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Winter TCA 2013 Wrap-Up: Renewals, Revelations and Surprise Kisses!

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  Now that the Winter 2013 Television Critic’s Association Press Tour is finally over, it seemed like a good time to recall some of the choice moments over the 14-day star-studded event.  Since it would be nearly impossible to recount all the stand-out moments and all the cool shows upcoming this year, we have selected
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Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Questions with BUNHEADS Star Sutton Foster

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In anticipation of what we’ll thankfully be calling tonight’s summer finale of BUNHEADS, theTVaddict.com thought now might be as good as any to share our brief one-on-one with star Sutton Foster, who we recently had the pleasure of catching up with at this past July’s ABC All-Star Party during the Television Critics Association Press Tour
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State of the Union: Creator Greg Berlanti Opens Up About the Chances of Seeing a Second Season of POLITICAL ANIMALS

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Despite being billed as a ‘limited series event,’ a second term for USA Network’s sizzling summer series POLITICAL ANIMALS remains a distinct possibility. Or at least that was our takeaway from a recent one-on-one with creator Greg Berlanti during this week’s Television Critics Association Press Tour that saw us muster every ounce of journalist integrity
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TCA 2012: An Evening Celebrating the Success of DOWNTON ABBEY

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  DOWNTON ABBEY, which currently filming its 3rd season and just nominated for 16 Emmys (including Best Drama Series, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor), was celebrated at the recent PBS Summer 2012 Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on July 21, 2012.    Attending from
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49 More Reasons Why Being a TV Critic is Nice Work (If You Can Get It)

The next time you see a television critic, journalist or blogger bemoan their lack of life, sleep and contact with the outside world as a result of their so-called ‘job’, please, by all means, feel free to direct them to this post chronicling Sunday night’s CBS/Showtime/The CW All-Star party under the stars outside the beautiful
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TCA 2012 Live Blog: DEXTER

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3:14PM: “I have been looking forward to it, very curious as to how they would write it, yet also terrified about it,” Jennifer Carpenter says in response to an opening salvo from a reporter asking for her gut reaction to Deb finding out about Dexter’s extra-curricular activities at the end of last season. 3:16PM: Sad
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Today’s TV Addict Top 5: CW President Mark Pedowitz Dishes on Ratings, RINGER, THE L.A. COMPLEX & More!

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On what went wrong with RINGER Despite CW President Mark Pedowitz’s assertion that he loved being back in business with Sarah Michelle Gellar, a combination of story complexity and poor performance in both the online digital and social spaces was too much for RINGER to overcome. Said Pedowitz, “Sarah Michelle Gellar and I have had
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TCA 2012 Live Blog: ARROW

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9:07AM: Finding the titular character for The CW’s latest comic book adaptation wasn’t nearly as challenging as one might expect thanks in no small part to a smarter-than-your-average casting director who didn’t only ensure that actor Stephen Amell was the first actor to auditin, but informed the proverbial powers that be that “this guy would
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Jason O’Mara Opens Up About Fox’s Mishandling of TERRA NOVA

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Despite Entertainment President Kevin Reilly’s hope that Fox’s unexpected renewal of FRINGE for a fifth and final season would afford his Network a little forgiveness in terms of its “checkered history with genre television,” there’s still that little issue we have with his handling, make that mishandling, of TERRA NOVA. (Translation: Still bitter!) Which is
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TCA 2012 Live Blog: CBS President Nina Tassler Talks HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, ELEMENTARY, VEGAS & More!

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9:35AM: In deference to her “competition,” President of CBS Entertainment Nina Tassler kicks of her CBS Executive Session Panel by brining out a stuffed monkey complete with HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER ducky tie. Following which Tassler rattles off a number of ones touting CBS’ continued dominance over the competition. Specifically, the fact that CBS
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