Flashback: Great Moments at TV Press Tour
I was going through some of the transcripts from Press Tour when I came upon this little gem from Fox's executive session. I remember my colleagues and I chortling at this exchange at the time.
QUESTION: How important is drama for you going forward?
KEVIN REILLY: Drama?
QUESTION: Yeah. Because you've got the success with
"24" and "House." You've got these two strong shows coming.
KEVIN REILLY: Yeah.
QUESTION: Clearly, it's a philosophy. Why -- why is drama as important as it seems to be to FOX? What does it give you that other genres don't?
Reilly, though baffled by the question, politely answered it seriously, instead of saying something like, "Well, it's an exciting new genre that every network has employed copiously for, oh, the past 60 years. Look, if you don't have a real question, Mr. TeeVee Journalist, you don't have to strain to ask one. You can just sit there and be quiet."
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David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place.
I'll never forget the lady who sat in front of me for the Normal, Ohio panel who asked John Goodman if he planned on losing weight to play a gay man. I talked to her later and she explained that the only gay men that she and her husband ever saw were those muscular guys making their way in and out of Crunch. So I flashed my gut at her.