Critics Shrug at New Media

摘要

If multiplatform news breaks in a roomful of TV critics, does it make a sound? Only if your network devotes an entire panel to broadband programming that includes a "buddy comedy" about a pair of testicles. At the Television Critics Association (TCA) gathering that kicked off last week in Pasadena, Calif., Comedy Central unveiled the testicular comedy Baxter & McGuire as one of 20 shows in development for Comedy's broadband channel, MotherLoad. But apart from Comedy's decidedly sophomoric presentation, new-media initiatives generally failed to impress a crowd that was clamoring to ask Oxygen star Shannon Doherty why she is so widely reviled.