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Jon Lovitz to chat live during tonight’s “Hot in Cleveland”

March 9, 2011 StayTuned Staff

Tonight’s episode of Hot in Cleveland, “LeBron Is Le Gone,” features guest stars Jon Lovitz and Isaiah Mustafa (a.k.a. The Old Spice Guy). Lovitz, who plays a homeless man Joy (Jane Leeves) becomes engaged to in a last-ditch effort to get her green card, will be chatting live during the episode beginning at 9:45pm ET. Visit tvland.com to join in. Mustafa guest-stars as the shooting coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers, who still hasn’t gotten over the departure of the team’s biggest superstar LeBron James. Hot in Cleveland airs tonight at 10pm on TV Land.

The show must go on without Sheen

March 9, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi Can we please put an end to the ridiculous ideas going around about everybody from John Stamos to Rob Lowe replacing Charlie Sheen on the CBS hit Two and a Half Men? No one person can fill those shoes or multiple personalities, so I had another thought I’d like to throw out to CBS. Remember when David Letterman went through his heart surgery several years ago? Well, instead of airing repeats or finding one person to temporarily replace him, the network went with different guest hosts every night to man the ship. With that in mind, I […]

VOD Spotlight: “Jackass 3”

March 8, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

So you think your kid is crazy? In 1997, aspiring lunatic Philip John “PJ” Clapp shot himself in the chest with a .38-caliber revolver to test the strength of a bulletproof vest. But according to his mother, the man who would change his name to Johnny Knoxville was apparently crazed from early childhood. The toddler who would climb out of his playpen and throw himself on the floor “matured” into a teen who reportedly dove out of a second-floor hotel window into the pool. Jackass, the TV series and the films, worried Knoxville’s mom, Lemoyne Clapp, who says she hopes […]

VOD Spotlight: “Morning Glory”

March 8, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

There is a great tradition of comedies featuring ambitious young women, from the 1940 film His Girl Friday to the modern dramedy Working Girl. In Morning Glory, the comedy is set in the frequently funny world of morning news broadcasts. It stars Rachel McAdams as Becky Fuller, a talented television producer who tries to make peace between an egotistical news reporter (Harrison Ford) and a morning show host (Diane Keaton) so she can turn the falling ratings around. “If you’ve seen any clips on YouTube, you know that morning news is full of some of the most absurdly hysterical stuff […]

Jon Cryer’s “temp job” with Ellen DeGeneres

March 3, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

Here’s a clip from today’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show, in which Jon Cryer — recently out of work because of the shutdown of Two and a Half Men following costar Charlie Sheen’s antics — takes a temp job answering phones for Ellen. The Ellen DeGeneres Show airs in syndication; check your local listings for channel and time.

Forecast on “Mr. Sunshine” still looks cloudy

March 2, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi One of the toughest things about watching TV is determining how many episodes you are willing to give a new show before deciding if you are going to add it to your coveted weekly viewing calendar. That’s the dilemma I am currently facing with the comedy Mr. Sunshine (tonight, 9:30 pm ET). I’ve always been a fan of both Matthew Perry and Allison Janney, so I was excited when ABC announced that they were appearing together in show about the folks who run the day-to-day operations at a sports/entertainment arena. I would be lying, however, if I […]

“Retired at 35” sneak peek: “Gate Gate”

March 2, 2011 StayTuned Staff

In tonight’s episode, “Gate Gate,” David’s life seems to finally be in order until his parents go head-to-head for the neighborhood board seat and take dirty politics to another level. Fred Willard guest-stars. Retired at 35 airs tonight at 10:30pm on TV Land.

“Hot in Cleveland” sneak peek: “Dog Tricks, Sex Flicks & Joy’s Fix”

March 2, 2011 StayTuned Staff

In tonight’s episode, “Dog Tricks, Sex Flicks & Joy’s Fix,” Joy (Jane Leeves) meets a wonderful guy in the waiting room of her therapist, then steals his file to learn more about him. Meanwhile, Elka (Betty White) tries to train a rescue dog and Victoria (Wendie Malick) tries to jump-start her career by making a sex tape … with Melanie (Valerie Bertinelli). Hot in Cleveland airs tonight at 10pm on TV Land.

Razzie Awards to be held tomorrow

February 25, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

You won’t seem them on TV (even though they seem to be ready-made to be presented as an hourlong special for Comedy Central, Spike or IFC; and they do have a YouTube channel), the Golden Raspberry Awards (aka “Razzies”) will be having their 31st installment tomorrow at a ceremony in Hollywood. These hilarious awards — which celebrate the worst in film from the past year — are traditionally held the night before the Oscar ceremony, and are sort of the anti-Academy Awards. Each of this year’s 10 categories has five nominees (it could be argued that the Razzies should expand […]

Has Charlie Sheen lost his shine?

February 25, 2011 Tom Comi

There’s always been the great debate about whether life imitates art or if it’s the other way around, but the fact that there seems to be so many similarities between Charlie Sheen’s personal life and that of his character on Two and a Half Men could very well lead to the show’s ultimate downfall. We’re not going to rehash the bickering that has been going on back and forth between Sheen and show creator Chuck Lorre (you can read that elsewhere), but suffice it to say that it had a lot to do with the plug being pulled on the […]