Commentary, analysis and observations on the business of television from the staff of Broadcasting & Cable. Edited by Senior Editor Joel Topcik.
Posted by
Stephanie Robbins
on July 24, 2009
Here are some highlights from panels from July 23 and 24 at Comic-Con.
Click here for complete Comic-Con coverage from Variety
Popcandy is tweeting from the Dollhouse panel with Joss Whedon: “Joss says the second season will focus on the “abuse of power and the different forms it can take.”
Here’s a look at SyFy’s Stargate Universe trailer.
The Live Feed report ......
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Posted by
Stephanie Robbins
on July 23, 2009
It’s the first big day of Comic-Con! The Twilight: New Moon panel has dominated much of the coverage so far, but a few television shows are having panels today. USA and Showtime are among the networks live tweeting from the convention and their panels.
Click here for details from USA’s Burn Notice panel from Twitter.
For tweets live from Showtime’s Dexter panel, click here. ......
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Posted by
Stephanie Robbins
on July 21, 2009
It’s almost time for Comic-Con 2009 where geeks, fanboys and media alike will gather at the San Diego Convention Center July 22-26.
BCBeat will have daily round-ups of the big television-related stories and happenings from the convention.
Some of this year’s highlights will include sneak peek pilot screenings of The CW’s hotly- anticipated Vampire Diaries, Fox’s Human T ......
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Posted by
David Tanklefsky
on July 21, 2009
While CNN’s first installment of the in-depth Black in America sought to explore the struggles and challenges facing the black community in the 2000s, Black in America 2 focuses on black leaders who are working to create solutions for some of the most pervasive problems facing segments of the community. The four-hour series runs in two two-hour installments Wednesday starting at 9 p.m. and ......
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Posted by
Alex Weprin
on July 21, 2009
I have to come clean. Last night at the gym, I watched The Wanted on NBC. The Wanted, for those unaware (and based on the ratings, I suspect many of you are unaware) is the “news” program that features a journalist, a counter-terrorism expert, an ex Navy SEA and an ex-intelligence official traveling the globe to confront people accused of war crimes.
While that is the description pro ......
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Posted by
Joel Topcik
on July 17, 2009
Television went live to the moon and back last week, in its most improbable feat of actuality coverage….” That’s how this publication summed up the historic TV coverage of the Apollo 11 moon mission 40 years ago.In an article titled “A Remote That Broke All the Records,” from the July 28, 1969, issue (click here to read the reproduced story with original images), ......
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Posted by
Alex Weprin
on July 16, 2009
The Emmys! As far as meta television events go, few draw as much adoration and scorn as the annual ATAS lovefest.
B&C scoured the web to find out what the critics and blogs are saying about this year’s crop of nominees. Here is our first installment:
Jace Lacob: Televisionary Blog
Best actor in a comedy series
“I’m blown away by the fact that Jemaine Clement managed to get ......
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Posted by
Stephanie Robbins
on July 16, 2009
B&C scoured the web to find out what the critics and blogs are saying about this year’s crop of nominees. Here is the second installment:
Michael Ausiello, Entertainment Weekly
I’m Super-Ecstatic About:
–Emmy voters make Howie Mandel pay for ruining last year’s Emmys by snubbing him for best reality host. Even better: They gave the slot to Amazing Race emcee Phil Ke ......
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Posted by
David Tanklefsky
on July 15, 2009
The Tour de France has posted viewership increases on Versus through the first nine days of competition. Average viewership is up 83% to more than 481,000 compared to last year’s nine-day average of 263,000. The network has also seen a 138% increase in the men 18-49 demographic.
What can one attribute to the ratings bump? The return of a certain 7-time Tour-winning American could have so ......
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Posted by
David Tanklefsky
on July 15, 2009
It was an ignoble appearance to say the least. Monday night my colleague Alex Weprin and I ducked into the Mediabistro Hacks vs. Flacks Guitar Hero contest at Artica Bar on Third Avenue in the hopes of gleaning some industry gossip (or at the very least taking advantage of the two-for-one drink special) and calling it a night. But the rock gods intervened.
No sooner had we walked in the door the ......
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Posted by
Robert Edelstein
on July 13, 2009
Let it be said: The man had a big wiener. And he rode that wiener to uncharted profits, success and prominence.
There was, of course, a time when “the man had a big wiener” would have earned you a few titters, but nary an eye-roll, and that’s the period when the Oscar G. Mayer name first meant something innocently fun and pleasing in the world of television. Mayer, the retired ......
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Posted by
Melissa Grego
on July 10, 2009
Soon after we published news of HBO’s deal to develop an hourlong series based on Jeffrey Eugenides’ popular and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex, we started hearing from fans of the book. Some weighed in on Twitter, noting anticipation and the trouble they had trying to get their heads around how the creative team at HBO might get their heads around translating one of modern l ......
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