Back to You, UpfrontsNeed to know what’s coming to your TV screen next season but can’t scare up an invite to the networks’ upfronts? Look no further than Vulture, dear viewers, where Alexandra Peers has been providing inside looks at this week’s presentation. In the latest installment, she checks in on Fox’s dog-and-pony show, which offered the Kelsey Grammer vehicle Back to You, only one Sanjaya joke, and renewals of shows you didn’t even realize were still on the air. It’s all at Vulture.
TV Upfronts: What’s New on Fox? [Vulture]
Earlier: Vulture’s coverage of the upfronts.
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Today in Swag: Anne Heche Gives Lessons; Josh Holloway Matches
The upfronts continue, and so, naturally, does the swag. In our final report from the front lines of celebrities getting stuff they could easily pay for themselves, we’ve got a little news from Tuesday and some shocking scoops from yesterday.
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Boreanaz, Bynes Stock Up on Stuff They Could Buy Themselves TV Upfronts Week continued yesterday at the Ritz Carlton Lucky Club where a myriad of fashion, accessory, and beauty companies set up camp and awaited celebrities in need of free stuff. David Boreanaz of Buffy and Bones had a shy but determined approach to the Cosabella lingerie. Nothing sweeter than a man shopping for lingerie with ten pairs of eyes and a camera on him.
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Never Doubt Tiki
Tiki Barber just retired from football, but has his throwing arm already atrophied? At NBC’s upfront presentation yesterday, the former Giant and the rest of the Sunday Night Football sportscaster team were trotted out to face advertisers. Barber and colleagues Jerome Bettis and Chris Collinsworth rehashed a bet from last year: Who could toss a football into the balcony of Radio City Music Hall?
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Lohan, Larter Go Shopping for Free
This is Upfronts Week, the time of year when Hollywood TV stars must come to New York to schmooze with the advertisers who pay the bills. In exchange, the actors get a warm feeling of job security, and the chance to return to their hotels with mountains of swag courtesy of Lucky magazine’s annual “Lucky Club” Upfronts gifting suite at the Ritz Carlton.