So What The Hell is Press Tour, Anyway?
That's where all us freeloading reporters who cover the TV biz get drunk off top-shelf alcohol supplied by the networks while listening to execs explain how they're "really excited" about their fall development, yes?
Well, yes.
But truthfully, there is a lot more to it. New Jersey Star-Ledger TV columnist Alan Sepinwall is keeping a "Hollywood blog" of what goes on behind the scenes at the Television Critics Assn. press tour this week. It's a good primer, and helps explain why even top biz publications send their reporters to cover the event.
As Alan notes, The presence of the network suits is one of the unique parts of press tour. Not many other businesses force their chief executives to regularly stand in front of a room full of hostile reporters and explain their every blunder; at press tour, it’s a ritual.
These days, it's also a chance for grumpy critics to vent their frustration at the amount of reality TV on the air. And, of course, a chance to see Vanilla Ice go beserk (see below).
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