THE GOODWIN GAMES: Tuesday 9:30PM on FOX WHAT IT’S SAYING: From the guys who gave you How I Met Your Mother, another unexpected spin on sitcom convention: this time, the Sibling Rivalry comedy. WHAT IT’S REALLY SAYING: Are there more to the “Games” than the customized Trivial Pursuits questions we see? […]
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> NBC’s WHITNEY hasn’t really had much of a midseason break, but tonight marked its move from a cushy home on Thursday night, where it aired behind the network’s only hit, The Office, to the much more challenging job of opening Wednesday nights and clearing the way for new sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? So […]
> Possibly because the Golden Globes take place in much less proximity to the Emmys than they do to the Oscars, and thus aren’t the crucial part of network gamesplaying that they are for the movie studios, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s TV awards have always tended to be more adventurous and genuine than the […]
> COMMUNITY returns to the NBC schedule at 8PM on Thursday, March 15. WHERE WE WERE: Greendale Community College, of course! Where the school mascot is a Human Being and the Dean (Jim Rash) is to be seen in outfits intended for any and all genders and species, a place of air conditioning repair secret-police […]
> Even though the Oscar race has had clear favorites in THE DESCENDANTS, THE ARTIST and THE HELP since last fall, the first 2 haven’t sparked any huge enthusiasm among the general public, where after almost 2 months, Descendants has yet to gross $50M, and Artist, which Harvey Weinstein hasn’t dared put into general release, […]
> Tonight’s Grammy Awards were inevitably somewhat haunted by the awful loss of Whitney Houston barely 24 hours earlier, a tragedy that seemed to have been going on for a decade yet was still shocking when it came to its fruition. Nevertheless, the show found time to include innumerable music numbers, some of them saluting […]
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE usually benefits from having a host with the confident comic talent that Melissa McCarthy brings to the table, but even with a 3-week hiatus in its pocket, the writing staff came up with little that was up to her level. The result was a very long 90 minutes. Almost everything that […]