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The end is now: NBC’s darkly funny “You, Me and the Apocalypse”

January 28, 2016 Ryan Berenz

The new hourlong comedy/drama You, Me and the Apocalypse (NBC Thursdays at 8pm ET/PT beginning Jan. 28), a British import, is the darkly comic look at a number of complex characters in a complex situation — a comet is going to collide with Earth in 34 days and end life as we know it. For some of the characters, that’s about the best thing that could happen. The series opens at Day 0, with Jamie (Mathew Baynton) deep in a fortified bunker beneath the suburbs of Slough in England. He’s among 15 people in the bunker who represent the future of humanity, for […]

Blasts From The Past: 10 TV Series From 1990 to Binge-Watch Now

January 27, 2016 Eric Kohanik

Some years are certainly more interesting than others when in comes to TV fare. And 1990 certainly had a number of memorable TV escapades, for better or worse. It didn’t seem right to shine a spotlight on a young Sandra Bullock’s ill-fated starring stint in a TV adaptation of Working Girl. Then again, that wasn’t as big a bomb as the one that executive producer Steven Bochco dropped when he combined a gritty police-procedural drama with almost-laughable musical numbers in a show called Cop Rock. While those may be amusing binge-watch exercises, there are plenty of others that are also […]

Jane the Virgin Chapter 31 recap: Mother Knows Best

January 25, 2016 StayTuned Staff

We did it, guys! We survived another long break from Jane the Virgin and things are moving along quickly! Michael appears at Jane’s front door where she thanks him for the angel tree-topper. He then tells her that he’s smoothed things out with Rafael and hopes to do the same with her. Jane is thrilled to hear the news … but Mateo wakes her up from her dream with his loud crying. If only things were that easy. Rogelio’s mother, Liliana — AKA Glam-ma — comes to visit the Villanueva family. Since she’s not throwing her usual digs at Xo, something must be […]

Recap: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Episode 9: I’m Going to the Beach With Josh and His Friends!

January 25, 2016 StayTuned Staff

Recap – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Episode 9: “I’m Going to the Beach With Josh and His Friends!” – The CW, original airdate Mon. 1/25/16 (For all Crazy Ex recaps, click here.) A lot has happened IRL since the last time we saw Rebecca Bunch. The holidays, a blizzard in the East and, OH YEAH, Rachel Bloom won a Golden Globe (Best Actress in a TV Comedy) and a Critics’ Choice Award (Best Actress in a Comedy Series)! Congratulations, Rachel. (We knew this show would take off!) Here’s a recap of tonight’s episode: After a teen-oriented tearjerker movie, which Rebecca watches alone, […]

Shameless Season 6, Episode 3 Recap: “The F Word”

January 24, 2016 Karen Ruud

Some pretty heavy subject matter this week — not that there normally isn’t. I also found this episode fairly moving, so grab some tissue just in case. Here’s the Shameless Season 6, Episode 3 Recap: “The F Word” and you can decide for yourself. Fiona: Not only does she wake up with some morning sickness, she discovers Frank’s new endeavor of renting out their yard to Mexican evictees who are a casualties of the gentrification of the hood and had their house snapped up over night. She then strolls downstairs to find a smorgasbord of food that Carl has bought. She inquires […]

Shameless Season 6, Episode 2 Recap: #AbortionRules

January 17, 2016 Karen Ruud

Last week Fiona found out the truth that Debs was keeping her pregnancy from her. Let’s recap how that went down with a recap of Shameless Season 6, Episode 2: #AbortionRules. Fiona & Sean: Waking up all stressed out with the newly acquired truth that Debs is actually knocked up, Sean tries to get Fiona to relax by doing naughty things to her and forcing himself on her. No, not in a rape way, in that loving “you really need to relax” boyfriend way. So she gives in, and then it’s quick to rise (no pun intended) so that she […]

#TCA16: Zach Galifianakis is a rodeo clown? We’re sold!

January 16, 2016 Ryan Berenz

Zach Galifianakis is a rodeo clown. Need we go on? In the new FX new single-camera comedy Baskets (premieres Thursday, Jan. 21, at 10pm ET/PT), Galifianakis plays Chip Baskets, a man with a dream of becoming the world’s most celebrated circus clown. Inspired by the famous European circus performers of the 1800s, Chip attends a prestigious clowning school in Paris. But the Parisian clown scene proves too costly — the upscale French clown-nose boutiques are pricey — and Chip is forced to leave the school. He returns to Bakersfield, Calif., where he lives in an extended stay hotel while looking for […]

TBS launches Rashida Jones comedy “Angie Tribeca” with 25-hour Binge-A-Thon

January 14, 2016 Ryan Berenz

Rashida Jones plays LAPD Detective Angie Tribeca in this darkly funny spoof of police procedurals from executive producers Steve and Nancy Carell. TBS is launching the series on Sunday, Jan. 17, beginning at 9pm ET/PT with a 25-hour, commercial-free marathon of the first 10 episodes. The series continues with Episodes 11-20 premiering Mondays beginning Jan. 25. TBS has put together a rather humorous press release that deserves to be shared with the world, so here it is: TBS TO LAUNCH ANGIE TRIBECA WITH 25-HOUR MARATHON OF COMMERCIAL-FREE EPISODES STARTING JAN. 17 RASHIDA JONES, HAYES MACARTHUR, JERE BURNS, DEON COLE AND ANDREE […]

Patrick Warburton on The Tick revival: “I have to do it soon”

January 14, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer

I talked with Patrick Warburton today at the Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour about his new NBC sitcom Crowded (more on that in a later post), and had a chance to also talk about his other memorable comedic work, from David Puddy on Seinfeld to Joe Swanson on Family Guy to Brock Samson on The Venture Bros. (Season 6 of The Venture Bros. premieres Jan. 31 on Adult Swim). But Warburton said that while all of those certainly have their fan bases, it is his short-lived 2001 FOX sitcom The Tick that “has this grand cult following.” Our interview was at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, and Warburton said […]

Supergirl news: The Black Mercy! Indigo! Cast and creators talk what — and who — is on the horizon

January 12, 2016 Lori Acken

The cast and crew of the freshman superhero hit Supergirl took questions from Television Critics Association reporters yesterday on the CBS soundstage that housed the series’ D.E.O. headquarters. The first query pertained to the series’ powerful Red Tornado episode which showed Supergirl unleashing a torrent of emotions in the face of a formidable opponent — and the realization that General Lane sought her help and then sabotaged her. Supergirl herself, Melissa Benoist (dressed in Kara-appropriate prep wear and ponytail) took first comments. “That is one of my favorite episodes that we’ve done to date, just because of what I got to explore in that theme […]