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It's Official: The Good Guys Are Gone For Good

Courtesy FOX BroadcastingBradley Whitford's days taking a free spin on the Fair Park merry-go-round have come to an end.​Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, just called with disappointing but not entirely surprising news: The Good Guys will not return for a second season. Which mea ... More >>

Mystery Meat: What's Food Network Saying About Dallas Now?

​The rap on Dallas is that it's a meat and potatoes town, a reputation that seems likely to be cemented by a new Food Network show. The Food Network will be in Dallas next month to film Meat and Potatoes, a new show slated for the cable network's fall schedule. A Food Network spokesperson wou ... More >>

For a Moment (Or Two), FOX Considered Shooting Lonestar in Austin. But Then ...

What you see above is the trailer for Lonestar that FOX Broadcasting posted a few days ago. The pilot, as you surely know by now, was filmed here this spring as Midland with (500) Days of Summer's Marc Webb directing. And I was going to post this yesterday. But Wednesday morning I heard from an acqu ... More >>

Dallas, Get Ready for Chaos! (Maybe.)

Freddy Rodrigurez in the Planet Terror half of Grindhouse​Patrick Michels and I are at City Hall for this afternoon's big ol' teevee announcement with the mayor and Pistol Pete. And we'll return shortly with a few choice quotes and, better still, photos. But here's the big announcement, which I tr ... More >>

Why Today's Press Conference Wasn't About What It Was Supposed To Be About

Photos by Patrick MichelsGovernor Rick Perry, Fox TV veep Jim Sharp and state Sen. Royce West at City Hall about an hour ago​So. Patrick and I just returned from the press conference in the Flag Room at City Hall, where quite the bold-faced crowd gathered for Coyote Slim's big announcement with Ma ... More >>

Series Made in Dallas Will Open, Close FOX's Weeknight Prime-Time Schedule This Fall

Fox Broadcasting Co.Jon Voight and James Wolk in Lonestar, which will shoot in Dallas beginning this summer​Like I said Thursday, Dallas will serve as the backdrop for three network TV series come summertime, an announcement made official this morning when FOX revealed its fall prime-time line-up ... More >>

Is Dallas Getting Yet Another TV Series? Called Cutthroat? Made by Fox? Maybe.

Mia Maestro​On Friday, Variety published a piece about how TV networks and production companies are looking outside of Los Angeles when scouting for pilot-season locations. Which, sure, Dallas knows all about, what with Jerry Bruckheimer's The Chase and Midland, with Jon Voight, having wrapped pri ... More >>

Like Air Review Before It, Smile Smile Gets Some Love From Dallas' Own HDNet

Smile Smile, which performs tonight at City Tavern, and its song "Beg You To Stay" get a nice little push from the Marc Cuban-owned, Dallas-based HDNet in the above house ad which is currently airing on the high definition cable station, promoting its in-rotation film catalog. Hardly the first time ... More >>

Channel 11 Needs a New Boss, As the Current One's Been Called to Save CBS's L.A. Outpost

Steve Mauldin​Last I looked, Steve Mauldin's still listed on the KTVT-Channel 11 Web site as president and general manager of that station -- and its KTXA-Channel 21 sibling too. But not according to Variety: Says the Hollywood trade in a just-posted piece, Maudlin's off to Los Angeles to take ove ... More >>

Next Month, You'll Find Out How ABC Managed to Make Dallas Look Like Los Angeles

Patrick MichelsBilly Zane and Timothy Busfield on the set of The Deep End at The Studios at Las Colinas last month​If you're just dying to see how Dallas looked as Los Angeles's stand-in, your wait is over: ABC just sent word that the Fox-produced The Deep End -- known to the Friends of Unfair Par ... More >>

If You See Eric Stratton Around Town in January, Don't Invite Him to Your Toga Party

​Couple of weeks back we broke the news that Fox TV Studios had decided to shoot Jack and Dan -- a new hour-long buddy-cop action-comedy starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks -- in Dallas. Pre-production's well under way, with shooting set to begin in January. Don't know how we missed this Hol ... More >>

Dallas Lands New Fox Series Starring Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford as Cops

Bradley Whitford​Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, breaks the big news: "We have landed the Fox TV Studios production Jack and Dan." Which, for those who don't read The Hollywood Reporter, is the latest series from Burn Notice creator and exec producer Matt Nix. And it's set to s ... More >>

Since We Have "Great Looking Readers," Well, You Can Still Hang Out With Billy Zane

Patrick Michels​The Deep End's extras casting director sure knows how to butter up the Friends of Unfair Park. Tara Di Leva, from 20th Century Fox, sends word that the ABC series, currently shooting at The Studios at Las Colinas and around town (saw signs around Victory Park yesterday), needs extr ... More >>

C'mon, People, Billy Zane Really Needs Your Help. And He's Even Lowered His Standards.

