GUYS WITH KIDS: Wednesday 8:30PM on NBC WHAT IT’S SAYING: Everyone loves Judd Apatow movies, right? Irreverent guys who hang out together and give each other crap? Because this is totally Apatow-esque–with cute babies! WHAT IT’S REALLY SAYING: The last show that tried to imitate Judd Apatow was Work […]
> 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 […]
How do you launch 90 minute of live television comedy less than 36 hours after one of the most awful crimes in American history? SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE tried to finesse the moment by starting its telecast tonight with a children’s choir singing “Silent Night,” but there was nevertheless some unavoidable awkwardness when the show […]
> We’re not on the tabloid beat at SHOWBUZZDAILY, but when Lindsay Lohan put herself in front of the cameras tonight on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, she made herself fair game. It would be heartwarming to be able to report that with tonight’s appearance, she’s finally taken the first real step of her professional rehabilitation, but […]
There was an inspired, unexpected piece of comedy toward the end of tonight’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, although it was pretty lonely in the mostly bland context of the rest of the episode. Early in the post-Update half-hour, host Zach Galifianakis did a sketch called “Darrell’s House,” where he played an intense guy named Darrell […]
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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 […]
We’re gradually discovering that Steven Soderbergh’s definition of “retirement” from filmmaking is a fairly narrow one. It was recently announced that he plans to direct a new series for Cinemax, and he has another cable/online series in development. It appears that the one thing he won’t be doing for the foreseeable future is directing […]