Kid Nation

By David Kronke CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler is a pleasant person to chat with on a personal level, but when she's in professional mode, there's no there there. Her TV Press Tour press conferences elevate blandness to an art form; they're spectacles...

That "small American town" was in Idaho, which has lax child-labor laws. (Like the New Mexico legislature, which got duped by "Kid Nation," Idaho is considering making their laws more stringent.) Additionally, NBC didn't pay anyone, so, ...

By David Kronke CBS got all avant-garde with us last year, with their musical-that-made-"Springtime-for-Hitler"-look-palatable "Viva Laughlin" and their children-as-indentured-servants-reality-atrocity "Kid Nation" and their naughty, naughty "Swingtown" (which got consigned to the su...

By David Kronke Departing shows include "Shark," "Moonlight," "Jericho," "Cane," "Kid Nation," "Viva Laughlin" and "Welcome to the Captain." Wednesday 8 p.m. "America's Next Top Model" 9 p.m. "Stylista" * Friday 8 p.m. "Everybody Hates Chris" ** 8:30 p.m. "The Game" ** 9 p.m. "America's Next Top Model" repeat **

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By David Kronke CBS Entertainment chief Nina Tassler renewed the show due to its faithful online audience, and this season aired other provocations she hoped would get the chatterazzi buzzing in blogs and message boards: “Kid Nation” (which inspired no cyber-revolution) and “Viva Laughlin” (dead a...

58%—Big Shots (ABC) 57%—Moonlight (CBS), additional episodes ordered 46%—Private Practice (ABC), full season ordered 21%—Cane (CBS), additional episodes ordered 15%—Kid Nation (CBS) 13%—Cavemen (ABC) 10%—Viva Laughlin (CBS), canceled

ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” became the fourth new show to get a full-season pickup (following The CW’s “Gossip Girl,” ABC’s “Private Practice” and CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory”). Nominal success: “Big Bang Theory.” Nominal disappointments: “Cane,” “Moonlight.” Disappointment: “Kid Natio...

It opened with host Jonathan Karsh introducing “Bonanza,” which he declares a ghost town but is really just a movie set in New Mexico (“Silverado” and “All the Pretty Horses” were shot here). A prop rattlesnake shakes its tale on the dirt road (and is never seen again). A prop tumbleweed roll...

As we reported last week, advertisers saw an episode of “Kid Nation” last week, apparently didn’t hate it, but didn’t love it enough to buy lots of commercial time in it. And since “Kid Nation” is working out so well for CBS image-wise, NBC has plunged into a reality show featuring babies!