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July 12, 2007
Blogging TCA: Be Careful What You Ask For
Seth Arenstein, at the TV Critics Association Summer press tour, finds HBO's sexy new series the cable buzz of the show
THE CRITICS WILL SEE YOU NOW: HBO's upcoming series Tell Me You Love Me was the talk of TCA.
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It's always difficult for cable nets to snag a slot during cable's ultra-jammed TCA tours. It’s especially tough for the smaller, lesser-known nets. (Just think, nets jostle for the privilege of being hammered by the sometimes—OK, much of the time—cantankerous group of television critics.)
The 4-day summer cable tour, which begins today in Beverly Hills, will be slightly different, though. Prior to the tour, TCA members were surveyed as to which cable networks and shows they want to be pitched, previewed and otherwise wooed. Shows that didn't receive enough votes were thrown off the island. The survivors will face the enemy later today. Should make for some interesting sessions, no?
So far the rumor mill revolves around where GSN's Rich Cronin, a favorite of the critics, will land when he steps down from the network at the end of this month.
The other buzz this morning: HBO's upcoming (Sept. 9) series Tell Me You Love Me, a controversial scripted series that explores the warts-and-all relationships of three couples in marriage counselling. The pilot shows the couples fornicating in a more explicit way than any other HBO series, although the explicitness seemed tasteful to this blogger. But was the sex necessary to advance the plotline? It didn't seem so. (Click here for a sneak peek).
Series creator Cynthia Mort, the first female show-runner in HBO history, defends the series' frankness in today's New York Times: "These are people's lives and they have a lot of sex or don't have sex. I don't want a show where in the middle of this emotional real moment you have some stupid cutaway to a lamp. That won't work."
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