Full Coverage: TCA summer press tour 2015
The summer TV press tour is a semi-annual event where networks and streaming video services roll out their new and returning programming to journalists. Also known as TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, the gathering is being held at the Beverly Hilton and runs July 28 to August 13.
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Get some TV network executives on stage in 2015, and things are bound to veer into four topics: Netflix, binge-viewing, the glut of television, and the real or overblown threat of cord-cutting.
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NBC’s new drama “Blindspot” is mysterious — but that’s kind of the point.
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If Neil Patrick Harris’ new show’s title hasn’t hyped it up enough, the host and his co-executive did their best to get viewers pumped about the variety show on Thursday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour.
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For “Heroes” creator Tim Kring, the idea of revisiting the world that the series inhabits was largely due to unfinished business.
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Dolly Parton wants her NBC movie “Coat of Many Colors” to be a family event.
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On the last day of the Television Critics Assn. media tour, NBC’s entertainment chiefs opened up about the network’s programming experiments and plans for the future.
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NBC won’t be saying “You’re rehired!” to Donald Trump anytime soon.
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NBC’s “Chicago Med,” Dick Wolf’s third installment of his Chicago franchise, is planning a four-way crossover with his other hit shows in February.
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Next month’s NFL season opener on NBC, between the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and the high-octane offense of the Pittsburgh Steelers, seems like a dream match-up for fans -- and a network looking for ratings.
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The CW has no intention of becoming the DC network.
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It’s been just over a month since Showtime launched its stand-alone streaming service — and network president David Nevins expects that positions them well in the cord-cutting bubble.
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“The Affair” will get even more complex in Season 2 as new perspectives are added to the already diverging narrative.
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Don’t expect to see rape and gratuitous violence against women on the CW, because the women in charge there just prefer not to show it.
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In “Billions,” kings clash.
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It’s the topic that can make CBS entertainment chief Nina Tassler groan, “Oh, my God!”
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CBS is looking to be the night owl that becomes a cash cow.
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CBS will now be the night owl making some cash.
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Jane Lynch does not play a typical guardian angel on CBS’ upcoming comedy “Angel From Hell.”
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“Empire” won the top prize Saturday at the 31st annual Television Critics Assn.
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Reelz Chief Executive Stan E.
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Hulu doesn’t want its subscribers to find themselves in a TV coma, so it’s opting to release its upcoming original series in weekly episodes.
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Marcia Gay Harden said the role of Leanne, from CBS’ new medical drama “Code Black,” was “so good” that she “could not say no.”
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The sophomore slump has become quite the hot topic this television season.
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The cast and crew of FX vampire show “The Strain” -- Carlton Cuse, Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, Corey Stoll, David Bradley, Kevin Durand and Mia Maestro -- gathered onstage to address the Television Critics Assn.’
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Kurt Sutter made history at FX with “Sons of Anarchy,” his outlaw motorcycle saga that became the most popular series for the cable network and drew worshipful praise from millions of fans.
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Every year Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk reboot their surreal, hot button-mashing horror TV series “American Horror Story.”
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When “Empire,” the hottest series to premiere this season, was passed over for an Emmy nomination for best drama, the show’s key creative force, Lee Daniels, had a few choice words for Emmy voters.
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With “American Idol” poised to wave goodbye next year, Fox executives are doubling down on “Empire” hit maker Lee Daniels.
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Olivia Pope may wear a white hat (while walking in the sun), but she’s no role model.
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The 67th Emmy Awards may be more than a month away, but plans are (of course) already underway to make it a memorable show.
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John Stamos’ “Grandfathered” character is “a swinging dude like George Clooney before he turned against everything he believed in and got married,” the show’s star said Thursday.
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Don’t get confused: Fox’s new comedy “The Grinder” is nothing like the hook-up app of the same name.
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Jeff Garlin, like avid “Curb Your Enthusiasm” fans, is hoping for another season of Larry David’s HBO comedy.
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Horror is a laughing matter in Fox’s upcoming anthology series “Scream Queens.”
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NBC announced Emmy-award winner Uzo Aduba and “Glee” star Amber Riley will join the cast of “The Wiz Live!”
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Thank God it’s Shonda Rhimes.
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Comedian Ken Jeong used to be a doctor in real life. Now he’s playing one on TV.
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Amazon Studios chief Roy Price found himself defending the decision to partner with Woody Allen.
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ABC is returning to L.A.’
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First Ben and Jennifer. Then Gwen and Gavin.
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“The Walking Dead’s” much buzzed about companion series, “Fear the Walking Dead,” takes place a few weeks before audiences were originally introduced to the end of the world.
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Grab your handkerchief: There are just two weeks of production left on “Downton Abbey.” Like, ever.
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The sleuths behind “Sherlock” still can’t deduce the air date of a highly anticipated Victorian special.
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PBS is really going to miss “Downton Abbey.”
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Ever since the news dropped that “Game of Thrones’” Maisie Williams would be joining the new season of “Doctor Who,” the Whovians have been wild with speculation.
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There’s no “faking it” on “Flesh and Bone.”
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“The Wire” was never a big hit when it first aired on HBO.
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Starz has renewed its Michael Bay drama “Black Sails” for a fourth season and announced it is developing “Havana Quartet,” a drama based on the Leonardo Padura detective book series that will star Antonio Banderas.
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Looks like another private eye will be joining the plethora of TV detectives currently on television.
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From the horror movie franchise that coined the term “splatstick,” there’s one thing the new Starz TV series extension of the “Evil Dead” movies needs to get right: It needs to be bloody.
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Bill Hader, Fred Armisen and Seth Meyers have fully immersed themselves in the mockumentary business with IFC’s “Documentary Now!”
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BBC America’s “The Last Kingdom” has quickly drawn comparisons to several well-known series: Imagine a mash-up of the action of “Game of Thrones,” the historical particulars of “Downton Abbey,” drama of “The Tudors” and the grittiness of “Vikings” all set against the backdrop of the nascent England’s lesser-documented origins.
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It’s the seven-letter no-no word to look out for whenever there’s an HBO executive around: Netflix.
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Is the second season of “True Detective” the cycle only its network programming chief could love?
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Winter might be coming far beyond a seventh season.
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Destination America is looking to instill a little more fright -- and a few fewer spirits -- into viewers this Halloween with “Exorcism: Live!”
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It’s not lost on Trevor Noah that he has a big seat to fill as he prepares to take the helm of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” in September.
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Oscar- and Grammy-winning recording artist John Legend is taking his musical chops to television.
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Little was known about the highly anticipated female-lead new Marvel Netflix series “Jessica Jones” until yesterday at the TCAs.
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If Trevor Noah is feeling any early jitters about settling into Jon Stewart’s chair as the new host of the “The Daily Show,” he’s hiding it very well.
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It’s locked up more securely than the ladies at Litchfield Penitentiary in “Orange Is the New Black”: It’s Netflix’s viewership data.
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It’s been a little over a month since the third season of “Orange Is the New Black” rolled out on Netflix, so if you have yet to catch up with Piper and the gang, you should probably refrain from reading this post.
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It took just six minutes for Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos to get hit with a question on viewership data Tuesday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour.
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Nothing has made Chelsea Handler miss having a talk show quite like Rachel Dolezal.
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Netflix, as it continues to bulk up its muscle within Hollywood, is now seeking to take up residence there.
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Spy drama “The Americans,” addictive “Empire,” sprawling fantasy “Game of Thrones,” the recently wrapped “Mad Men” and transgender dramedy “Transparent” are vying for this year’s TCA Award for program of the year.
