TV Bulletin Board

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., June 5) -- Olbermann back in business, NP Harris gets a twofer

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2013-06-05T09:40:07-05:00

The How I Met Your Mother star is “the quintessential host -- engaging, entertaining and a true showman -- with a passion for celebrating the medium we all love,” CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler said in a release. ...The network cites its relatively young median age -- 45.7 -- and its popularity in “upscale” households with incomes of more than $100,000 annually. Hannibal’s 13-episode Season 2 “will air no earlier than midseason” next year, NBC says.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., March 5) -- The Bible, Vikings give History a night to remember

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2013-03-05T08:53:15-06:00

Vikings, another original scripted series that received a far better reception from reviewers, also scored well while ranking as the No.1 TV attraction in its 9 p.m. (central) time slot among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds. ...The Bible, which will continue with two-hour chapters through Easter Sunday, couldn't quite match the initial ratings high for History's Hatfields & McCoys, which drew 13.9 million viewers for its first two-hour airing on May 28th.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Feb. 26) -- Oscars up in national Nielsens

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2013-02-26T17:46:58-06:00

Kristin Chenoweth and host Seth MacFarlane wound down with "Here's to the Losers" at Sunday's Oscar ceremony. Photo: Ed Bark ...The most-watched Oscars -- and a record not likely to ever be beaten -- were in 1998, when 55.2 million turned out.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Feb. 14) -- Cuban and CBS strike a deal

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2013-02-14T12:52:34-06:00

Cuban, also a co-star on ABC's popular Shark Tank series, said that CBS "brings the industry's best and most respected resources and experience to AXS TV, which will accelerate our growth and realization of our vision that 'The future of TV is TV.' ...ABC says that Gosselin and Playboy playmate Kendra Wilkinson will assume each other's lives for a week on the first episode of Celebrity Wife Swap, which premieres on Tuesday, Feb. 26th at 7 p.m. (central).

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Jan. 29) -- Renewal palooza

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2013-01-29T15:19:03-06:00

***The network's sister cable network, Showtime, has green-lighted new seasons for Shameless, Californication and House of Lies, all of which began their ongoing latest seasons on Jan. 13th. ...Jake Tapper, formerly ABC News' chief White House correspondent, jumped to CNN earlier this year after repeatedly being passed over for the host position on ABC's Sunday morning This Week program.

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., Dec. 7) -- ABC/CBS slot midseason premieres

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-12-07T13:08:19-06:00

ABC's Zero Hour, starring ex-ER mainstay Anthony Edwards as a myth de-bunker thrown into "one of the most compelling mysteries in human history," is slated for a Thursday, Feb. 14th premiere in the 7 p.m. (central) slot currently held by Last Resort. ...After a pair of sneak previews on Feb. 26th and March 5th, Golden Boy will move to Fridays alongside Blue Bloods, starring Tom Selleck as one of the oldest police commissioners in New York City history.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Nov. 21) -- TCM all in with JC

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-11-21T09:18:37-06:00

The deal was made through filmmaker Peter Jones, who persuaded the Carson estate to grant him unrestricted access to the "The King of Late Night's" archives for PBS' acclaimed American Masters tribute to him in May 2012. ...The collection of 50 Tonight Show interviews includes sit-downs with Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Carol Burnett, George Burns, Truman Capote, Bing Crosby, Tony Curtis, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Doris Day, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston, William Holden, Bob Hope, Gene Kelly, Jack Lemmon, Mary Tyler Moore, Gregory Peck, Tony Randall, Ronald Reagan, George C.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Oct. 31) -- NBC's odd treatment of Revolution

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-10-31T12:48:50-05:00

And Revolution will then disappear all the way until March 25th, when it's slated to return on Monday nights in tandem with a new season of The Voice. ...Giants-Tigers World Series ends up being least-watched ever -- San Francisco's four-game sweep of Detroit averaged 12.7 million viewers nationally, with Game 4 drawing the biggest crowd (15.5 million) and Game 3 the smallest (10.5 million).

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Oct. 25) -- new TV vehicle for old Cheers mates

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-10-25T14:49:57-05:00

TV Land's old-time sitcom religion gained two more notable converts Thursday when the network announced that former Cheers stars Kirstie Alley and Rhea Perlman will re-team in Giant Baby. ...***Fox has announced three key winter season premiere dates, including the 12th season return of American Idol on Wednesday, Jan. 16th with new judges Mariah Carey, Keith Urban and Niki Minaj, plus holdover Randy Jackson.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Oct. 18) -- Animal Practice axed

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-10-18T13:49:13-05:00

NBC's Animal Practice became the fall season's second casualty Thursday, with Whitney set to take its Wednesday 7 p.m. (central) habitat on Nov. 14th. ...The network says that Asylum had more viewers than any single episode of its predecessor, which was just plain American Horror Story.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Oct. 16) -- Amy/Tina should add patina to Globes

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-10-16T14:21:09-05:00

In fact, TWD had more viewers in that prized demographic during the week of Oct. 8-14 than broadcast network hits such as NBC's The Voice, ABC's Modern Family and CBS' The Big Bang Theory. ...Now clearly No. 2 behind ABC's Good Morning America in the A.M. pecking order, Today plans to spring hosts Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Natalie Morales on unsuspecting new American citizens during a Nov. 12th swearing-in ceremony.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Oct. 11) -- Made in Jersey unmade

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-10-11T09:02:01-05:00

Made in Jersey has won the not-so-coveted First New Fall Series to Be Canceled trophy, beating fellow contenders Partners, The Mob Doctor, Animal Practice and Guys with Kids to the finish line. ...Until then, CBS is using putty at 7 p.m. in the form of two NCIS repeats (on Oct. 12th and 26th) and a Hawaii Five-0 rerun on Oct. 19th.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Oct. 8) -- ABC annnounces GMA weatherman's engagement to same sex partner

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-10-08T08:38:37-05:00

In an apparent first for a Big Four broadcast network, ABC has publicly announced the engagement of Good Morning America weathercaster Sam Champion and boyfriend Rubem Robierb. ...Perry, who produces the sitcoms Meet the Browns, House of Payne and For Better or Worse for TBS, will now be developing two new scripted series for OWN.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Oct. 3) -- renewal notices for Revolution, Boardwalk Empire, etc.

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-10-03T11:12:56-05:00

The futuristic drama Revolution and a pair of sitcoms -- Go On and The New Normal -- have been green-lighted by the Peacock for at least the duration of the 2012-'13 TV campaign. ...There's no guarantee yet that Go On will last beyond its first season, but its initial vote of confidence is in the bag.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Sept. 13) -- latest Kennedy Center honorees highlight omissions as well

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-09-13T08:15:44-05:00

Pacino remains on the outside looking in while Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, James Earl Jones, Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood are all Kennedy Center honorees. ...And FX says that Sons is on track to be the network's "most-watched single telecast ever" after "Live+7" data (viewing over a seven-day period) is made available by Nielsen Media Research.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Sept. 4) -- As expected, it's now Live! with Kelly and Michael

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-09-04T12:28:56-05:00

The long and at times seemingly interminable search for Kelly Ripa's co-host officially ended Tuesday with the previously leaked naming of former New York Giants star Michael Strahan. ...Strahan, who had been a guest host 20 times in the last two years according to a publicity release, will continue to be a part of Fox NFL Sunday, which returns for the start of the NFL season this Sunday.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Aug. 27) -- American Bible Challenge parts Red Sea, gets highest GSN ratings ever

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-08-27T09:24:47-05:00

Actually, GSN (former Game Show Network) is trumpeting the show's Nielsen numbers in a publicity release. Bible Challenge drew 1.7 million viewers nationally, the biggest haul in GSN's 17-year history. "The best-selling book of all time is now GSN's most-viewed program of all time, which proves that consumers are yearning for fun, family-friendly entertainment," says VP of programming and development Amy Introcaso-Davis.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Aug. 9) -- Keri Russell returning to prime-time; Al Gore anchoring Current TV convention coverage

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-08-09T12:19:17-05:00

Now WB is defunct, FX has a boatload of homegrown weekly series and Russell is coming back to prime-time in the network's The Americans. ...***Having banished Keith Olbermann for alleged malfeasance on the job, former Vice President Al Gore has taken it upon himself to anchor Current TV's Republican and Democratic national convention coverage.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., July 30) -- TV critics fete Louie, Homeland, Game of Thrones

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-07-30T10:04:02-05:00

HBO's Game of Thrones instead prevailed while AMC's Breaking Bad beat out Homeland for "Outstanding Achievement in Drama." Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston hosted the ceremony. ...Its mastermind is Joss Whedon (The Avengers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), with Neil Patrick Harris starring as the title character and Nathan Fillion (Castle and Whedon's Firely) as his arch enemy, Captain Hammer.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., July 26) -- CBS This Morning makes host change, GMA tops Today in key demo after nearly 17-year drought

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-07-26T11:36:11-05:00

ABC also noted that GMA's margin in total viewers -- 4.598 million to Today's 4.245 million -- is its largest since May 15, 1995. CBS This Morning averaged 2.341 million viewers for the week. ...Rhys Meyers has had his share of off-screen problems, with several stints in rehab for alcohol abuse and a lifetime ban from flying on United Airlines because of what the airline described as "belligerent and disruptive behavior" during a 2010 incident.

TV Bulletin Board (Friday, July 13) -- No mo' J Lo on Idol

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-07-13T12:41:11-05:00

On the (high) heels of Steven Tyler's official departure announcement Thursday, Jennifer Lopez said Friday that she too is ending her days as an American Idol judge. ...That show returns for Season 2 in September with a pair of new judges, Britney Spears and Demi Lovato, in place of the fired former Idol judge Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., July 12) -- Tyler done with Idol

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-07-12T16:52:03-05:00

But Fox's announcement that Steven Tyler is leaving American Idol after two years as a judge nonetheless went against the prevailing grain that Jennifer Lopez would be the first to jump. ...One or both of his former Idol mates, Lopez and charter judge Randy Jackson, also could be leaving as Fox hopes to restore momentum to a competition that slumped significantly in the ratings this past season.

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., June 29) -- Guthie gets the Today nod; Sheen gets off to record-setting re-start

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-06-29T12:59:23-05:00

Guthrie will be called upon to do much more of the latter on an increasingly fun n' games Today, currently locked in a tight battle for network morning show supremacy with ABC's Good Morning America. ...***Finally, TNT has scheduled a Fourth of July Dallas marathon, with the four previously shown episodes airing in sequence from 4 to 8 p.m. (central) before a new hour at 8 p.m.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., June 5) -- History network makes history with week's three most-watched programs

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-06-05T17:35:50-05:00

The No. 4 program for the week, NBC's America's Got Talent, had 11.513 million viewers, with ESPN's Sunday night Game 4 of the Heat-Celtics Eastern Conference finals ranking No. 5 with 11.068 million viewers. ...Western Civic felled by another kidney punch -- Spike TV announced Tuesday that it's ready for the "Mayan interpretation of the Apocalypse," which currently is scheduled for December 21st in case you'd like to start stockpiling cans of indestructible lima beans.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., May 29) -- History's Hatfields & McCoys corrals big crowd

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-05-29T14:51:12-05:00

Setting a pace that likely will make it the week's most-watched attraction on any form of television, History's Part 1 of Hatfields & McCoys amassed a national audience of 13.9 million viewers on Memorial Day night. ...So NBC has ordered up another one. The Winner Is, which doesn't have an air date yet, is described as a "new vocal game show that spotlights talented singers from all ages singing and negotiating to win the cash prize of $1 million."

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., May 4) -- Jagger doing SNL, Fox twitting The Voice

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-05-04T11:00:09-05:00

***The sly, cunning Fox network isn't joking with The Choice, a new celebrity dating game show that will feature swivel chairs and "the world's most eligible celebrities" pulling "love handles" to see whom they've picked sight unseen. ...***TNT has ordered a 10-episode Season 5 of Southland, which it rescued after NBC canceled the acclaimed cop series to make room for Jay Leno's very ill-fated prime-time stint.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs. March 15) -- the tragic end of Luck and a bouncing of American Idol finalist

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-03-15T14:16:11-05:00

"It is with heartbreak that executive producers David Milch and Michael Mann together with HBO have decided to cease all future production on the series Luck," the network said in a release issued Wednesday evening. HBO said it had maintained "the highest safety standards throughout production, higher in fact than any previous protocols existing in horse racing anywhere with many fewer incidents than occur in racing or than befall horses normally in barns at night or pastures."

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., March 8) -- throw another showy singing competition into the mix with ABC's Duets

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-03-08T12:52:04-06:00

The show's four "chart-topping superstars," who include inaugural American Idol champ Kelly Clarkson of Burleston, will "individually set out on a journey across America looking for undiscovered talent worthy of being their proteges," ABC says in a publicity release. ...Says Clarkson: "The simple fact that I get to go out and find two people that I believe in, sing with them every week, and help them accomplish their dreams is an amazing thing that I can't wait to be a part of."

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., March 7) -- tale of two Foxies; Terra Nova axed, Justified renewed

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-03-07T09:33:08-06:00

So in the end Fox backed away, even though it certainly will have some holes next season with the announced cancellation of House, the likely dropping of Fringe (which Reilly said was losing money) and the failure of freshman series such as The Finder, which has been exiled to Friday nights to finish out its run. ...But on Fox and its three main broadcast network rivals -- ABC, NBC, CBS -- this season's official list of freshman dropouts already includes Fox's Terra Nova and Allen Gregory; ABC's Charlie's Angels, Man Up!, Work It and Pan Am; NBC's The Playboy Club, Prime Suspect and Free Agents; and CBS' How To Be A Gentleman.

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., Feb. 24) -- and The Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life goes to . . .

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-02-24T10:46:59-06:00
"Their civil and informative discussion of politics stands in stark contrast to the partisan and often prickly environment that dominates the political landscape today," Newshour executive producer Linda Winslow said in a publicity release. ...And in the view of Newshour executive editor Jim Lehrer, they "deserve this and all other awards there are or ever will be for civility."

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Feb. 22) -- Conan goes on, Simon spills a few nuggets

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-02-22T17:44:35-06:00
Reid, maestros of Fox's The X Factor, held a teleconference with TV critics Wednesday to announce they haven't yet hired anyone to replace the two judges and host fired after Season 1. ...Charter American Idol host Ryan Seacrest is in the final year of his contract with Fox, but Cowell discounted any notion that he'd jump to another network or preside over any rival singing competition.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Jan. 31) -- HBO bets on second season of Luck

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2012-01-31T12:16:57-06:00
The mega-hyped singing competition gave Fox's usual moribund fall ratings a significant boost, but didn't approach the 20 million viewers predicted by executive producer/judge Simon Cowell, who isn't about to fire himself. ...It means the network will keep reaping ratings gold from ACM's annual prime-time awards ceremony, which will air this year on April Fool's night with Blake Shelton and Reba McEntire repeating as hosts.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Nov. 17) -- Gervais back as Globes host

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-11-17T09:40:05-06:00
Its president, Orly Adelson, said that Gervais' "unique point of view and his mischievous streak are a perfect match to the irreverent nature of the show." ...PBS also will air a second group of Sherlock episodes (beginning on May 6th) and an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (April 1st and 8th) starring Gillian Anderson.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Nov. 3) -- Gaga does Thanksgiving, Banfield moves to CNN

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-11-03T16:17:55-05:00
***CNN is shaking up its morning lineup, and one of the beneficiaries is Ashleigh Banfield, who's had more venues than Cirque du Soleil since leaving Dallas-based KDFW-TV in 2000 after a five-year stay. Banfield, who had been with ABC News, and Zoraida Sambolin will be co-anchoring a 5 to 7 a.m. program before veteran CNN anchor/correspondent Soledad O'Brien steps back into the morning mix to helm a 7 to 9 a.m. show.

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., Oct. 28) -- RX for Sheen is FX

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-10-28T14:14:42-05:00
Charlie Sheen's sitcom career is back on track with the announcement Thursday that FX has ordered 10 episodes of Anger Management for a summer 2012 premiere. ...***AMC's most popular scripted series, The Walking Dead, has been renewed for a third season while still in the early stages of Season 2.

