How I Met Your Mother
At CBS' party last night, I talked to "How I Met Your Mother" co-creator Craig Thomas about what CBS president Nina Tassler said about Stella's potential status as The Mother and what else is coming up at the start of season four, and Craig even
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I should start this post with a disclaimer: Diane Ruggiero (pictured above right) and I are friends. Friend-ly? Friends-ish? Not exacty sure what noun to use, but I interviewed her when she had first made the transition from Jersey waitress to TV show creator (of CBS' "That'
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So a couple of days ago we got Zach Braff sporting thick glasses and a beard -- or, as Bill Lawrence said, his "smart Zach" look. Now today we got Simon Baker from "The Mentalist" sporting even thicker specs. Is this a trend I just missed
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Insta-column up over at NJ.com, in which I detail CBS' plans for the character who will follow Gil Grissom on "CSI," Katie Couric affirming her career plans, the status of "Swingtown," something of a big spoiler for "HIMYM" vis-a-vis Sarah Chalke, plus
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Didn't get a chance to do a rundown of yesterday's schedule because I was slammed with Emmy coverage, but after the jump, I'll walk you through today's combined CBS and Showtime jamboree... 9:05-9:35 a.m.: Executive session with Nina Tassler,
Grey's Anatomy
As mentioned below, "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes was just here for a panel with her fellow ABC drama showrunners and, shockingly, we had a question or three about the Katherine Heigl/Emmy situation... So, to recap: Emmy historian Tom O'Neil notices that Heigl,
Lost
You may recall in the days leading up to the "Lost" season premiere, I linked to an interview where Damon Lindelof, referring to the grilling I gave him at last summer's press tour, called me "a pain in my (butt)." Well, we had something
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After the jump, some developments from the "Scrubs" press tour session and the scrum with Bill Lawrence afterward... I don't have time to transcribe anything right now, so bullet points... * Whether or not this will be the final "Scrubs" season, this will definitely be
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ABC's executive press tour session with Steve McPherson opened with a Very Special Guest Star for the first question: Jimmy Kimmel, undercover (sort of), trying to get to the bottom of the Jay Leno situation. Wearing a baseball cap and claiming to be a reporter for the (non-existent)
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Yawn. Even on the West Coast, the All-Star Game made me stay up later than I should have, as did my contemplation of the news that Amy Poehler is in final negotiations to star in "The Office" spin-off. (Though more and more, it sounds less like a spin-off
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Just got back from a very cool visit to the set of "Mad Men," and I got approval from the bosses to post press tour-related columns as soon as they're done, as opposed to waiting until they run in the paper the next day, so go
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Few spare minutes in between the end of the "Damages" panel and the start of "Sons of Anarchy," so I'll give you the FX bullet points so far: * FX president John Landgraf said that, in addition to the final eight episodes of the current