By Luaine Lee McClatchy-Tribune News Service. PASADENA, Calif. How do the wizards of television keep audiences coming back for more? With so much competition it requires a mysterious alchemy to spin straw into television gold. And it’s an...
By Chris Jones Chicago Tribune. CHICAGO Chelsea Handler wants, in essence, to become the “House of Cards” of late-night television. “There is no real appointment viewing anymore,” the comedian said in an interview with the...
By Luaine Lee McClatchy-Tribune News Service. Actress Kellie Martin was celebrating the best role she’d ever had. Even though she’d starred on shows like “Christy” and “Life Goes On,” she was costarring on...
By David J. Criblez Newsday. NEW YORK Comedian Chelsea Handler tells it like it is. Sometimes her bluntness raises eyebrows, but she prides herself on being direct. Her brutal honesty is what has made this Jersey girl the alpha female she is today,...
By Nina Metz Chicago Tribune. CHICAGO Though set within the same frigid landscape as the 1996 Coen Brothers movie, the new FX series “Fargo” is not so much an adaptation as it is a close cousin. Three episodes in, it has revealed itself...
By John Katsilometes Las Vegas Sun. The greatest risk of appearing on a reality TV show, it seems, is confronted at the start: Are you trusting enough to turn over your image to a cartel of directors and producers who want to stage a series based on...
By Meredith Blake Los Angeles Times. NEW YORK All 11 current and former co-hosts will be reunited on “The View” on May 15, the day before Barbara Walters retires after more than five decades in broadcast journalism, ABC announced...
