The second presidential debate, which takes place Tuesday night, will have a more freewheeling town hall format that is intended to produce a more spontaneous interaction between the candidates and the audience. But as Jeremy W. Peters reports in The Times, little is actually left to chance. The process for selecting participants, and the rules and time limits they will participate under, are tightly managed in order to minimize surprises.
In fact, the rules for the debate were spelled out carefully in a memorandum of understanding between the two campaigns, Mark Halperin reported on Time magazine's The Page. The memo runs some 20 pages, and includes restrictions like “will not ask follow-up questions.'' Candy Crowley of CNN, has indicated she may indeed ask such questions, prompting concern from both parties that the rules may not be strictly followed. But as Brian Stelter reports in the The Times, Ms. Crowley on Monday cited precedent from previous town hall deba tes for the practice of following up with the candidates.
Did Ricky Gervais's edgy â€" some say offensive â€" performance as the host of the Golden Globe Awards show the last three years finally wear too thin for the event's organizers? Perhaps. Monday night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said it had chosen the stars of two NBC comedies, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, as co-hosts for next January's Globes show, which will air on NBC.
Leslie Moonves, who has guided the CBS Corporation to a decade of ratings success and overall profit, will stay on as chief executive through 2017, the company announced on Monday.
And on television these days, it pays to be a zombie. Bill Carter reports on Media Decoder that AMC's popular zombie drama, “The Walking Dead,'' drew 10.9 million viewers for the premiere of its third season on Sunday night. That beat every other entertainment show on television that night, even on broadcast TV, and trailed only professional football on NBC.
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