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Legit finale date, time, TV channel, preview and more!

April 8, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Legit: “Fatherhood” Thursday, April 11 10:30pm ET, FX. Hey, remember way back in the Legit pilot when Jim hired that prostitute to take Billy’s virginity? Well, as funny/wrong/weirdly inspirational as that episode was, it has set up an even stranger season finale. In “Fatherhood,” Wendy the prostitute returns, pregnant with Billy’s baby. It’s safe to say that when Kate Luyben signed on to play Wendy, it wasn’t a role she was ever expecting to reprise. But life is funny sometimes, and not only is she back playing Wendy, she’s also now Legit star Jim Jefferies’ real-life girlfriend and the mother of […]

Ang Lee to direct FX pilot “Tyrant” — and other big-time directors who have gone to TV

March 14, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Not many people expected Ang Lee to take home the Best Director trophy at the Academy Awards last month for Life of Pi. He’s defying expectations yet again with his follow-up project, a pilot for FX called Tyrant, scheduled to shoot this summer. Tyrant tells the story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation, FX said in a release. Other than that, all we know is it comes from writers and producers of shows like Homeland and Lost, so yeah, we’ll be tuning in. But Lee’s move to the small screen isn’t […]

FX’s “The Americans” serves up a Cold War dish of intrigue

January 30, 2013 StayTuned Staff

There’s a temptation to look back fondly on the Cold War, if for no other reason than that the line between good and evil was clearly drawn: the U.S. hated the Soviet Union and vice versa. But in The Americans — premiering tonight at 10 on FX — that line is muddled, both for the characters and the audience. The time is 1981, and Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) seem like the all-American couple, running a travel agency and raising their two children in suburban Virginia. But what their neighbors — and even their children — don’t know […]

FX unveils title sequence for “The Americans”

January 23, 2013 StayTuned Staff

FX offered this sneak peek of the title sequence of its upcoming Cold War drama The Americans, which stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as a pair of KGB spies living undercover in the Washington, D.C., suburbs in 1981. The network says the sequence will be incorporated into the series beginning with Episode 2, so I guess we’re all on our own during the premiere 10pm Jan. 30.

“American Horror Story” officially has a problem with endings

January 23, 2013 StayTuned Staff

WARNING: MASSIVE SPOILER ALERTS!!!! Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, what the hell’s wrong with you, American Horror Story? Tonight’s Season 2 finale, “Madness Ends,” which airs at 10pm on FX, has me feeling some familiar frustrations. Last season I willfully and gladly went along with the big ball of crazy that befell the Harmon family, not caring that the rules were established, then seemingly broken at will. Just what the heck ghosts were capable of, anyway? I thought they couldn’t leave the house, but then I see one riding in the back of a squad car? […]

The Ultimate Fighter changes — Tuesday timeslot, documentary style, family at the octagon

January 21, 2013 Lori Acken

Whether you tune into The Ultimate Fighter for the action in the octagon or the drama in the house, you’ll notice some welcome changes to the newest cycle of the FX series — beginning with its Tuesday night time-slot. Having asked UFC president Dana White for one more shot at bolstering the show’s Friday night ratings, which trailed painfully behind the audience numbers TUF enjoyed at Spike, FX head John Landgraf honored his promise to move it to Tuesdays as a lead-in to the network’s hit drama Justified. In the newest go-round, twenty-eight middleweight fighters will battle for a slot on […]

Jim Jefferies goes “Legit” in new FX comedy

January 16, 2013 StayTuned Staff

When Jim Jefferies answers the phone at the agreed-upon time (between a network publicist and myself), just about the first thing he says is that he forgot he was doing an interview today. Not an unusual occurrence in my line of work. Busy people, packed schedules, these things happen. But I often don’t hear people tell me they just got out of the shower, meaning there was a pretty good chance that he was naked, and asking could I please call back in seven minutes. “Actually, how about eight minutes?” he quickly amended. So, eight minutes later I called him […]

“7 Questions” With … Jim Jefferies of FX’s “Legit”

January 14, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Aussie comic Jim Jefferies says his FX series, Legit — which premieres at 10:30pm Thursday — is basically about him as he was five years ago. That was when booze and women were paramount in his life, and he was wondering whether this comedy thing was going to work out. But now he’s in a stable relationship with the mother of his newborn son, and star of his own sitcom, a gleefully vulgar affair that also features a surprising amount of tenderness. You’re at a magazine rack and can only pick three titles. Which ones do you choose? Empire. I’ll take a Rolling […]

“Justified” gets mysterious for Season 4, says executive producer Graham Yost

January 7, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Many folks came up to Graham Yost while Justified was on hiatus and asked, wearily, who the Big Bad was going to be for Season 4. Margo Martindale and Neal McDonough were favorites with fans and critics alike, but it was that danger of falling into predictability — having to come up with a bigger, better, weirder villain —that prompted the executive producer and his team of writers to modify their approach. Yes, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) will still be cleaning up Harlan County, Ky. — Tuesdays beginning Jan. 8 at 10pm — but the main drama this […]

“Sons of Anarchy” recap: “J’ai Obtenu Cette”

December 5, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Even if we didn’t know going in that this was a season finale, you can tell immediately that Sons of Anarchy means business when it breaks out the Katey Sagal songs. “Ruby Tuesday,” “Bird on a Wire,” “Son of a Preacher Man,” and now “To Sir, With Love.” Not sure if it’s the most mood-catching songs for what’s to come, but it’s always nice hearing her voice, reminding us of the unassailable beauty Sagal is capable of producing, along with the malice and desperation that so often shows in her portrayal of Gemma. But, since this is a season finale, […]