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Funny as “Hell”: TBS introduces us to the demons next door

June 7, 2010 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison The Hellmans might be demons, but the real villains are you and I. That’s the joke behind Neighbors From Hell, which adds twisted, satiric animation to TBS‘s “Very Funny” lineup starting tonight. Writer/executive producer Pam Brady brings the biting humor she honed during her years on South Park to the adventures of a family of demons sent by the devil to pose as typical suburbanites (no mean feat, given their green skin, red eyes and pointy ears) in order to prevent a giant energy company from using a high-powered drill to reach the Earth’s core, thereby exposing […]

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Back to the “Futurama” — Billy West interview

May 26, 2010 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Never underestimate the ability of fans to influence the decisions of entertainment powers-that-be in this age of the Internet and DVD sales. They were effective enough to get new episodes of Family Guy made, and now they have scored another coup by being a major force behind the return of Matt Groening’s Futurama, which begins its sixth season June 24 on Comedy Central, after unceremoniously disappearing from FOX seven years ago (but continuing in an unofficial “season” via a series of successful direct-to-DVD movies over the years). “[The fans] never let up,” says star Billy West, who […]

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Ty Burrell Talks “Modern Family”‘s Comic Genius, Becoming A Real-Life Dad

May 22, 2010 Lori Acken

You may remember him as egotistical plastic surgeon Dr. Oliver Barnes in the 2005 Henry Winkler/Stockard Channing medical sitcom Out of Practice. Or as a smarmy weatherman with an unpronounceable last name in the 2007 Kelsey Grammer/Patricia Heaton sitcom Back to You. Or maybe even as doomed yacht captain Steve Marcus in the 2004 remake of the zombie horror classic Dawn of the Dead. But odds are even if you’ve only seen one episode of (or arguably even one commercial for) ABC’s breakout comedy Modern Family, you aren’t likely to forget Ty Burrell as occasionally dimwitted, always kindhearted Dunphy dad […]

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Cham-pan-ya in 3-D: “Saturday Night Live” movies that shoulda been

May 21, 2010 StayTuned Staff

It’s hard to believe, but there hasn’t been a Saturday Night Live-spinoff movie since 2000’s little-seen The Ladies Man. For a while there, it seemed like the parade of half-hearted, one-note, laugh-free clunkers would never stop. Remember gems like Superstar, A Night at the Roxbury and Stuart Saves His Family. Neither did we, until we decided we better up and do some research for this piece. For every monster success like The Blues Brothers and Wayne’s World, there are legendary bombs like It’s Pat (which grossed about $1.95, adjusted for inflation) and — ahem — Blues Brothers 2000. But, much […]

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Martha Stewart, Nick Jonas, Tim Gunn and others play working stiffs in CBS’s latest “I Get That A Lot” special

May 14, 2010 Lori Acken

They’ve turned Paris Hilton into a gas station lackey, Heidi Klum into a pizza parlor gal and Rachel Ray into a dry cleaning drudge — now CBS is back with another celeb-studded edition of I Get That A Lot, putting more really recognizable faces into unexpected places to give regular citizens a serious case of “Is that or isn’t it …?” The network’s third hilarious one-hour special features the following celebs getting their every-man on to the confusion — and amusement — of customers and passersby: • TV host and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart as a arty employee at a […]

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Bret Michaels kicks off Season 2 of Nick’s “Glenn Martin, DDS”

May 14, 2010 Jeff Pfeiffer

Nick at Nite’s stop-motion animated comedy series begins its second season June 11 at 10:30pm ET/PT. The upcoming season will feature an impressive cast of celebrity guest voices, including Mel Brooks, Fergie, Kristen Bell, Sean Hayes, the ubiquitous Betty White, Jimmy Kimmel, John Corbett, Fran Drescher, Bradley Whitford, Cheri Oteri, MC Hammer, Jason Alexander, George Takei, Howie Mandel, Don Johnson, Ty Burrell, Ashley Tisdale, Jim Parsons, Bryan Cranston, Gabourey Sibide and Ellen Page, among others.

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“Simpsons” desktop app available for April Fool’s Day

March 31, 2010 Jeff Pfeiffer

From FOX: Just in time for April Fool’s Day, Simpsons fans have the chance to pull the ultimate Bart-worthy pranks on their friends through The Simpsons Unleashed! desktop application available for download at www.thesimpsons.com. This free desktop app allows The Simpsons to invade your computer screen with irreverent humor and high jinks, as well as the latest news and updates on all things Simpsons. Powered by Adobe® AIR®, The Simpsons Unleashed! gives fans the chance to engage with The Simpsons like never before while interacting with their Facebook friends. After downloading the app, fans can compete against each other to […]

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“Scrubs” pre-postmortem: Was Season 9 worth it?

March 17, 2010 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison With tonight’s finale, Scrubs may be ending what has to be one of the most unlikely nine-year runs on television. The quirky show fought off not one but two cases of network apathy, constantly revolving time slots, a (friendly?) rivalry with Family Guy and a complete premise makeover on its way to posterity. But about this last season, which has seen the show move from the halls of Sacred Heart to the classrooms at Winston University, jettisoning Zach Braff and other regulars and replacing them with a bunch of newbies. Was it worth it, or should there […]

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Betty White joins “Hot in Cleveland”

March 16, 2010 StayTuned Staff

New York, March 16th, 2010 — TV Land announced today that it has signed Emmy® Award-winning and audience-adored actress Betty White to star in the highly anticipated TV Land PRIME Original sitcom Hot in Cleveland scheduled to premiere in June. Betty White will take on the role of the snarky but lovable Elka Ostrovsky, property caretaker of the home that co-stars — Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick — rent after their plane makes an emergency landing in Cleveland and they decide to stay. Hot in Cleveland is written by Emmy® Award-winning Suzanne Martin (Frasier, Ellen) and is produced […]