ABC Announces Fall Premiere Dates

This morning at the Television Critics Assn.’s press tour ABC unveiled the premiere dates for its fall schedule:
Friday, Sept. 19
10-11 p.m. “20/20″
Monday, Sept. 22
8-10 p.m. “Dancing With the Stars” (special two-hour performance show premiere)
10-11 p.m. “Boston Legal”
Tuesday, Sept. 23
8-9 p.m. “Opportunity Knocks” (new series debut)
9-11 p.m. “Dancing With the Stars” (special performance show)
Wednesday, Sept. 24
8-9 [...]

Picking Up the Pieces: What’s Left of the TV Season?

Assuming the outcome of today’s WGA vote is positive, we’re only hours away from an end to the strike. So, in the immortal words of President Josiah Bartlet, “What’s next?”
A number of showrunners have already gone back work, making plans for the remainder of the season and scrambling to figure out how many episodes they [...]

2007 PGA Television Nominees

The Producers Guild of America unveiled its television production award nominations on Tuesday. The winners will be announced on Saturday, Feb. 2, at–you guessed it–the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
A complete list of television nominees is behind the cut…

2007 SAG Television Nominees

Ugly Betty, The Sopranos and 30 Rock lead the Screen Actors Guild Awards in the television categories with three nominations each. The winners will be announced on Jan. 27 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles at a ceremony broadcast by TNT and TBS
Unlike the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, SAG has already [...]

LOST Returning January 31

I have this widget for my MacBook that lets me know when the next episodes of all my favorites shows are airing. It used to make me happy, but this morning I disabled it because it had become a depressing reminder that we don’t have much television left to look forward to. There are a [...]

2007 Golden Globes Television Nominees

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominations for the 65th annual Golden Globes this morning and the biggest surprise among the television nominees was the head-scratching exclusion of The Office from the comedy series category.
The awards will be presented Jan. 13 and televised on NBC, although the ongoing writers strike could impact the telecast. [...]

Fire Up the Infinite Improbability Drive

I’m not sure how I feel about Seth Green’s neck exploding. (If you haven’t been keeping up with Grey’s Anatomy, I can hardly blame you, but just to catch you up: Seth Green’s neck exploded at the end of the last episode. Tune in tonight to see if that kills him. I’m going with [...]

Squee! It’s…

Squee! It’s Whedonalia everywhere! In addition to the news of Joss Whedon’s return to network TV with the Dollhouse project, he directed the “Branch Wars” episode of The Office airing tonight (if there’s anything as wacky as Meredith stuck in a garbage bag with a bat, I shall be a very happy girl indeed). In [...]