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., Oct. 14) -- ABC sacks Charlie's Angels; NBC signs Ted Koppel

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-10-14T15:57:20-05:00
He then reported a series of documentaries for The Discovery Channel before the two parted ways in 2008. Nightline since has been prospering in the late night ratings with a notably lighter format in which gossipy entertainment and lifestyle stories have taken on an increasingly visible role. Rock Center, scheduled to premiere on Halloween night in place of NBC's canceled The Playboy Club, also has former CBS News anchor-reporter Harry Smith as one of its regular correspondents.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Oct. 6) -- catching up on additions/subtractions (updated)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-10-06T09:22:48-05:00
NBC deleted its retro bunnies after just three episodes on Monday nights at 9 p.m. (central). Playboy Club's replacement, beginning on Halloween night, will be Rock Center with Brian Williams, a news magazine fronted by the Nightly News anchor and staffed by correspondents Harry Smith, Kate Snow, Meredith Vieira and others. ...The Playboy Club sacking ended up edging NBC's Thursday cancellation of its Wednesday comedy Free Agents and The CW's decision to drop H8R.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Sept. 12) -- Starz network's original Spartacus succumbs to cancer; HBO leads "creative arts" Emmy winners

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-09-12T08:49:55-05:00
He had been diagnosed in March of last year, with Starz crafting a six-episode prequel, Gods of the Arena, in hopes of marking time until Whitfield recovered. ...In a statement released Monday morning, Starz president and CEO Chris Albrecht praised Whitfield as a "champion on-screen" who also was a "champion in his own life.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Sept. 7) -- America's Most Wanted captured on new network

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-09-07T09:02:42-05:00
A Lifetime publicity release also says that AMW has "played a major role in the capture of more than 1,100 fugitives in the U.S. and 30 countries" since its 1988 launch on Fox, where it became a Saturday night staple in tandem with COPS. ***Facing the financial realities of acclaimed but expensive dramas such as Mad Men and Breaking Bad, the AMC network is joining the more cost-efficent "reality" game in hopes of balancing its checkbook.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Sept. 6) -- Eddie Murphy will be latest Oscar host

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-09-06T15:26:39-05:00
Murphy, an Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner for his work in 2006's Dreamgirls, represents a renewed back-to-basics approach for the Academy, which tried and failed to youthify its TV audience last year with the combo of Anne Hathaway and James Franco. ...But in the publicity release sent by ABC, he pledged to work with Ratner and co-producer Don Mischer to put on a show that is "enjoyable for both the fans at home and for the audience at the Kodak Theatre."

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Aug. 25) -- J Lo returning to Idol, etc., etc.

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-08-25T09:21:44-05:00
Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony parted ways in American Idol's post-season, but she'll be renewing her contractual vows as a judge on the Fox juggernaut. ..."From the very first day of auditions, we knew we had something special in our new judges panel, and we're so happy that America felt that way, too," Alternative Entertainment President Mike Darnell said in a publicity release.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., July 19) -- Emmy nominee Connie Britton segues from Austin-madeFriday Night Lights to new FX drama series

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-07-19T08:20:37-05:00
FX announced Monday that it's ordered 13 episodes of the series, which focuses on a "family of three who move from Boston to Los Angeles as a means to reconcile past anguish." ...***The Encore network is developing its first-ever original programming, with a new, three-hour version of Moby Dick scheduled to premiere on the nights of Aug.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., July 14) -- Shaq's latest career move is to TNT

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-07-14T14:32:40-05:00
Shaq on Thursday inked a multi-year deal with TNT, where his principal forum will be the NBA studio show already populated by Barkley, Kenny Smith and host Ernie Johnson. ...This was the Big Three's first time together and they made it very far and they are going to be together for a long time.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., July 13) -- CSI adds a crimesolving Danson

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-07-13T07:56:56-05:00
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TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., May 26) -- MSNBC's Ed Schultz gets suspended while Kevin Costner joins the History family

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-05-26T10:30:46-05:00
Now Kevin Costner will be acting out, too, as the star and co-producer of The Hatfields and McCoys, a miniseries scheduled to premiere sometime in 2012. Costner, who will play "Devil" Anse Hatfield, says he's "thrilled" to participate "in this dramatic re-telling of a classic and timeless tale that is forever immersed in the folklore of our country."

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., May 24) -- Survivor/Apprentice maestro goes biblical

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-05-24T12:05:23-05:00
"We've been working on this project for the past two years and are deeply humbled to be given this once in a generation opportunity to breathe new visual life into the Bible's profound stories." History previously ventured into scripted miniseries territory with The Kennedys, which it belatedly rejected after deciding that the eight-hour production (starring Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as Jack and Jackie Kennedy) wasn't a good fit for the network's "brand."

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., May 23) -- MSNBC makes rare right turn with hiring of Michael Steele

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-05-23T17:01:59-05:00
Steele's largely conservative views will clash with the network's contingent of liberal news analysis programs, which have multiplied in recent years as a counterpart to Fox News Channel's conservative agenda. ...***Showime has renewed Edie Falco's Nurse Jackie series for a fourth season, but won't be bringing back the multiple personalities of Toni Collette in The United States of Tara, which is currently in its third and now final season following Jackie on Mondays at 9:30 p.m. (central).

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., May 16) -- Trump renounces presidential run after suckering national media (plus a new weekly version of The Flintstones from the Family Guy dude

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-05-16T15:57:58-05:00
Having made a collective chump of the national media while drumming up a wealth of free publicity for The Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump has backed away from his fraudulent, faux run for the presidency. ..."After getting so many calls from Bob and Steve (NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt and NBC Universal CEO Steve Burke), I've decided that we are going to continue onward with Celebrity Apprentice," he said.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., May 12) -- The Voice and Talent join forces

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-05-12T15:56:15-05:00
NBC hopes to rein all over its rivals on Tuesdays this June (and May 31st, too, for that matter) with a power-packed combo of its new hit, The Voice, and its returning hit, America's Got Talent. ...Um, they're all for real, and were proudly announced by Spike TV Thursday as part of its "ambitious new slate" of pilots "aimed at the network's core audience of men 18-34 while also appealing to the network's expanding audience of men 35-49."

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., May 10) -- Colin Hanks gets a cool post-Good Guys gig

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-05-10T14:04:14-05:00
Colin Hanks, last seen in prime-time as Bradley Whitford's straight arrow detective partner on Fox's made-in-Dallas The Good Guys, has landed a fine post-cancellation consolation prize. ...The network says you'll be enthralled by the rearing of "bountiful broods" by moms who each bring a "distinct personality and point of view to the drama -- convinced that only her way is the right way."

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., April 27) -- Dallas twanger makes first cut on NBC's The Voice

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-04-27T17:41:55-05:00
Three Texas singers, including Patrick Thomas of Dallas, are among the initial 12 finalists for NBC's new The Voice, which premiered with strong ratings Tuesday night. ...***The CW has given early pickups for next fall to The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, 90210, Supernatural and America's Next Top Model, which for the first time will feature "all-stars" from previous editions in next season's opener.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., April 18) -- Dreyfus joining HBO as high-level politico in new comedy series

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-04-18T12:14:00-05:00
Louis-Dreyfus, who starred in NBC's Seinfeld and CBS' recent The New Adventures of Old Christine, says that "although everyone says this is a comedy, I don't think there is anything funny at all about me being a heartbeat away from the presidency." ...Love in the Wild, set to premiere on June 1st, will send 10 single men and a like number of unattached women "deep into the remote jungles of Costa Rica to see if they can find that special someone they've been looking for."

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., April 14) -- ABC rubbing out two soaps, replacing with food/lifestyle hours

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-04-14T14:41:05-05:00
One Life to Live, which premiered on July 15, 1968, will leave ABC in January 2012. All My Children, birthed on Jan. 5, 1970, is getting the heave-ho this September. ...The Revolution, coming in January, will be about "health and lifestyle transformations," with it's so-called "dream team" of experts including fashion gadfly Tim Gunn, celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak and former American Idol contestant Kimberly Locke.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., March 28) -- next Ken Burns film will be on America's 2nd most divisive war

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-03-28T13:53:30-05:00
There in fact have been many movies and documentaries on Vietnam, although some might feel that it's officially "arrived" now that Burns is tackling the so-called "war of lost illusions," as it's described in the PBS release. ...But he now "could not be happier that the fans of Fringe and our most excellent partners at Fox have allowed us to continue telling stories from the fringe for another season."

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., March 17) -- NBC renews three of its Thursday night comedies

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-03-17T15:43:12-05:00
Also picked up for the 2011-'12 TV season are Parks and Recreation and Community, both of which are running fourth in their time period but fare better with both younger and more upscale audiences, according to NBC. ...***ABC will return the reality competition series Shark Tank to its prime-lineup on Sunday, March 20th, with Dallas Mavericks and HDNet owner Mark Cuban eventually popping in as one of the program's "guest sharks."

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., March 8) -- King and late King of Late Night get new gigs

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-03-08T17:13:23-06:00
The Comedy Awards, billed as the "first-ever multi-network, multi-platform, annual event dedicated to honoring and celebrating the world of comedy (puff-puff)," has established the Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence as its most prestigious honor. On April 10th, during a ceremony simulcast on Comedy Central, Spike TV, VH1, CMT, TV Land, Logo and Nick at Nite, it will be given to "an individual who embodies the comedic excellence of the renowned and beloved comedic powerhouse."

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Feb. 8) -- Olbermann's next port: Current TV

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-02-08T11:12:56-06:00
The oft-bombastic host of MSNBC's Countdown, who was dropped by the network last month, now will have former vice president and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore as one of his bosses when his new weeknight show premieres sometime this spring. ...But Olbermann lasted eight years in his second go-around with MSNBC, building Countdown into the network's signature prime-time attraction and spurring a concerted tilt to the left that later led to the hirings of Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Jan. 18) -- Reege taking his leave

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2011-01-18T13:09:06-06:00
Iconic Regis Philbin, a daytime TV staple and nighttime raconteur on numerous editions of Late Show with David Letterman, announced Tuesday that he'll be leaving Live with Regis and Kelly this year. ...Ripa joined Philbin in February 2001 after Kathie Lee Gifford left the show. Live with Regis & Kathie Lee (it used an ampersand back then) premiered in national syndication in 1988 after Philbin logged five years on The Morning Show, which was locally produced by New York's WABC-TV.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Nov. 15) -- NBC's new midseason schedule will make it wall-to-wall comedy on Thursdays

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-11-15T14:30:17-06:00
Downtrodden NBC will try anew in January with a heavily jumbled midseason lineup that turns Thursdays over entirely to comedy, moves the made-in-North Texas Chase from Mondays to Wednesdays and premieres a new sci fi-ish cop series, The Cape. ...In its new Wednesday slot (beginning Jan. 12th), Chase will air at 8 p.m. between Minute to Win It and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., Nov. 12) -- catching up on additions, subtractions and other stuff

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-11-12T08:30:21-06:00
"Like many 22-year-olds, The Simpsons is extremely happy remaining at home, on Fox, and hopes it doesn't have to go out into the real world for many years to come," co-executive producer Al Jean said in a publicity release. ...***AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for a second season after its 90-minute Halloween night premiere broke a ratings record for the network with 5.3 million viewers.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Nov. 3) -- Fox slots new Chicago Code

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-11-03T13:50:32-05:00
Initially promoted during the World Series, Fox's The Chicago Code will be unveiled in full on Monday, Feb. 7th, the day after Super Bowl XLV from Cowboys Stadium. ...***ABC has announced the so-called "celebrity cast" for its new Skating with the Stars competition series, scheduled to premiere on Monday, Nov. 22nd following the fall season's last performance edition of Dancing with the Stars.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Oct. 21) -- Conan's 1st week guests are in the books (except for the one you pick)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-10-21T10:54:47-05:00
The 12 available choices range from Pope Benedict XVI (a likely no-show) to Lady Gaga (perhaps) to Jack Nicholson (who so far is leading the voting). ...Also, it's beginning to look a lot like host Conan O'Brien is going to keep the beard.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Sept. 30) -- catchup round

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-09-30T13:33:25-05:00
Austin-based businessman and bar owner Brad Womack will be the first rose-bearer to get a "second chance at love" on ABC's next edition of The Bachelor, due in January. ...Yeah, well, good luck with that. Bachelor viewers currently are on the rebound from the tattered "love" story of Dallas flyboy Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi, who broke up bitterly shortly after giving their hearts to one another.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Sept. 14) -- NBC has ratings kill shots with two doses of prime-time football

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-09-14T10:50:53-05:00
The Sept. 12th SNL opener between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins had the biggest national audience for any Week 1 Sunday or Monday prime-time game in 14 years, according to Nielsen Media Research. ...The Sept. 12th Cowboys-Redskins game was the most-watched Sunday night game under the NBC banner, beating last season's Sept. 20th debut of Jerry's Palace, which had 24.8 million viewers witnessing the Cowboys' last second loss to the Giants.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Sept. 8) -- Morgan officially in as King's CNN successor

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-09-08T10:33:20-05:00
Morgan's CNN program will air in King's old 8 p.m. (central) spot, sandwiched between Anderson Cooper 360 at 9 p.m. and an upcoming 7 p.m. program to be co-hosted by former New York governor Eliot Spitzer (who resigned over a prostitution scandal) and conservative commentator Kathleen Parker. ...Morgan, also a winner of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice, will continue to write two weekly columns for London's The Mail on Sunday newspaper, one on sports and the other a "diary of his life," CNN said.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Sept. 7) -- DioGuardi, Westin out, Oprah in -- and going out

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-09-07T12:06:06-05:00
One who didn't back her is restored executive producer Nigel Lythgoe, who has returned to that realm after two seasons as head judge and maestro of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance. ...Lythgoe, a foe of the four-judge system, is expected to reduce that number to a trio, with names such as Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler, Shania Twain, Elton John and Harry Connick Jr. still being floated as possible replacements.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Aug. 16) -- Are We There Yet? will turn 90 on TBS

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-08-16T16:08:06-05:00
The so-called "Very Funny" network previously made similar long-term commitments to two Tyler Perry-produced comedies, House of Payne and its spinoff, Meet the Browns. ...***The Daily Show's ongoing "Indecision 2010" coverage will include four days worth of When Grizzlies Attack: The Daily Show Midterm Teapartyganza.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., July 26) -- lots going on at ABC News

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-07-26T07:21:20-05:00
"This shows that both the President and First Lady feel that our show is an influential and important source of information and news," Walters crowed in a publicity release, while also announcing that she'll return to The View full-time in September. ...***Ostensibly a news magazine program, ABC's 20/20 will sell out to the entertainment division on Monday, July 26th when it presents a special "The Stories Behind the Rose" hour tied to The Bachelor. Deborah Roberts and Chris Connelly co-anchor, with former Bachelor/Dancing with the Stars contestant Melissa Rycroft popping in as a "special correspondent."

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., July 21) -- CBS goes copycatting

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-07-21T16:00:28-05:00
The personalities include Julie Chen, wife of CBS chieftain Leslie Moonves and co-host of the network's Big Brother and The Early Show. Also in the mix are Sharon Osbourne (currently a judge on NBC's America's Got Talent); Sara Gilbert (the openly gay former Roseanne co-star who developed the as yet unnamed show); Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini and Marissa Jaret Winokur.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., July 14) -- Hoffman hoping for good Luck

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-07-14T16:22:56-05:00
Deadwood creator David Milch, who's also a fixture at horse race tracks, will be combining business with a deep-seated knowledge of the subject in HBO's new Luck series. ...On MSNBC's Wednesday edition of Morning Joe, NBC Universal chieftain Jeff Zucker said that Morgan has received permission to engage in talks with a rival network in return for his continued services on Talent for at least the next three summers.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., July 13) -- cop swap for CSI: NY

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-07-13T12:44:09-05:00
Veteran TV thespian Sela Ward (Sisters, Once and Again) is joining CBS' CSI: NY in place of Melina Kanakaredes, the network announced Tuesday. ...Her character, detective Stella Bonasera, will be written out immediately, with Ward in place for this fall's season premiere on a new night and time (8 p.m. central on Fridays).

