I had to take a few hours to get my head around the Jeff Bridges visit to press tour Saturday. That`s because of how sharply it contrasted with Oprah Winfrey`s TCA visit just a few days ago. Bridges sat before critics to take a bow for the PBS "American Masters" tribute "Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides"...

2011

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TV PRESS TOUR: LATEST NEWS IN REAL TIME By Diane Werts

Keep track of all the happenings at TV critics' current press tour with this cool new social-media digest created by our TV publicity friend (and occasional TVWW contributor) Cindy Ronzoni. The #tca Daily collects 70 Twitter streams emanating from the big midseason event, and presents them live, along with photos, videos, recaps, blogs and other posts identified with the hashtag #tca...

2011

Jan

MEGA-MARATHONS: 'FIREFLY' AND 'THE GREEN HORNET' By Diane Werts

Get that TiVo or DVD recorder ready. Two cult faves spanning 40 years get marathon runs this week. First up is Saturday's all-day Ovation play of Joss Whedon's space western, "Firefly." Then it's Tuesday's full-series run of the '60s TV series that introduced Bruce Lee, "The Green Hornet," on Syfy...

2011

Jan

OPRAH OWNS THE PRESS TOUR By Bill Brioux

PASADENA, Calif. -- I didn't win a car, but I did get touched by Oprah Winfrey. The daytime talk show queen and newly minted network mogul gave me the royal tap Thursday night at TV critics' press tour on her way out of her lavish launch party for OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. I also got the Winfrey wave...

2011

Jan

FIVE NEW SHOWS PREMIERE SUNDAY, RANGING FROM EXCELLENT TO EXCREMENT By David Bianculli

TV's traditional start-of-the-year dormant period is officially over. This Sunday, five new shows premiere -- two that are excellent, one that is very good, one that is not very good, and one that is horrid. On the high end of the spectrum, there's the fabulous Downton Abbey on PBS's Masterpiece Classic and the surprisingly clever Episodes, starring Matt LeBlanc, on Showtime. On the other end...

2011

Jan

SNAKES ATTEND TCA PRESS TOUR By Bill Brioux

PASADENA, Calif. -- Critics are often exposed to all manner of cold-blooded creatures on the Television Critics Association press tour. It was true Wednesday at several sessions for Day 1 of the midseason event, but especially at the National Geographic Wild press conference for Wild About Snakes, where a live python was brought out after the session to pose with critics...

2011

Jan

ADVANCE WARNING ON TWO THURSDAY TV OFFERINGS -- ONE TO CATCH, ONE TO THROW BACK By David Bianculli

Just a fast note of warning about two impending TV offerings televised Thursday night, Jan. 6 -- one not to be missed, and the other not to be watched. One of them is the third-season premiere of MTV's Jersey Shore. And, thank the TV gods, the other one isn't. Instead, it's a very special episode of CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson...

2011

Jan

PAULA ABDUL'S 'LIVE TO DANCE' WEARS SPANDEX By Ronnie Gill

If passion about dance equaled excellence, Paula Abdul's new CBS series, "Live to Dance," would score an A. Unfortunately it doesn't. The show -- which had an unbearably long two-hour premiere on Tuesday, and claims, unrealistically, to be looking for America's best dance performance -- left more than a lot to be desired...

2011

Jan

HERE COME DE JUDGES! HERE COME DE JUDGES! By David Bianculli

It's still a couple of weeks before new judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez show up on Fox's American Idol, and before Piers Morgan, familiar as both a judge on NBC's America's Got Talent and a winner of the same network's Celebrity Apprentice, fills Larry King's interview chair on CNN. But another familiar TV judge can be judged tonight at 8 ET on CBS, when the new Live to Dance series showcases, yes, Paula Abdul...

2011

Jan

LIFETIME STARTS THE NEW YEAR WITH AN OLD TRICK: WOMEN-AS-VICTIMS MOVIES By David Bianculli

Since cable TV is now dominating the genres in which the broadcast networks once did their best (drama and comedy series), it makes sense they'd also inherit what broadcast TV used to do worst -- namely, tacky ripped-from-the-headlines telemovies. This particularly puerile subgenre of television isn't extinct these days. It's alive, and not very well, on Lifetime...

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