Where do working stand-ups end up if they don't break big, if they have some success but mainly keep grinding it out on the road, doing gigs around the country until they're too tired? That dark kingdom is just as significant a presence as the crazy possibility of a major late night gig in last nigh...
Read More »Better get used to having Charlie Sheen back on TV. The former "Two and a Half Men" star and self-proclaimed "winner" has just gotten one hell of a renewal notice from FX.
Read More »What kind of bookstore is Louie frequenting that's so filled with increasingly out-there responses to the manic pixie dream girl? In "Looking for Liz/Lilly Changes," last night's "Louie," Louis C.K.'s character finds himself dreaming of Liz, the vibrant, unstable woma...
Read More »The first season of Ryan Murphy's "American Horror Story" was many things, but restrained (in anything other than the literal sense) was not one of them.
Read More »The final sequence of "Ikea/Piano Lesson," last night's "Louie," felt if not quite on par with still certainly akin to the great, uncomfortable episode last season in which Louie (and Louis C.K.) sat down to talk to "Dane Cook" (and Dane Cook) about the accusat...
Read More »FX, which launches the new comedy show "Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell" tonight at 11 pm, has secured its latest scripted series. "The Americans" is a period drama set in the early '80s in Washington, D.C., where two KGB spies pose as a married American couple, and it will...
Read More »Yup, that Dr. Dre, the producer who can rap and control the maestro at the same time with the dope rhyme that he kicks. Deadline reports that the rapper, producer, entrepreneur and headphone-maker is getting into the TV game with an hour-long drama script development deal at FX.
Read More »While all eyes remain on the London Olympics until the 12th, and Sunday remains overcrowded with high-end TV like "True Blood," "The Newsroom," "Weeds," "Breaking Bad" and "Political Animals," we bring you this guide to five noteworthy highlight...
Read More »Dr. Charlie Goodson, the therapist played by Charlie Sheen in "Anger Management," is getting a onscreen father -- one played by Sheen's real-life parent Martin Sheen.
Read More »It's not with immense regret that we read AMC's announcement that the network was not going to bring back "The Killing" for a third season. After a promising start, the always atmospheric but relentlessly gloomy and contrivance-filled adaptation of the hit Danish television series ...
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