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Catching Up on Press Tour, Courtesy of Bill Brioux

TV's semiannual press tour has been over for a week now, but I didn't write about it, since I didn't go. Teaching, smothered by Smothered, etc.

But Bill Brioux, who contributes stuff here from time to time, was there, and wrote this marvelous one-piece-covers-all overview of the January 2009 TV Press Tour...

So click here to go to that piece on Bill Brioux's own site, TV Feeds My Family -- and follow those links to find other juicy stories by good writers. (Alan Sepinwall's coverage of the "scrum" with ABC's programming executive is especially entertaining.)

Then return to Bill, poke around on his site and keep reading. He's one of the good guys. Journalistically AND personally...

1 Comments

Bill Brioux said:

Thanks for the link, boss! You were missed on press tour. So how is that book coming? (Sigh. I'd call to tell you, but I don't have time. Which sort of tells you. -- David B.)

Comment posted on January 28, 2009 10:00 AM

Behind David in the picture is the first TV owned by his father, Virgil Bianculli, a 1946 Raytheon. (The TV, not his father. His father was a 1923 Italian.)

David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air, occasional substitute host for that show's Terry Gross, and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His most recent book is 2009's Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,' and he's at work on another.

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