screener-related stories
Posted Aug 15th 2009 2:00PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, OpEd, Lost, Reality-Free
How would you promote a new TV show if you were a network executive whose career might be riding on the success of that show? Okay, maybe not your career, but at least a chance to keep your job? Well, at NBC, the brains marketing
Community have turned to Facebook. ABC has a similar, but different, plan in mind for
Modern Family.
ABC's Inner Circle will get exclusive viewing of Modern Family.
The ABC Inner Circle is comprised of 20,000 consumers who have be recruited or volunteered to the online fan base. ABC marketing is counting on those people then spreading the word via Facebook, Twitter and other social networking programs.
Continue reading ABC's sneaks Modern Family to exclusive audience
Posted Aug 29th 2008 10:38AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: Programming, Early Looks, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
I'm a vampire junkie. A huge
Buffy and
Angel fan, I even liked
Moonlight up until those last four episodes. So when I heard that
True Blood was going to be an HBO new series, the first thing I did was start reading Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mystery books that the series is based on.
The books were my guilty pleasure, my trashy beach read. There is a little something for everyone in the books: vampire lore, humor, romance, adventure, mystery. Not deep, but enjoyable.
The premise of
True Blood is that vampires are living among people publicly, since synthetic blood has been marketed to satisfy them nutritionally. Sookie Stackhouse, the lead, is a telepath and falls for Bill Compton, a new vampire in town. There's a murder mystery that will span the first season, at least, and all the adventures that Sookie encounters because of her telepathy and association with the vampires.
Continue reading True Blood -- An early look
Posted Jun 11th 2008 4:41PM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Episode Reviews
Screener Hell is an semi-regular feature in which lead blogger Keith McDuffee tries to fry my brain with the worst TV has to offer. (S02E01/S02E02) Do you have any idea how bad a show you have to be to include several scenes of gratuitous nudity
and still be boring!? I love nudity. The more unnecessary the nudity, the better. My favorite kind of nudity is that mid-'90s Cinemax nudity where the main character, despite her ongoing undercover investigation into the exotic world of high-class prostitution, decides to take a shower for 20 minutes for no good reason at all. I'll watch pretty much any kind of claptrap if it includes
that kind of nudity.
But not this show. Not
Foursome. There is no amount of tanned, taut Californian wannabe-actress flesh that could get me to watch another minute of this show. Please, don't think this is because I'm maturing; the show is
just that bad...
Continue reading Screener Hell: Playboy TV's Foursome - VIDEO
Posted Apr 14th 2008 10:05AM by Jay Black
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Early Looks, Episode Reviews
TV Squad's Fearless Leader,
Keith McDuffee, is in charge of meting out the free screener DVDs he receives from various networks. Sometimes the screeners are awesome -- complete season sets of popular shows or weeks-in-advance pilot episodes of hotly anticipated new series -- and sometimes, well, they are
not awesome.
At some point I made a joke that he seems to send me the worst of our screeners (I keed! I keed!) and Keith's response was to start sending me
every single bad screener offered to TV Squad. I'm talking the kind of programming they're currently showing at Guantanamo Bay.
Well, two can play at this game! I've decided that I'm going to review every horrible show Keith sends me. If I have to be tortured with the likes of
Queen Sized and
The Simple Life Goes to Camp, well then, you guys have to be tortured by reading about it. Sorry, it's only fair. Our first foray into Screener Hell is
Farmer Wants a Wife (Wednesdays 9 PM, starting April 30)...
Continue reading Screener Hell: Farmer Wants a Wife
Posted Jul 27th 2006 11:49AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, FOX, OpEd, Justice, Standoff
Last, but certainly not least, we are giving you a preview of the shows that FOX has planned for the fall season. We've already discussed
ABC,
CBS, and
NBC's new shows. Let's just say that our TiVos are going to be working overtime this fall.
For FOX, we're covering comedies
Happy Hour,
'Til Death, and
The Winner. And the dramas are
Justice,
Standoff,
Vanished, and
The Wedding Album. The network was kind enough to send us the DVD screeners but, since we can't technically "review" them, we're just going to give you a short preview and our initial thoughts.
Continue reading TV Squad previews FOX's new shows
Posted Jun 23rd 2006 10:36AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: NBC, Programming, OpEd, Heroes
The screeners have been pouring into the TV Squad offices for the past month now, and we're all dying to tell you what we think of everything. Are these new shows worth catching? Which ones seem likely to miserably fail? Which ones are not to miss? While we can't technically "review" these screeners, we were never told not to give you a short preview of these shows and what our initial thoughts are. (Side note: Joel and I talk about all of these and more in the
latest APB podcast.)
So, to start things off, we've got a slew of NBC pilots to cover:
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Heroes, Friday Night Lights, Kidnapped, 20 Good Years, 30 Rock and
The Black Donnellys.Continue reading TV Squad previews NBC's new shows
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