My week-in-review piece is up:
Kansas City Star | The fall TV previews, such as they were
For whatever reason, the following pithy observations were cut from the story:
In hindsight, the moguls should have put their negotiating prowess to work a few months ago and struck a deal with their show writers before there could be a strike. Still, most of us had expected that things would be pretty much back to normal by now. Clearly that’s not going to be the case.
ABC chief Steve McPherson never let on to advertisers, but “Wipeout” is a blatant knockoff of the Japanese stunt game show “Takeshi’s Castle,” which you may have seen on the Spike cable channel, where it was dubbed into English and retitled “MXC.” Four producers talking into a camera and two carbon copies of shows that have aired elsewhere — this is ABC.
And my favorite, regarding the NBC Universal Experience:
Lights blared. Music pulsed. Reporters who emerged from their “Experience” spoke as if they had survived a passage through one of Dante’s circles of hell.
Well, not bad for four weeks' work: The cast and crew of "Dollhouse" have assembled this trailer, in time for Fox's upfront on Thursday, that gives a pretty good idea where they're going with this show and why everybody will want to check it out:
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Finally, please note I have fixed the Ticker. For the last. Time.
