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The Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, an annual marketing ritual held at LA’s Beverly Hilton, has become the latest industry event to be canceled by the coronavirus. In a memo sent Friday to its members, the TCA said it is “working with the networks to explore virtual alternatives both within the…

For a third consecutive year, FX reigned as top winner at Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards feting programming and performances in the 2017-2018 TV season. Three of FX’s four awards went to Cold War thriller The Americans, including Program Of The Year, Best Drama, and a Drama Series Individual Achievement…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. When documentarian Ken Burns speaks, everything sounds like poetry. At today's TCA panel on his latest PBS documentary The Dust Bowl, Burns didn't say that some of the survivors of the devastating 1930s dust storms that were interviewed for the documentary have…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. It came as no surprise that panelists at the TCA presentation to discuss PBS' 2012 election coverage were asked whether the Colorado movie theater shooting would affect the debate in the upcoming presidential campaign and election. Panelists included Gwen Ifill of W…

The TCA panel session on Downton Abbey is ongoing, but a Season 3 trailer just screened for journalists contains some shockers:  While who knows how it will all unfold, the Right Honourable Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham (Emmy nominee Hugh Bonneville) is seen tearfully confessing to wife Cora (Elizabeth McGovern)…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. PBS president/CEO Patricia Kerger touted PBS’ commitment to children's programming at today’s TCA sessions, but was questioned about why more of the network's children's series do not have lead female characters. Kerger said the network is planning a series about…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger fielded questions about Fred Willard during today’s TCA presentation. Willard was dropped from the PBS show Market Warriors after his Wednesday arrest in Hollywood at an adult theater for alleged lewd conduct. Mark Walberg, the…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline's TV coverage. More programming notes to come from PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger's TCA session today. But the executive had blunt words about an issue that threatens the organization as a whole: This week's attack in Congress on federal funding for PBS. On Tuesday, House…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. PBS is announcing today that The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a new seven-part documentary series by Ken Burns, will air in 2014. Burns is slated to appear at TCA later in PBS' 2-day session to discuss his previously-announced documentary The Dust Bowl, airing…

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA. At today's final TCA panel on the ABC single-camera comedy Suburgatory — the story of a bright urban teenager (Jane Levy) whose single Dad (Jeremy Sisto) moves her to the "white-picket-fence nightmare" of the suburbs — show creator and executive producer Emi…

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA. Tim Allen was talking trash and slinging jokes at today's TCA panel on the new sitcom from Jack Burditt (30 Rock) Last Man Standing. The show marks Allen’s return to ABC after his hit show about a manly man, Home Improvement (1991-99). A lot has changed…

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA. Because they are introducing a show about men into the traditionally female-skewing ABC primetime lineup, the producers and performers of Man Up! were called upon to spend much of their time addressing reporters at TCA today about what it means — or…