While we don’t know if actress Gabourey Sidibe is going to walk away with an Oscar for her role as Precious in the film by the same name, we do know this: she wins my honorary award for Best Talk Show Guest.
This column isn’t always going to be about late night, but it’s just been too good over the past couple of weeks to ignore. However, with tonight being Conan‘s last night as host of The Tonight Show, on top of the horrifying news that Jay Leno is hosting the White House Correspondents’ dinner, I feel […]
The current antics over at NBC make the days of Fred Silverman’s Supertrain and Pink Lady and Jeff look like brilliant programming decisions.
At least, that’s the delusion that Angela Bromstad (President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC and Universal Media Studios) seems to be operating under. Asked about the show at NBC’s TCA presentation, Bromstad said, “”It’s been performing very strongly in its 8 p.m. time slot.” I would argue that finishing in fourth place every week, and losing to […]
Believe it or not, we have reached the mid-point in the 2009-10 television season. Unlike the past few years, this season may turn out to be one of the most successful. Thanks in part to some new and old comedies. After years of shunning comedy scripts for proceurals and serialized dramas, the networks have filled their schedules with some laughs rather than sobs.
…The Tonight Show, except 90 minutes earlier. Excuse me, my editor is asking me to write something else about Jay Leno’s new show. Well, there are some differences: Jay interviews guests in comfy chairs, rather than a desk/couch combination The band’s name is now the Kevin Eubanks Primetime Band The set is redesigned Jay looks […]
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