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Fall TV shows 2014: New comedy series premiere dates, times and previews

August 20, 2014 StayTuned Staff

Fall TV shows 2014: A roundup of the dates, times, previews and more for the new comedy TV series premiering in fall 2014. A to Z NBC Premieres: Oct. 2 Airs: Thursdays at 9:30pm ET/PT Andrew (Ben Feldman) and Zelda (Cristin Milioti) date for eight months, three weeks, five days and one hour. “This television program is the comprehensive account of their relationship from A to Z,” says the narrator (Katey Sagal). Bad Judge NBC Premieres: Oct. 2 Airs: Thursdays at 9pm ET/PT Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice) takes a walk on the wild side as a brilliant but […]

Hub Network To Re-Air Happy Days Episode With Robin Williams

August 13, 2014 Kellie Freeze

The Hub Network is paying tribute to the legendary actor with a special airing of the Happy Days episode with Robin Williams playing his character “Mork from Ork.” The episode, “My Favorite Orkan,” will air two times in succession on Friday, August 15 at 9pm and 9:30pm ET/6pm and 6:30pm PT. This episode introduced the now famous alien Mork and landed Williams his first starring television role in the popular sitcom Mork & Mindy. Fans everywhere will get to enjoy the episode with the alternative ending that paved the way for Mork & Mindy with an on air tribute during […]

TV Land reboots Candid Camera for a new generation

August 11, 2014 Ryan Berenz

Can TV Land improve on a classic? We’ll find out as a longtime staple of TV and the original reality show, Candid Camera, gets rebooted for the 21st century on TV Land. Candid Camera created the hidden camera concept for TV in 1948 and produced the “Smile! You’re on candid camera!” catchphrase. Versions of the show aired for more than 50 years and inspired countless other similar hidden camera prank shows (like MTV’s Punk’d). TV Land’s new iteration is hosted by Mayim Bialik (The Big Bang Theory) and Peter Funt, son of original Candid Camera creator and host Allen Funt. […]

Masters Of Illusion Premieres Tonight on CW

August 1, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Masters of Illusion has aired on different networks as specials and series, and even has spawned a successful touring magic show, but now it has found a magical new home on The CW with host Dean Cain (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman). The show features the world’s best magicians and illusionists performing great escapes, fascinating sleight-of-hand tricks and large-scale illusions before a studio audience. Executive producer Gay Blackstone (widow of famed magician Harry Blackstone Jr.) says Masters of Illusion will feature magic that the audience has never seen. “Some of the show’s magic may be classic, but […]

FX “Partners” with Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence

July 31, 2014 Ryan Berenz

In the new FX comedy series Partners, Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence play two Chicago lawyers from vastly different backgrounds who unexpectedly meet on their worst day. Marcus Jackson (Lawrence) is going through a heartbreaking divorce, while Allen Braddock (Grammer) just got fired from his father’s firm. After fate brings them together, they form a friendship and start their own storefront law firm. Two comic heavyweights team up in the new FX comedy Partners, with Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence playing down-on-their-luck lawyers who are brought together by fate and become cohorts. If the law firm of Grammer & Lawrence […]

Play D’oh!: The Simpsons FXX marathon schedule

July 31, 2014 Ryan Berenz

Woo hoo! TV’s longest-running marathon gets underway Aug. 21 on FXX, which will air every episode of The Simpsons — 552 episodes, 25 seasons — back-to-back in order over the next 12 days. FXX will also air The Simpsons Movie on Aug. 29. Thank you! Come again! You’ll need a wheelbarrow full of tacos to provide adequate sustenance for this marathon. In a historic deal, FXX won exclusive pay-TV, on demand and non-linear rights to The Simpsons, and the network is celebrating with the longest marathon on TV history: all 552 episodes from Seasons 1-25 and The Simpsons Movie […]

Penn & Teller: Fool Us premieres on The CW

July 30, 2014 Kellie Freeze

The CW reaffirms it’s love of magic in the first of two magic-themed shows premiering this week. The first, premiering Wednesday, July 30 at 8pmET is Penn & Teller: Fool Us. World famous illusionists Penn & Teller have issued a challenge to aspiring magicians: Show us your best trick, and if you can fool us, you can perform with us. In the U.S. premiere of a program that Penn & Teller originated in the U.K., wannabes are invited to perform in front of Penn, Teller and a live studio audience. If Penn & Teller can figure out a trick after […]

Best Comedy TV Show: The 3rd Annual Viewers Voice Awards

July 26, 2014 StayTuned Staff

From longer-running series like Modern Family, Parks and Recreation, Community and The Big Bang Theory, to newer shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Millers and Playing House, there are plenty of comedy series today that keep us laughing. Channel Guide readers and staff have narrowed down the nominees for Best Comedy TV Show to 10 series, all deserving praise. Now is your chance to vote for the show that makes you laugh hardest. Is it Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Veep? Key and Peele your go to? Or what about truTV’s hit Impractical Jokers? Vote for your favorite below in the 2014 Viewers Voice […]

Best TV Flashback: The 3rd Annual Viewers Voice Awards

July 25, 2014 StayTuned Staff

These are the TV shows that take us back in time, whether its reliving the fashions and music of the 1980s in ABC’s The Goldbergs or showcasing the competitive advertising world of the 1960s in Mad Men, it’s a welcome flashback in time. These two shows, as well as, FX’s The Americans, AMC’s new Halt and Catch Fire and HBO’s new Silicon Valley have all done an exceptional job at showcasing the politics, family life, fashion, music and technology of times gone by. What’s your favorite TV flashback series of today? Vote for the Best TV Flashback in the 2014 […]

FX’s New Show, “You’re The Worst,” Not For Kids

July 15, 2014 StayTuned Staff

FX gives the comedic love story a twist in its new show, You’re the Worst. They the ditch flowery romance of a typical love story with plot lines styled straight out of The Notebook and present the quest for love in a more perverse and disastrous tone, much like a Judd Apatow-directed film. Struggling writer, Jimmy (Chris Geere), meets publicist Gretchen (Aya Cash) at a wedding while drukenly drowning in mutual misery. They both hate the world and everyone in it, only caring about themselves and the truth. Of course, this means that Gretchen needs to go home with Jimmy […]