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truTV announces “Impractical Jokers” spinoff “Jokers Wild”

July 10, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

At the Television Critics Association (TCA) Summer Press Tour, truTV announced that it will be following up its hugely successful prank show Impractical Jokers with a new spinoff series called Jokers Wild, slated to premiere Sept. 25 at 10pm ET/PT. In Jokers Wild, Sal, Q, Murr and Joe of Impractical Jokers will, according to truTV, “take viewers on a wild ride, going beyond the pranks for a comical look at their personal lives. Everyone can relate to disastrous dates, embarrassing habits and humiliating childhood memories, but only the Jokers can one-up each other in such colorful, authentic and hilariously awkward […]

Judy Greer and Nat Faxon are the perfect match in FX’s “Married”

July 2, 2014 Ryan Berenz

FX’s new comedy series Married stars Nat Faxon and Judy Greer as a couple who can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt and suburbia rained on their romance. Odds are pretty good you know Judy Greer from something. In fact, she wrote a book, I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star, mostly about her experiences playing the best friend in every Hollywood romantic comedy you’ve ever seen. Greer gets to take the rom-com route again, but this time it’s in the new 10-episode FX series Married (Thursdays beginning July 17 at 10pm […]

From “Boy Meets World” To Man

June 27, 2014 Kellie Freeze

The buzz around Disney Channel’s new kid-com Girl Meets World has been feverish since the project was announced. Fans of its predecessor, Boy Meets World, are thrilled to revisit favorite characters Topanga (Danielle Fishel) and Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) and meet their family. “We’re really excited to bring our show and our vision back to TV and hopefully people will like it,” says Savage. The highly anticipated show premieres June 27th after the Disney Channel Original Movie, Zapped, staring teen sensation Zendaya. Read About Disney Channel’s Original Movie, Zapped What foods can’t Zendaya live without? Find out in “7 Questions…” […]

Acting icons Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi headline hilarious Britcom “Vicious”

June 26, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

With same-sex partnerships becoming more accepted in real life every day, it only makes sense that that would also be reflected more frequently in art. And the more such couples are seen through the lens of a film, or a TV show, the more it will serve to show that such couples are no different from male-female couples: They live day to day, they love and they bicker. That is certainly the case for Freddie (Ian McKellen) and Stuart (Derek Jacobi), the protagonists of Vicious, a hilarious British series that makes its U.S. debut June 29 on PBS. Freddie and […]

TBS celebrates “Seinfeld” 25th anniversary with week of best episodes

June 25, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

It isn’t hard to find the classic sitcom Seinfeld airing somewhere; it still runs in syndication, and TBS broadcasts a number of episodes on most nights. But the week of June 30-July 5, TBS will narrow down its airings to 25 of the series’ most popular and acclaimed episodes, in honor of the comedy’s 25th (!!) anniversary (Seinfeld first aired on TV, as The Seinfeld Chronicles, on July 5, 1989). TBS will air four of the best Seinfeld episodes each weeknight from June 30-July 4, culminating on the 25th anniversary of the show’s first broadcast, with five episodes on July […]

Jodi Long Shares Details Of Sullivan And Son, Season 3

June 23, 2014 Kellie Freeze

For fans of TBS’ hilarious comedy, one might not expect tough-as-nails Ok Cha Sullivan to be known for her laugh. On the show, she has a difficult relationship with everyone and an opinion about everything. But for the woman who plays the character her laugh is one thing you notice immediately. Jodi Long, who plays Ok Cha and I had a lovely chat while she made herself a cup of tea before heading into the set where Sullivan and Son is taping its third season. I asked Long if her cast mates were bawdy bar men and she unleashed her […]

CeeLo Green’s The Good Life: Goodie Mob reunites on TBS

June 11, 2014 Lori Acken

On paper, CeeLo Green’s new TBS show is about the charismatic pop and hip-hop star and former The Voice coach reuniting with his very first musical group (and longtime best friends) Goodie Mob after a 14-year hiatus to record last year’s Age Against the Machine. In the six-episode series’ hilarious promos, it also involves tigers, flaming pianos, foulmouthed cartoon critters and Green getting schooled by a Little Leaguer. In actuality, CeeLo Green’s The Good Life is about four ambitious guys, who grew up together in the Atlanta music scene, finding laugh-out-loud ways to breathe fresh life into the art and […]

Poll: Which Royal Pains MacGyver-ism is your Favorite?

June 10, 2014 Kellie Freeze

What’s your favorite McGyver-ism? For the last five seasons of Royal Pains, Dr. Hank Lawson and the staff of HankMed have used medical improvisation to treat patients. As Season 6 begins, star Mark Feuerstein promises lots of medical MacGyver-isms, including one he calls Dr. Hank’s “most insane ever.” Which genius solution to a medical emergency has been your favorite? Take a look a a description of some of the most memorable moments from the first 5 seasons of fantastic saves and vote for your favorite. Medical MacGyver-ism Descriptions Season One, Episode 101: “Pilot” Hank MacGyvers surgery on Tucker with a […]

Hurting for HankMed? Mark Feuerstein talks Royal Pains.

June 9, 2014 Kellie Freeze

On June 10 at 9/8c, Royal Pains returns to USA Network for Season 6, and it’s sweet, witty and utterly charming star, Mark Feurerstein, is excited that this season’s big new thing is a return to something old. So Mark, what’s new with the return of Royal Pains? “Royal Pains not only coming back, it’s coming back with a vengeance. It is returning to its greatest glory insofar as we are coming back with that jaunty fast-paced, romp of a medical show that fans first fell in love with. We may have diverged, like all entities searching themselves for who […]

7 Questions With … Jaime Pressly of TV Land’s “Jennifer Falls”

May 29, 2014 Ryan Berenz

Jaime Pressly stars in the new TV Land sitcom Jennifer Falls (Wednesdays beginning June 4 at 10:30pm ET/PT) as Jennifer Doyle, a fired executive who falls on hard times. After losing everything except her mountain of debt, Jennifer and her teenage daughter are forced to move back in with her psychotherapist mother (Jessica Walter). Jennifer has to take a job working at a sports bar owned by her brother (played by Pressly’s My Name Is Earl costar Ethan Suplee) and passive-aggressive sister-in-law (Nora Kirkpatrick). And while she’s rebuilding her life, Jennifer has to make amends with an old friend (Missi Pyle) […]