http://www.unclebarky.com/index.htmlPress Tourenunclebarky@comcast.netCopyright 2007 Ed Bark2007-07-27T12:37:35-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:17:42 -0500unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-27T12:37:35-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/bd8a2f7ae41a19dad8f51fd57906e890-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/bd8a2f7ae41a19dad8f51fd57906e890-16.html#unique-entry-id-16Presenting an array of closing images from the summer 2007 TV "press tour," where the stars came out and unclebarky.com took their pictures. Teri Hatcher of Desperate Housewives at an ABC party. Photos: Ed Bark... Meet Drew Carey, new host of The Price Is Right.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-26T13:46:44-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/303b5a154e89adfc35ffd353b32d41d3-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/303b5a154e89adfc35ffd353b32d41d3-15.html#unique-entry-id-15 Prison Break stars Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller. Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK SANTA MONICA -- We're at an amusement park on the Santa Monica pier. ...Michael's brother, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), now is on the outside looking in. That's a role reversal from Season 1, when Michael willfully became a prison inmate in order to engineer the escape of his incarcerated but otherwise protective older sibling. ...24's producers and writers begin each season with a basic road map, but "it's just that every year we've never stayed on the map," Sutherland says.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-25T15:16:24-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/b4ff89614afc111bd1fc7d4e71be6155-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/b4ff89614afc111bd1fc7d4e71be6155-14.html#unique-entry-id-14 Dallas native Angie Harmon stars in ABC's Women's Murder Club ***Juggling family and career can still be a "terrifying sort of realm," Dallasite Angie Harmon said Wednesday. "But I'm praying about it every day, and I'm confident that it's going to work out," said Harmon, starring in ABC's new Women's Murder Club this fall.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-24T16:43:02-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/200997b60821a51caf77c3fd463cb59a-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/200997b60821a51caf77c3fd463cb59a-13.html#unique-entry-id-13 Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- Score one for Fox entertainment chairman Peter Liguori. ...Not all of the station's news staffers signed on, but Anchorwoman has prominent roles for Stormy (who probably had little choice), news director Dan Delgado, and anchor-reporters Annalisa Petralia and Michele Reese. ... Fox's Liguori said that Jones' ambition to be a real-life news anchor is "at the core of where the storytelling is coming from.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-23T00:39:56-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/475086acc6a5d3b46c3e6516ce7cc6f1-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/475086acc6a5d3b46c3e6516ce7cc6f1-12.html#unique-entry-id-12 Dynamic duo: Peter Liguori, Kevin Reilly rejoin at Fox. Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- Having landed firmly on his feet in nearly no time, Kevin Reilly resists stepping on the neck of the network that "left my head spinning." ... Kelsey Grammer, star of Fox's new Back to You sitcom, talks with a staffer after posing with the show's mock WURG-TV news van. Liguori and Reilly were followed to the stage Sunday by Kelsey Grammer, Patricia Heaton and the fellow stars and producers of Fox's high-powered new Back to You comedy series. ...Lately, a majority of new comedies have been "non-traditional" single-camera half-hours such as NBC's acclaimed but ratings-deprived quartet of The Office, My Name is Earl, Scrubs and 30 Rock.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-22T17:07:55-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/9e99cc88f0ef0b0818e4ac8235266047-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/9e99cc88f0ef0b0818e4ac8235266047-11.html#unique-entry-id-11 Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- Bottom line, he showed up, jetting in from Paris no less. ... Lorraine Bracco with kingpin Hollywood producer Brad Grey. Earlier in the evening, Alec Baldwin quickly cut to a Chase story after accepting the "Individual Achievement in Comedy" award for his portrayal of unctuous Jack Donaghy on NBC's 30 Rock. ... Edie Falco had the role of her lifetime as Carmela Soprano. NBC's Friday Night Lights won the "Outstanding New Program" award after largely being snubbed in the Emmy nominations two days earlier.