PASADENA, Calif. — Jerrod Carmichael, lamenting what he called the “terrible” state of TV comedy, asked his audience if they’d seen some of it. Staring back at the comedian was a hotel ballroom filled with journalists whose job it is to cover television. “I think they see all of it,” helpfully offered Ramy Youssef, his fellow producer and star of their new Hulu sitcom. The group, TCA for short, has been meeting twice a year, winter and summer, since it was founded in 1978. “Most of the TV critics had a vacation,” Rothenberg said, stockpiling interviews for feature stories to be written and published later, when a show aired.

Source: National Post February 20, 2019 15:33 UTC