FX Archives - Page 19 of 23 - StayTuned Magazine

“Rescue Me” finale provokes tears, laughter

September 12, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi Follow @ChannelGuide (Note: This article contains spoilers about the final episode of “Rescue Me.”) The biggest compliment a fictional television show can receive is being embraced by the very people it purports to represent, and no show in recent memory embodied that endorsement more than the popularity of Rescue Me with firefighters across the country. Ever since the hit FX show premiered in 2004, the intent of star Denis Leary and his fellow producers was to shed light on a dangerous profession we all tend to take for granted. That made it even more fitting that last […]

“Wilfred” barks up an ambiguous tree in Season 1 finale

September 8, 2011 StayTuned Staff

A man talking to a guy in a dog suit, who everyone else sees as just a dog, might seem a tough concept on which to build an ongoing series. But the surreal FX comedy Wilfred has managed to surprise with each and every episode, bringing far more depth and pathos to a show that also has a fair amount of poop jokes. A second season is on the way, and tonight’s episode, “Identity” — airing tonight at 10 — will bring the first season to a close with a tricky finale that sees nice guy Ryan (Elijah Wood) go […]

“Sons of Anarchy” revs up tonight for Season 4

September 6, 2011 StayTuned Staff

I get sent a lot of screeners here at the office, a fact I bring up not merely to brag (OK, maybe just a little) but to stress how much of an event it is when I receive something I was actually looking forward to. Think of it as a handwritten note from an old friend amid a sea of junk mail. The new season of Sons of Anarchy is like that. The second I get it, I pop it in the computer and catch up with the foulmouthed, violent and infinitely compelling adventures of SAMCRO, a ruthless California biker […]

College football on FOX Sports and FX 2011 schedule

September 2, 2011 Ryan Berenz

It wasn’t too long ago that FOX owned the TV rights to college football’s BCS bowls and national championship game, but didn’t air any other college football during the season. That’s changed this season, and FOX and its cable networks are making a major push into college football again. FX will air a College Football Game of the Week beginning Saturday, Sept. 3, with Tulsa at No. 1 Oklahoma at 8pm ET. The FOX broadcast channel airs the inaugural Pac-12 Conference Championship Game on Friday, Dec. 2, followed by the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday, Dec. 3 from […]

Ryan Murphy talks about going from “Glee” to “American Horror Story”

August 25, 2011 StayTuned Staff

Perhaps all of that relentless positivity and self-empowerment they showcase on Glee has left executive producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk with a surplus of nastiness they need to get out. If the artfully creepy previews are any indication, American Horror Story will certainly do the trick. Critical reaction has been mixed, but most agree that it is an over-the-top experience. Ostensibly a haunted house story, the series — which airs Wednesdays beginning Oct. 5 on FX — follows the Harmons, who relocate from Boston to Los Angeles in an effort to rebuild their lives after an infidelity and a […]

Leary’s character looks for answers in “Rescue Me”

July 13, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi Follow @ChannelGuide Tommy Gavin is one of the best firefighters in all of New York City; unfortunately, it’s the fires in his personal life that he can’t put out. As the seventh and final season of Rescue Me begins tonight on FX (10pm ET), we once again get a look into the demons that drive Tommy to the brink of self destruction (if he’s not there already).

“Wilfred” barks up the right tree

June 23, 2011 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH Last week I wrote a review for the new TV Land sitcom Happily Divorced, in which I said that once you heard the show’s description, you had all the information necessary to decide whether you would like it. That couldn’t be further from the truth with FX’s Wilfred, which takes a high-concept comedy premise and goes several different directions with it — all of them interesting. Elijah Wood plays Ryan, a guy who sees his hot next-door neighbor’s dog, Wilfred, not as a pooch but as a guy wearing a dog suit. Yet instead of […]

No sophomore slump for “Louie”

June 22, 2011 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH I’ll admit going into the second season of Louie with a fair amount of trepidation. As a longtime fan of the acerbic, brutally honest comic I wondered whether his style would fit a network show. Even on FX, where he would be relatively free of the pressures regarding content and viewership that come with a slot on broadcast TV, there was no guarantee. But it turned out that the first season of Louie perfectly captured C.K.’s sad-sack shtick, managing to tell often absurd vignettes that nevertheless contained profound truths about everyday life and became something […]

The curious case of H. Jon Benjamin

June 15, 2011 StayTuned Staff

You likely know his voice, for which deadpan is too lively an adjective, but otherwise it would be hard to pick H. Jon Benjamin out of a lineup. Heck, I’ve seen interviews with the guy and an episode of his new Comedy Central show, Jon Benjamin Has a Van (which airs tonight at 10:30), and I’m still not sure I’d notice him if he were walking down the street. Point being, the dude is nondescript. But how many people in this world are the leads — the title characters, in fact — on three television shows at once? He’s the […]

Osama bin Laden’s DVR foreshadows his death

May 3, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi After 10 years of searching for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by various agencies, many Americans had probably given up hope that he would ever be captured. But a lot can be determined by looking at a person’s TV-viewing habits, and the recently discovered DVR found at bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan suggests he knew the end was near. Channel Guide Magazine was able to obtain the DVR through top-secret sources*, and it turns out that the world’s most wanted man was quite the fan of American television. Here are some of the shows that he had […]