Alec Baldwin Calling it Quits After 30 Rock
With a couple Emmy’s under his belt as lovable GE tycoon Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin plans to hang up his acting career after his 30 Rock role ends in 2012, according to the NY Daily News.... read more
ABC Family to Air 20 Pixar Short Films
As part of cable network ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas, the network will air a two-hour presentation of Pixar-produced short films tomorrow... read more
House Review: "Wilson" (Episode 6.9)
The aptly titled episode puts Wilson into the role of main character. Wilson must diagnose the obscure ailings of a patient, and the familiar rhythm and formulas of the episode center on him and his ability to solve the medical puzzle in place of House. Wilson even briefly heads up House’s reassembled team (Foreman, Chase, Thirteen and Taub) in one scene.... read more
John Oliver's TV Show to Feature Eugene Mirman, Paul F. Tompkins, Janeane Garofalo, Many More
Comedy Central certainly can recognize when it’s found talent. First, it spun off the popular Stephen Colbert into his own Colbert Report, propelled from his success on The Daily Show. Now, the cable network has offered another one of Jon Stewart’s correspondents the chance to go solo.... read more
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas
Writers: Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day Studio/Run Time: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 42 mins. Starring: McElhenney, Howerton, Day, Danny DeVito, Kaitlin Olsen A bloody, sweaty treat for It’s Always Sunny fans For a traditional sitcom, a Christmas special may seem as gimmicky as the requisite retail décor, as impersonal as the gift of fruitcake. But in the spirit of the season, A Very Sunny Christmas is delivering more than the usual gifts of status quo contempt. As Frank dodges the siblings’ ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Charlie and Mac realize that their childhood celebrations involved... read more
High Definition: Why Phineas and Ferb Is The Best Kids Show on TV
The following story was originally published on March 31, 2009.... read more
Terror in Mumbai Documentary to Air on HBO
Almost one year after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that left 170 people dead, HBO will air a provocative and deeply unsettling documentary revealing the details surrounding the violence of those days.... read more
Meet the New Simpsons Character, Ricardo Bombo
If you’ve been following The Simpsons’ create-a-character contest that ensued last month, you’ll be interested to know the wait is finally over. The show has selected a winner whose cartoon creation will be featured in the series’ 20th Anniversary episode.... read more
The Oprah Winfrey Show to End in Sept. 2011
Daytime television authority Oprah Winfrey announced today that her talk show will end after 25 years of running, marking Sept. 9, 2011 the final episode date.... read more
What Will James Franco's General Hospital Experiment, Which Begins Today, Mean for His Career?
James Franco’s stint on General Hospital begins today. The marketing fanfare has been pretty epic, but the show’s core audience is not likely to expand despite the A-list presence, a fact that has led to the inevitable barbs “Well, at least no one will see him trying to ruin his career.”... read more
30 Rock Review: "Sun Tea" (episode 4.6)
The most tiresome thing about this season of 30 Rock has been the entire Dealbreakers plotline. There’s a lot of other gripes people have had, some well-founded, some not so much, but for my money the Dealbreakers thing has generally slowed things down and turned a somewhat funny joke into a running gag that lost its steam some time ago. It’s sadly a bit like what SNL will do by taking whatever success it accidentally stumbles upon and reusing it again and again until even hearing about it makes you cringe. Dealbreakers had become like that for me, and the... read more
Community Review: "Environmental Science" (Episode 1.10)
It seems like Community is becoming simultaneously less and more formulaic as the series goes on, which is an interesting phenomenon. If anything, it seems like episodes are ripping through sit-com clichés at a faster than believable pace, each episode more reliant than the last upon tired old stories that we’ve been watching on TV since we were born. The episode’s structures are impeccably fitted to a traditional three-act structure and it’s hard not to predict where the entire episode is headed after merely what appears in its cold open. ... read more
Jason Lee Develops Adult Swim Show, Directs Beatles Movie, Stars in TNT Pilot
Jason Lee has been busy since NBC’s cancellation of his show My Name is Earl last spring.... read more
Aaron Sorkin Returns to TV, But Will He Triumph Again?
Aaron Sorkin, famed writer and creator of The West Wing, is returning to television with a new series.... read more
NBC Launches United Plates of America, Hands Out Restaurant Chain
NBC is calling on Top Chef production company Magical Elves to start up yet another cooking competition series, this one not so run-of-the-mill, boasting the same bullet-sweating competitions as well as a pungent flavor of capitalism. The winner of this contest will be awarded not one eatery of his or her own variety, but an entire restaurant chain.... read more
Bob Saget to Host A&E Reality Series
Television network A&E announced that it is giving Bob Saget his own reality series, tentatively titled Bob Saget’s Strange Days.... read more
ABC's V on Hiatus Until 2010
ABC’s rebooted and dolled-up sci-fi drama V debuted to an impressive audience of 14.3 million viewers on Nov. 3, and despite the criticisms about mediocre writing and humdrum story lines, it still kept 10.7 million viewers for its second week—not half bad for a show still in its infancy. Still, these numbers aren’t enough to make the network rethink the series’ preemptive hiatus, one that’s been planned from the beginning. After next week’s fourth episode, V‘s alien visitors won’t be returning to primetime until March 2010.... read more
Joss Whedon Animates Season Eight of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon’s recent projects have had mixed results. Last year’s stellar Dr. Horrible won an Emmy, but news arrived last week that Whedon’s cult favorite, the beleaguered Dollhouse, will be cancelled, airing its final episodes this January. (For a tongue-in-cheek suggestion as to why Fox cancelled the series, check out this video from College Humor.)... read more
New Orleans Gets Wired: David Simon Turns His Sights on the Big Easy
On a late spring day in the early 1990s, a Baltimore Sun reporter named David Simon wandered into the now-defunct Funky Butt jazz club on North Rampart Street in New Orleans, where Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias were burning through a scorching set of percussive funk. “From the outside, it was like some kind of Tex Avery cartoon,” Simon says, “where the house is dancing and the window shutters are popping out to the beat.”... read more
Badly Drawn Boy Readies TV-Movie Soundtrack
Damon Gough, AKA: Badly Drawn Boy, is confirmed to compose the music for an upcoming U.K. made-for-TV film.... read more
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