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Hot in Cleveland wins Best Comedy in Channel Guide’s 2013 Viewers Voice Awards

October 21, 2013 Channel Guide Contributor

Hot in Cleveland wins 2013 Viewers Voice Award for the “Best Comedy” in Channel Guide’s annual reader poll. The Betty White magic is still going strong with TV Land’s hit sitcom, which got a boost this season with an epic reunion of ladies from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Fast-paced and surprisingly risqué at times, Hot in Cleveland always brings the funny while always making time to show today’s audience that their favorite performers from yesteryear can still get it done. Best Comedy — Winner: Hot in Cleveland Hot in Cleveland/TV Land 40.8% Cougar Town/TBS 31.4% Real Husbands of Hollywood/BET […]

7 Questions With … Pete Holmes of TBS’ “The Pete Holmes Show”

October 16, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Pete Holmes believes the key to comedy, for him anyway, lies in being real. He’s fond of a quote from fellow comic, the late Bill Hicks, who said, “If you can be yourself on stage nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.” So you won’t hear the 34-year-old comic telling fake stories about crazy cab rides or made-up relatives during his monologues on The Pete Holmes Show, which premieres Oct. 28 on TBS right after Conan. No, the affable funnyman prefers to be himself, and he brought that honesty when he answered […]

Power outage delays new “South Park” episode

October 16, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

The new South Park episode originally scheduled to air tonight (Oct. 16) — Episode 1704, “Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers” — has been delayed by a week due to a power outage at South Park Studios last night, according to Comedy Central. Due to the power outage (an image from the outage is pictured below), all computers at the studios were down, so everything from animation to rendering to editing and sound on the episode was unable to be completed in time for the episode to air tonight, as originally planned. According to South Park co-creator Trey Parker, […]

Totally ’80s The Goldbergs recap: Why’re You Hitting Yourself?

October 16, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Totally ’80s The Goldbergs recap: Why’re You Hitting Yourself? (Original airdate on ABC Oct. 15) Beverly tries to play matchmaker for her father, while Adam and Barry bond after they discover a scrambled adult TV channel. Totally Well Done: “I ordered the steak, she ordered the me.” – Pops Totally ’80s Randomness: Another Voltron t-shirt, Carly Simon lips, partially ripped Hulkamania T-shirt, General Hospital‘s Luke and Laura HA! I kill me!: “ALF eats cats and says what he thinks.” – Barry Cable TV Remote Or Accordion? Cable TV “remotes” were monstrosities, though provided us with more fun as kids than […]

Totally ’80s The Goldbergs Blog: Mini Murray

October 9, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Totally ’80s The Goldbergs Blog: Mini Murray (original airdate on ABC Oct. 8, 2013) Wanting to buy a pair of Reebok Pumps, Barry works with Murray to earn the money and discovers a knack for selling furniture. Beverly uses Adam’s fear of Poltergeist to get affection. Totally Best Line: “Here’s the thing about your dream. It’s stupid.” – Murray Totally Pumping Up, Airing Out: Barry wants the Reebok Pump basketball shoe (original retail price $175!) to compensate for being truly horrible at basketball. Totally The Least Popular Of Disney Mice: The Great Mouse Detective (1986) was indeed a real movie. […]

Sean Saves the World premieres tonight at 9/8CT on NBC

October 3, 2013 Lori Acken

Will & Grace’s Sean Hayes is back as a gay guy with comical family, friend and workplace issues in Sean Saves the World, which premieres tonight on NBC. But this time, instead of acting like a child, a la Jack McFarland, he has one. And instead of Rosario to mother him, he has an actual mother played by actress Linda Lavin, a ’70s comedy trendsetter herself as singing waitress Alice. But the laughs are signature Hayes. Hayes says his groundbreaking former series helped pave the way for this throughly modern family sitcom in which he stars as a single dad trying to balance his […]

“The Goldbergs” Totally ’80s Recap: Daddy Daughter Day

October 2, 2013 Ryan Berenz

The Goldbergs Totally ’80s Recap: Daddy Daughter Day (original airdate on ABC, Oct. 1, 2013) Murray tries to bond with Erica, while Beverly and Adam have a dispute over back-to-school clothes. ALSO SEE: The Goldbergs Totally ’80s Recap: Circle of Driving Totally Best Line: “That’s how I remember my dad: Pantsless, pissed off and far from a millionaire” – Adult Adam Totally In The Fortress Of Ultimate Darkness: Adam has a poster of Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits on his bedroom wall. Nine-Volt Battery Totally Not Included!: The thing that looks like a Star Wars AT-AT on Adam’s dresser is actually […]

Boomerang bringing back classic “Looney Tunes” shorts in October

September 27, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

I’ll admit I wasn’t a huge fan of Cartoon Network’s The Looney Tunes Show, an attempt to bring back the classic Warner Bros. animated characters in a modern format. While it was fun seeing the old gang like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, I found the show too formulaically sitcomish, and not nearly “looney” enough — certainly not up to the standards of inspired comic insanity set by the original Looney Tunes short films. Those short films will be making a return to the Cartoon Network family, on its sister network Boomerang. Beginning Oct. 5, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, […]

Rebel Wilson new show, Super Fun Night, based on some real-life moments

September 27, 2013 Barb Oates

Rebel Wilson new show – Super Fun Night — comes to ABC on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 9:30pmET/PT. “I’m just a girl from the bush who is very, very lucky,” Rebel Wilson tells us. Luck may have a little to do with some of her success, but don’t let Wilson’s modesty fool you, as she’s truly one of the funniest females in the business today. From her hilariously creepy, touchy-feely sister/brother thing in Bridesmaids to a cappella great Fat Amy in Pitch Perfect, Americans can’t get enough of the Australian funny girl. ABC was quick to recognize the opportunity and […]

Betsy Brandt on transitioning from Breaking Bad to The Michael J. Fox Show

September 26, 2013 Lori Acken

Betsy Brandt is enjoying a well-earned glass of wine after a long day of press for her new series The Michael J. Fox Show, having done the same drill just a day before for that other series she’s on. “Don’t let me get drunk or I’ll tell you how Breaking Bad ends!” she quips cheerfully, taking a sip from her glass and settling into a sofa in the lobby bar of a Beverly Hills hotel. I tell her we first met when Breaking Bad began, six years ago on the Bad set as the show filmed its first episodes. At the time, Brandt stretched out […]