TCA 2018: All the latest TV news from the summer press tour
Once again, the major broadcast networks and streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon are making the trek to the Beverly Hilton to promote their upcoming programming with members of the Television Critics Assn. Keep checking back for the latest news on programs and more.
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If the podcast and articles weren’t enough, “Dirty John,” the popular true-crime yarn from the Los Angeles Times, can soon be consumed as a scripted series on Bravo.
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“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” doesn’t land at its new home base at NBC until next year, but starting now, promises are being made that the show’s only difference will be that it’ll be better.
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Produced by Amy Poehler and Aseem Batra, “I Feel Bad” is a comedy that hopes to illuminate some of the struggles a working woman faces in attempting to “have it all” in balancing career, family and personal life.
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As a show with a premise that revolves around a group of friends grappling with the suicide of one of their own, the new ABC drama “A Million Little Things” heads into the fall TV season in a delicate position.
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It’s no secret that Mickey Mouse is turning 90 this year.
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CBS’ premium cable channel Showtime is fighting the cord-cutting tide.
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It would’ve been easy to write a premium cable show starring Jim Carrey playing a beloved children’s entertainer who morphs into “Bad Santa.”
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In between discussing Falice and Bughead ships, “Riverdale” creators and cast members gave a sneak peak on what to expect for the show’s highly anticipated third season at the Television Critics Assn. press tour Monday in Beverly Hills.
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Things will look and feel different in more ways than one when “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” returns for its final season.
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It’s OK to cry like Carrie: Showtime has officially confirmed the eighth season of “Homeland” will be its last.
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Don’t call it a revival.
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LeBron James, who can now add “Donald Trump target” to his already busy career as one of the NBA’s top stars, is getting busier off the court.
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The CW’s new series “All American” is a tale of two worlds.
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During its initial run, which concluded in 1998, “Murphy Brown” wasn’t shy about addressing controversy.
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CBS’ TV entertainment chief went on the defensive Sunday in response to explosive allegations of sexual harassment that have roiled the company and threatened to end the reign of his longtime boss Leslie Moonves.
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Long associated with NBC for his suite of TV procedurals, “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf is jumping to CBS for his new drama, “FBI.”
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CBS News executive Jeff Fager, the embattled executive producer of “60 Minutes,” is extending his vacation amid a review into the workplace culture of CBS News.
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With “Pose,” “American Horror Story” and “9-1-1,” Ryan Murphy’s fingerprints were easy to spot during the Fox and FX days at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour this week.
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Jessica Lange will be part of the cast of “American Horror Story: Apocalypse,” and FX has ordered a 10th season of the popular anthology.
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Four years after the death of motorcycle gang leader Jax Teller brought the curtain down on the popular FX drama “Sons of Anarchy,” creator Kurt Sutter is hitting the road again with “Mayans MC,” which comes to the network this fall.
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FX Networks Chief Executive John Landgraf sees no end in sight to the growth of scripted TV production.
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FX will dive deeper into limited-run series with two new projects: a “Shogun” revival and a Silicon Valley-set conspiracy thriller.
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In his first regular TV role in more than a decade, Chris Rock is set to star in FX’s crime drama anthology series “Fargo.”
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“Everyone loves a comeback,” were the first words spoken by a representative from Fox to introduce the Tim Allen sitcom “Last Man Standing” at the TCA summer press tour in Beverly Hills on Thursday.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar tried not to take it personally that his 11-year-old costar in the upcoming Fox drama “The Passage” didn’t recognize him from the seminal family comedy “Saved by the Bell.”
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Y’all, it’s true that Connie Britton will no longer be answering emergency calls on Fox’s breakout hit “9-1-1” when it returns this fall, but Jennifer Love Hewitt has her headset firmly in place—and she hopes to keep it there for a while.
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The clock is still ticking for Fox’s hit drama series “24.”
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The future of Fox after its parent company 21st Century Fox sells its studio to the Walt Disney Co. may look a lot like broadcast TV’s past.
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AMC may think it’s cornered the horror market with an upcoming documentary series produced by Eli Roth, but in terms of providing timely, real-life scares, PBS’ “Frontline” looks tough to beat with its latest two-part investigation, “The Facebook Dilemma.”
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Betty White was trending on Twitter this afternoon — but calm down, everybody.
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At last weekend’s Comic-Con International: San Diego, the panel for Netflix’s “Disenchantment” primarily focused on the show’s connection with “The Simpsons” and “Futurama.”
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Chuck Lorre came to the Television Critics Assn. press tour to promote his new Netflix comedy, “The Kominsky Method.”
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In case you were worried you weren’t giving Netflix enough hours of your precious life, the streaming service has announced four new television series that will join its ever-expanding slate.
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“Sabrina the Teenage Witch” is coming back to your TV. But this time, she’s not fooling around.
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Netflix’s proprietary algorithms are some of the most tightly guarded corporate secrets since the formula for Coca-Cola.
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From “Get Out” and “A Quiet Place” to the “The Walking Dead,” the horror genre has as strong a hold on pop culture as ever.
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Amazon Studios is teaming with the Russo Brothers to bring new meaning to global storytelling.
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Third time’s a charm for the on-screen romance between Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney.
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Following a first season in which it earned a Golden Globe for best musical or comedy TV series and 14 Emmy nominations, “The Marvelous Mrs.
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Change was apparent for Amazon Studios’ programming presentation during the Television Critics Assn. conference Saturday.
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Matthew Weiner’s anthology series “The Romanoffs” will begin streaming on Oct. 12, Amazon Prime Video announced Saturday during the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour.
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Amazon Studios is stocking its programming shelves with new series from Nicole Kidman and Lena Waithe, among others.
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While promoting his BET biographical miniseries, “The Bobby Brown Story,” at the Television Critics Assn. press tour Friday, things took a tense turn when Bobby Brown was asked about past allegations of domestic abuse against his late ex-wife Whitney Houston.
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The Television Critics Assn. summer tour took a sharp and strange turn Thursday when Tom Arnold took the stage to promote his new Viceland series, “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes,” which debuts Sept. 18.
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In its first presentation at the Television Critics Assn. summer tour since acquiring Scripps Networks in the spring, Discovery Communications touted its “fact-based programming” delivered on a suite of networks such as HGTV, TLC and Animal Planet that specialize in unscripted shows.
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What would you do if someone was watching you and you didn’t know it?
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Don’t expect a Democrats-versus-Republicans smackdown-style show where pundits from each party shout over each other.
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Need a bit of “9 to 5” news while working your 9 to 5?
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HBO has at long last confirmed a “Deadwood” movie is happening.
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Once again, HBO hopes to pave the way for the art form known as television.