ABC TelevisionThe pay's peanuts, but you could spend all day with Leah Pipes and Billy Zane. Right.​Before they were looking for a "Pretty-Handsome Harvard/Yale Type" to stand next to Billy Zane; now, "fit" will do. Seems Twentieth Century Fox had some trouble finding extras with whom they could f ... More >>

Cable Access's iMedia Goes Dark

​It's not the most surprising press release to ever arrive in the Unfair Park in-box -- especially given the fact that City Manager Mary Suhm's FY2009-2010 budget cut its funding ($246,000 for last fiscal year, about a third of its annual operating budget). But there it is: Dallas iMedia Network, ... More >>

CBS's Big D Pilot Just Got a Little Bigger -- Say Hello to Dr. Spaceman!

Chris Parnell as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's 30 RockA month back we sneaked a peek at the CBS fall line-up and found Big D, a Warner Bros. Television production about "a New York couple who moves to the man's hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast ... More >>

Sure, The Price is Right, But What About These Aspiring Models from Dallas?

Chris Parnell as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's 30 RockA month back we sneaked a peek at the CBS fall line-up and found Big D, a Warner Bros. Television production about "a New York couple who moves to the man's hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast ... More >>

Rangers' Announcer Tom Grieve to Undergo Prostate Surgery

Chris Parnell as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's 30 RockA month back we sneaked a peek at the CBS fall line-up and found Big D, a Warner Bros. Television production about "a New York couple who moves to the man's hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast ... More >>

Belo Corp. Now a Split Personality

Chris Parnell as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's 30 RockA month back we sneaked a peek at the CBS fall line-up and found Big D, a Warner Bros. Television production about "a New York couple who moves to the man's hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast ... More >>

Yoo-Hoo, Belo -- the Wall Street Journal Thinks You're Cute. "Attractive," Even.

Chris Parnell as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's 30 RockA month back we sneaked a peek at the CBS fall line-up and found Big D, a Warner Bros. Television production about "a New York couple who moves to the man's hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast ... More >>

Belo Market Value

Chris Parnell as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's 30 RockA month back we sneaked a peek at the CBS fall line-up and found Big D, a Warner Bros. Television production about "a New York couple who moves to the man's hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast ... More >>

Tom DeLay Wishes The News Dead. Wait...Tom Who?

Chris Parnell as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's 30 RockA month back we sneaked a peek at the CBS fall line-up and found Big D, a Warner Bros. Television production about "a New York couple who moves to the man's hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast ... More >>

Just for Laughs

Burghart brings the funny

Your Cowboys are Giants

Burghart brings the funny

Fake News is a Real Pain

Burghart brings the funny

We Want Our Gay TV

Burghart brings the funny

Mad Commentary

Burghart brings the funny

First-String Divas

Girls in underwear playing football. Nice.

Tin Giant

Let Belo buy every station in the country--makes my job easier

Public Disinterest

So is media consolidation a bad thing?

After M*A*S*H

Larry Gelbart is one of TV's last great writers. So why can't he stay tuned?

Flunk You

If Fox expels Undeclared, blame everyone but Judd Apatow

Net Loss

The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse

Best Touring Corpse

Casper The Musical Stinks Up the Music Hall

School Daze

Fast Times at Ridgemont High will always be a connection to high school memories

School's Out

When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low

Flanagan's wake

VH1 vice president's novel about the music business mourns an era just since passed

Quick, draw

After years of talking and hoping, DNA Productions finally inks a big-time deal

Beggars banquet

KERA makes a stab for its former glory with less wheedling and more programming

Shameless in Seattle

A breach-of-contract lawsuit dogs A.H. Belo's bid to join the media big leagues

BeloWatch

A breach-of-contract lawsuit dogs A.H. Belo's bid to join the media big leagues