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., July 8) -- Walters, White continue to come of age

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-07-08T07:12:38-05:00
The series premiered on June 16th, with the red hot Betty White teamed with former sitcom stars Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick. Hot In Cleveland's first episode was cable's most-watched program on that day and is averaging 4.7 million viewers per episode, says TV Land. ***Richard Dreyfuss will be guest-starring in "at least four episodes" of Showtimes Weeds, which will return for a sixth season on Aug. 16th.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., June 23) -- CNN hires scandal-ridden former NY guv as co-host of new prime-time program

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-06-23T12:04:52-05:00
Like all cable news channels, CNN devoted heavy coverage to the events surrounding former New York governor Eliot Spitzer's resignation in March 2008 after The New York Times exposed his numerous liaisons with high-priced prostitutes. ...Also, Bristol Palin, oldest daughter of former Alaska governor and current Fox News Channel commentator Sarah Palin, likewise will appear as herself on the July 5th episode of ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., June 18) -- Hot In Cleveland cooks while Dave picks up steam

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-06-18T09:54:25-05:00
Starring Valerie Bertinelli, Betty White, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves, the broadly drawn sitcom had 4.75 million total viewers nationally, two million of them in the network's 25-to-54-year-old target audience. ...But David Letterman's CBS Late Show has tied Jay Leno's NBC Tonight Show among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds for the first time since Leno returned to replace Conan O'Brien on March 1st.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., April 28) -- another TV series for Strokers Dallas

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-04-28T11:13:55-05:00
The company recently launched Girl Meets Gown on WE TV and also produced a Showtime comedy special starring Paul Mooney and originating from The Lodge gentlemen's club in Dallas. ...***Comedian/actor Ricky Gervais will be the back-to-back host of The Golden Globes, which return to NBC on Sunday, Jan. 16th with another grand exhibition of movie and TV celebrities getting semi-sloshed while expectantly waiting for their names to be called.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., April 20) -- Stars align on Comedy Central in preparation for Conan

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-04-20T09:39:39-05:00
The network on Tuesday extended the contracts of both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, whose respective shows are popular with advertiser-coveted younger viewers and slated to go against O'Brien from 10 to 11 p.m (central) when he joins TBS in November. ...O'Brien, currently on a multi-city comedy tour that will bring him to SMU's sold-out McFarlin Auditorium on May 13th, made a surprise deal with TBS on April 12th.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., April 8) -- ABC stocks summer shelves with 14 new and returning series

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-04-08T09:21:47-05:00
ABC has a slew of summertime programming ready to roll, including three new drama series, a pair of freshman reality hours and the returns of The Bachelorette, Wipeout, True Beauty, Shaq Vs and (urp) Dating in the Dark. ...Mind Games (July 20) -- Another ABC News venture takes viewers "into the darkest corners of the human mind and how it can be twisted -- real cases where 'reality' gives way to fantasy."

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., April 5) -- NBC renews trio of first-year reality hours

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-04-05T17:35:08-05:00
, a genealogy show from former Friends star Lisa Kudrow's production company, is slotted on Fridays at 7 p.m., where it's made some inroads against CBS' long-entrenched Ghost Whisperer. Minute to Win It, a big money game show hosted by Guy Fieri of Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, recently premiered on Sunday nights as a lead-in to Celebrity Apprentice.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., March 25) -- Holey moley, TLC greenlights Sarah Palin's Alaska

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-03-25T12:04:18-05:00
Already a fixture as a Fox News Channel commentator, Sarah Palin added another pelt to her belt Thursday when TLC announced its intent to carry Sarah Palin's Alaska. ...NBC doesn't have a dance competition series yet, but hoofing and puffing are allowed on its America's Got Talent, which as previously noted is taping shows in Dallas on Thursday and Friday of this week before returning to the Peacock on June 1st.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., March 23) -- Mentor Miley for Idol

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-03-23T10:50:11-05:00
Joe Jonas and Demi Lovato (he and his brothers own a home in North Texas; her mother was a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader) are also scheduled to perform on Wednesday's eviction hour. Previous Idol mentors have included Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Kenny Rogers, Tony Bennett, Rod Stewart and Dolly Parton, all of them old enough to be Miley's grandparents.

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., March 19) -- ABC pirates Amanpour while CNN prepares to set sail with new John King show

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-03-19T10:22:13-05:00
Bypassing several prominent in-house candidates -- including Nightline's Terry Moran and White House correspondent Jake Tapper -- ABC News has tabbed longtime CNN mainstay Christiane Amanpour to be the new host of its Sunday morning This Week program. Amanpour's hiring comes at a time when ABC News is preparing to cut several hundred of its employees as part of a "fundamental transformation" in the way news is gathered and reported.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., March 15) -- new batch of evergreen honorees for TV Land Awards

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-03-15T12:52:56-05:00
And she'll also play a school librarian on the season finale of ABC's The Middle, which will air on a still to be announced day in May. ...***Summer's most-watched show, NBC's America's Got Talent, will be coming to Dallas on March 25-26th in its search for new contestants.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., March 8) -- renewal notices for ratings-challenged series

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-03-08T10:40:38-06:00
***In something of a surprise, former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Melissa Rycroft will not be the new co-host on ABC's Dancing with the Stars despite appearing with incumbent Tom Bergeron during last week's prime-time announcement of Season 10's new celebrity cast. ...***CBS' little-watched The Early Show will rear-end viewers on Wednesday, March 10th when co-host Harry Smith undergoes a live colonoscopy while CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric reports from the scene.

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., March 5) -- NBC unveils summertime sked

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-03-05T16:08:24-06:00
And "encore" episodes of Law & Order Criminal Intent will begin airing on Sunday, June 20th after first premiering in March on the NBC Universal-owned USA Network. NBC has two new scripted series for the summer, too. 100 Questions, starring Sophie Winkleman as a single woman looking for love online, premieres on Thursday, May 27th.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., March 2) -- Dallas flyboy goes from kiss 'n' tell to hoof 'n' puff

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-03-02T08:37:47-06:00
Another cringe-worthy, nausea-inducing edition of ABC's The Bachelor climaxed Monday with studly Dallas pilot Jake Pavelka proposing marriage to scandal-tinged Vienna Girardi, who immediately accepted. ...But Pavelka in the end settled on the woman whom US Weekly recently lionized in a "Vienna's Double Life" cover story that included dish on "Dirty dancing in bars for tips" and "A secret celebrity fling," etc.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Feb. 17) -- NBC on ratings high with Winter Games

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-02-17T10:48:59-06:00
Audiences for the first four nights of NBC's winter Olympics games from Vancouver are up 25 percent from the 2006 edition held in Torino, Italy. ...Even so, NBC has projected it will lose $200 million on the Vancouver Olympics, largely due to inflated rights fees and a subsequent sluggish economy.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Feb. 15) -- Babs bowing out with 30th and last Oscar night special

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-02-15T10:28:49-06:00
She made the announcement on Monday's The View, telling viewers, "ABC has asked me to keep doing these specials as they have always been so successful . . . ...ABC said that Walters will continue hosting her 10 Most Fascinating People specials, with First Lady Michelle Obama emerging at the top of 2009's list.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Jan. 27) -- Mammoth week for Fox

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-01-27T10:23:01-06:00
Two editions of American Idol and Fox's post-game show ranked 2-3-4 during the week of Jan. 18-24, in which Fox averaged 24.4 million viewers. ...With Idol rolling along through May, Fox again has the 18-to-49 race pretty much locked up, averaging 4.8 million viewers in this age range in the season-to-date Nielsens while second-place CBS is at 4.1 million.

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Jan. 20) -- Benefit for Haiti has all-star cast, support of major networks

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-01-20T12:06:49-06:00
Headlining music acts so far include Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, Sting, Coldplay, Bono, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift, Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock, Keith Urban and Rihanna. ...George Clooney, the benefit's principal organizer, will host the Los Angeles portion of the program, with Wyclef Jean presiding in New York City and CNN's Anderson Cooper reporting from Haiti.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Jan. 19) -- Cowell's last season with Idol, etc., etc.

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-01-19T16:06:45-06:00
Beginning in fall 2011, he'll produce and be a judge on Fox's American version of The X Factor, the hit British talent competition that last year launched the career of Susan Boyle. ...Fox said that Glee likewise will return for a second season and CBS later said in a press release that both NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife will have sophomore seasons.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Jan. 7) -- Fox's Little Genius belatedly flunks producer's smell test

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-01-07T17:36:08-06:00
Little Genius, starring pre-pubescent brainiacs, was to have premiered on Wednesday, Jan. 13th following that week's second episode of American Idol's Season 9. Idol now will be extended to 90 minutes, followed by a reprise of the 450th episode of The Simpsons, which will first air this Sunday. ...A companion Fox Broadcasting Company statement says that "even though we were incredibly pleased with the quality of Our Little Genius, we respect and appreciate his (Burnett's) due diligence and the decision to pull these episodes.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Jan. 7) -- former golden boy Colby Donaldson rides again in Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2010-01-07T09:24:49-06:00
"The Colbster", as he was dubbed by host and subsequent close personal friend Jeff Probst, also joined the cast of 2004's Survivor: All-Stars, where he was quickly voted off. ...Also cast as bad guys in the new edition are super-duplicitous Russell Hantz of Dayton, Texas (runnerup on the just-concluded Survivor: Samoa) and Austin's Randy Bailey, the 11th competitor evicted on 2008's Survivor: Gabon.

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Dec. 21) -- Three Rivers runs dry, replaced by reality hour

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-12-21T09:58:41-06:00
The one-hour reality series -- executives clandestinely leave "the comfort of their corner office" to mingle with commoners -- then will move to Sundays at 8 p.m. (central) on Feb. 14th. Also returning on that date is the 16th edition of The Amazing Race, which will precede Undercover Boss at 7 p.m. Cold Case moves back to Sundays at 9 p.m.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Dec. 10) -- Dallas-made The Deep End gets January berth

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-12-10T15:20:50-06:00
Mostly filmed in Dallas -- but set in L.A. -- ABC's The Deep End will premiere on Thursday, Jan. 21st at 7 p.m. (central) opposite the latest new edition of CBS' Survivor. ...Their characters, described by ABC as "eager and attractive law associates," are all thrust into the cutthroat Sterling law firm, where "they must fight for themselves and their clients to stay afloat in these shark-infested waters."

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Dec. 1) -- end date for Charles Gibson on ABC's World News

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-12-01T16:33:11-06:00
ABC disclosed Gibson's surprise decision to step down in an early September announcement. Jon Banner, executive producer of World News, said on his "World Newser" blog that "we're going to spend a good deal of time during his final week on the air looking back at the stories Charlie covered, hearing again from some of the remarkable people he interviewed, and paying tribute to our friend and colleague, and the enormous contribution he has made to ABC News over the last three decades." ...***Also on the ABC front, Oprah Winfrey will interview President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during her Christmas at the White House special, scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 13th.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 4) -- Walters nabs Palin; Oscar signs dynamic duo

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-11-04T11:19:44-06:00
ABC announced Wednesday that Walters and the former Alaska governor/vice presidential candidate will sit down for a series of interviews tied to her upcoming book Going Rogue: An American Life. ...***They should make for a great couple. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin have been named to host the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will arrive March 7th on ABC.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 2) -- Southland revived

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-11-02T10:14:46-06:00
TNT first will air the seven episodes shown last season on NBC before continuing with the six hours shot for the Peacock before it reneged on an announcement to stick Southland on Friday nights. ..."This is a great win for fans of Southland and a perfect opportunity to introduce the series to new viewers," Turner Entertainment Networks president Steve Koonin said in a publicity release.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 23) -- Harmon signs for new TNT detective series

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-10-23T10:40:10-05:00
TNT so far has ordered only a pilot episode of Rizzoli, which doesn't yet have an on-air commitment from the network but "could be an outstanding addition to TNT's collection of strong female characters," programming head Michael Wright says tentatively. ...At this point, Dollhouse is scheduled to return on Dec. 4 with back-to-back new episodes that will mark the first appearances of new cast member Summer Glau, formerly of Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 15) -- NBC seals deals with Bon Jovi, Budweiser

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-10-15T12:21:02-05:00
***On firmer ethical ground, NBC Universal also announced Thursday that Anheuser-Busch and its new Bud Light Golden Wheat brand will be the sole sponsor of the Oct. 17th edition of Saturday Night Live. Keith Levy, Anheuser-Busch's VP of marketing, says in a statement, "We were looking for a unique way to highlight Bud Light Golden Wheat's launch, and the opportunity to integrate the brand into Saturday Night Live was one too good to pass up.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 9) -- Southland sacked before second season can start

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-10-09T10:29:23-05:00
Scheduled to premiere on Friday, Oct. 23rd after debuting last spring, Southland instead will be supplanted by Dateline, which already is airing in what was supposed to be the drama's 8 p.m. (central) slot. ...Of 22 available prime-time hours per week, a total of 13 are reserved for unscripted fare, ranging from Sunday's NFL football games and trimmings to The Jay Leno Show each weeknight at 9 p.m. (central).

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 8) -- Showtime's Dexter adds "Early Cuts" animated webisodes

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-10-08T10:57:23-05:00
***Dallas-based HDNet, run by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, kicks off its inaugural five-game United Football League coverage on Saturday, Oct. 10th (6 p.m. central) with a titanic struggle between the Florida Tuskers and New York Sentinels. ...And the one-hour UFL Blitz (Sundays at 9 a.m. starting Oct. 11th) will have highlights of the week's action.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 1) -- Letterman/Ferguson roll in late night, LeBlanc will play self in new Showtime laugher

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-10-01T12:24:39-05:00
CBS also is prospering with Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show, which likewise won premiere week in total viewers while tying NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon among 18-to-49-year-olds. ..."We jumped at the chance to get involved with this cockeyed look at network television told through the eyes of unsuspecting British producers who don't know what hit them when they enter the lion's den of Hollywood," Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt says in a publicity release.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 29) -- Rather's CBS lawsuit treated dismissively

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-09-29T16:09:24-05:00
Rather sued his old network in 2007, contending that CBS had breached his contract by eventually dropping him as anchor of the CBS Evening News after he presided over a 2004 60 Minutes II report alleging that George W. ...The Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court, overruling a lower court, said that breach of contract could not be established because CBS continued to pay Rather's $6 million annual salary during his remaining time with the network's news division.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 28) -- Life goes off

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-09-28T16:22:28-05:00
Beginning Wednesday, Sept. 30th, CW is supplanting TBL with "encore" episodes of its new version of Melrose Place. ...***Profane Dallas food preparer Blythe Beck and her latest episode of Oxygen's The Naughty Chef will feature Dallas Cowboys' defenseman Bradie James and some teammates at his wedding rehearsal dinner.

TV Bulletin Board Sept. 22) -- DeLay, Irvin bottom out in Dancing debuts

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-09-22T10:28:35-05:00
Two prominent Texas contestants make it more or less mandatory to keep up with them on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, which returned for its ninth edition Monday night with former House majority leader Tom DeLay and ex-Cowboys star Michael Irvin in less than fine form. ...The Hall of Famer totaled just 19 points for his cha cha cha and Vienesse waltz, tying him for the night's lowest score with George Hamilton's son, Ashley.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 16) -- Jay/Conan/guests

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-09-16T16:42:04-05:00
Tuesday's guests: Melanie Oudin on Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show; Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz on The Jay Leno Show. NBC photos ...Drew Barrymore, scheduled to be Leno's first celebrity car racer on the Friday, Sept. 18th show, will get around to doing the Tonight Show on Monday, Sept. 28th. Michael Moore, who was Leno's guest on Tuesday of this week, is slotted for Tonight on Thursday, Oct. 1st. Brad Paisley will do Leno on Sept. 28th and Conan two nights later.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 11) -- better fit for Stossel

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-09-11T09:06:10-05:00
Stossel, who joined 20/20 in 1981, surprised his bosses with the ratings popularity of a series of contrarian documentaries bearing titles such as You Can't Say That!, Boys and Girls Are Different and Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity. ...The Real L Word: Los Angeles, a nine-episode venture scheduled to premiere next year, will track the lives of "high-profile, left coast lesbians as they go about their daily lives, at work and play," Showtime says.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 9) -- new Amazing Race field includes unambiguously gay brother duo, one from Fort Worth

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-09-09T11:52:43-05:00
The way CBS publicity materials put it, "Sam and Dan will tell you that their relationship did not truly start until last summer when they both came out and told each other that they were gay . . . ..."Due to his passive mentality, Sam will need to be more vocal to overcome Dan's blunt, assertive personality in order to contribute to the team while on the road."

