy devise a scheme to get back at Victoria’s prankster colleague at Channel 7, while Melanie finds out the man she’s dating (returning guest star George Newbern) has a thing for feet. Hot in Cleveland airs tonight at 10 on TV Land.

“Happily Divorced” preview: “A Kiss Is Just a Kiss”

August 3, 2011 Channel Guide Staff 1

When both Fran and Judi meet a man (Lou Diamond Phillips) at a concert, he ends up calling Judi for a date. Fran tries to be a good sport about it, but hiding her jealousy doesn’t produce the outcome she hoped for. Meanwhile, Fran Drescher’s old Nanny costar Renee Taylor stops by to play a friend of Dori’s. When Dori patches things up with her friend after a longstanding conflict, it inspires Fran to make amends with Judi. Happily Divorced airs tonight at 10:30 on TV Land.