PaleyCenter-related stories
Posted Oct 5th 2009 7:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: The Simpsons, Awards, Reality-Free
The Simpsons have been around for so long that one must wonder if there is an award they haven't been given yet. I mean other than that stupid, meaningless paperweight the industry calls
the Emmy.
The Paley Center for Media will pay a special tribute to
The Simpsons at this year's annual fundraising gala. The Center's president Pat Mitchell said they chose to honor the show because of its "tremendous impact on the television sitcom over the last 20 years and continues to influence and redefine the medium."
So I guess now when the nominating committee for the Paley Center has their annual honor candidate hoedown and someone suggests
The Simpsons, the
South Park delegate can yell "
Simpsons did it!"
Posted Nov 13th 2008 5:04PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Cancellations, Pushing Daisies, Reality-Free
I would have used a headline like "
Pushing Daisies is living up to its name," but Joe Adalian of
TV Week sort of beat me to it...
According to Adalian, it looks like everyone's favorite cutsey-poo / maudlin-as-hell detective show,
Pushing Daisies, will be stopping production after it wraps its thirteenth episode this week. But that doesn't mean it's dead. ABC may extend the options on the major players in order to re-launch the show next fall, but that's a costly longshot on their part.
So, combine this scuttlebutt with Bryan Fuller's statement that
he'll go back to Heroes if PD is cancelled, his statement to a Paley Center audience that
he'd continue the storylines in a comic book if the show is gone, and the fact that a double-dose of
Scrubs is likely to take the show's timeslot in late January, and things aren't looking good for the crew at the Pie Hole.
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