Full Coverage: Winter TCA press tour
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Billy Crystal thinks there are moments in his latest show, FX’s “The Comedians,” that will make viewers squirm.
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The second season of FX’s “Fargo,” the acclaimed project that won the Golden Globe and the Emmy for best miniseries, will be more sprawling, a lot more comedic and feature the character of Ronald Reagan.
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Some drama series might flee from being labeled as a soap opera.
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NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt confronted the network’s recent public relations nightmare surrounding Bill Cosby in an unusual forum: a ballroom packed with more than 200 television writers.
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Fox’s new television team stepped into the spotlight Saturday to articulate their mission: broaden the appeal of the languishing network while still creating bold and risky programming.
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Donald Trump has always been known for his strong, sometimes outrageous opinions.
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Running a TV show isn’t what it used to be.
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“I don’t think you guys have seen a TCA stage with this many Asian faces on it in a long time...”
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The complexity of race relations and how different cultures interact in the face of searing horror and tragedy is at the core of “American Crime,” ABC’s upcoming drama from Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley (“12 Years a Slave”).
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In case it hasn’t been clear, ABC wants to be TV’s melting pot.
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Showtime Network President David Nevins was finishing up his introductory remarks at the Television Critics Assn. press tour when a tall handsome man walked on stage offering him a “damn good cup of coffee.”
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The boys are back in town.
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When most people read books they like, they recommend it to a friend.
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There will be no heavy lifting when the CW sets its 2015-16 lineup.
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BET’s upcoming miniseries “Book of Negroes” is set during the same tumultuous American era as “Roots” and as last year’s Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave.”
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“Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew,” the MTV show that ran for seven seasons before airing its last episode in 2012, will be brought back by the music network this summer with six new episodes.
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A whiskey-guzzling, philandering, brilliant ad man once said: “Change is neither good nor bad.
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Let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way right off the bat: Walter White and Jesse Pinkman will not show up in “Better Call Saul,” the upcoming spinoff of the award-winning “Breaking Bad.”
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The producers of A&E’s upcoming suspense drama “The Returned” are more interested in being likened to “The Office” than “Gracepoint.”
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Diana Gabaldon, author of the popular time-traveling book series “Outlander,” is now finding it hard to separate fiction from fiction.
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They say you can tell a lot from a person’s handshake.
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Angela Bassett wants to make it perfectly clear: “Whitney,” Lifetime’s biopic about Whitney Houston and her stormy relationship with husband Bobby Brown, is a tribute to the late singer.
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Fans may know him as the haughty but lovable Frasier Crane, but now Kelsey Grammer is playing someone far less sympathetic: Herod the Great, the king behind the “massacre of the innocents.”
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Heads up Jimmy, Jimmy, Stephen and Conan: the late-night fray is about to be joined by someone whose brain is bigger than everyone else’s.
