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Bob Saget Showtime special “That’s What I’m Talkin’ About” airs tonight

May 10, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Bob Saget: That’s What I’m Talkin’ About Friday, May 10 Showtime, 10pm ET Ever since he became the standard bearer of cheesy, squeaky-clean middlebrow humor with his protracted stints on Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos, Bob Saget has delighted in showing the world how truly filthy he can be. From his memorable cameo in Half Baked to his increasingly raunchy standup specials, Saget has reveled in puncturing the image of his most famous gigs. He continues that streak tonight with That’s What I’m Talkin’ About, where he will strum around the stage with a guitar trotting out silly, […]

Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell returns tonight with guest Melissa Harris-Perry

May 9, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell Thursday, May 9 FX, 11pm ET/PT Rising star W. Kamau Bell returns with a new batch of episodes of his late-night talk show that unapologetically discusses politics, pop culture, race, religion, sex, the media — you know, all that stuff you’re not supposed to bring up at parties. Tonight’s guest on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell will be MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, who was the center of a controversy for saying in a network promo that “”we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong […]

Seth MacFarlane to guest-voice on “The Simpsons” season finale

May 8, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Seth MacFarlane will have his voice featured on all of FOX’s Animation Domination shows on the night of May 19 when he provides a guest voice to the long-running hit The Simpsons in its Season 24 finale (MacFarlane, of course, will also be featured in the one-hour season finales of his own series The Cleveland Show and Family Guy that same evening). There had been some good-natured (?) ribbing between The Simpsons and Family Guy during the early years of Seth MacFarlane’s show, with Family Guy sometimes joking along the lines of, “The Simpsons did this first,” while some Simpsons […]

Bill Hader: Kristen Wiig returning to host “SNL” will be “a blast”

May 8, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Kristen Wiig will be back on Saturday Night Live this week as host, and her old co-star Bill Hader couldn’t be happier. “That’s going to be a blast,” he said in a phone interview last week. “I love it when old cast members come back and host, like when [Amy] Poehler came back and hosted, and Tina [Fey] and Maya Rudolph and Jimmy Fallon. Dana Carvey, when he came back, it was unbelievable. Specifically, the people who were cast members when I was a cast member, you have an automatic shorthand with them. It’s very relaxing. You’re not going, ‘Oh, […]

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“Felt”: Logo show uses puppets to reenact real-life couples therapy

May 3, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Felt Monday, May 6 Logo, 10:30pm ET/PT (moves to regular Mondays at 10pm ET/PT timeslot starting next week) What’s funnier than soul-baring, gut-wrenching sessions of couples therapy? Puppets, of course! Sure, I could describe Felt for you, saying that it takes actual audio from real-life clients undergoing couples and sex therapy and uses puppets to dramatize them. But that’s probably not going to give you a full idea of what watching the show is like. Are we supposed to laugh at these people’s most intimate and vulnerable moments being made public? Is it some sort of weird art experiment? Do Kermit […]

The Office series finale: 9 most memorable episodes

May 3, 2013 Ryan Berenz

The Office series finale airs May 16 on NBC as the comedy ends its nine-season run. We picked the nine best episodes that defined the series. RELATED: NBC airs The Office retrospective before series finale Thursday The documentary film crew that set out in 2005 to chronicle life at the Scranton, Pa., branch of the Dunder Mifflin paper company has all the footage they need. For better or worse, The Office ends its nine-season run on NBC May 16 and will leave us with some brilliant work and characters that will resonate for years. Michael Scott (Steve Carell), Dwight Schrute […]

Preview MTV’s “Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous”

May 2, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Comedian Bo Burnham stars in MTV’s new comedy series Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous (premiering Thursday, May 2, at 10:30pm ET/PT) as Zach Stone, a recent high-school grad who decides to pursue stardom instead of going to college. He hires a camera crew to film him throughout his daily life as he tries every imaginable stunt to get noticed and become and instant celebrity. MTV Shows Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous stars Bo Burnham as Zach Stone; Kari Coleman (The Amazing Spider-Man) as Mrs. Stone; Tom Wilson (Back to the Future) as Mr. Stone; Cameron Palatas (Disney Channel’s […]

Marc Maron gets real on IFC’s “Maron”

May 1, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Maron Friday, May 3 IFC, 10pm ET Marc Maron is in a good place. Such a simple sentence, but it’s taken so much to make it a reality. A few years ago, the acerbic comedian was reeling financially and emotionally from his second divorce and a floundering career. That’s when almost on a lark he started inviting fellow comedians — many of whom he’d been friends with, and in some cases he had become jealous of for their success — over to his garage for interviews that he recorded for a modest podcast. WTF With Marc Maron eventually became an […]

Showtime’s “The Big C” goes to the great beyond with “Hereafter”

April 26, 2013 StayTuned Staff

The Showtime comedy “The Big C” starring Laura Linney ends its four-season run with four one-hour “Hereafter” episodes that begin April 29. Well, with a title like The Big C: Hereafter, we can be pretty sure that Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney) is going to meet her end, right? Not so fast, say the stars and producers of the Showtime comedy, which is ending its four-season run with four one-hour episodes that begin April 29 at 10pm ET/PT. They’re all being cagey about Cathy’s fate as she deals with her cancer, but they have promised a satisfying ending to the story. […]

VOD Spotlight: A Haunted House

April 23, 2013 Meredith Ennis

A Haunted House spoofs the horror genre and targets hits like Paranormal Activity, The Devil Inside, Sinister, The Possession and other “found footage” films with the story of a couple, Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins), who have just moved into their dream home. Unfortunately, they are not alone. There’s a demon present who quickly takes possession of Kisha. Malcolm, determined to keep his relationship — and more importantly, his sex life — on track, turns to a priest, a psychic and a team of modern-day ghost-busters for help. A Haunted House was cowritten by Wayans, star of In […]