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 2) -- making big ratings waves with Waverly Place movie

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-09-02T12:03:19-05:00
Starring Grand Prairie-raised Selena Gomez, the elongated version of the ongoing comedy series drew 11.4 million viewers for Friday's premiere, ranking it just a smidgen behind NBC's America's Got Talent (11.5 million) among last week's most-watched prime-time shows. ...Only Wipeout (7.7 million), America's Funniest Home Videos (6.4 million), Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (5.6 million), Shark Tank (4.9 million) and the premiere of Crash Course (4.8 million) had bigger audiences.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 31) -- Bush daughter joins Today

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-08-31T08:44:56-05:00
Rycroft first came to national fame as a jilted contestant on ABC's The Bachelor before becoming a finalist on the network's most recent Dancing with the Stars. ...The Fringe tweet-peat is Thursday, Sept. 3 at 8 p.m. (central), with Glee's on Friday, Sept. 4th at the same time. Fringe's twitter page is here and Glee's is here.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 27) -- Tinytown Texan among 20 new Survivor castaways

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-08-27T09:40:37-05:00
Broadcast TV's longest-running reality competition series sets sail for the 19th time on Sept. 17th, with a brawny oil company owner from a dinky Texas town among the 20 castaways on CBS' Survivor: Samoa. ...***Laura Linney, an Emmy winner for her performance in HBO's John Adams miniseries, will return to contemporary times as a cancer-sticken suburban housewife in the new Showtime series The C Word.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 26) -- CMT's got game(s)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-08-26T11:57:45-05:00
Singing Bee host Melissa Peterman and country singer Big Kenny with host Jeff Foxworthy on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? ...The country cable network has ordered 20 new episodes of The Singing Bee, which failed on NBC with host Joey Fatone but is considered a hit on CMT with new emcee Melissa Peterman, formerly of Reba.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 25) -- Abdul gets somethin' to do

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-08-25T16:50:44-05:00
Paula Abdul again struck first with a tweet, telling the world Monday night that she'll be hosting VH1's Divas on Sept. 17th while also maintaining ties to American Idol. That's because two of the designated divas are inaugural Idol champ Kelly Clarkson of Burleson, TX and Season 6 winner Jordin Sparks.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 24) -- DeLay gets a leg up with Dancing partner

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-08-24T15:25:50-05:00
Which means that Irvin will be up against it while DeLay gets a kick start when the two Texas connections begin hoofing and puffing on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. ...Julianne Hough, also a two-time champ with Apolo Anton Ohno and Helio Castroneves, is sitting Season 9 out in favor of touring as a country singer.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 14) -- Vick submits to 60 Minutes ticks

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-08-14T13:45:05-05:00
Michael Vick will go public on CBS' 60 Minutes Sunday to tell interviewer James Brown of his remorse after serving jail time for bankrolling a dog-fighting ring. ...***Also on the country scene this weekend, the longrunning duo of Brooks & Dunn will tell CMT Insider while they're breakin' up after one allegedly final concert tour next year.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 10) -- last call for King of the Hill

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-08-10T10:54:33-05:00
He also is the voice of family patriarch Hank Hill, who shared countless six-packs with beer-loving buddies Dale, Bill and the incoherent Boomhauer, also voiced by Judge. ...The April 5th event drew 72,000 fans to Houston's Reliant Stadium, where the main event of The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels "tore the house down," according to NBC.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 6) -- Leno announces first prime-time musical guest, Letterman continues to best his successor

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-08-06T13:09:49-05:00
***Amy Poehler, who will return to NBC's prime-time lineup with the second season of her Parks and Recreation series, has taken on the added burden of appearing with former desk mate Seth Meyers on the first two episodes of fall's Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday. ...*** ABC's 11-night, prime-time run of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, with original host Regis Philbin, will end each night's episode with a celebrity player trying to answer a single question worth $50,000 for his or her designated charity.

TV Bulletin Board (July 20) -- Shaq vs. Phelps vs. Pujols vs . . .

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-07-20T11:48:39-05:00
Shaquille O'Neal apparently is bored, even though he'll be joining LeBron James on the Cleveland Cavaliers in the upcoming season. ...Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols; boxer Oscar de la Hoya and Olympic beach volleyball gold medalists Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, who was injured last season competing on ABC's Dancing with the Stars.

TV Bulletin Board (July 17) -- TBS is new go-to network for "urban comedy" of certain colors

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-07-17T09:40:25-05:00
-- with an option for 90 more episodes -- further solidifies TBS as a destination for "urban comedy" that used to have homes on the now defunct UPN and then The CW. ...It should be noted that Fox, the onetime network of In Living Color, Living Single and Martin, also has decided to make space this fall for urban comedy.

TV Bulletin Board (July 13) -- Neil Patrick Harris adds to hosting resume with Emmy gig

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-07-13T12:27:16-05:00
"I'm looking forward to the challenge of the show -- adding my own voice to it while honoring the nominees and the entire year in television," Harris says in a CBS publicity release. ...Harris, who came to fame as the child star of Doogie Howser, M.D., is the secondly openly gay performer to host the Emmys. Ellen DeGeneres has hosted two Emmy ceremonies as well as the Oscars.

TV Bulletin Board (July 9) -- new TV comedy collaboration for Will Ferrell, Jon Heder

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-07-09T11:48:19-05:00
Comedy Central has signed Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) to star in a new 10-episode sitcom from a production company headed by Will Ferrell. ...That's a smaller haul than the 35 million who watched Ronald Reagan's burial in prime-time on eight networks or the 33.3 million viewers for Princess Diana's early Saturday morning funeral, also on eight networks.

TV Bulletin Board (July 1) -- BET hits double-digit millions with awards show/Jackson tribute

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-07-01T13:57:03-05:00
Hosted by Terrell native Jamie Foxx and featuring an unbilled appearance by Janet Jackson, the show drew 10.7 million viewers nationally, edging The Learning Channel's heavily publicized episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8 (10.6 million) for the week of June 22-28. ...NBC's Tuesday, June 23rd edition of America's Got Talent had 11.5 million viewers and a rerun of CBS' NCIS on that same night drew 11.1 million viewers.

TV Bulletin Board (June 16) -- Picture Alec Baldwin in Playboy

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-06-16T11:31:41-05:00
The July-August issue, coming out Friday, June 19th, has some heavy punches from Emmy-winning 30 Rock co-star Alec Baldwin, who discourses pointedly on The Today Show, TMZ maestro Harvey Levin and his impending retirement as an actor among other things. ...Baldwin lastly offers his tips on how to become a celebrity: "Don't pay your federal income taxes, get drunk and try to bolt through airport security with a gun in your suitcase, and last but not least, get a DUI and be arrested in Malibu."

TV Bulletin Board (June 12) -- Renewed, reborn, returning

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-06-12T11:05:25-05:00
Edie Falco, already a TV immortal as Carmela Soprano on HBO's The Sopranos, stars as a pill-popping, blunt-spoken nurse whose patience is mostly bestowed on her patients. ***Another animated series is rising from the dead. Futurama, from Simpsons creator Matt Groening, will return with 26 new episodes under a deal with Comedy Central.

TV Bulletin Board (May 28) -- Lithgow makes a big slash

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-05-28T09:23:05-05:00
***Kris Allen's upset win over Adam Lambert on the Season 8 finale of American Idol can be seen as the equivalent of Crash being named Best Picture of 2005 over prohibitive favorite Brokeback Mountain. ...Your guides are Damien Fahey, who used to preside over MTV's canceled Total Request Live, and Myleene Klass, dubbed "Queen of the Jungle" after participating in the United Kingdom's 2006 version of the show.

TV Bulletin Board (April 21) -- more off-field ventures for T.O.

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-04-21T14:15:35-05:00
Still, who can resist another off-field chapter in the life of wide receiver Terrell Owens, who will be paired with lush model Joanna Krupa when ABC's The Superstars premieres on June 23rd. Krupa, best known for her "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign on behalf of PETA, will join T.O. at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas for the six-episode series.

TV Bulletin Board (April 15)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-04-15T10:31:57-05:00
Besides Rickles, they'll be distributing trophies to the likes of Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Legacy of Laughter Award); ER (Icon Award); Married With Children (Innovator Award); M*A*S*H (Impact Award); Home Improvement (Fan Favorite Award); Magnum, P.I. (Hero Award); Two and a Half Men (Future Classic Award) and Knots Landing (30th Anniversary Award). ...No voice-over talent has been named yet, but the premise is this: A family with the surname Hellman has been sent from down low to Earth to "pose as normal suburbanites with a mission to keep humans from finding their way to Hell."

TV Bulletin Board (April 8) -- Barker, Streisand get royalty treatment on CBS

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-04-08T17:38:19-05:00
Bob Barker, plugging his autobiography Priceless Memories, will join host Drew Carey on the April 16th edition of CBS' The Price Is Right (10 to 11 a.m. central). ...May 27 -- The Goode Family, a new cartoon series from Austin-based King of the Hill creator Mike Judge, stars a politically correct family determined to, among other things, "buy organic apples and call minorities by their right names."

TV Bulletin Board (March 31) -- two more first downs for Friday Night Lights

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-03-31T12:19:05-05:00
Premiering May 22nd, Mental follows the mind games of Los Angeles psychiatrist Jack Gallagher (Chris Vance), whose "effective, yet highly unorthodox treatment methods" of course clash with his conservative boss, with whom -- of course -- he shares a romantic past. Fox also is bringing back its legitimately hottest summer series, So You Think You Can Dance, for a fifth season that starts on May 21st.

TV Bulletin Board (March 19) -- CBS going the distance with two Monday night comedies

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-03-19T12:33:06-05:00
CBS has picked up prime-time's most-watched comedy, Two and a Half Men, for three more seasons while also adding another two years to the life span of The Big Bang Theory. ...Two and a Half Men, which premiered in September 2003, has been renewed through the 2011-2012 TV season.

TV Bulletin Board (March 17) -- President Obama in a late night talk show first

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-03-17T09:07:56-05:00
That's scheduled to change on Thursday, March 19th, when President Obama will be the announced featured guest on Jay Leno's Tonight Show. ...His first Tonight Show appearance was on Dec. 1, 2006, about five months before he announced his run for the presidency.

TV Bulletin Board (March 9) -- Jonas Brothers get South Parked, Jessica Simpson punks someone other than Tony Romo

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-03-09T15:40:51-05:00
In the series' 13th season premiere (Wednesday, March 11th, 9 p.m central), Kenny takes his girlfriend to a Jonas Brothers concert in hopes that it's "his way into her heart and other body parts," says a Comedy Central publicity release. ...Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 1998, will introduce viewers to "a variety of people who haven't let difficulties stand in the way of their happiness," ABC says in a publicity release.

TV Bulletin Board (March 5) -- Osbournes ready to (&%#$@) again

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-03-05T07:47:01-06:00
The premiere of Osbournes Reloaded, billed as a one-hour trip on the "Crazy Train," is set for Tuesday, March 31st following that night's American Idol performance show. ...Such as this, says Fox: "Whether it's Sharon unveiling a stripping grandmother, Kelly and Jack bringing an unsuspecting playboy face-to-face with his ex-girlfriends or Ozzy soaking the entire studio audience with foam, TV's most outrageous family is guaranteed to rock the house."

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 26th) -- Seinfeld segueing to new NBC "comedy/reality" series

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-02-26T12:14:04-06:00
***George Strait will be warming up with a prime-time "ACM Artist of the Decade" special on CBS before joining fellow country music deity Reba McEntire to open the Dallas Cowboys' new Arlington playpen on June 6th. CBS says it'll be taped on April 6th in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Vegas, with scheduled performers to include Faith Hill, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban and Sugarland.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 24th) -- Andy rejoining Conan

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-02-24T16:39:41-06:00
"Andy is one of the funniest people I know and we've maintained a close friendship since he left Late Night," O'Brien said in a statement. ...Current Tonight host Jay Leno will move to prime time in the fall, hosting a new 9 p.m. (central) talk show that will air Monday through Friday.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 19th) -- Jimmy Fallon rolls out De Niro, other biggies

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-02-19T10:46:40-06:00
We'll miss Conan's New York show for many, many reasons, not the least of which is his recent "interview" with Alex Rodriguez, who also admits to taking "Confessorex." ...

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 5th) -- new digital deadline

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-02-05T11:07:34-06:00
The digital conversion deadline has been extended from Feb. 17 to June 12th, giving non-cable/satellite subscribers or owners of ancient TV sets almost four more months to put off buying a converter box or applying for a coupon. ...***The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has decided to expand nominees from five to six in 10 prime-time Emmy award categories, including best drama and comedy series.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 4th) -- surprise second life for Saget

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-02-04T13:13:20-06:00
Surviving Suburbia, in which Saget plays a cynical husband and father of two children, originally was tabbed for CW's outsourced Sunday night schedule as part of an arrangement with Media Rights Capital. ...Its second season, 13-episode premiere now is set for Tuesday, March 3rd at 7 p.m. (central), with 90210 pushed back an hour to 8 p.m. on that night.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 3rd) -- ABC to drop Dancing names opposite Grammys; Costas touches base with MLB Network

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-02-03T16:36:39-06:00
Host Tom Bergeron will unveil the Season 8 field in one-by-one fashion during breaks from ABC's Sunday night lineup of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. ...***Bob Costas will be reunited with his first love, baseball, as part of a cable-exclusive deal with the fledgling MLB Network, which launched on Jan. 1st in 50 million cable and satellite homes.

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 27) -- McCartney to joust with Colbert

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-01-27T11:18:19-06:00
***Mark Cuban and his Dallas-based HDNet are hooking up with Ring of Honor Wrestling, whose grapplers were featured in the Mickey Rourke movie The Wrestler. ...Says Cuban in a press release: "ROH has developed a cult following thanks to its special brand of professional wrestling and we are pleased to present it for the first time to a mass television audience."

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 23) -- Couric getting two swings in prime-time; Eubanks coming to Grapevine

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-01-23T16:50:27-06:00
On Wednesday, Feb. 4th, CBS has the 8 p.m. (central) hour reserved for Katie Couric's All Access Grammy Special, during which she'll interview and play around with Justin Timberlake, Lil' Wayne, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. ...For the week of Jan. 12-16, Nightly News drew 776,000 viewers in the 18-to-34 age range, with Evening News second (554,000) and World News lagging (538,000).

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 15) -- O'Brien signing off soon from NBC's Late Night

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-01-15T16:19:48-06:00
It's scheduled to premiere on Thursday, April 9th at 7:30 p.m. (central) in the slot now occupied by Kath & Kim. Rashida Jones (The Office) co-stars as a nurse. ...NBC's previously announced Kings, initially set to premiere on Thursday, March 19th, instead will launch on Sunday, March 15th at 7 p.m. Ian McShane of Deadwood fame stars in what the Peacock describes as "an epic story of greed and power, war and romance, forbidden loves and secret alliances."

