There’s always plenty of surprises, who-knew and they-said-what moments during the parade of TV show panels at the Television Critics Assn. press tour. Day two of the summer tour that runs through Aug. 9 featured presentations from Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Espn and HBO.
Here are five things we learned from Wednesday’s sessions:
1. Investigation Discovery is taking time out from its steady diet of murders, murders and more murders for a documentary take on the First Amendment and the challenges it faces in the digital era and at a time of rising distrust of the media. The multipart series targeted to debut next year is dubbed “Don’t Stop the Presses.”
2. The panel for Espn’s “30 for 30” documetnary on Ric Flair, the pro wrestler known as “Nature Boy,” provoked a surprising level of excitement among the TCA crowd. Flair told the crowd he would dearly love to get back into the ring...
Here are five things we learned from Wednesday’s sessions:
1. Investigation Discovery is taking time out from its steady diet of murders, murders and more murders for a documentary take on the First Amendment and the challenges it faces in the digital era and at a time of rising distrust of the media. The multipart series targeted to debut next year is dubbed “Don’t Stop the Presses.”
2. The panel for Espn’s “30 for 30” documetnary on Ric Flair, the pro wrestler known as “Nature Boy,” provoked a surprising level of excitement among the TCA crowd. Flair told the crowd he would dearly love to get back into the ring...
- 7/27/2017
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety - TV News
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