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Lifestyle

TCA: We talk with the cast of All About Sex on TLC!

Remember when Dr. Ruth and Dr. Sue Johansen made talking about what happens in the bedroom (and sometimes other places … and the stuff we need to know to make it all go well) matter-of-fact, must-see TV? TLC is bringing sex-talk television back to TV with its new late-night talk show, All About Sex, airing Saturdays at 11pm ET/PT, beginning Jan. 10. Starring actresses Margaret Cho (Drop Dead Diva) and Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray, Melissa & Joey), sex therapist Dr. Tiffanie Davis Henry and Chelsea Lately’s Heather McDonald, each half-hour episode features a loose format that will encompass everything from viewer call-ins to […]

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Drama

FX is bringing back “Fargo”

Today at the Television Critics Association (TCA) summer press tour, CEO of FX John Landgraf announced the second installment of the critically acclaimed and popular hit Fargo. The new chapter will feature an all-new cast of characters (and new actors), a new time period and a new “true crime” story that will unfold over 10 episodes. Executive producer and writer Noah Hawley is again the creative force. “We could not be more proud of Fargo,” said Landgraf. “Noah’s audacious, bordering on hubristic riff on my favorite Coen brothers film earned 18 Emmy nominations – the most for a single program […]

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Awards Shows

30th Annual TCA Awards winners announced

The Television Critics Association (TCA) gave out its 30th Annual TCA Awards to recognize a distinguished group of people and shows representing what the collection of over 220 professional television critics from the U.S. and Canada voted on as the best over the 2013-14 season. The ceremony took place Saturday at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, with Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) serving as host. Matthew McConaughey continued his big year, on hand to be honored with a TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama for his role as Rust Cohle in HBO’s True Detective. The series itself was recognized […]

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TCA: CW’s “The Flash” is “probably the most faithful DC Comics adaptation ever”

At the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour today, The CW presented its latest DC Comics adaptation, The Flash, and it’s a winner, chronicling the adventures of forensic scientist Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), who, through one of those mysterious sci-fi accidents that can only happen in comic books, is transformed into the fastest human alive. From executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg, the men behind the network’s hit Arrow, the new series is, in the words of DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, who was also on the panel: “probably the most faithful DC Comics adaptation ever, as deep […]

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Reality TV

Lifetime Renews “Little Women: LA” For Second Season

Great news, fans of Little Women: LA, Lifetime has announced that the show has been picked up for a second season! This means we’ll see more of Terra, Tonya, Elena, Traci, Christy, and Briana and follow them through tragedy and triumph.   From a Lifetime release: MORE LITTLE WOMEN: LA ON THE WAY Lifetime Renews Big Hit LITTLE WOMEN: LA for Second Season Season One Finale Airs July 22, Featuring One of the First Televised Little People Weddings Los Angeles, CA (July 15, 2014) – Lifetime confirms that little is the next big thing!  The network has renewed its popular docu-series […]

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TCA: “Sharknado 2” is the feel-good movie of the summer

Monday was NBCUniversal cable day at the Television Critics Association 2014 Summer Press Tour, with panels for shows from USA Network, Syfy, Bravo, Oxygen, Esquire Network and more. Kicking off the day was USA Network’s DaVinci Code-like new limited series DIG, starring Jason Isaacs and Anne Heche. Described as a murder mystery set in the realm of biblical prophecies, DIG is in production in Jerusalem. Recent violence in the Holy Land may impact production of both DIG and FX’s Tyrant, but producers were still trying to assess the situation. We talked with Isaacs, who reveled in the opportunity to film […]

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Lifestyle

Marcus Lemonis: “I learn more about myself” on CNBC’s The Profit

Marcus Lemonis, Chairman/CEO of Camping World and Good Sam and the star of CNBC’s The Profit says his entire business career has been about being accessible to people who need his help — even when his live-in girlfriend warns him that it’s going to burn him out. Speaking to reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Lemonis said he gets more than 1,000 email pitches a day, and culls even more from Twitter, but the entrepreneurial spirit is what drives him — in himself and in the struggling and prosepctive business owners with whom he works. It’s also […]

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Documentary

NGC’s ‘Going Deep with David Rees’: Everything old hat is new again

Leave it to the guy who (literally) wrote the book on sharpening pencils — and gets plenty of folks to pay him $15 to artfully sharpen a single Ticonderoga No. 2 — to spend his time at the Television Critics Association press tour teaching reporters to fold the perfect paper plane. And then cheerfully asking us to throw the finished products at him en masse. As the star of National Geographic Channel’s family-friendly new series Going Deep with David Rees, which premieres Monday, author/cartoonist/comedian David Rees sets out to shed fascinating new light on such mundane tasks as tying your […]

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NBC touts new fall offerings at TCA Summer Press Tour

The broadcast portion of the 2014 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour began Sunday with NBC presenting talent and executives from its new fall shows. Among the highlights of the sessions: In the NBC executive session, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt, NBC Entertainment President Jenniger Salke and NBC President of Alternative and Late Night Programming Paul Telegdy announced that Christopher Walken will play Captain Hook in NBC’s Peter Pan live event in December. We danced with joy. NBC will import Red Nose Day from the UK, and do a programming event in May 2015 to raise funds for charity. And […]

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Lifestyle

LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian: Vh1’s LeAnn & Eddie is for real and for laughs

Watching country crooner LeAnn Rimes and her husband, actor Eddie Cibrian, calmly handle a grilling by reporters during the Television Critics Association press tour panel for their new VH1 docuseries LeAnn & Eddie, it’s clear that the pair have dealt with pretty much everything critics — TV or otherwise — have to dish out. • Preview the first episode of LeAnn & Eddie here Tabloid staples since their romance began on the set of the 2009 Lifetime movie Northern Lights (while both were married to others), the pair decided to create a reality show to give a tongue-in-cheek — but, […]