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Amazon Studios talks Mad Dogs, Bosch, Catastrophe, The New Yorker Presents at Television Critics Association Press Tour

January 11, 2016 Lori Acken

Amazon Studios presented its upcoming slate of original series premieres and returns today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour. Amazon chief Roy Price started the session by touting the previous night’s Golden Globe successes for Mozart in the Jungle and its star Gael Garcia Bernal plus Transparent’s Globe nominations and Amazon’s 60 other award nominations and 20 wins. Noting that Hand of God, Red Oaks, Mozart in the Jungle, The Man in the High Castle (the service’s most successful launch yet) and Transparent all received new seasons, Price said the streaming service constantly seeks “visionary creators with voices that will stand out […]

Shameless Season 6, Premiere recap: “I Only Miss Her When I’m Breathing”

January 10, 2016 Karen Ruud

Shameless is back, yay! Will it be as good as seasons past? Let’s dive in and see with the Shameless Season 6 premiere recap: “I Only Miss Her When I’m Breathing” Frank: Still mourning the loss of Bianca, we find him passed out at her grave. The nice crypt keeper tries to kick him out, but Frank is blabbing on about Bianca. The cemetery worker in turn expresses sympathy for Frank’s loss and tells him that his daughter would want him to move on. Frank explains that she wasn’t his daughter, but was the light of his life, his sun, […]

What you should know about UnREAL Season 2 on Lifetime

January 7, 2016 Lori Acken

If you missed the first season of Lifetime’s breakout hit UnREAL last summer, Feb. 3 is your day. Hulu will begin streaming the critically acclaimed dramedy — about the brutal behind-the-scenes of reality dating programs — which stars Constance Zimmer, Shiri Appleby and Craig Bierko. And if you’re already a fan, here are some things to know about the show’s Season 2, which premieres summer 2016: • Everlasting is back, this time with an African-American prince charming (take THAT, The Bachelor). The new suitor is a football star named Darius Beck — no casting announcements thus far — who arrives on set with […]

What’s your Greatest Party Story Ever? MTV wants it.

January 7, 2016 Barb Oates

We all have one crazy, perhaps embarrassing, totally unbelievable story that’s happened in our lifetime. MTV is compiling these stories into a fun semi-animated series with one of the longest show titles ever— Greatest Party Story Ever … And Other Epic Tales beginning Thursday, Jan. 14 at 10:30pm ET/PT. MTV is so jazzed about the new series they’ve already committed to a second season. MTV execs introduced the series at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour by describing these stories as maybe a ”mortifying romance, unfortunate arrests, naked debauchery, car chases, James Franco, angry bears this show has something […]

Meet TV’s #1 pervert Nikki Glaser

January 6, 2016 Barb Oates

It’s easy to see how Amy Schumer and Nikki Glaser are best friends. The whip-smart, nothing-is-off-limits comics are brutally honest and brazenly hilarious. Now they’ll both be on Comedy Central with Glaser’s new series Not Safe With Nikki Glaser premiering Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 10:30pm ET/PT. (Inside Amy Schumer returns for a new season in April.) Donning a black leather jacket, black tee and black pants, Glaser sat comfortably on stage at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena and talked to TV critics about sex, which is the focus of Not Safe With Nikki Glaser. A self-described […]

5 Questions With … America Ferrera of NBC’s “Superstore”

January 5, 2016 Ryan Berenz

In NBC’s workplace comedy Superstore (Mondays at 8pm ET/PT) America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) stars as Amy, a veteran Cloud 9 store “angel” who has accepted the monotony of her job until new employee Jonah (Ben Feldman) arrives to shake things up. Ferrera was friendly and helpful when she answered our “5 Questions”: 1. Can you tell us about a time you were starstruck? When I met Tom Hanks the night before the Emmys, the first time I went to the Emmys. 2. What are three things you must always have in your fridge or pantry? Eggs, milk and gluten-free toast. 3. […]

America Ferrera keeps “Superstore” stocked with laughs

January 4, 2016 Ryan Berenz

NBC’s new sitcom Superstore does for big-box retail store employees what The Office did for desk jockeys. America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) stars as Amy, a veteran Cloud 9 store “angel” who has accepted the monotony of her job and keeps her private life closely guarded. The monotony gets broken up when new employee Jonah (Ben Feldman, Mad Men) arrives and is eager to impress Amy. Ferrera says researching her role at first consisted of going to superstores as a customer and observing employees. “I would sort of say, ‘Where can I find a coffeemaker?’ and then they would tell me, and […]

CBS airs “The Andy Griffith Show” Christmas Special Friday

December 25, 2015 Ryan Berenz

CBS airs the new Andy Griffith Show Christmas Special on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, at 8pm ET/PT. This one-hour special features two newly colorized back-to-back episodes of The Andy Griffith Show. In “Christmas Story” (1960), Andy (Andy Griffith) and Barney’s (Don Knotts) plans for a joyful holiday at home are interrupted when one of them has to guard a prisoner. Then in “The Pickle Story” (1961), Andy and Barney switch Aunt Bea’s (Frances Bavier) unappetizing homemade pickles with store-bought ones. Things get complicated when Aunt Bea wants to enter the county fair’s pickle competition. Photo: Copyright CBS Worldwide Inc. All […]

“I Love Lucy Christmas Special” classic episodes on CBS

December 23, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Two back-to-back classic episodes of the 1950s series I Love Lucy are featured in the I Love Lucy Christmas Special on CBS Wednesday, Dec. 23, at 8pm ET/PT. This year the “Christmas episode” (first presented in December 1956), now colorized in its entirety, is paired with the newly colorized “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” (a.k.a. “Vitameatavegamin,” first broadcast on May 5, 1952). The two episodes are seamlessly combined into one set with no interruption between the episodes.

Final episode of “The Soup” airs tonight

December 18, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

After more than two decades, E!’s popular series The Soup is calling it quits after tonight’s (Dec. 18) 10pm ET/PT episode. Host and executive producer Joel McHale, who has fronted the show for 12 years, will sign off with a one-hour episode as some of the most memorable celebrity guests stop by to join the celebration. Guest stars in the final episode include Nathan Fillion, Nic Pizzolatto, Tony Hale, Rob Riggle, Haley Joel Osment, Rob Heubel, Adam Scott, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, James Van Der Beek, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Paul Feig, Seth Green, Jim Rash, Kate Flannery, Rich Sommer, Eric Idle […]