CBS Close to Deal to Adapt Former FBI Director Comey’s Book into Miniseries
Former FBI Director James Comey’s memoir may soon be the basis for a miniseries.
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A New FBI Show Is Coming to Prime-Time TV This Season on CBS
By Alan Stamm ticklethewire.com Josh Dunhamel is no Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and his new TV show is unlike “The F.B.I.” The 2014 version is “Battle Creek,” a drama-comedy set in that Michigan city and picked up by CBS for at least 13 episodes. No date is announced for its “coming soon” mid-season debut. Dunhamel plays…
A New FBI Show Is Coming to Prime-Time TV This Season on CBS
By Alan Stamm ticklethewire.com Josh Dunhamel is no Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and his new TV show is unlike “The F.B.I.” But another show starring an FBI agent is coming to TV. The 2014 version is “Battle Creek,” a drama-comedy set in that Michigan city and picked up by CBS for at least 13 episodes….
Could the Secret Service Scandal be Bigger?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Just when it looked as if the Secret Service might be able to wrap up its prostitution mess sooner than later. CBS is reporting that authorities were looking into the possibility that Secret Service agents may have paid for hookers and strippers in El Salvador while being part of an advance team…
Sen. Schumer Wants Justice Dept. to Review “Stand Your Ground” Laws
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The shooting of Trayvon Martin is prompting some folks to push for changes in the “Stand Your Ground” laws around the nation that allow people to use force if they think their lives or others are in danger. The New York Post reports that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday on…
Top Ten List About Paranoia: FBI Investigating Radical Muslim’s Death Threats Against David Letterman
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If talk show host David Letterman were to put out a “Top 10 List” of reasons to be paranoid, this would be at the top. The FBI has said it will investigate a death threat made by a radical Muslim, the International Business Times reports. The radical person called for Letterman’s…
New FBI Show on CBS Needs Fresher Feel, NY Critic Says
By David Hinckley New York Daily News This spinoff from “Criminal Minds” illustrates the danger of a television network getting too good at something. CBS has done so well with “police procedurals” – shows that set up a crime and walk the viewer through to its solution – that the network seems to think we…
FBI Files Show CBS’s Walter Cronkite Collaborated With Anti-War Protesters
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No surprise that the FBI kept files on Walter Cronkite, one of America’s most influential newsmen. Yahoo! News reported that it obtained FBI files through the Freedom of Information Act that show “Cronkite allegedly collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists in the 1960s, going so far as to offer advice on how…
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