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“The Writers’ Room”: Jim Rash tackles TV’s biggest series in Sundance Channel talk show

July 25, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Television is often called a writer’s medium these days, but it’s rare that we actually get to see any writers onscreen. Sundance Channel and Jim Rash — along with Entertainment Weekly — are out to change that with The Writers’ Room. Taking the staffs of some of today’s hottest shows — Breaking Bad, Dexter, Game of Thrones, Parks and Recreation, American Horror Story and New Girl — the six-episode series puts them in a roundtable format (think Real Time with Bill Maher minus the politics) to give an in-depth, unfiltered look into how they make the choices they do, and […]

Keith Olbermann returning to ESPN2 in August

July 17, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Keith Olbermann returns to ESPN with a late-night program, Olbermann, premiering Aug. 26 and airing weeknights on ESPN2 at 11pm ET. Upstaging the news that hell has frozen over is the official word from ESPN that Keith Olbermann is returning to the ESPN family with a late-night sports talk show Olbermann, premiering Monday, Aug. 26, and airing Mondays-Fridays at 11pm ET on ESPN2. Olbermann worked for ESPN from 1992-97, and their acrimonious parting was the stuff of legend (“He didn’t just burn bridges here. He napalmed them.”). After a number of gigs in between (including Current TV), it seems now […]

Comedy Bang Bang returns for Season 2 of inspired lunacy on IFC

July 12, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Comedy Bang! Bang! Fridays beginning July 12 IFC, 10pm ET/PT Maybe it was the Ghoulies joke. I’ll admit to having largely missed out on the first season of Comedy Bang! Bang!, IFC’s free-form send-up of the talk-show genre. Then when I put in the screeners for two episodes of Season 2, with guest stars Andy Samberg and Aziz Ansari, I sat there for a while not too impressed, finding the endless stream of improvised gags feeling at times like a laborious outtake reel — you know, like those ones for Judd Apatow or Will Ferrell movies where you’re shocked at […]

“Carson on TCM” airs Johnny Carson’s vintage late-night interviews

July 1, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Ending the day with a dose of Johnny Carson was an American tradition for nearly 30 years, as the King of Late Night seemingly perfected the art of the talk-show interview, and the format itself. Johnny’s been off the air since 1992, but audiences will get a chance to see him in action again this summer — albeit a little earlier in the day — with Carson on TCM. Hosted by Conan O’Brien, Carson on TCM will feature vintage interviews from The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson, many of which haven’t been seen in their entirety since their original air date. […]

“Steve Harvey” daytime show renewed through 2016

June 12, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution announced that Steve Harvey, the hit daytime syndicated television show hosted by Harvey, has been sold through 2016 to station groups across the country, including NBC owned television stations. The show had already been renewed for a second season, and it will now be extended for additional seasons through 2016 in more than 65% of the U.S. to date. “Steve is one of the best entertainers in the country and his first season has been a tremendous success because of the personal connection he makes with the daytime audience,” said Ted Harbert, Chairman, NBC Broadcasting. “It’s […]

John Oliver takes over “Daily Show” host duties tonight

June 10, 2013 Ryan Berenz

John Oliver takes over as guest host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart for eight weeks starting Monday, June 10, at 11pm ET. John Oliver takes over as guest host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart starting Monday, June 10, at 11pm ET, while Jon Stewart takes an eight-week leave from the show to direct his first feature film, Rosewater. A mainstay on The Daily Show since 2006, Oliver reassures fans that the show won’t suffer a bit. “Don’t worry, it’s still going to be everything that you love about The Daily Show, just […]

Jason Collins visits “Jimmy Kimmel Live” with his brother

May 15, 2013 StayTuned Staff

NBA player Jason Collins, who made history last month by becoming the first active male player in a major team American sport to openly identify as gay, stopped by ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday night, bringing along his brother Jarren. Jarren expressed unconditional love for his brother, who currently is a free agent looking for his next team, and joked about how he used to try to set him up on dates with women all the time, to no avail. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

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 […]

Inside the Actors Studio celebrates its 250th episode May 29

May 7, 2013 Lori Acken

Beloved Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton is about to get his 250th opportunity to ask Hollywood’s top thespians to confess their favorite curse word. On Wednesday, May 29, Bravo will celebrate the landmark series’ 250th episode with a special 2-hour event that includes new interviews with former guests including Barbara Walters (who admires Lipton’s interview skills), Dave Chappelle (who marvels at Lipton’s aversion to pre-interviews), Jay Leno (who describes his envy for the show’s freewheeling format), Conan O’Brien (two words: horny manatee), plus Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Burstyn and Spike Lee. […]

“The Show With Vinny” gives “Jersey Shore” alum something to do

May 2, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Jersey Shore’s Vinny Guadagnino hosts MTV’s The Show With Vinny (premiering Thursday, May 2, at 10pm ET/PT), a new conversational interview show from his family home in Staten Island, N.Y. With no studio or audience, celebrity guests enjoy hospitality with Guadagnino’s family and Italian cuisine prepared by his mother. When Jersey Shore ended, MTV promised/warned it wouldn’t be the last we’d see of Snooki, The Situation, et al. We’ve already been subjected to spinoffs Snooki & JWOWW and The Pauly D Project, neither of which garnered the same following as Jersey Shore, and MTV seems to be clutching at this […]