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-21T17:23:43-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/cd99c0cccd1c53a9d9cf71d32b2f5643-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/cd99c0cccd1c53a9d9cf71d32b2f5643-10.html#unique-entry-id-10 CBS gave TV critics T-shirts touting the Jericho nuts. Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- This is what people get excited about these days. ... Jericho co-star Lennie James, who plays myterious Robert Hawkins. Production on the seven episodes is scheduled to begin on Monday (July 23) and run through September. ... Presenting Adhir Kalyan, star of The CW's new Aliens in America. Actor Adhir Kalyan, a fifth generation South African, stars as a transplanted teenage Muslim from Pakistan in the new CW comedy series Aliens In America.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-20T18:13:35-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/fb71efad3a8979ae80e4151533e2668b-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/fb71efad3a8979ae80e4151533e2668b-9.html#unique-entry-id-9 This is where host Julie Chen greets weekly evictees. Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK LOS ANGELES -- Wearing dark clothing and speaking only in whispers, a small group of TV critics is feeling pretty damned cool about winding through Stage 18's dimly lit eerie canal. ... Executive producer Allison Grodner has a glop of "Big Brother slop." A crew of 250 works night and day on Big Brother, which began its eighth season on July 5th and airs in one-hour gulps on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. ... Big Brother host Julie Chen and husband, CBS prexy Leslie Moonves. Beer and wine also are served, but no longer in abundance, Grodner says.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-18T15:07:47-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/52301754a41ce9ef58b0e53e78c95a65-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/52301754a41ce9ef58b0e53e78c95a65-8.html#unique-entry-id-8 Keith Olbermann throws a few more logs on his continuing firefight with Bill O'Reilly after earlier striking a match. Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- Last summer he brought a Bill O'Reilly cardboard mask with him to the annual Television Critics Association "press tour." ...After the formal interview session, Olbermann received thanks from a Denver television critic who was tracked down by one of the Factor's staffers after she wrote something critical of O'Reilly and then declined to appear on his show. ... Singing Bee host Joey Fatone strikes a pose with the hit show's dancing "Honeybees" during NBC's "All-Star Party" Tuesday evening. ***Half a year ago Joey Fatone might have had trouble getting a prime booth at Denny's.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-18T08:24:25-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/2126f163f0d78307b8f6b1b68c56ddc9-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/2126f163f0d78307b8f6b1b68c56ddc9-7.html#unique-entry-id-7 Friday Night luminaries Jesse Plemon, Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton make the scene at NBC's "All-Star Party." Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- It's tough being Friday Night Lights. ...Filmed in Austin and set in the fictional rural Texas town of Dillon, Lights kept being held for little gain in the Nielsen ratings during a first season that otherwise won it a George Foster Peabody Award and mostly uniform raves from TV critics. ... Minka Kelly plays "conflicted cheerleader" Lyla Garrity in Lights. Last season ended with coach Eric Taylor's (Kyle Chandler) Dillon Panthers winning the state championship before he took a college coaching job in Austin.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-16T22:52:16-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/bf75be3cde65b3a5e012dec791d03589-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/bf75be3cde65b3a5e012dec791d03589-6.html#unique-entry-id-6 View from the top -- but NBC's still on the bottom. Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK The new guy can't be accused of letting the job sink in first. ... Man in a big hurry: new NBC entertainment co-chair Ben Silverman. All told, Silverman likely made more major programming announcements than competitors Fox, ABC and CBS are likely to make in total during their turns at the annual summer TV "press tour." ... Brian Williams studies the competition hard -- and freely admits it. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, who dropped in at his network's cocktail reception Monday night, is a true student of the high-stakes game he plays.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-16T15:11:24-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/7ee30f0c9f3839a260d60ae366f49cd0-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/7ee30f0c9f3839a260d60ae366f49cd0-5.html#unique-entry-id-5 Surrounded by reporters, Star Jones keeps talking. Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- Cynically, it's damage control; charitably, it's a do-over. ...Onstage at the Beverly Hills Friar's Club, actor Jeff Goldblum and a group of fellow jazzmen play the theme to vintage TV series 77 Sunset Strip during a party for AMC's new 1960-set series Mad Men. ***Matthew Weiner, co-executive producer of The Sopranos, is riding a new wave of favorable buzz for AMC's Mad Men, which premieres Thursday (July 19). ...And I looked at these guys, at this world, these men who were overpaid and drank too much and smoked too much and were glib and cynical and bit the hand that fed them all the time and showed up late and had no respect for authority.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-15T14:06:16-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/c873b086dc7b5e3284510956c84f6f66-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/c873b086dc7b5e3284510956c84f6f66-4.html#unique-entry-id-4 David Duchovny plans to do another X-Files movie. Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- It's been almost 10 years since the first and so far only X-Files feature film. ..."It's going to open the same weekend as the Sex and the City movie," jabbed Californication co-star Evan Handler, who declined to say whether he'll reprise his character of Harry Goldenblatt from the HBO series version. ...And lotsa pizza. ***HBO's very sexually explicit new Tell Me You Love Me series had tongues wagging during cable's four-day portion of the ongoing summer TV "press tour."]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-14T20:32:02-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/fcfbd97ebdca600d7750d3926cf1d88a-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/fcfbd97ebdca600d7750d3926cf1d88a-3.html#unique-entry-id-3 Dallas Cowboys Ch'leaders give their all for TV critics. Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- They danced, they pranced, and also wore short pants. ... Former Dallas Cowboy "Rocket" Raghib Ismail (second from left) lately has been riding bulls and falling very hard from them. ***"Rocket" Raghib Ismail was known for being close-mouthed to reporters during his days as a Dallas Cowboy. ..."The thrill was more like an intense feeling in your gut," he said of his participation in Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull-Riding Challenge, a six-episode series premiering Aug 10th on CMT.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-13T10:27:54-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/ea7b0245bcf317d5c146a1c02b8e9dfd-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/ea7b0245bcf317d5c146a1c02b8e9dfd-2.html#unique-entry-id-2 Former Sopranos star James Gandolfini spots another friendly face while talking to disabled Iraq war veteran Bryan Anderson during HBO's outdoor party at The W Hotel. Photos: Ed Bark By ED BARK Privately he's a very generous man. ..."We will revisit this with David after he's had a bit of a rest and after we know what the future of John is for him," said Lombardo, who noted that none of Deadwood's actors are under contractual hold anymore. ... Noted curmudgeon Larry David enjoys a beverage at the HBO party. ***HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm will return for at least one more 10-episode season -- its sixth -- on Sept. 9th.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-11T19:48:51-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/7d321a2bf398664fe2590a13050fec6d-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/7d321a2bf398664fe2590a13050fec6d-1.html#unique-entry-id-1 Ken Burns beams after selling critics on The War. Photo: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- He's apparently dodged a bullet. ...Brokaw's books weren't the impetus for The War, said Burns, who began working on it six-and-a-half years ago. ... Sunning on the balcony: Jane Austen's "Action Figure." Photo: Ed Bark PBS's Masterpiece Theatre won't be messing around when it comes to Jane Austen.]]>unclebarky@comcast.netTV Press Tour, July '072007-07-10T23:43:47-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/353559ee0de32d118ee00a398c549d50-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.unclebarky.com/julytour/files/353559ee0de32d118ee00a398c549d50-0.html#unique-entry-id-0 Photo: Ed Bark By ED BARK BEVERLY HILLS -- Dick Cavett still has a way with words, but the so-called "intellectual's alternative" to Johnny Carson doesn't always set the bar as high anymore. ...But Orlando keeps promising a "good ending" to the story, which winds through fellow guest star Nancy Walker's heroism (she smacked Gleason during a production number), more toadying from the Parliament guy and the host's fears that he'd never work again in television. ...Cavett asks before launching into a story about how Carson once told famed party-giver Irving "Swifty" Lazar that "Dick's the only one who could beat me -- if he were on a real network."]]>