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1 TCA Tidbits: Ghost Sex, Lipstick Jungle, Pushing Daisies, More
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2 Amy Poehler's Show Has a Lot of Funny People (But No Title)
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3 Josh Schwartz Spills Secrets on the Gossip Girl Spinoff
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4 Chuck's Dad, the Super Office, and More From NBC
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5 Aziz Ansari on Performing Public Service
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6 TCA Tidbits: NBC Talks Southland, Chuck, Heroes, and More
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7 Wedding Bells For Jim and Pam? Mindy Kaling Spills
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8 Alison Brie Talks Mad Men and Community
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9 Five Minutes With Connie Britton
At every NBC TCA event, Connie Britton is one of my absolute favorite people to find. Once again, the Friday Night Lights actress took some time this Summer to talk about the upcoming seasons four and five of FNL. Read on for highlights: On some of the drama in the upcoming season: "I'm still at the school that basically ousted my husband, so I think that we're going to have a lot of Read more
When I first saw Alison Brie on NBC's comedy pilot Community alongside Joel McHale, I thought, "Good for her!" And then I had a second thought: "But wait . . . what about Trudy?" Brie also plays Trudy Campbell on Mad Men, and I was worried this new role spelled the end for Trudy. Luckily, I caught up with Brie at NBC's TCA day, and she put my fears to rest: On balancing Community with Mad Men: Read more
Mindy Kaling's Twitter feed does not lie. In less than 140 characters, The Office writer/actress dribbled out some key info this week regarding a certain potential wedding on the upcoming season of the show. Luckily, she had more than 140 characters worth of info to share when I ran into her at NBC's party at the TCA press tour on Wednesday night. She and fellow writer/actor BJ Novak also Read more
With Ben Silverman leaving NBC earlier this Summer, reporters were bound to be a little chippy at NBC's executive session today at the TCA press tour. There were plenty of questions about how NBC's entertainment president, Angela Bromstad, would define NBC's brand (apparently it includes Heroes, The Office, and The Apprentice equally?), but we also got some concrete info about shows like Read more
The non-spinoff spinoff of The Office finally has itself a possible title — Public Service — and a very funny pilot script that I got a chance to read back at the TCA press tour. It also has an up-and-coming costar in Aziz Ansari, who's been popping up everywhere from Flight of the Conchords to Scrubs to his MTV sketch show, Human Giant. He was the first person to join the series before Read more
It's the last day of the TCA press tour, and ABC is presenting a ton of new midseason series today, including Nathan Fillion's Castle and Amber Tamblyn's The Unusuals. The news has been coming fast and furious, so here are some tidbits from this morning's ABC sessions and yesterday's NBC panels: Apparently, we should stop using the term "ghost sex" to describe Izzie and Denny's relationship on Read more
News on the Gossip Girl spinoff and Amy Poehler show was just the start of the good stuff to come out of NBC's TCA session yesterday. I also got some news on Chuck and the post-Super Bowl episode of The Office. Read on for details: Yes, Chuck's dad will be found — and he'll be played by Scott Bakula of Quantum Leap! "[Executive producer] Chris Fedak and I were huge Quantum Leap fans," Read more
I was full of questions after hearing that Gossip Girl's long-rumored spinoff was going to be focused on young Lily — so it was a pleasant surprise to see the gossip guy himself, executive producer Josh Schwartz, turn up at NBC's TCA party on Thursday night. Read on to find out what I learned: Pay attention to the next-to-last episode of Gossip Girl this season. That's when the spinoff Read more
Rachel Maddow took the stage at the TCAs in LA yesterday to promote her wildly popular new show and recent skyrocket to fame. She was friendly and responsive, cracking a few jokes and giving us an idea of what her show will be like as President Bush makes way for President Obama. She likened MSNBC's inauguration plan to "the Mars landing" in its intricacy and talked about how she hopes to be able Read more
Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones, and writers Greg Daniels and Michael Schur just got the room laughing here at the TCA press tour in their first session for their new show. (Seriously, go here to hear about Poehler's Jason Bourne connection.)The show's still untitled, but we now know a little bit about the plot: Poehler plays Leslie, a mid-level local government operative who partners Read more
