Articles by Ryan Berenz

About Ryan Berenz

Member of the Television Critics Association. Charter member of the Ancient and Mystic Society of No Homers. Squire of the Ancient & Benevolent Order of the Lynx, Lodge 49, Long Beach, Calif. Costco Wholesale Gold Star Member since 2011.

6 big questions for the How I Met Your Mother finale

March 25, 2014 Ryan Berenz

After nine seasons, we’ll finally learn how (or if) Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) found marital bliss with “The Mother” (Cristin Milioti) in the two-part How I Met Your Mother finale, “Last Forever,” airing Monday, March 31, at 8pm ET/PT. We’ll also learn what happened to newlyweds Robin and Barney (Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris) and Italy-bound parents Lily and Marshall (Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel). Theories for how the series will end abound, and Hannigan says all our questions will be answered, even those we didn’t know we had. While we ponder those, here are the six big questions we do […]

March Madness: NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 2014 TV schedule

March 24, 2014 Ryan Berenz

The NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 2014 TV schedule on CBS and TBS March 27-28. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament enters the Sweet 16 Regional Semifinals on Thursday and Friday, with games in Memphis (South), Anaheim (West), New York City (East) and Indianapolis (Midwest). Winners advance to the Elite Eight Regional Finals on Saturday and Sunday. CBS and TBS share coverage. ALSO SEE: NIT Tournament 2014 TV Schedule 2014 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament TV schedule NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 Thursday game previews Sweet 16 Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 27 6pm ET: Infiniti NCAA Tip-Off, TBS 7pm ET: 10 Stanford vs. 11 […]

MLB Sydney Series opens 2014 season on MLB Network

March 20, 2014 Ryan Berenz

MLB Sydney Series opens 2014 season on MLB Network: The 2014 MLB regular season opens in Sydney, Australia, with a two-game series March 22-23 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks. MLB Network has exclusive live coverage of the games. The Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks play in the first 2014 MLB regular season games with a two-game series in Sydney, Australia. The MLB Sydney Series at the famed Sydney Cricket Ground will take place Saturday, March 22, with Game 1 live at 4am ET on MLB Network. MLB Network will air a replay of the game at […]

“Coming Back With Wes Moore” examines war veterans’ struggles at home

March 18, 2014 Ryan Berenz

Coming Back With Wes Moore examines war veterans’ struggles at home: This new three-part PBS documentary series reveals how, for some veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, the battle for a new life begins when the war ends. No one comes home from war unchanged. For some veterans, those changes can be as dangerous as war itself. The three-part PBS documentary series Coming Back With Wes Moore (Mondays at 8pm ET beginning May 13) delves into the lives of a handful of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans to explore why some struggle and some succeed in life after their military service. […]

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2014 TV schedule

March 18, 2014 Ryan Berenz

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2014 TV schedule: The entire NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship airs across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, WatchESPN and ESPN FULL COURT beginning with the first round on Saturday, March 22. First and second round games will be regionalized with home market protection (networks will offer updates on other games but will not switch to another game during live action). Games will have full national telecast windows on ESPN or ESPN2 beginning with the Sweet 16 Regional Semifinals March 29. ESPN airs the Final Four on April 6 and championship game on April 8. ALSO SEE: March […]

NCAA Tournament 2014 First Four schedule on truTV

March 18, 2014 Ryan Berenz

NCAA Tournament 2014 First Four schedule on truTV: The tournament First Round “First Four” games air on truTV March 18-19. Find the truTV channel number in your area here. RELATED: March Madness: NCAA Tournament 2014 TV schedule The 68-team NCAA Tournament field gets pared down to 64 in the “First Four,” played tonight and tomorrow in Dayton, Ohio, and airing on truTV. Action starts Tuesday with Albany vs. Mount St. Mary’s and North Carolina State vs. Xavier, and continues Wednesday with Cal Poly vs. Texas Southern and Iowa vs. Tennessee. The four teams emerging victorious advance to the Second Round […]

NIT Tournament 2014 TV schedule

March 17, 2014 Ryan Berenz

NIT Tournament 2014 TV schedule: ESPN networks combine to televise all games in the 2014 National Invitational Tournament March 18-April 3. Full tournament TV schedule below. ALSO SEE: March Madness: 2014 NCAA Tournament TV Schedule 2014 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament TV schedule First Round Tuesday, March 18 7pm ET: 4 Georgetown vs. 5 West Virginia, ESPN 7pm ET: 1 Florida State vs. 8 Florida Gulf Coast, ESPN2 7pm ET: 1 St. John’s (NY) vs. 8 Robert Morris, ESPNU 8:15pm ET: 4 Wisconsin-Green Bay vs. 5 Belmont, ESPN3 8:15pm ET: 1 Minnesota vs. 8 High Point, ESPN3 9pm ET: 3 Arkansas […]

NCAA Selection Sunday TV schedule

March 12, 2014 Ryan Berenz

NCAA Selection Sunday TV schedule: NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament brackets are revealed in the NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show special live on CBS Sunday, March 16. ALSO SEE: March Madness: NCAA Tournament 2014 TV schedule CBS Summer Dreams chronicles the journey to the NBA 30 for 30: Requiem for the Big East Sunday on ESPN The 68 teams picked to compete in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament are revealed in the NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show special live on CBS Sunday, March 16, at 6pm ET. Greg Gumbel hosts with analysts Clark Kellogg, Doug Gottlieb and Seth Davis. With the […]

CBS Summer Dreams chronicles the journey to the NBA

March 12, 2014 Ryan Berenz

CBS Summer Dreams chronicles the journey to the NBA: Chris Noth narrates this two-hour special looking at the players, personalities and behind-the-scenes drama at the NBA’s official 10-day, 61-game Summer League in Las Vegas. Summer Dreams tracks the unique journeys of 2013 NBA Draft first-round picks Michael Carter-Williams of the Philadelphia 76ers (pictured with then NBA commissioner David Stern) and Shane Larkin of the Dallas Mavericks, son of Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin. The special also spotlights Lauren Holtkamp’s quest to become the second current female referee in the NBA, and a recently unemployed NBA Development League coach trying to […]

Mad Men Season 7: Don Draper’s sendoff sells itself

March 11, 2014 Ryan Berenz

Mad Men Season 7: Mad Men’s seventh and final season will be split into two parts, with the first of seven episodes premiering on AMC Sunday, April 13, at 10pm ET and the last seven episodes premiering in spring 2015. Executive producer Scott Hornbacher talked about how the cast and crew are coming to grips with the show ending, as well as what he hopes the show’s legacy will be. Longtime fans of AMC’s Mad Men have waited out lengthy hiatuses before. With the show entering its final season, they’ll have to do it again, though with the knowledge that all […]