Live From the NBC Upfront
[REFRESH FOR LATEST] 12:45pm: </done> 12:45pm: NBC begins to wrap up past the 90-minute mark. Greenblatt says they’ve been planning this Upfront for five months, and introduces the Roots for one...
View ArticleUpfronts: What Are New Shows’ Chances for Survival?
Now that the major broadcast networks have announced which new shows will grace their fall schedules, what are their prospects?
View ArticlePromo No-No: The NBC, USA ‘Camp’ Confusion
As if the TV landscape wasn’t already vast and intricate enough, networks have found a new way to confuse viewers: launch shows with essentially the same name, and the same theme, during the same week....
View ArticleNBC Taps Sean Hayes To Host Fall Programming Preview
In what is standard practice for many of the big broadcast networks in the weeks before the new fall TV season, NBC will distribute a preview show that will be hosted by actor Sean Hayes and the cast...
View ArticleWWE Reaches 20 Million Unique Viewers in a Single Week
WWE has reached a recent milestone, with its programming watched by 20 million unique people in a single week, the company said. While the number is not an historic record, it is a key stat for a...
View ArticleLinda Lavin Reunites with Nicky Silver and Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theater
Linda Lavin will reunite with playwright Nicky Silver, helmer Mark Brokaw and Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theater to star in “Too Much Sun,” the new Silver play set to open at theater in May. In 2011...
View ArticlePaladin Picks up ‘A Short History of Decay’ for Theatrical Release
Mark Urman’s New York-based distributor, Paladin, has acquired theatrical rights to “A Short History of Decay,” Michael Maren’s comedy-drama that bowed last fall as part of the Hamptons Intl. Film...
View ArticleOff Broadway Review: ‘Too Much Sun’ Starring Linda Lavin
In Nicky Silver’s previous play, “The Lyons,” which originated at the Vineyard under the direction of Mark Brokaw, Linda Lavin played a mother who ruins her children’s lives to gratify her own...
View ArticleLinda Lavin Heads Back to Broadway to Play a Parent with a Past
Linda Lavin, the Broadway favorite (“The Lyons,” “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife”) who’s also well-known to TV audiences (“Alice,” “Sean Saves the World”), will return to Broadway next season in a...
View ArticleBroadway Review: ‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair,’ Starring Linda Lavin
Not even the sainted Linda Lavin can save the deeply unpleasant character she plays in “Our Mother’s Brief Affair,” a lazy play by Richard Greenberg commissioned and first produced by South Coast Rep,...
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