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...alderman in Liechtenstein. But it's fun for us over here. And if all the predictions I list below prove to be false when you read our next blog Saturday, you should get a giggle too. The award show, which can often be endearing in its gaucherie, is broadcast across Europe, and in the U.S. on the Independent Film Channel, beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern...
Today marks the start of the ?upfronts,? the annual New York City ritual in which the major broadcast networks announce their schedules for next fall. Like all things televisual, the upfronts are a little bit about art and a lot about money. More important, they're a heartfelt reminder of the really important folks that all the actors, writers, producers and executives of that crazy Hollowood dream factory actually live to serve...
...various other code words for the ability to connect businesses with your wallet. We will hear slightly desperate rhetoric about the reach and continuing relevance of network TV. For a brief, blissful week - at least in the words of the marketing executives - it will be 1973 again, when the broadcast networks delivered vast hordes of obedient consumers to advertisers, and cable was just something you found coiled up on the deck of a boat...
...reporters that NBC had spent the past year "spinning" them that there were no problems with Joey. But now, he assured us, he believed honestly and candidly that the show "wasn't broken." (In a "Weekend Update" skit at Radio City, Tina Fey was not so kind. The HDTV broadcast of Joey, she said, was so clear, "you could actually see Matt LeBlanc's panic.") The new schedule NBC was announcing would go a long way toward turning around the network's fortunes. But, then again, they might change it within weeks...
...surprise, NBC is keeping The Office, the mockumentary workplace sitcom that got low ratings but was the best new sitcom on any broadcast network last fall. Also returning will be critics' darling Scrubs -but not until later in the season, after star Zach Braff shoots a movie. Fear Factor, that offal-laden young-man magnet, is off the fall schedule, but will come back -presumably after one of those surefire hit shows is canceled. Next year is the last for Will & Grace, and The West Wing will probably be term-limited out at the end of next season...