TCA 2007 Summer Tour: NBC Day 2; Watching TV Online Is Big

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

TCA 2007 Summer Tour: NBC Day 2; Watching TV Online Is Big

The second day usually has no real news from a broadcast TCA tour. The first day is where are all the real news happens. So, the sessions are the draw on the second day. Yesterday the sessions were: Executive Session, Life, Thursday Sitcoms (My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, The Office, Scrubs), and Saturday Night Live. Cast and crew answered questions from the TV critics. Today we saw the cast and crew of All Law & Order Series, Bionic Woman, Chuck, The Singing Bee, Journeyman and Friday Night Lights.
The only bit of news that came was Linus Roache (Kidnapped, Batman Begins) will join the regular cast of NBCs Emmy Award-winning Law & Order, returning Sundays, 8-9 p.m. ET at mid-season) to portray an executive assistant district attorney the former office held by Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) after McCoy was elevated to district attorney for next season.

According to B&C, more consumers are accessing television and movies online. An estimated 81 million of the 129 million people who access the Internet via a broadband connection watched TV or movies online, according to a new study from Nielsen.
The data was collected via Nielsen’s NetViews and NetRatings services during the month of March. The findings represent a 16 % jump in broadband consumption in six months (from 70 million people in Sept. 2006).
ABC.com was the top site across all broadband viewer visits to television network Web sites, while Yahoo! Movies was the leader in the movies category.

Sitcoms Airing Tonight / Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows

Wednesday, October 28

Scrubs - "My Halloween" (ABC, 8:00PM ET/PT)
J.D. helps a former colleague with a difficult patient; Elliot seeks support for her new clinic; Turk faces his family's growing pains.

Abbott Elementary - "Halloween Party" (ABC, 8:30PM ET/PT)
Ava hosts an exclusive Halloween party; Janine and Jacob get suspicious of Gregory.

Complete TV Listings

Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of October 26)

Wednesday, October 28

Emma Roberts (Scream Queens/Unfabulous) - Watch Emma on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
Jamie Lee Curtis (Newlyweds/The Sticky/Anything But Love/Operation Petticoat) - Jamie Lee appears on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC. She also appears on NBC's Today sometime between 7-9am and chats with the ladies of The View on ABC at 11am ET/10am CT-PT.
Sharon Horgan (Youth/Bad Sisters/HouseBroken/Catastrophe) - Sharon is a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers at 12:36am on NBC.
Sophia Bush (Partners) - Sophia talks about And I Will Tell You Mine: Notes from a Life in Progress on NBC's Today in the 9am hour.
Valerie Bertinelli (Hot in Cleveland/Cafe Americain/Sydney/One Day at a Time) - It's Drew's fast and frugal hour and Sunny Anderson, Valerie and Danielle Kance are joining her for some frugal news headlines on The Drew Barrymore Show, so check your local listings.
Busy Philipps (Girls5eva/Vice Principals/Cougar Town/Love, Inc.) - Busy talks about Cupertino on ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis at 7pm.
Jason Priestley (Call Me Fitz/Sister Kate) - Jason talks about Private Eyes West Coast on ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis at 7pm.