Fox Cancels Breaking In, Traffic Light, Lie To Me and More
The notoriously finicky Fox has canceled a slew of shows whose ratings had them “on the bubble,” including Lie To Me, Human Target, The Chicago Code, Traffic Light and Breaking In.... read more
Fox Options Go The F**k to Sleep
Fox 2000 has optioned Go the F**k to Sleep, a satirical parenting self-help book by Adam Mansbach.... read more
Glee Music Producer Launches Label
The executive music producer of Glee has announced the launch his record label, Anders Music.... read more
Friday Night Lights Review: "Keep Looking" (Episode 5.04)
So the title of this week’s episode is “Keep Looking,” and I’m assuming that the writers are using that metaphorically because at the episode’s onset, everywhere we turn, the kind folks of Dillon still haven’t found what they’re looking for.... read more
Game of Thrones Episode 4 Review: "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things"
For a show that wasn’t supposed to attract female viewers, Game of Throne‘s strongest characters are its women. In the fourth episode of HBO’s new series, we see Princess Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) finally take control of her life.... read more
Community Review: "A Fistful of Paintballs" (2.23)
It’s no secret that “Modern Warfare,” or “the paintball episode” as it’s most commonly referred to, was the fan favorite for last season. It was also, it should be noted, the fan favorite for the cast and crew, to the point that when I interviewed Dan Harmon last year his response to how NBC was taking the show was simply that they liked their paintball episode so they were doing fine. It was that important to the show’s identity, and its popularity meant that full-on style pastiches significantly increased in number during season two.... read more
Modern Family Review: "Mother's Day" (Episode 2.21)
The Pritchetts and the Dunphys come together celebrate Mother’s Day the old-fashioned way—with lots of bickering served up with guilt on the side. In last night’s episode, the three families’ storylines were closely woven together, but without the numerous highs or lows of previous episodes. This episode ran right down the middle, which is too bad because it was a perfect night to hand over the reigns to hot mamas Claire and Gloria, who were ultimately saddled with the weakest part of the plot.... read more
Ears We Trust: Cameron Monaghan's Top 10 Songs
Cameron Monaghan plays the nerdy, music-loving Corey in the teen flick Prom that comes out this weekend. The film’s soundtrack includes songs from The Weepies, Oh Darling, Shout Out Louds and Passion Pit.... read more
Best of What's Next: Cameron Monaghan of Shameless
Coming off the first season of Showtime’s Shameless, Cameron Monaghan talks with Paste about working with William Macy and about playing a gay teen in the acclaimed TV series that truly lives up to its name. He also discusses his love of music (see side bar on his 10 favorite songs) and his nerdy role in the new teen film Prom.... read more
Community Review: "Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts" (2.22)
Last week Community took us on a post-modern trip through memory lane in which we hadn’t heard of half the events mentioned before. Nevertheless, it worked great because of the way the characters are so well-defined. In effect, those events are fully canon, part of the show’s continuity even though we never saw what actually happened. But that still leaves us with the traditional counterpart to that episode, in which all of what we’ve seen before builds to a real conclusion.... read more
Listen to Josh Homme's New Aqua Unit Patrol Squad One Theme
Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force has been a staple of late-night animated comedy for more than 10 years now, but it seems the show is in for a bit of an overhaul. Coming soon is Aqua Unit Patrol Squad One, returning to the show’s (never actually seen) roots of a crime-fighting team of food.... read more
The RZA Secures Recurring Role on Californication
Wu-Tang Clan leader The RZA has just been confirmed for a recurring role on Showtime’s Californication.... read more
Game of Thrones Review - Episode 2 - "Kingsroad"
The mark of a good TV series, whether about gangs in Baltimore, ’60s ad execs or mythical realms is good characters, and the second episode of Game of Thrones allows us to get to know some of them. With an unwieldy number of introductions in the pilot, “The Kingsroad” settles in on a few in particular.... read more
Friday Night Lights Review: "On the Outside Looking In" (Episode 5.02)
There are many incredible things about Friday Night Lights. You’ll no doubt read all about them throughout my recaps this season. But what struck me while watching this episode is that the writers have pulled off the unthinkable: unlike nearly any other TV series set during high school, the show has seamlessly transitioned the cast (no sixth-year seniors in sight) while making me care just as much about this second string as I did the first. In fact, with my tear count ratcheting up even higher than last episode, I’d say that I’m almost as invested in the lives of... read more
NBC Creates Animated 30 Rock Webisodes
In celebration of 30 Rock reaching 100 episodes, NBC plans to release a trio of animated 30 Rock videos.... read more
Jim Carrey to Join The Office Finale
Jim Carrey will join Ricky Gervais, Will Ferrell, Will Arnett, James Spader, Ray Romano and Catherine Tate as guest stars on The Office’s hour-long season seven finale.... read more
Andy Samberg Signs On To Host Shark Week
Just when you thought Shark Week couldn’t get more exciting, The Discovery Channel announced they found their “first ever Chief Shark Officer”, Andy Samberg.... read more
Community Review: "Paradigms of Human Memory" (2.21)
Television reviews, like book reviews or film reviews, necessarily focus on the plots of their shows because that’s a lot of their content. Last night’s episode of Community, though, was almost completely lacking in anything approaching a traditional story. What it had was a premise, but that’s true in plenty of Community episodes. It’s just that those premises are still story-based whereas here the premise is the meta-idea of a clip show.... read more
Modern Family Review: "Someone to Watch Over Lily" (Episode 2.20)
In this week’s episode, “Someone to Watch Over Lily,” the kids of Modern Family were given a little more scenery to chew on, and Rico Rodriguez, who plays the child-man Manny Delgado, ate up every line given to him and spit ’em out like a seasoned pro. The show’s opening scene has Manny advising Mitchell and Cameron to accept Jay’s coffee: “It’s French press,” Manny says. “I was doubtful, too, but I can’t see myself going back to drip.” Spoken like a true, pint-sized hipster.... read more
HBO Renews Game of Thrones After One Episode
After just one episode, HBO has renewed Game of Thrones, its adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, for a second season. The second season is set to air next summer, and will follow the second book in Martin’s series, A Clash of Kings.... read more
