Full Coverage: Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour 2014
At the Beverly Hilton
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At this summer’s Television Critics Assn.
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Reelz Chief Executive Stan E.
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American viewers are still a ways off from having the upstairs-downstairs bunch of “Downton Abbey” over as guests in their homes through the telly, but we have some crumpets of information to hold you over before then.
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Ken Burns is used to telling stories that have been told before.
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“Downton Abbey” is coming back in January — and the chief of PBS is warming up by hurling a few crumpets at TV rivals.
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FX’s new vampire series “The Strain” has just begun its first season, but co-creator Guillermo Del Toro was not shy about discussing where the story would lead in future episodes during his appearance on a very packed panel at the Television Critics Assn. press tour on Monday.
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As FX’s outlaw biker soap opera, “Sons of Anarchy,” gets ready to come to the end of the road, creator Kurt Sutter surely knows how it will all end, correct?
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Winter is coming to 1979.
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John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks, has often talked about the similarities between the FX drama “Fargo” and HBO’s gritty “True Detective.”
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A fifth season of Louis C.K.’s critically acclaimed comedy “Louie” will be heading to FX.
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Kelsey Grammer and and Martin Lawrence walk into a courtroom ...
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“Sleepy Hollow” had heads spinning with the campy twists and turns of its first season.
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It’s easy to view Fox’s “Red Band Society” as a tearjerker given its premise -- it centers on a group of teenagers with serious illnesses who form unlikely bonds while living in a pediatric ward of a Los Angeles hospital.
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The marching orders for Fox Broadcasting’s new entertainment team from its boss is simple.
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Batman fanboys need to get one thing straight when it comes to approaching Fox’s new series “Gotham,” set in the fictional Gotham City in the days before the caped crusader patrolled the night: Forget about strict chronology.
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“Breaking Bad” was the big winner Saturday at the 30th Annual Television Critics Assn.
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Don’t judge a show by its title.
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Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant is not only preparing for the final phase of his championship career, he’s also getting ready for his close-up.
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“Jane the Virgin” is the adaptation of a hit Venezuelan telenovela that’s bringing a different flavor to the CW palate, which is used to a diet of superheroes and vampires.
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At a lunch with reporters Friday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Beverly Hills, “Homeland” showrunner Alex Gansa began by addressing the dramatic farewell of a major character in the Season 3 finale.
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The CW isn’t trying to hold on to its youth.
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CBS already has “The Millers,” but this fall it will shake things up with “The McCarthys,” a multi-camera sitcom about a sports-mad Boston family.
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“Stalker,” the new thriller about investigators investigating stalkers, is a show that creator Kevin Williamson, the man behind the “Scream” franchise, has been wanting to do for a long time.
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Vince Gilligan, creator of the groundbreaking drama “Breaking Bad,” is going back for his future in his next project.
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Pack your bags, Gibbs: You might be heading to New Orleans again before too long.
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Call it the Hillary Effect.
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CBS may be America’s most popular network, but critics claim its new fall lineup doesn’t reflect America.
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Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer are going to a chapel, and they’re gonna get married.
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One of ABC’s new shows is a rarity -- a prime-time network comedy revolving solely around an African American family.
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ABC is taking a bold step this fall to diversify prime-time television by prominently showcasing African Americans, Latinos and other minorities on a scale never before seen on a major American network.
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Oscar-nominee Viola Davis wanted to be the life of the party, not the setup — that’s why, she said, she accepted television’s invite.
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Bravo will be expanding its successful “Million Dollar Listing” franchise to San Francisco, Bravo announced Monday at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour.
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Bravo, the fishbowl where real housewives, top chefs, and leather-colored real estate agents swim freely, will officially enter the scripted series waters on Dec. 2 when its dramedy “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce” premieres.
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Coming this fall, Katherine Heigl and Alfre Woodard team up in the NBC drama “State of Affairs.”
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Katherine Heigl appeared before an audience of reporters Sunday at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour to promote her new NBC series, “State of Affairs.”
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The portrayal of women emerged as a major theme Sunday at NBC’s presentation at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour.
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It was a year of too much TV. And the TV Academy has taken notice.
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“Parenthood,” NBC’s little family drama that could, will enter its sixth and final season in the fall — and showrunner Jason Katims says the plan is to go big and go home.
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Basketball star LeBron James’ decision to return to the Cleveland Caveliers after a championship stint with the Miami Heat was the top story in the sports world Friday.
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As the top-rated network in the 18-to-49 demographic for the first time in a decade, an Olympics-buoyed NBC had plenty to brag about Sunday at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour.
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“South Park” and its raunchy cartoon characters -- Cartman, Stan, Kyle, Kenny, et al -- are heading to Hulu.
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It turns out that telling the back story of “Breaking Bad’s” smarmy lawyer, Saul Goodman, requires the same type of care and attention that the character puts into his flashy suits and strategically combed hair.
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With all the success that filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has had, from his Oscar win for “Traffic” to his Emmy victory with “Behind the Candelabra,” it’s a bit odd to hear him refer to having “an ego problem.”
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Valerie Cherish has good and bad news.
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The end is not coming to “Game of Thrones” any time soon.
