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7 Questions With … Kristen Johnston of The Exes

November 6, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Kristen Johnston stars in the TV Land comedy The Exes, where she plays divorce attorney Holly Franklin, and she is joined in her antics by her sunny assistant (Kelly Stables) and the three recently divorced roommates (Donald Faison, Wayne Knight and David Alan Basche) who live across the hall from her. The show is currently in its 4th Season and Johnston loves that this season, TV Land has paired her show with another of its hit comedies, Hot in Cleveland. “At TV Land, they love comedy,” she says. “For those of us in the world who make our bread and […]

#TBT TV: Lisa Kudrow comes back in the original “The Comeback”

November 6, 2014 Ryan Berenz

This Throwback Thursday #TBT TV edition takes us to June of 2005. It was a year after the final episode of Friends, and all of the friends had moved on to other projects with varying degrees of success. Lisa Kudrow teamed up with Dan Bucatinsky and Sex and the City’s Michael Patrick King to create the HBO comedy series The Comeback, starring Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, a fading actress who becomes an icon again thanks to a reality TV series that documents her attempt at a serious career revival (it’s all very meta). As Kudrow points out in this new […]

7 Questions with Eliza Coupe of USA Networks’ Benched

November 4, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Eliza Coupe plays fish-out-of-imported-water Nina Whitley on USA Network’s courtroom comedy, Benched. And while she shares very few character traits her status-obsessed character, Coupe was sold on the part immediately. She reveals, “After the first page of the script, I called my manager and said, “I’m obsessed. This is amazing!” Coupe, who previously starred on ABC’s comedy Happy Endings, gleefully admitted to being a hopeless geek when she answered our 7 Questions. 1. You’re at a magazine rack and can only pick three titles. Which ones do you choose? I probably would choose Newsweek, Architectural Digest, I am such a […]

Jane the Virgin Episode 4 Recap: Daddy Issues

November 4, 2014 StayTuned Staff

As “Chapter Four” of Jane the Virgin aired, we see Jane working with Michael and her family on plans for the wedding. Everything seems to be going as planned until Jane realizes that her feeling for Rafael might be getting in the way. It may have to deal with the fact that she has a sex dream about Rafael later that night while in bed with her fiancé, Michael. Yikes! Jane confides in her mother and explains the dream she had guest-starring Rafael. Jane tries to push it off, saying that these feelings could easily be explained by the fact […]

“American Dad!” recap: “Scents and Sensei-bility”

November 4, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Despite its title being a play off a Jane Austen novel title, last night’s episode of American Dad! was unrelated to any of her classic works (sorry Austen fans). The main plot was more akin to The Karate Kid, as Steve and Snot decide to take up karate after witnessing supposed fellow nerd — new kid Martin — beat the crap out of an unsuspecting bully (with Martin being told to “FINISH HIM!” with the Mortal Kombat-style voice of a fellow student, which becomes a running joke in the episode, with this kid speaking everything in the tone of that […]

CBS should blacklist “The McCarthys”

October 30, 2014 Ryan Berenz

The McCarthys CBS Premieres: Oct. 30 Airs: Thursdays at 9:30pm ET/PT Who’s In It? Tyler Ritter, Jack McGee, Laurie Metcalf, Jimmy Dunn, Joey McIntyre What’s It All About? The McCarthys are a tight-knit Boston family and are therefore loud, obnoxious, sports-obsessed and closed-minded. Middle child Ronny (Ritter) is gay, civilized, sports-ignorant but WICKED BOOK SMAAHT and therefore something of the family’s black sheep. When Ronny wants to move away, his father (McGee), head coach of a high-school basketball team, hires him to be an assistant coach. Crazy, right? It’s also infuriatingly bad. We’d rather listen to New Kids on the […]

HBO’s The Comeback: Valerie Cherish returns — and this time, she WILL be heard

October 28, 2014 Lori Acken

Call it TV’s comeback of the decade — because 10 years is nearly how long HBO’s rule-breaking series The Comeback has taken to return to the network for its much-discussed second season. In the summer of 2005, former Friends star Lisa Kudrow, her producing partner Dan Bucatinsky and Sex and the City’s Michael Patrick King debuted the 13-episode, dual-camera series, which starred Kudrow as fading actress Valerie Cherish, who allows a reality TV crew to capture her humbling return to the small screen in a hormonal teen sitcom. Critical acclaim — and three Emmy nominations — followed. So did cancellation. […]

Jane the Virgin Episode 3 Recap: Heartbreaker

October 28, 2014 StayTuned Staff

We fell in love with Jane the Virgin knowing the backstory of how Jane’s Abuela told her the story of keeping her virginity until marriage. We saw the flower being crushed and how impossible it was to put it back to its original form. However, in this episode, Jane is turning the tables on everything. She’s realized that her one nightmare has come true: She’s unmarried and pregnant just like her mother was. She figures why wait any longer to have sex if she’s already pregnant and has a fiancé who has been waiting patiently. When Jane lets Michael in […]

“American Dad!” recap: “CIAPOW”

October 27, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Last week’s season premiere of American Dad! on its new network, TBS, topped basic cable entertainment programs for the evening — delivering 2.5 million viewers between its TBS premiere and its encore presentation on Adult Swim. The episode also was tops for basic cable entertainment in key demos, drawing in over 1.6 million adults 18-49 and 1.2 million adults 18-34, according to a TBS release. We’ll see if the new episodes continue to draw similar numbers, of if people tuned in that first night to see if the show may be “edgier” than its FOX incarnation. As I wrote about […]

Boo-urns!: Simpsons World reviewed

October 21, 2014 Ryan Berenz

Everything’s coming up Milhouse. The Simpsons World immersive experience launched Oct. 21 on SimpsonsWorld.com and the FXNOW mobile app. Highlights of Simpsons World include: – Every Simpsons episode from Seasons 1-25, plus new Season 26 episodes available the day after they air on FOX. Sorry, episodes have commercials. – Episode and clips playlists created around a central theme (“Eat My Shorts” Shorts, Simpsons Predict the Future) – A section with the most popular episodes and clips, sorted by today, this month or this year – Rareties, including behind-the-scenes featurettes, cast and producer interviews, and more – Links to Simpsons stuff […]