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 8) -- TNT adds two more dramas

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2009-01-08T11:25:38-06:00
McDermott (The Practice, Big Shots) stars as "deeply wounded" covert cop Carter Shaw, who's "lost his wife and much of his former life as he struggles to bring down bad guys through complex undercover assignments." Another incoming TNT drama, Trust Me, is set to premiere on Jan. 26th, with Eric McCormack (Will & Grace and Tom Cavanaugh (Ed) playing disparate creative partners in a Chicago ad agency.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 11) -- Michael Irvin goes from Super Bowls to "Superball Sunday"

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-12-11T10:23:49-06:00
Hall of Famer Michael Irvin played on three Super Bowl championship teams during his tenure with the Dallas Cowboys. ...***In other ancillary Cowboys news, TXA21 hopes to pop your eyeballs with its one-hour The Making of the 2009 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Swimsuit Calendar, cannily scheduled opposite Saturday Night Live on Saturday, Dec. 13th at 10:30 p.m.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 8) -- two prominent beards shave their air time

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-12-08T11:18:03-06:00
King, an 11-year CNN veteran whose "Magic Wall" electoral maps brought him to further prominence during the election, will preside over a four-hour Sunday morning news bloc (8 a.m. to noon) scheduled to launch in January. ...Competing to "make their way back into the limelight" -- although for some of these guys it was never more than lemon-light -- are Christopher Atkins, Adrian Zmed, Billy Hufsey, Jeremy Jackson, Eric Nies, David Chokachi and Jamie Walters.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 21)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-11-21T11:14:48-06:00
Its Sunday night partnership with Media Rights Capital has been severed, depriving American television audiences of the barely seen Valentine and Easy Money while ensuring that Surviving Suburbia, starring Bob Saget, never gets seen at all. ...***Planet Earth's fans of ABC's Life On Mars might have been surprised to learn at the end of Thursday night's episode that the time-traveling series will be off the air until Jan. 28th. Mars also is getting a new home, on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. following Lost, which as previously announced returns on Jan. 21st with a two-hour serving.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 12)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-11-13T16:39:58-06:00
NBC's already pivotal Sunday Night Football matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins will be further spiced by Bruce Springsteen's halftime performance of his new song, "Working On a Dream." ...***Earlier on the same Sunday, CBS' 60 Minutes hopes to retain last week's crown as prime-time's most-watched show with the first post-campaign interview of president-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 10)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-11-10T14:03:14-06:00
ABC supposedly will reboot with back-to-back Lost episodes from 8 to 10 p.m. after a one-hour recap. Lost then settles back in at 8 p.m. on the following Wednesday (Jan. 28th). ...Created by Joss Whedon (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer) and co-starring former BVS regular Eliza Dushku, it dotes on "a highly illegal underground group of individuals who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas."

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 4)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-11-04T13:31:11-06:00
There's a chance, though, says the trade newspaper Variety, that ABC might be interested in picking up King and pairing it at some point in late 2009 or early 2010 with its planned new animated series, The Goode Family. ...Final national Nielsen numbers are in for Barack Obama's Oct. 29th half-hour prime-time pitch to the electorate and Fox's rain-delayed, five-game World Series between the victorious Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 29)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-10-29T10:25:17-05:00
The 2008 presidential campaign at last is on borrowed time, with just six days remaining until voters write a happy ending for either Barack Obama or John McCain. ...ABC, pushing ahead with its ratings-starved Pushing Daisies, initially wanted to air Obama's commercial on a different date before reconsidering and belatedly opening up the first hour of its Wednesday prime-time schedule.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 27)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-10-27T15:10:15-05:00
Live from New York, Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler and husband Will Arnett had their first child just a few hours before the show went on Saturday night. ...The Peacock also announced that Momma's Boys, a reality series co-produced by American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, will premiere on Thursday, Dec. 16th following the season finale of The Biggest Loser.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 21)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-10-21T13:10:28-05:00
Hall, who came to fame in HBO's Six Feet Under, stars as Dexter Morgan, described in a Showtime publicity release as "a complicated and conflicted blood-spatter expert for the Miami police department who also moonlights as a serial killer." Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt says, "I thought at best we would attract a devoted cult audience but soon realized that ironically this show is so thematically rich and layered with humanity that audiences of all kinds have flocked to it."

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 20)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-10-20T16:01:14-05:00
VP nominee Sarah Palin's guest appearance on NBC's Oct. 18th Saturday Night Live propelled the show to its highest Nielsen numbers since March 12, 1994, according to invariably accurate "overnight" measurements from 56 TV markets (including Dallas-Fort Worth). ...Also last week, John McCain's make-good appearance Thursday on Late Show with David Letterman propelled the CBS program to its best rating since Dec. 1, 2005, when Michael Richards apologized for racial remarks made at a Hollywood comedy club.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 16)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-09-16T16:37:46-05:00
Runnerup in the Sarah Palin interview sweepstakes is CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, who will hit the campaign trail with the Republican veep nominee on Sept. ...***TNT has acted fast in renewing its new Raising the Bar legal drama after just three episodes have aired. Bar, from groundbreaking producer Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, L.A.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 11)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-09-11T10:30:50-05:00
Also, this just in: The Late Show Top 10 list for Thursday, Sept. 11 will be read by Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro, whose Righteous Kill film opens on the following day. ...The grandfather of cable's all-news networks is launching a new weekly series, hosted by Roland Martin, that "will challenge his guests and viewers to leave the political talking points behind and join him in a no-nonsense approach about what voters are actually talking about."

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 9)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-09-09T14:07:35-05:00
***NBC/MSNBC newsman David Gregory seemingly has the pole position to become the next moderator of Meet the Press after Tom Brokaw completes his interim duties sometime after the presidential election. ...Gone is the two-headed monster of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, whose pointed opinions and occasional feuding finally were deemed unseemly after they helmed coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 4)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-09-04T14:10:27-05:00
"We had hoped to bring back some of ER's stars for the final season and think that our loyal fans will enjoy seeing some of the show's most beloved and memorable characters," executive producer John Wells says in a statement. ..."Jennifer is not only incredibly lovely to have around, she also has what the young people would call 'mad skills,' " joshes Fey. Rock, with 17 Emmy nominations currently in tow, won't return until Oct. 30th.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 19)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-08-19T12:36:45-05:00
***CBS has signed a pretty big fish, Laurence Fishburne, to join CSI: Crime Scene Investigation at about the time that William Petersen and his quirky Gil Grissom character will be saying goodbye. ...***CBS has no current plans to turn this into a special, but most of the major cast members of Dallas will be gathering anew at Southfork Ranch to commemorate the long, tall serial soap's 30th anniversary.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 7)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-08-07T15:27:28-05:00
In a nutshell, Hole In the Wall goes like this, says Fox: "Two teams of three compete against each other in multiple rounds of play, facing various barrier walls speeding toward them with weird and wacky cut-out shapes. ...So Sci Fi Channel will dip once more into its Battlestar Galactica franchise for a new, two-hour "special event" scheduled to premiere sometime in 2009 after the series' supposed 10 final episodes air earlier that same year. Galactica star Edward James Olmos will direct the special event, with shooting scheduled to start in Vancouver at summer's end.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 6)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-08-06T16:28:17-05:00
The summertime hit, most notably with advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, is a blend of dirty, rotten obstacle courses and snarky commentary by co-hosts John Anderson and John Henson. ...The whodunit drama will be up for seven Emmys during the Sept. 21 ceremony on ABC, including a nomination as best drama series. Damages' acting nominees are Glenn Close, Ted Danson (in a decidedly non-comedic role) and Zeljko Ivanek, who was especially terrific.

TV Bulletin Board (July 28)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-07-28T10:02:07-05:00
The Associated Press reports that Seacrest and fellow nominees Jeff Probst (Survivor), Heidi Klum (Project Runway), Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars) and Howie Mandel (Deal or No Deal) will time-share on the 60th annual prime-time awards ceremony, scheduled for Sept. 21 on ABC. ...***Fox's latest So You Think You Can Dance tour, featuring the show's 10 finalists, will make an Oct. 10th stop at Grand Prairie's Nokia Theatre.

TV Bulletin Board (July 24)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-07-24T13:41:44-05:00
That would be the 1971 cult classic Duel, starring Dennis Weaver as a businessman who's pursued and terrorized by the bad-ass driver of a big-assed truck. ...***Hoping to capitalize on surprisingly solid ratings for its first two episodes, CBS is shifting the made-in-Canada cop drama Flashpoint to a more visible Thursday, 9 p.m. (central) slot, beginning July 24th.

TV Bulletin Board (July 21)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-07-21T07:46:42-05:00
A one-hour "dramatic comedy," Valentine, is about a family of Greek Gods, the Valentines, "whose purpose is to bring about the rare, strange and often hilarious thing called love." Jaime Murray, who played the evil temptress Lila on Showtime's Dexter, is the biggest name in the cast. ...Titles include Malibu Shark Attack (with former LaFemme Nikita star Peta Wilson); Hellhounds (directed by Rick Schroder); Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon (co-starring Shannen Doherty, who also will guest star on CW's new 90210 series); Phantom Racer (with Greg Evigan) and Lake Placid 3.

TV Bulletin Board (July 9)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-07-09T09:16:17-05:00
***The storied ESPN team of Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick will be reunited this fall on NBC's Football Night In America studio show. ...***Showtime has a studio team in place for Inside the NFL, which it's picking up this season after a 31-year run on HBO.

TV Bulletin Board (June 27)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-06-27T10:34:46-05:00
NBC's made-in-Austin Friday Night Lights and Fox's made-overseas Family Guy are among Emmy's official contenders in drama and comedy. ...Friday Night Lights recently won a Peabody Award, which might help its chances. Family Guy was entered for the first time in the comedy category after previously joining the animated series contenders.

TV Bulletin Board (June 24)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-06-24T10:32:12-05:00
HBO will commemorate the late George Carlin by repeating 11 of his record 14 standup specials for the network, including both the first and the last. ...But "It's Bad for Ya," which premiered in March, gets the main HBO stage on Friday, June 27th at 8 p.m. (central).

TV Bulletin Board (June 19)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-06-19T12:03:05-05:00
And The Hollywood Reporter says that Jon Voight will play a villain in Fox's two-hour prequel of 24, scheduled to air on Nov. 23 before Season 7 starts its countdown clock in January. ...***Spike TV says it will reunite David Carradine and Daryl Hannah in Kung Fu Killer, billed as a "two-part 'Original Guy Movie' Miniseries" with an August premiere.

TV Bulletin Board (June 11)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-06-11T16:22:59-05:00
NBC has amassed 24 "All-Star Families" for its Al Roker-hosted Celebrity Family Feud, set to premiere on July 1st. In one of the matchups, Deion Sanders, wife Pilar, son Deion Jr., daughter Deiondra and Aunt Annette will take on The Kardashians, who include former Olympic decathlon champ Bruce Jenner and his now seasoned but still badly executed face lift.

TV Bulletin Board (June 5)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-06-05T13:02:39-05:00
Says a TBS spokesperson, "Airing an episode of The Bill Engvall Show on CBS provides an opportunity to introduce the series to a new group of fans and is a great way for people to sample the show. ...Campaigns are all under one big show biz tent now, as WWE Raw proved conclusively earlier this year with tailor-made addresses to wrestling fans from Obama, Hillary Clinton and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.

TV Bulletin Board (June 3)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-06-03T10:28:57-05:00
The show's 400th episode, "You Kent Always Say What You Want," aired on May 20, 2007, with the first Simpsons feature film released in July of that year. ***CBS' annual telecast of Broadway's Tony Awards, on June 15th, will be spiced with a sizable contingent of star presenters, including Glenn Close, Liza Minelli, Alec Baldwin, Laura Linney, John Lithgow, Mary-Louise Parker, Brooke Shields and Marisa Tomei.

TV Bulletin Board (May 27)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-05-27T17:03:16-05:00
But The CW and its new Sunday night business partner, MRC (Media Rights Capital), at least have announced the titles and creators of four planned new series. ...***In Harm's Way, a reality show about "people doing dangerous jobs" from Dirty Jobs producer Craig Piligian.

TV Bulletin Board (May 23)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-05-23T13:23:45-05:00
The once red-hot, but since cooled-off comic book action series returns on Monday, Sept. 22nd with a one-hour "compilation" special followed by the show's two-hour season premiere. Heroes hasn't been seen since the writers' strike drove a wedge into the networks' prime-time plans. ...My Name Is Earl and The Office each will have one-hour season premieres on Thursday, Sept. 25th, followed by that same date's return of ER for what's been announced as its last season.

TV Bulletin Board (May 11)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-05-11T22:02:50-05:00
That's right, Britney Spears, who will make her second guest appearance, as Abby, on the Monday (May 12) episode of CBS' How I Met Your Mother. ...***Husband and wife Jeff and Ally Davidson of Dallas will be among 40 fresh meat "Contenders" when NBC's American Gladiators resumes with new episodes Monday (May 12).

TV Bulletin Board (April 23)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-04-23T22:33:03-05:00
From top -- No. 1 Megan Fox -- to rock-bottom -- No. 100 Britney Spears -- FHM Online has unveiled the results of its latest "100 Sexiest Women in the World" survey. ...Lost's Evangeline Lilly (No. 37); American Idol runnerup Katherine McPhee (No. 38); Dancing with the Stars contestant Shannon Elizabeth (No. 46); Ghost Whisperer star Jennifer Love Hewitt (No. 57); and Desperate Housewives denizen Eva Longoria Parker (No. 59) also are in the top two-third.

TV Bulletin Board (April 22)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-04-22T11:55:55-05:00
***Rockwall's Jason Castro (second from left above) goes into battle on American Idol again Tuesday (April 22nd), with the six finalists performing songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber. ...***Noted in passing: Former CBS11 morning show reporter Beth Wagner, who left the station in January, has likewise departed ABC affiliate WKOW-TV in Madison, WI after a brief stint as a featured early evening and late night anchor.

TV Bulletin Board (April 21)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-04-21T12:05:14-05:00
We know this for certain with news that presidential contenders John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all are scheduled to talk up their candidacies Monday night (April 21) via "specially taped messages" on USA network's Monday Night Raw. ...Holy jumpin' dog crap, they're instead going to "tap into the power" of the five million-plus viewers watching Raw on a typical Monday, with McCain belatedly joining in to show who really wears the tights.

TV Bulletin Board (April 14)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-04-14T16:34:19-05:00
Big Brother's quick turnaround, after an ongoing strike season edition, is set for Sunday, July 13th, with weekly episodes also earmarked for Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Philbin's ramped-up Password, featuring celebrity players such as Rosie O'Donnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Rachael Ray and Betty White, will debut on Sunday, June 1st.

TV Bulletin Board (April 9)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-04-09T17:34:43-05:00
Lovato, a 15-year-old singer/songwriter, will be showcased next season in the Disney Channel movie Princess Protection Program, co-starring fellow Dallas native Selena Gomez. ...A previously announced film, Camp Rock, with Lovato also starring, will have an "unprecedented" roll-out in June on Disney Channel, the big daddy ABC network, ABC Family, Radio Disney and Disney.com.

TV Bulletin Board (April 7)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-04-07T09:44:30-05:00
It's the creation of Austin-based Mike Judge, who continues to voice patriarch Hank Hill during his weekly misadventures from fictional Arlen, TX. Tom Petty also is featured as aimless Lucky, new husband of Hank's nubile niece, Luanne. ...***Spike TV is spicing up repeats of Unsolved Mysteries by inserting Dennis Farina as host in place of the late Robert Stack.

TV Bulletin Board (April 3)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-04-03T02:03:16-05:00
And SNL Thursday Night Live will take its "Weekend Update" segment into the heart of the presidential campaign with three half-hour specials starting on Oct. 16th. Scrubs, meanwhile, has been dropped but likely will resurface for a last season on ABC, which produces the show for NBC. ...Also of possible interest -- Debbie Reynolds will be one of the three judges on CBS' previously announced Secret Talents of the Stars, in which celebs such as Clint Black, Marla Maples, Danny Bonaduce and Sheila E. mess around doing stuff like standup comedy and salsa dancing.

TV Bulletin Board (April 1)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-04-01T08:35:37-05:00
***ABC's just-announced summer prime-time schedule will be loaded with reality and game series, including the return of The Mole on May 26th with new host Jon Kelley (Baseball Today). Also on the grill are Dance Machine (June 27), I Survived a Japanese Game Show (June 24), High School Musical: Summer Session (July 20) and Wipeout (June 24), in which 24 contenders "compete on an extreme obstacle course designed to provide the most crashes, face plants, impacts and wipe outs ever seen on television."

