FURTHER TO MY post below, I've already gotten a couple of comments and a couple of emails, so I just thought I'd jump in and say I don't really do the comprehensive upfront thing. That's not my bag, really. Below, I commented upon what caught my eye.
If you want to follow more closely the details of the announcements of pickups and shove-outs, there are several wonderful resources I'd like to point you to now. These are the same ones I read.
First, for timeliness and scoopage nobody beats the Queen, Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily. But her reportage is sometimes a bit inside, expecting you to know the basics. If you don't, there are some good places to start.
Shawna Benson at Shouting Into the Wind always cooks up an exemplary writers' take on pickups and cancellations. It's excellent and less press-releasey than some.
In terms of journalistic forays -- I recommend the TV Decoder Blog at the New York Times, Maureen Ryan's The Watcher column is always a good read, (cause she writes from a 'regular American' perspective.) And, of course, there's The Futon Critic, which might just be the best TV related site on the web.
Any question you have about what's canceled, what's new, what's renewed and why will doubtless be answered far better than I could even attempt to do by these fine sites.
Happy surfing!
2 comments:
Hey Denis! Thanks for the mention -- by the way, my last name is Benson, not MacDonald, though, maybe I should make that a stage name. It does seem to roll off the tongue nicely.
:)
Jesus! This is why I can't write and blog.
Or drink and blog.
Or drink and write.
Shawna MacDonald is a Canadian actress. Oh, and I think it's MacDonald.
See, thank God I'm NOT a journalist...they'd be correcting me more than Stephen Glass.
Fixed now.
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