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Odds and Ends for $500: ESPN’s Bill Simmons on the Reasons That L.A. Doesn’t Have an NFL Football Team (One of the Reasons is About TV)

ESPN brought in a bunch of filmmakers and others to the summer press tour of the Television Critic’s Association last week to discuss a project wherein the network is making 30 films about 30 different topics marking the last 30 years…

Odds and Ends for $400: Lorenzo, A.J., and Shayne Lamas Let It All Hang Out

The family Lamas are the latest celebrity clan to have a reality show on TV, "The Lamas Life" upcoming on E! Entertainment Television. The family, along with famed reality show producer Mike Fleiss answered questions in front of the TV Critic’s Association summer press…

Odds and End for $300: On New TV Show Whoopi Goldberg Says Birds Do It, Bees Do It, and Termites Do It Too

About the closet any of us has ever gotten connecting Whoopi Goldberg to science was her role as Guinan on the old "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Indded, when Goldberg made an appearance last week before the summer press tour…

Odds and Ends for $200: You do What!!?? His Mom Said With A ‘Poker’ Face

G4 will be airing a new show later this month titled "2 Months, $2 Million." It will follow the exploits of four young men —professional poker players all— who put up their own money and try and make $2 million over…

Odds and Ends for $100: Michael Eisner on the Creative Process

Michael Eisner, the former Disney CEO, has come up with a new show for Nick at Nite called Glenn Martin DDS, which is done in stop-motion animation. Here’s Eisner talking during the cable TV portion of the Television Critic’s Association’s summer…

Syndication Upfront Moving, CPMs for Upper Tier Programming Down a Percent or Two

As the long, long, summer sloughs along, there’s finally some upfront movement for syndicators, Mediaweek reports. Syndicators with high demand programming are writing business with cost-per-thousands (CPMs) down 1% to 2%, Mediaweek says. The selling of ad time in programming with not such…

Marie Osmond Will Not Come Back in Syndication this Fall: Victim of Poor Ad Market

Despite being originally cleared by TV stations reaching 80% of the country, Program Partners says the weak ad market prevents its new hour-long talk show with Marie Osmond from launching this fall, Variety reports. One of the problems is that stations…