"We wanted to be daring, " entertainment chief Nina Tassler told reporters assembled for a Television Critics Association press conference on Wednesday.
When NBC's newly appointed entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman appeared at the Television Critics Association's bi-annual confab Monday, he disappointed everyone there.
But when he greets the TV press at the Television Critics Association semi-annual tour Thursday afternoon, he does one better and admits as much.
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And so it begins: the Television Critics Association's press tour, a biannual confab where the purveyors of television showcase their upcoming wares in return for ink.
But she told the Television Critics Association that the network was keeping an eye on the situation and consulting with stations and viewers on the issue.
"We really saw a level of audience involvement and investment in the show, " explained Entertainment Chief Nina Tassler during a Television Critics Association press conference this week.
On stage in Los Angeles, fielding questions from reporters during the Television Critics Association's summer press tour, Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly appears utterly calm and collected.
"We really saw a level of audience involvement and investment in the show, " explained CBS Entertainment Chief Nina Tassler during a Television Critics Association press conference in July.
Friday Night Lights Executive Producer Jason Katims took a minute at Tuesday's Television Critics Association press conference to thank the people he felt were most responsible for his program's survival.
In addition to an ability to fire off one-liners, the panel of show-runners seated before reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour share something else in common: success.
"I promise this is the last time that I'm going to be talking about our first season, " Ostroff told a roomful of reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour.
"What interested us was the politician's wife's trajectory, because it seemed less certain and much more interesting, " says Robert King at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual confab in Pasadena, Calif.
The best show in prime time this season isn't fiction--and it premieres Monday when the networks convene at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the Television Critics Association's bi-annual press tour.
"We provide viewers with the tools they need to make up their minds, " he told journalists assembled for a CNN session during the Television Critics Association's press tour in Los Angeles.
In August, NBC's prime-time entertainment chief, Angela Bromstad, spoke relatively candidly at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual confab about the necessary creative adjustments the show would need in its second season.
That's why it's no surprise that the first question at a Television Critics Association press tour panel in Los Angeles was about the rumors of her impending departure from the third-place newscast.
On stage before the Television Critics Association Saturday, the FX chief articulated what has become a growing challenge for him and other network executives: the explosion of original programming across the thousand-channel TV universe.
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"We believe in our network and we fundamentally believe in our business, " says CBS Entertainment Chief Nina Tassler to a roomful of TV reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual confab in Pasadena, Calif.
During a coffee break at the Television Critics Association tour earlier this month, Levitan told reporters that he has requested his network bosses pull the various online versions of his hit show off the Web.
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"We're in a transition with our comedy programming and trying to broaden the audience and broaden what network does, " NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt told critics at the Television Critics Association's press tour in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.
Trotted out in the same way Tom Hanks, Laura Linney and Yoko Ono were earlier in the two-week-long gathering of the Television Critics Association, Shore newcomer Deena Nicole Cortese along with Snooki and The Situation settled in to field questions.
But there Wolf was, onstage for another year at the Television Critics Association press tour, welcoming new cast members Jeremy Sisto, Alicia Witt and Adam Beach, as well as his new boss, network entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman, with open arms.
But rather than stay mum about the increasingly worrisome behavior of its highest paid star as the company has done in the past, CBS Entertainment Chief Nina Tassler used her time before the Television Critics Association Friday to address her concern.
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Though much could change down the line, Sykes told a gaggle of reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual TV confab on Wednesday that she has neither the time nor the interest in expanding her weekly series to a daily one right now.
"It's a wonderful thing for TV viewers, but it's a very challenging thing for people who do what I do for a living, " said FX Network President John Landgraf to a gathering of television reporters at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour in Los Angeles.
The news of his planned departure came during a late0morning set visit for journalists gathered in Los Angeles for the semi-annual Television Critics Association press tour, mere hours before his boss, ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson, announced he too would be leaving his current gig.
Looking relaxed in his loose-fitting blue jeans, the man who was dumped by General Electric 's NBC in late May faced the press at The Television Critics Association tour Sunday, exhibiting a calm that comes with running the first-place network after a few years driving the fourth.
To appease the crowd of headline-hungry journalists at the Television Critics Association semi-annual TV confab and the 26 million viewers who regularly watch Abdul's top-rated series American Idol, the two men and their team have spent the 36 hours since the famously loopy host announced her departure via Twitter seeking alternatives.
Looking relaxed in his loose-fitting blue jeans, the man who was dumped by General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC in late May faced the press at The Television Critics Association tour Sunday, exhibiting a calm that comes with running the first-place network after a few years driving the fourth.
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