TCA Summer Press Tour

The series, described as a “classic, extended-family sitcom” with Bill Cosby as the patriarch, is currently in the writing stage, NBC executives said at Sunday’s session of the summer TV critics’ tour. It was first announced in January.

 NBC won the 2013-14 TV season among key 18-49 viewers — and apparently the most recent upfront advertising market as well. Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, told the TCA that NBC led all networks in key gains in upfront dollar volume and pricing.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The upcoming Lindsay Lohan series on OWN will be more documentary than reality show. OWN and Harpo Studios Presidents Erik Logan and Sheri Salata told journalists […]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Aaron Sorkin is confronting critics of his HBO drama head on. The Oscar-winning writer-producer defended “The Newsroom” during a Wednesday gathering of the Television Critics […]

Hulu presented its new originals and foreign acquisitions to TV critics Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif. The service is hoping one — or a few — of the shows it presented becomes the kind watercooler hit that drives subscription growth.

Creatively and financially, CBS believes it has had a strong 2011-2012 season. In speaking at the Television Critics Association meeting here, Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment, says the network was No. 1 in total viewers, Emmy awards and upfront advertising revenue.

With his FX sitcom Anger Management half-way through its initial 10-episode run, Charlie Sheen say it’s poised to get an order for 90 more. Sheen told reporters Saturday that the prospect of continuing is as “exciting as hell,” and added cheerily, “I don’t think 90’s gonna be enough.”

The live Saturday Night Live specials, which follow an election-cycle tradition for the satire series, will air Sept. 20 and 27.

NBC says it wants its existing series to draw new viewers and its upcoming dramas and comedies to have “tons of heart.”

The network has picked up 10 episodes of the drama with the former Tudors star to play the famed vampire.

At the TCA this morning, the network says it will give viewers an early look at Ben and Kate and The Mindy Project between Aug. 27 and Sept. 9 on Facebook, Yahoo!, Hulu, AOL, MSN, Fox.com, Xfinity and other outlets.

Recognizable brand names like Pan Am and Charlie’s Angels return, as does the new sitcom Last Man Standing, starring Tim Allen. All hope to propel ABC out of its past season third-place post.New nostalgia-themed broadcast TV will appear more on ABC than any other network this fall. And after next season, ABC fans — especially fans of Desperate Housewives — will be feeling more reminiscent.

In his TCA debut today, new CW President Mark Pedowitz gave a glimpse at his strategy for the broadcast network. To sum it up, more original programming to bridge the ghastly midseason (and summer) hole on the network’s schedule when it goes into a dormant state with low-rated repeats of its serialized dramas.

David Poltrack, chief research officer of CBS Corp. and president of CBS Vision, announced at the Television Critics Association meeting that the network has developed a special new survey co-produced with The Nielsen Company that reveals more complex and valuable audience segments and their ratings performances.

CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler says the new Two and a Half Men star Ashton Kutcher will play an Internet billionaire, while Ted Danson should kick-start more appeal for CSI.

The Peacock’s entertainment chief has signed overall deals with a slew of A-list  comedy writers and producers including Greg Daniels, Gary Sanchez and Sean Hayes.