TV Bulletin Board (March 26)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-03-26T11:30:21-05:00
A bundle of programming initiatives released Wednesday also announces the acquisition of 99 "family-friendly" movies from Disney-ABC Domestic Television, including evergreens Old Yeller, The Parent Trap, The Shaggy Dog, Flubber, The Love Bug and Swiss Family Robinson. ...Hallmark cites a "groundbreaking study," which it commissioned, that says baby boomers have more money than "millennials" (humanoids born between 1980 and 1995) and also are "less likely to change the channel or multi-task."

TV Bulletin Board (March 24)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-03-24T11:08:13-05:00
CBS also will be plugging in new episodes of James Woods' Shark while relocating the legal drama from Sundays to Tuesdays at 8 p.m. (central). Shark's restart on April 29 does not bode well for The Unit, whose time slot it's taking. ...*** Fort Worth native Bob Schieffer has delayed his retirement and will soldier on indefinitely as host of CBS' Face the Nation, where he's presided since 1982.

TV Bulletin Board (March 21)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-03-21T14:04:09-05:00
Meanwhile, the network knows how to both stick it to The New York Times while at the same time paying handsomely for a full-page color ad in the newspaper's Friday "Weekend Arts" section. ...Notably missing is anything from the Times itself, whose reliably addled TV critic, Alessandra Stanley, may have been the only reviewer in the world to flat-out pan Giamatti's performance.

TV Bulletin Board (March 18)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-03-18T10:13:03-05:00
Yikes, country crooner Clint Black will try his hand at standup comedy on CBS' latest reality concoction, Secret Talents of the Stars. ...That was the show where Bob Newhart safely spun plates while former televangelist Marjoe Gortner got strapped to a car hood and driven through a flaming brick wall.

TV Bulletin Board (March 17)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-03-17T11:17:17-05:00
The strike-impaired TV season breathes anew Monday with the returns of CBS' Two and a Half Men and ABC's Dancing with the Stars, including partners Priscilla Presley and Louis van Amstel. Photos from CBS and ABC ...The sequential 7 to 9 p.m. returns of The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men and The New Adventures of Old Christine make CBS the first network to officially reboot after the writers' strike inflicted some deep cuts on prime-time schedules.

TV Bulletin Board (March 5)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-03-05T15:16:06-06:00
Swingtown, whose principal star is Grant Show from Melrose Place, is set for a May 29 premiere. Flashpoint, co-starring Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars), will premiere in July on a still to be announced date. ...***NBC in contrast mostly will go the less demanding reality route with an "All-American Summer" that includes the returns of American Gladiators on May 12th and a third edition of America's Got Talent on June 24th.

TV Bulletin Board (March 2)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-03-02T19:30:28-06:00
In a previous letter to TV critics, quarterlife creators Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskowitz (thirtysomething, My So-Called Life) said the series "depicts a reality and a voice and an authenticity that was thought to have no place in television today -- and may not have a place -- but we're willing to take that chance, and so is NBC." ...She'll play bombshell high school English teacher Lisa Germain, chief nemesis of a formerly awkward teen (played by Judy Greer) who's returned to her alma mater as a guidance counselor. Ashton Kutcher (Beauty and the Geek) is among the show's executive producers.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 25)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-02-25T16:27:35-06:00
The smallest number of total viewers before Sunday's Oscars had been the March 23, 2003 ceremony on ABC, in which 33 million viewers watched Chicago win for Best Picture. ...ABC's ratings press release accentuates whatever positives can be gleaned, including the fact that Oscar "towered over" this year's earlier awards shows, including the Grammys (17.2 million viewers), the Emmys (13 million) and January's strike-impaired, celebrity-free Golden Globes press conference (6 million).

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 20)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-02-20T13:38:56-06:00
Lost will give viewers an extra five new episodes and also move back an hour on Thursdays as part of ABC's post-strike spring fling. ...The additional five episodes, slated to start on April 24th at 9 p.m. (central) Thursdays, will enable Lost to finish up just a bit shy of this season's original 16-episode order.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 19)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-02-19T17:28:20-06:00
Fox has post-strike air dates for new episodes of House, Bones and other prime-time series, but no specifics yet on how many there'll be. ...Fox also has moved up the air date of the new Julianna Margulies series Canterbury's Law from April 14th to March 10th.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 14)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-02-14T21:16:39-06:00
The Big Bang Theory, part of the network's Monday comedy lineup, has been invited back for a sophomore season. ... They are the three CSI series, Without A Trace, Criminal Minds, Cold Case, NCIS, Numb3rs, Ghost Whisperer, Two and a Half Men, Survivor and The Amazing Race.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 13, Part 2)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-02-13T16:06:25-06:00
Maura Tierney of ER and the stars of Life are in NBC's future. ...NBC became the second network to announce post-strike programming plans Wednesday, although they're not as detailed as CBS' or ABC's.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 13)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-02-13T09:14:30-06:00
Comedies will be back first, with Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory all earmarked for nine new episodes, starting on March 17th. ...CBS says that Shark, The Unit and Cane are making way for the midseason re-launches of Big Brother 9 and Jericho (which returned on Feb. 12) and an edited version of Showtime's Dexter that premieres on Feb.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 11)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-02-11T14:36:58-06:00
Lost so far has aired two of eight currently available episodes, with time perhaps to make two or three more new ones before the 2007-08 TV season ends in May. Samantha Who? ...***The sixth edition of NBC's Biggest Loser will be looking for potential losers in Dallas as part of a 13-city search on Feb. 16th.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 8)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-02-08T17:34:57-06:00
On the Friday before that, two half-hour appetizers -- Battlestar Galactica: Revisited and Battle Galactica: The Phenomenon -- will recap previous events and then brag about the series' "impact on pop culture." ...***NBC has a new voice for the new KITT after Will Arnett (Arrested Development) withdrew because of a "conflicting sponsorship deal."

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 5)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-02-05T15:12:05-06:00
A post-Supie episode of House chipped in with 29 million while last week's Tuesday and Wednesday editions of American Idol respectively drew 28.2 million and 25.6 million viewers. ...And it's a blowout among 18-to-49-year-olds, where Fox now is averaging 5.4 million a week compared to 4.2 million for runnersup ABC and NBC.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 4)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-02-04T16:34:28-06:00
Sunday's Super Bowl XLII on Fox averaged a record-breaking 97.5 million viewers nationally, making it the most watched big game ever and beating the previous high of 94.1 million viewers for 1996's SB XXX between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers. ...In the old-school total household category, still tabulated by Nielsen Media Research, the New York Giants' upset win over the New England Patriots had an overall 43.2 rating, highest since 2000's down-to-the-wire SB XXXIV, which had a 43.3 rating.

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 29)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-01-29T11:22:33-06:00
Speaking in perfect press release-ese, returning host Jeff Probst says, "I still get excited to get on the plane and travel to another exotic location with another group of adventure-seeking, Type A personalities." ...***NBC is throwing another two reality series on the prime-time grill. My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad, premiering on Feb. 18th, bumps the previously announced Baby Borrowers, which supposedly will air later. Dan Cortese (Veronica's Closet) is your host.

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 24)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-01-24T13:12:11-06:00
Former NYPD Blue star Mark-Paul Gosselaar and the show's creator, Steven Bochco, are re-teaming on a new TNT legal drama. ...***CBS is going into prime-time again with The Price Is Right, which will join the network's Friday night lineup on Feb. 22nd for the first of six specials. Drew Carey hosts, with the incumbent new series Moonlight being eclipsed.

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 23)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-01-23T11:15:25-06:00
***A fine group of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are gathering on the Thursday, Jan. 24, two-hour edition of Fox's Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? ...On one edition, Bob Newhart got to spin plates while evangelist turned two-bit TV star Marjoe Gortner was strapped to a car hood and driven through a flaming wall.

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 14)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-01-14T15:29:00-06:00
Then on Feb. 15th, it's Celine Dion: That's Just The Woman In Me, a one-hour collection of greatest hits and cuts from her new CD "The Prayer." ...Game Show In My Head -- From Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg (Punk'd, Beauty and the Geek), it's a weekly half-hour in which contestants are required to make asses of themselves in return for "big money."

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 7)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2008-01-07T09:46:24-06:00
Leno lately has been under fire by the Writers Guild of America for writing his own monologue jokes since NBC's Tonight Show returned on Jan. 2nd after a two-month layoff caused by the strike. Comedy Central's two late nighters, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, are scheduled to be back in business on Monday (Jan. 7), both absent their writing staffs.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 20)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-12-20T14:49:51-06:00
Lyrics to all songs in both movies will be on-screen so that any kid who somehow doesn't already know them by heart can still feel like part of the clique. HSM2 had owned the all-time cable record of 17.2 million viewers for its August premiere until ESPN's New England Patriots-Baltimore Ravens Monday Night Football game snapped it with 17.5 million viewers on Dec. 3rd.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 18)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-12-18T11:43:29-06:00
***ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live will return to the air writer-less on Jan. 2nd, joining NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien on that same date. ...***The MySpace series quarterlife will join the NBC broadcast network's main stage on Monday, Feb 18th with weekly episodes at 8 p.m. (central).

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 12)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-12-12T12:49:40-06:00
January's scheduled event in Los Angeles, in which midseason programming is showcased for the Television Critics Association, will be a no-show whether the writers' strike is settled or not. "I apologize for this frustrating process, as well as its resolution," TCA president Dave Walker of the New Orleans Times-Picayune said in an email to members.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 10)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-12-10T10:34:44-06:00
CBS, NBC and Fox already have announced revised schedules for early next year (see previous Bulletin Boards) that include an early return of Big Brother on CBS and a new version of American Gladiators on NBC. ...Last spring NBC told advertisers that its post-football Sunday lineup would be Dateline NBC, Law & Order (moved to Wednesdays, starting Jan. 2), Medium and Lipstick Jungle (moved to Thursdays, starting Feb.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 5)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-12-05T10:11:51-06:00
Absent new shows for the foreseeable future, Saturday Night Live will resurrect its past by taking over half of NBC's Saturday prime-time schedule this month. ...HBO says the concluding 10 episodes will spotlight the media's role in "addressing -- or failing to address -- the fundamental political, economic and social realities depicted over the course of the series."

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 3)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-12-03T16:31:12-06:00
Law & Order, originally set to return for its 18th season on Sunday nights after football, instead will relaunch with a two-hour premiere on Jan. 2nd at 8 p.m. (central). ...CBS also has announced the return of a limited second season run of Jericho, which will fill the failed first-year Cane's Tuesday, 9 p.m. slot on Feb. 12th.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 30)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-11-30T11:37:19-06:00
***Strike talks are off for now, but scheduled to resume Tuesday (Dec. 4) after a "New Economic Partnership" proposal by the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers received an initially cool reception from the Writers Guild of America. ...***NBC's new version of American Gladiators, to be co-hosted by Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali, gets a two-hour sneak preview on Sunday, Jan. 6th before moving the following night to its regular Monday, 7 p.m. central slot.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 26)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-11-26T20:18:47-06:00
Neither is a hit yet, but both are in tough time slots. Chuck has gone against ABC's Dancing with the Stars on Monday nights while Life is scheduled opposite CBS' CSI: NY. ...Fellow first-round punchout Kenny Mayne of ESPN ended up hosting ABC's barely seen Fast Cars & Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race before resurfacing on Dancing this season as a mock commentator.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 19)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-11-19T08:48:13-06:00
Canceled by his predecessor but quickly resurrected by new NBC entertainment president Ben Silverman, The Apprentice will be back in business on Jan. 3rd with an alleged celebrity version. ...Competitors include previous Apprentice bad girl Omarosa and former Sopranos second banana Vincent Pastore, who earlier this year crapped out on ABC's Dancing with the Stars after deciding he couldn't withstand the regimen.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 16)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-11-16T15:12:56-06:00
Dec. 10 -- I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown, 7 p.m. on ABC. ...Dec. 13 -- 30 Rock's LudaChristmas Party (with guests Elaine Stritch, Andy Richter, Buck Henry, Anita Gillette), 7:30 p.m. on NBC.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 12)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-11-12T14:17:57-06:00
The 13-episode drama ended its first season on Oct. 23rd by wrapping up its main murder mystery but setting up a clash between scheming Manhattan mega-attorney Patty Hewes (Close) and her now undercover protege, Ellen Parsons (Byrne). ...FX now has six drama series in its arsenal, with The Shield, Rescue Me, Dirt and The Riches all slated to return while Nip/Tuck recently began its fifth season.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 1)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-11-01T16:17:08-05:00
The acerbic comedian/commentator, whose opinions have tilted well to the right in recent years, will have fellow conservatives Al Michaels and Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling as guests on the first edition of Sports Unfiltered with Dennis Miller. ...***Dallas native and former Prison Break co-star Lane Garrison has been sentenced to 40 months in prison after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence, driving under the influence of alcohol and furnishing alcohol to a minor.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 25)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-10-25T16:19:06-05:00
The Kelsey Grammer-Patricia Heaton sitcom ranked 58th in the latest weekly Nielsens, drawing 7.1 million viewers to rank just a hair above ABC's new Tuesday night duo of Cavemen and Carpoolers. ...***The Alphabet Network also plans to bring back two of last spring's freshmen for second seasons. October Road returns on Nov. 22nd at 9:02 p.m. central, getting the Big Shots spot before moving to Mondays at 9 p.m. when The Bachelor ends its latest run.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 24)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-10-24T14:34:37-05:00
***Fox's Game 1 of the Boston Red Sox-Colorado Rockies World Series swings into view Wednesday night after encouraging ratings for Sunday's Game 7 of the Red Sox-Cleveland Indians matchup. It drew a robust 19.2 million viewers to rank third for the week behind only CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and ABC's Dancing with the Stars performance show.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 11)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-10-11T15:32:37-05:00
***A pair of still obscure cable networks, little known G4 and lesser known MOJO, have landed the rerun rights to NBC's hottest series, Heroes. ...The way this is going, unclebarky.com soon will realize its longtime dream of repurposing episodes of Camp Runamuck, the fabled 1965 NBC comedy series starring Dave Ketchum as Senior Counselor Spiffy and Alice Nunn as Mahala May Gruenecker.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 10)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-10-10T10:48:17-05:00
Anybody out there been trying to picture how the young Gus McRae and Woodrow Call will look in CBS' upcoming Commanche Moon prequel to Lonesome Dove? ...But the original 1989 miniseries, starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as Gus and Woodrow, remains by far the greatest made-for-TV western ever.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 9)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-10-09T12:50:47-05:00
But it's allegedly "rewriting the rule book for women's television" with series such as Tori & Dean: Inn Love, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency and The Bad Girls Club. ...It's tabbed burned out wrestler Hulk Hogan to host its new version of American Gladiators, slated to premiere sometime later this season on the NBC broadcast network.

TV Bulletin Board (Oct. 1)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-10-01T14:46:27-05:00
The original and now legendary Lonesome Dove miniseries debuted in 1989 on CBS, with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones playing Gus and Woodrow alongside the likes of Anjelica Huston, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Chris Cooper and Steve Buscemi. ...A 1995 miniseries, Streets of Laredo, starred James Garner as Woodrow, with Gus again out of the picture. Lonesome Dove: The Series, which premiered in syndication in 1994, focused on Woodrow's offspring, Newt (Scott Bairstow).

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 26)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-09-26T15:06:24-05:00
***Nielsen Media Research is making a significant change in its audience measurements by giving broadcast networks the option of a single, combined rating for series episodes that air twice within a single broadcast week. ...Better Than Your Dad, with an eight-episode run earmarked for midseason, pits old man against old man in "a series of unique stunt-driven challenges," says NBC.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 19)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-09-19T10:05:21-05:00
"Since there was no silent clock at the conclusion of his last appearance -- the 24 tribute to a major character's demise -- we always kept this as a possibility," Howard said. Season 7, beginning with a two-night, three-hour "premiere event" on Jan. 13-14, will find Jack facing trial in Washington, D.C. for his "actions in the pursuit of justice."

