From Affleck to Vaughn and Eastwood to Foxx and Kimmel, It’s a Man’s World at The Guys Choice Awards
Walking into a rain forest-themed soundstage at Sony Pictures Studios for the taping of the 2013 Spike TV Guys Choice Awards, several things were immediately apparent. The level of testosterone in the room was off the charts– and when you threw in a dancing bow-tied giraffe, a bevy of leopard print dress-clad beauties and a sizable contingent of American service people in uniform into the mix, you just knew this was not...
The Sopranos, Seinfeld, Mad Men, MASH Top TV’s Best Written Series List
When you have Norman Lear and Carl Reiner in the house – two of television’s most brilliant, legendary creators who go back to the original golden age of the medium – it’s assuredly going to be a night to remember. Hearing from those two giants was the shot across the bow as the Writers Guild of America revealed its 101 Best Written TV Series in a two-hour event at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills on June 2, sponsored by...
Presentations, Programming, Parties and Perks–That’s TV Upfronts
It is the rare person who isn’t stricken with a hangover after attending the annual series of presentations and parties that comprise the main week of television upfronts. If the hangover isn’t from adult beverages, then it is due to all the hype the networks dispense about their upcoming programming, around which they sell billions of dollars of upfront advertising. We look here on the presentations and...
The TV Academy Honors Television’s Most Enlightening and Inspirational Programs
Some called the recent White House Correspondents’ Dinner a “nerd prom,’ and that term also came to mind–in a completely endearing way– at the 6th Annual Television Academy Honors, held May 9 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Known for presenting the Emmy Awards, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences decided in 2008 to move forward with a different sort of accolade that honors programs that inform, illuminate,...
Julia vs. Joe, or Veep Versus VP–It’s the Funny Factor That Wins This Race
If you appreciate the humorous aspects – accidental and intentional – of VP Joe Biden and the Emmy award-winning comedic style of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, you most definitely will love the second season of “Veep,” which is truly hitting its stride in the humor department. (So much so, HBO just renewed it for a third season.) Take her in front of a roasting pig on a spit at a community barbecue, while discussing the...
Follow The Atkin Report