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 17)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-09-17T15:56:36-05:00
Preliminary "fast national" Nielsens indicate that Sunday night's Emmy telecast on Fox will be the second smallest draw in the awards' 59-year history. ...Last year's awards on NBC, which aired in late August and didn't have to compete against a pro football game, drew 16.2 million viewers.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 14)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-09-14T08:35:40-05:00
Fantasy islands: CW's Reaper and NBC's Bionic Woman ...The 2007-08 fall TV season makes its first peep Friday with Fox's Nashville, one of 28 newbies coming your way from the five major broadcast networks.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 12)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-09-12T21:32:38-05:00
Soon enough it will be a return visit to her old home. Meredith Vieira will rejoin ABC's The View for a day on Oct. 8 after moderating the show for nine seasons. She left it in June, 2006 after being roasted and toasted by the likes of Joan Rivers, Kelsey Grammer and Mario Cantone. The View's new moderator, Whoopi Goldberg, recently took the chair vacated by bombastic Rosie O'Donnell.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 11)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-09-11T11:10:04-05:00
They'll be joined by director Martin Scorsese and pianist Leon Fleisher at the 30th annual ceremony on Dec. 2nd in Washington, D.C. ...***As fully expected, Barbara Walters has tabbed actress/comic Sherri Shepherd (Beauty Shop) to join The View as a full-time panelist.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 6)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-09-06T17:45:18-05:00
The high-powered stunt casting continues on NBC's 30 Rock, with Edie Falco signed to guest star for three episodes in a so far undisclosed role. ...30 Rock returns on Oct. 4 as part of an acclaimed but ratings-impaired Thursday night comedy block that also includes The Office, My Name Is Earl and Scrubs.

TV Bulletin Board (Sept. 5)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-09-05T15:43:49-05:00
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Add to My Profile | South Park, we can offend people on their cell phones, game consoles and computers, too," Stone said in a statement.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 24)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-08-24T08:52:24-05:00
***NBC is reviving American Gladiators, the cheesy but fun athletic competition that ran from 1989-97 in syndication and introduced the likes of Nitro, Turbo, Zap, Lace, Storm and Siren. ...There's no host or targets yet. Control Room offers concert performances in HD, with the first show presenting Maroon 5, John Mayer and Mandy Moore.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 20)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-08-20T16:23:56-05:00
The American Idol fixture will host the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards Sept. 16th on Fox after signing earlier this month to emcee the entertainment portions of Fox's Super Bowl telecast. ...Television Academy chairman and CEO Dick Askin describes Seacrest as "charismatic and talented, and he will be very comfortable in the production environment that has been created for this year's telecast."

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 17)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-08-17T10:48:08-05:00
*** ABC has finally found a slot for its musical Raisin In the Sun, which was filmed in Canada last year with a cast that includes Phylicia Rashad, Sean "P. ...Adapted from the Mitch Albom bestseller and made by Oprah Winfrey's production company, the film stars Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos and Ellen Burstyn.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 16)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-08-16T12:40:17-05:00
***Monday Night Football will have Hank Williams, Jr. in the saddle for a 19th year when the second season of games on ESPN kicks off on Sept. 10th. ...***Production has started in Australia on HBO's planned 10-hour The Pacific, a long-awaited companion to the network's heralded Band of Brothers.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 14)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-08-14T10:31:12-05:00
Mantegna, who previously co-starred on CBS' Joan of Arcadia, has been cast as FBI special agent David Rossi, who comes out of early retirement to rejoin the show's Behavioral Analysis Unit. ...***Expanding like The Blob, Today's fourth hour -- from 10 to 11 a.m. beginning Sept. 10th -- will be tri-hosted by (from left to right above) Natalie Morales, Ann Curry and Hoda Kotb.

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 3)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-08-03T13:56:08-05:00
Last month, NBC promoted Joey Fatone's The Singing Bee to its autumn lineup after it came out swinging in the Nielsens opposite Fox's baseball All-Star game. ...

TV Bulletin Board (Aug. 1)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-08-01T11:02:14-05:00
Another of America's open secrets became official Wednesday when Whoopi Goldberg appeared on the The View as a warmup for her new duties as the show's moderator. ...Set to join The View on the day after Labor Day, Goldberg continues to host Wake Up with Whoopi, a Manhattan-based morning radio show whose Web site has the slogan, "She does what she wants to do.

TV Bulletin Board (July 24)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-07-24T19:58:02-05:00
The march of comedians to the game show arena continued in a big way Monday with CBS' announcement that Drew Carey will replace Bob Barker as host of The Price Is Right. ...Carey also is set to host a new CBS prime-time quiz, The Power of 10, which is set to premiere on Aug 7th.

TV Bulletin Board (June 26)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-06-26T11:50:33-05:00
"Wal-Mart is getting an advance shipment of the final Harry Potter book and they've asked their employees not to reveal the ending because they don't want to spoil it for fans. ...***NBC has tabbed Dancing with the Stars runnerup Joey Fatone to host The Singing Bee, a new competition reality series premiering July 10th opposite Fox's telecast of baseball's All-Star Game.

TV Bulletin Board (June 25)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-06-25T07:30:51-05:00
***Piffle ball. Paris Hilton fell into the lap of Larry King over the weekend after ABC and then NBC ceased efforts to land an interview with the jailed airhead heiress, who's scheduled to be released on Tuesday (June 26th). ...Hilton, in a statement, says she's "thrilled that Larry King has asked me to appear on his program to discuss my experience in jail, what I have learned, how I have grown and anything else he wants to talk about."

TV Bulletin Board (June 21)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-06-21T15:32:02-05:00
Or as a press release otherwise puts it, "The launch of this new site firmly cements Comedy Central as a player in the 2008 presidential race and marks the network's 16th year covering political elections." ...vid=88623' src='http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/syndicated_player/index.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#006699' width='340' height='325' name='comedy_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'>

TV Bulletin Board (June 20)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-06-20T11:40:27-05:00
The Wayne Brady-hosted big-money game show will premiere on July 11, at least three months before NBC's competition is scheduled to begin with a host yet to be named. ...NBC quickly made a counter-move and now will premiere The Singing Bee on July 10th at 8 p.m. opposite Fox's telecast of baseball's All-Star game.

TV Bulletin Board (June 14)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-06-14T17:37:08-05:00
Kimmel, former sidekick on MTV's Win Ben Stein's Money, is following in the footsteps of Howie Mandel (Deal Or No Deal), Bob Saget (1 vs. 100), Penn Jillette (Identity) Dennis Miller (the upcoming Grand Slam) and other funnymen turned quizmasters. ***Reprieved for a seven-episode return in mid-season, CBS' Jericho will restart at the beginning on July 6 with a repeat of the series' pilot episode.

TV Bulletin Board (June 11)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-06-11T15:42:17-05:00
***Showtime cable has landed two estimable actors to co-star in the second seasons of critically acclaimed series. Peter O'Toole will play Pope Paul III in The Tudors. ...***Fox has a start date for Anchorwoman, the previously announced new reality series in which model and former wrestling villain Lauren Jones will join the staff of KYTX-TV in Tyler, TX.

TV Bulletin Board (June 6)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-06-06T14:44:28-05:00
Premiering Aug. 7th, it's from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire producer Michael Davies, whose first grand prize winner from that show, John Carpenter, will be one of the combatants. Jeopardy! ...Look for the likes of Aida "Janice" Turturro (1 p.m.) Edie "Carmela" Falco (2 p.m.), Vincent "Johnny Sack" Curatola (4 p.m.), Michael "Christopher" Imperioli (8 and 9 p.m.), Dominic "Uncle Junior" Chianese (10 p.m.) and Frank "Phil Leotardo" Vincent (11 p.m.).

TV Bulletin Board (June 1)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-06-01T16:59:15-05:00
***CBS' The Early Show will launch a half-dozen traveling summer concerts in July, with R&B singer Kelly Rowland scheduled to appear in Dallas on Aug. 3rd. American Idol runnerup Katharine McPhee kicks off the tour with a July 6th performance in Orlando, Fla. ...Executive producer Dick Wolf says in a statement that Thompson "has not made a firm decision about his political future," but "asked to be released from his responsibilities on the show" just in case.

TV Bulletin Board (May 30)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-05-30T17:02:52-05:00
Good Morning America weekend anchor Bill Weir and country singer Martina McBride are part of ABC News' prime-time summer menu. ...Their objective is track down McBride in six steps or less to re-prove the old Kevin Bacon theory that we're all connected in some way to a chain of a half-dozen humanoids.

TV Bulletin Board (May 25)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-05-25T15:54:28-05:00
Tara, slated to be a love interest of Silas (Hunter Parrish), otherwise lives in a newly developed "mega-church community" called Majestic. Weeds, generating ample buzz on- and off-camera, returns on Aug. 13th. ...***Former D-FW anchor and CBS Early Show personality Rene Syler again will return to The View as a guest host on June 12.

TV Bulletin Board (May 23)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-05-23T18:13:44-05:00
Phillips said in a statement that he's "profoundly appreciative of the many friends and colleagues, past and present, who have been a part of the Dateline family." Ann Curry will now be the show's main anchor. ...Idol had a wider victory margin among advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, but ABC won the night overall in total viewers after Fox's post-Idol premiere of On the Lot plummeted to 8.5 million viewers nationally.

TV Bulletin Board (May 11)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-05-11T07:53:29-05:00
His resignation came shortly after The Los Angeles Times reported that in 1991 HBO paid a settlement of at least $400,000 to a former employee who had accused Albrecht of choking her on the job. In a statement from HBO's parent company, Time Warner, Albrecht said he stepped down "for the benefit of my Home Box Office colleagues, recognizing that I cannot allow my personal circumstances to distract them from the business."

TV Bulletin Board -- Series and season finales edition (May 7)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-05-07T17:50:20-05:00
NBC's Heroes and ABC's Grey's Anatomy are among May's big-ticket season finales as the 2006-'07 season gives way to summer's heat. ...Mon., May 14 -- How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, CSI: Miami and the series finale of King of Queens, all on CBS. Everybody Hates Chris, All of Us, The Game (CW)

TV Bulletin Board (May 3)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-05-03T17:29:49-05:00
Its creator, wisecracking Amy Sherman-Palladino, left the show under some duress at the end of last season. Gilmore Girls' supporting cast included Milo Ventimiglia and Jared Padalecki, who respectively have matriculated to NBC's Heroes and CW's Supernatural, another carryover from the WB network. ...A CBS release says that Dan Rather will be included among those saluting "The Cronk," who didn't really salute him when he left the Evening News under pressure in March 2005.

TV Bulletin Board (April 26)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-04-26T11:43:54-05:00
***On a lesser Fox note, the network has junked the new series Drive, which becomes the 10th series this season to be canceled after five or fewer episodes. Drive's been towed after four episodes. House repeats will air in its place at 7 p.m. (central time) Mondays. ...Mellencamp says in an HDNet release that he originally planned to do a benefit show, but "then it dawned on me what I really wanted to do is lighten the load of the soldiers and workers in the hospital, so why not just play for them."

TV Bulletin Board (April 20)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-04-20T13:19:32-05:00
***NBC has tapped Sharon Osbourne to replace Brandy Norwood as one of the three judges on its second season of America's Got Talent, which returns on May 29. ...Subtitled "How to Stop an Exploding Man," the synopsis goes like this: "With Isaac's horrible predictions all unfolding before them, the everyday people with extraordinary abilities face moments of pain and peril in Kirby Plaza with unflinching heroism, as Heroes' first volume comes to a close -- and the next surprisingly begins."

TV Bulletin Board (April 18)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-04-18T11:17:46-05:00
Reality maestro Mark Burnett has a sinking ship in Donald Trump's The Apprentice while Survivor is starting to take on a little water. ...Your host is Cameron Daddo, an Aussie actor whose credits range from a guest shot on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation to the feature film Big Mama's House 2.

TV Bulletin Board (April 17)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-04-17T12:10:18-05:00
And these don't include the likes of NBC's Kidnapped and Andy Barker, P.I., ABC's The Nine, Six Degrees and Day Break, and Fox's Happy Hour, Vanished and Justice. ...As Fox's new Drive threatens to screech to a five-episode-or-less halt, here are the other members of this season's clubbed.

TV Bulletin Board: (April 16)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-04-16T14:02:07-05:00
***Keith Olbermann, close, personal fiend of Bill O'Reilly, is getting a high-profile spot as a new co-host of NBC's Football Night in America. ...Countdown, scheduled directly opposite Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, has jumped from 404,000 viewers in the "First Quarter" (Jan.-March) of 2006 to 711,000 for the same period this year.

TV Bulletin Board: (April 10)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-04-10T17:49:01-05:00
That's a significant drop from the 9.465 million who watched the March 12, 2006 opener, which ended with Tony getting gut-shot by a very confused Uncle Junior. ...Airing opposite The Sopranos on Sunday night, the Discovery Channel's second hour of its Planet Earth series remained strong with 4.846 million viewers to rank 5th for the week in cable's universe.

TV Bulletin Board (April 3)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-04-03T11:28:59-05:00
***Bob Barker's looming retirement as host of The Price Is Right will be feted with two CBS prime-time specials during the May "sweeps." ...***Punk'd producers Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg are behind NBC's new six-episode The Real Wedding Crashers, which starts taking the cake on Monday, April 23 following the return of new Heroes episodes.

TV Bulletin Board (March 22)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-03-22T11:08:15-05:00
***On Fox's drama front, former ER star Julianna Margulies will try to get back in the prime-time game as a rising attorney in Canterbury's Law. ...***The May 15 Academy of Country Music Awards on CBS will have a familiar host. Reba McEntire has been hired to preside for the ninth time, this time from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Green Acres-esque Las Vegas.

TV Bulletin Board (March 21)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-03-21T16:57:52-05:00
Trees, starring Anne Heche as a bestselling book author transplanted to Alaska, currently ranks 64th in the season-to-date Nielsens with an average of 9 million viewers an episode. Brothers & Sisters, with Calista Flockhart and Sally Field heading the cast, is in 40th place with 11.4 million viewers. Both series have been following ABC powerhouses. Desperate Housewives (No. 8 with 18.5 million viewers) precedes B&S and Men In Trees tagged after Grey's Anatomy (No. 5 with 19.8 million viewers) for a few months before giving way last week to the new October Road.

TV Bulletin Board (March 20)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-03-20T18:05:50-05:00
***Engaged in a fierce battle for ratings supremacy, the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams will be the first network evening newscast to go high-def. ...***Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign will motor to ABC's Good Morning America on the same day Williams is set to look sharper.

TV Bulletin Board (March 16)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-03-16T10:32:49-05:00
***Criminal Intent also will mine the NASA astronaut scandal, although not as specifically, in a May 1 episode titled "Rocket Man." Serviceable Tate Donovan (Disney's Hercules) stars as married astronaut Luke Nelson, whose affair with a colleague "turns sour" when she's found murdered in their sugar shack-up room.

TV Bulletin Board (March 15)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-03-15T12:23:14-05:00
***Speaking of harsh treatment, Idol's mega-maligned Malakar is being championed by both Howard Stern and a Web site dedicated to making him the winner to embarrass the show in its sixth season as a mega-hit. ..., which has been a ratings smash so far in its three post-Idol airings. 5th Grader, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, now must fend for itself on Thursdays at 7 p.m. central, where this week's competition will be ABC's Ugly Betty, a one-hour repeat of NBC's The Office and NCAA basketball tournament coverage on CBS.

TV Bulletin Board (March 14)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-03-14T15:50:13-05:00
Hairy beasts: Donald Trump and Vince McMahon try to avoid a close shave in pay-per-view Wrestlemania 23, appropriately scheduled on April Fool's Day. Photo copyright 2007, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ...On leveler playing fields, retiring Bob Barker will try to win a final Emmy as best game show host in competition with Pat Sajak, Alex Trebek, Meredith Vieira and Ben Bailey of The Discovery Channel's Cash Cab.

TV Bulletin Board (March 13)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-03-13T10:33:29-05:00
The big-money game show Identity, hosted by illusionist Penn Jillette, will return on Friday (March 16) at 8 p.m. central after the season finale of Bob Saget's 1 vs 100. ...Rock will return on Thursday, April 5 as part of a "super-sized" night of comedy before settling into a new 8 p.m. central slot on the following Thursday. Barker, starring Andy Richter, is scheduled to end its abbreviated run on April 12.

TV Bulletin Board (March 5)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-03-05T16:57:38-06:00
***It's just one month, but a narrow February "sweeps" victory by ABC's World News with Charles Gibson may signal the impending end of a long first-place reign by the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. ...***ABC has dumped The Knights of Prosperity, a midseason sitcom, and will replace it with an According to Jim repeat on Wednesday (March 7) at 7:30 p.m. central time. George Lopez reruns then will fill in for the next two Wednesdays.

TV Bulletin Board (March 2)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-03-02T18:02:16-06:00
***His character walked the walks as postman Cliff Clavin on Cheers. John Ratzenberger will really have to step it up, though, as Vincent Pastore's belated replacement on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. ...***Toothy Donny Osmond -- now why isn't he on Dancing? -- has been named to host ABC's The Great American Dream Vote.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 28)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-02-28T17:04:08-06:00
ABC hasn't said yet whether it will hire another celebrity to step in for Pastore. Dancing with the Stars returns to ABC on March 19. ..."The series will give viewers a glimpse into what makes Victoria so popular and admired as one of the most glamorous women in the world," Reilly said in an NBC press release.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 27)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-02-27T17:59:00-06:00
But eight of the last 10 ceremonies have drawn larger crowds, with Oscar's all-time low of 33 million set in 2003 during the outset of the war in Iraq. ...Sunday's Oscars, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, also topped the weekly ratings with advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds, drawing 18.4 million of them.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 22)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-02-22T16:04:25-06:00
***American Idol executive producers Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick have been hired to helm the 59th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, scheduled for Sept. 16 on Fox. ...And veteran journalist Lee Cullum will be returning to Dallas-based KERA-TV as host of the monthly CEO, which launches on Friday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. central.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 15)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-02-15T16:35:12-06:00
Intriguingly named Sundance Head of Porter is the 28-year-old son of singer Roy Head, whose 1965 single "Treat Her Right" topped the charts. ...His For One More Day novel, still near the top of the charts, will air on ABC in December 2007, the network says.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 13)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-02-13T12:42:48-06:00
Engvall, also a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, has signed to do eight episodes, with the premiere of The Bill Engvall Show set for this summer. ...***ABC's World News with Charles Gibson inched into first place last week ahead of the longtime frontrunning NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 9)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-02-09T16:51:43-06:00
Reality maestro Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice) says Foxworthy's humor is "an ideal component to this family-friendly format," in which adults get to see how dumb they are by testing their knowledge of material being taught in fifth grade. ...***Victorious Super Bowl XLI quarterback Peyton Manning will make his first post-game guest appearance on the Tuesday (Feb. 13) edition of Late Show with David Letterman.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 8)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-02-08T18:24:13-06:00
***North Texas-raised singing star Norah Jones, whose third CD, Not Too Late, is soaring up the charts, will join Katie Couric for an interview on 60 Minutes Sunday (Feb. ...CBS' Criminal Minds, in its first telecast after a big post-Super Bowl splash, managed a very respectable 16.3 million viewers opposite Fox's American Idol, which had 27.9 million. Idol drew almost triple the number of 18-to-49-year-olds, though.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 5)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-02-05T16:47:30-06:00
CBS' followup act, a special telecast of Criminal Minds, lured 26.2 million viewers, finishing far behind last year's haul of 38.1 million viewers for ABC's post-Super Bowl episode of Grey's Anatomy. ...Craig Ferguson mopped up with a post-local newscast edition of Late Late Show, which kept 5.2 million viewers either up or dozing while the TV set remained on.

TV Bulletin Board (Feb. 1)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-02-01T13:07:48-06:00
The network announced Thursday that it's dropping the countrified sitcom, which stars Reba McEntire as divorced Texas soccer mom Reba Hart. Reba had a six-year lifespan, which made it the now defunct WB's longest-running comedy series. ...***Sportscaster Bob Costas has been named to host the prestigious George Foster Peabody Awards, which will have a 66th annual luncheon ceremony on June 4 at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan.

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 31)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-01-31T10:04:09-06:00
***Quickly rebounding from ABC's cancelation of Help Me Help You, comedy stalwart Ted Danson will give drama a shot in a new, still untitled FX pilot starring Glenn Close. ...Half-hour previews will get plush post-American Idol slots on Feb. 27-28 before the show moves to Thursdays at 8 p.m. central, where it will follow special results editions of Idol.

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 30)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-01-30T13:28:30-06:00
Sting also has a lute concert set for Feb. 26 on PBS' Sting: Songs from the Labyrinth. After a Jan. 13 performance for TV critics in Pasadena, he played coy but acknowledged that something was up. ...***Reigning Dancing with the Stars champ and former Dallas Cowboys great Emmitt Smith will play himself on the Monday, Feb. 5 episode of CBS' How I Met Your Mother.

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 26)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-01-26T13:50:37-06:00
Sunday night's 13th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (7 p.m. central, 8 eastern on TBS and TNT) will reunite the surviving cast members of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. They'll present SAG's trophy for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series, an honor that didn't exist during MTM's Emmy-lauded seven-season run on CBS (1970-77).

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 24)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-01-24T15:32:27-06:00
Scheduled for Feb. 22nd (8 p.m. central, 9 eastern), the one-hour special spotlights Muhammad Ali, Jesse Owens, Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm and Marian Anderson. ***The Disney Channel's biggest hit, Hannah Montana, has tabbed Brooke Shields to guest star in a flashback sequence as the title character's deceased mother.

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 5)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-01-05T17:06:55-06:00
Fox4 will replace At Large with Access Hollywood and then run an hour's worth of Judge Joe Brown from 11 p.m. to midnight. ...That compares favorably with the first-season premieres of FX hits such as Nip/Tuck, which also drew 3.7 million total viewers, and Rescue Me (4.1 million). The Shield is still the champ.

TV Bulletin Board (Jan. 3)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2007-01-03T13:20:03-06:00
***Grease's most famous Sandy, Olivia Newton-John, will guest star on the first two episodes of NBC's new Grease: You're the One That I Want. ...Lauer will be feted with clips from his "newsmaker" and "A-list celebrity" interviews, with NBC promising to reprise his testy joust with Tom Cruise among others. Today remains No. 1 among the network morning shows.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 28)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2006-12-28T13:33:08-06:00
The 17-game package included an all-time cable high for the Cowboys-Giants, which had a 12.8 rating (11.807 million homes) and was seen by 16.028 million total viewers. ...The final season of MNF on ABC averaged 11.835 million homes and 16.209 million viewers to respectively place 10th and 12th among all prime-time series.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 15)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2006-12-15T14:50:46-06:00
Oprah Winfrey's the Big Give, scheduled to run for eight episodes, challenges 10 contestants to "take the money and resources they are given and multiply them to come up with the most powerful, sensational, emotional and dramatic ways to give to others." ...***ABC also has started production in Canada on a three-hour remake of A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, Sanaa Latham and the ubiquitous John Stamos.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 14)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2006-12-14T16:33:56-06:00
Estrada, 23 seasons removed from his signature role as Highway Patrolman Frank "Ponch" Poncherello, will be joined by Ozzy Osborne offspring Jack Osborne, ex-WWE wrestler Trish Stratus, skateboarder Jason "Wee-Man" Acuna and La Toya Jackson, who's billed as an "author." ...Here's the breakdown, according to NBC: 12 members of the Southern Cal marching band, 11 plumbers, 10 male ballet dancers, nine exotic female dancers, eight farmer's wives, seven members of a swim team, six pregnant women, five boxers, four men named Bird, three French chefs, two dove hunters and Danny Bonaduce as a partridge in a pear tree.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 12)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2006-12-12T10:41:21-06:00
The latest national Nielsen numbers (for the week of Dec. 4-8) say Evening News is a distant third choice with viewers while ABC's World News and NBC's Nightly News are locked in a tight battle for first place. ...Among 25-to-54-year-olds, the principal advertiser target audience for news programming, World News had a paper-thin edge over Nightly News (2.92 million to 2.9 million), with Evening News at 2.26 million.

TV Bulletin Board (Dec. 4)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2006-12-04T15:11:41-06:00
***CBS has gifted its second-year series Criminal Minds with a post-Super Bowl XLI slot in hopes of further growing its audience against Lost when the ABC series returns to Wednesdays in mid-February. ..."This is an outstanding opportunity to expose a series that is young in its life cycle and on the rise to an enormous universe of potential new viewers," says NBC entertainment president Nina Tassler.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 30)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2006-11-30T17:09:39-06:00
He'll now be singing selections from his FutureSex/LoveSounds CD during CBS' Tuesday night, Dec. 5 telecast of The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (9 central, 10 eastern). ...Obama, who's considering a 2008 presidential run on the Democratic ticket, is one of many prominent pols to "demonstrate their relaxed, good-humored side" on Tonight, says NBC.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 28)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2006-11-27T21:13:24-06:00
He likely had a better time than his Prison Break character, who was left for dead that night on the show's Nov. 27th fall finale. The shooter, duplicitous Secret Service Agent Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein), fired on Fichtner's twisted FBI guy, Alex Mahone, in the episode's closing minutes.

TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 27)

unclebarky@tx.rr.com — 2006-11-26T19:23:53-06:00
ABC has benched The Nine indefinitely after last Wednesday's episode lagged a distant third opposite CBS' CSI: NY and NBC's Medium. The taut serial drama, spun from a prolonged bank robbery/hostage-taking ordeal, will be supplanted on Wed., Nov. 29 by a John Stossel 20/20 special titled "Cheap In America."

TV Bulletin Board

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., June 5) -- Olbermann back in business, NP Harris gets a twofer

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., March 5) -- <i>The Bible, Vikings</i> give History a night to remember

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Feb. 26) -- Oscars up in national Nielsens

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Feb. 14) -- Cuban and CBS strike a deal

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Jan. 29) -- Renewal palooza

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., Dec. 7) -- ABC/CBS slot midseason premieres

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Nov. 21) -- TCM all in with JC

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Oct. 31) -- NBC's odd treatment of <i>Revolution</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Oct. 25) -- new TV vehicle for old <i>Cheers</i> mates

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Oct. 18) -- <i>Animal Practice</i> axed

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Oct. 16) -- Amy/Tina should add patina to Globes

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Oct. 11) -- <i>Made in Jersey</i> unmade

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Oct. 8) -- ABC annnounces <i>GMA</i> weatherman's engagement to same sex partner

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Oct. 3) -- renewal notices for <i>Revolution, Boardwalk Empire</i>, etc.

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Sept. 13) -- latest Kennedy Center honorees highlight omissions as well

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Sept. 4) -- As expected, it's now <i>Live! with Kelly and Michael</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Aug. 27) -- <i>American Bible Challenge parts Red Sea, gets highest GSN ratings ever

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Aug. 9) -- Keri Russell returning to prime-time; Al Gore anchoring Current TV convention coverage

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., July 30) -- TV critics fete <i>Louie, Homeland, Game of Thrones</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., July 26) -- <i>CBS This Morning</i> makes host change, <I>GMA</i> tops <i>Today</i> in key demo after nearly 17-year drought

TV Bulletin Board (Friday, July 13) -- No mo' J Lo on <i>Idol</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., July 12) -- Tyler done with <i>Idol</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., June 29) -- Guthie gets the <i>Today</i> nod; Sheen gets off to record-setting re-start

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., June 5) -- History network makes history with week's three most-watched programs

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., May 29) -- History's <i>Hatfields & McCoys</i> corrals big crowd

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., May 4) -- Jagger doing <i>SNL</i>, Fox twitting <i>The Voice</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs. March 15) -- the tragic end of <i>Luck</i> and a bouncing of <i>American Idol</i> finalist

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., March 8) -- throw another showy singing competition into the mix with ABC's <i>Duets</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., March 7) -- tale of two Foxies; <i>Terra Nova</i> axed, <i>Justified</i> renewed

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., Feb. 24) -- and The Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life goes to . . .

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Feb. 22) -- <i>Conan</i> goes on, Simon spills a few nuggets

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Jan. 31) -- HBO bets on second season of <i>Luck</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Nov. 17) -- Gervais back as Globes host

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Nov. 3) -- Gaga does Thanksgiving, Banfield moves to CNN

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., Oct. 28) -- RX for Sheen is FX

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., Oct. 14) -- ABC sacks <i>Charlie's Angels</i>; NBC signs Ted Koppel

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Oct. 6) -- catching up on additions/subtractions (updated)

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Sept. 12) -- Starz network's original Spartacus succumbs to cancer; HBO leads "creative arts" Emmy winners

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Sept. 7) -- <i>America's Most Wanted</i> captured on new network

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Sept. 6) -- Eddie Murphy will be latest Oscar host

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Aug. 25) -- J Lo returning to <i>Idol</i>, etc., etc.

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., July 19) -- Emmy nominee Connie Britton segues from Austin-made<i>Friday Night Lights</i> to new FX drama series

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., July 14) -- Shaq's latest career move is to TNT

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., July 13) -- <i>CSI</i> adds a crimesolving Danson

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., May 26) -- MSNBC's Ed Schultz gets suspended while Kevin Costner joins the History family

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., May 24) -- <i>Survivor/Apprentice</i> maestro goes biblical

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., May 23) -- MSNBC makes rare right turn with hiring of Michael Steele

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., May 16) -- Trump renounces presidential run after suckering national media (plus a new weekly version of <i>The Flintstones</i> from the <i>Family Guy</i> dude

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., May 12) -- <i>The Voice</i> and <i>Talent</i> join forces

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., May 10) -- Colin Hanks gets a cool post-<i>Good Guys</i> gig

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., April 27) -- Dallas twanger makes first cut on NBC's <i>The Voice</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., April 18) -- Dreyfus joining HBO as high-level politico in new comedy series

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., April 14) -- ABC rubbing out two soaps, replacing with food/lifestyle hours

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., March 28) -- next Ken Burns film will be on America's 2nd most divisive war

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., March 17) -- NBC renews three of its Thursday night comedies

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., March 8) -- King and late King of Late Night get new gigs

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Feb. 8) -- Olbermann's next port: Current TV

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Jan. 18) -- Reege taking his leave

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Nov. 15) -- NBC's new midseason schedule will make it wall-to-wall comedy on Thursdays

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., Nov. 12) -- catching up on additions, subtractions and other stuff

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Nov. 3) -- Fox slots new <i>Chicago Code</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Oct. 21) -- Conan's 1st week guests are in the books (except for the one you pick)

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., Sept. 30) -- catchup round

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Sept. 14) -- NBC has ratings kill shots with two doses of prime-time football

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., Sept. 8) -- Morgan officially in as King's CNN successor

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., Sept. 7) -- DioGuardi, Westin out, Oprah in -- and going out

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., Aug. 16) -- <i>Are We There Yet?</i> will turn 90 on TBS

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., July 26) -- lots going on at ABC News

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., July 21) -- CBS goes copycatting

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., July 14) -- Hoffman hoping for good <i>Luck</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., July 13) -- cop swap for <i>CSI: NY</i>

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., July 8) -- Walters, White continue to come of age

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., June 23) -- CNN hires scandal-ridden former NY guv as co-host of new prime-time program

TV Bulletin Board (Fri., June 18) -- <i>Hot In Cleveland</i> cooks while Dave picks up steam

TV Bulletin Board (Wed., April 28) -- another TV series for Strokers Dallas

TV Bulletin Board (Tues., April 20) -- Stars align on Comedy Central in preparation for Conan

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., April 8) -- ABC stocks summer shelves with 14 new and returning series

TV Bulletin Board (Mon., April 5) -- NBC renews trio of first-year reality hours

TV Bulletin Board (Thurs., March 25) -- Holey moley, TLC greenlights <i>Sarah Palin's Alaska</i>