‘Rita Rocks,' premiering Monday on Lifetime
McClatchy Newspapers
10/16/2008, by Neal Justin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - Longtime fans of "Mad TV" have waited patiently for more than a decade to watch Nicole Sullivan, the show's first breakout performer, get a great break. The vigil continues. Sullivan headlines the new Lifetime series "Rita Rocks," an all-too-ordinary sitcom ...
Candidates expected to appear on ‘SNL,' says Michaels
McClatchy Newspapers
10/16/2008, by Maureen Ryan
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of "Saturday Night Live," predicts that the presidential and vice presidential candidates will stop by the comedy show before the election. "I think, sooner or later, everyone will come through," Michaels said in a phone interview. He ...
Role grows for ‘Life' star Sarah Shahi
McClatchy Newspapers
10/16/2008, by David Hiltbrand
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - They say "Life" is what you make it. Sarah Shahi is making the NBC series, on Fridays at 10 p.m. EDT, into a career turn. The actress plays LAPD Detective Dani Reese, who is partnered with the curiously detached Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis of "Band of ...
NBC's ‘Crusoe' is only so-so
McClatchy Newspapers
10/15/2008, by Rick Kushman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - It sounds like a sure blockbuster. Take a lush tropical setting, throw in pirates, cannibals, buried treasure, a couple dashing castaways, action, adventure, and, of course, piranha. All that good stuff makes up the groundwork for NBC's "Crusoe" premiering Friday (at 8 ...
Angie Harmon plays Lily Tartikoff in Lifetime movie ‘Living Proof'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/13/2008, by Luaine Lee
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - Throughout her life people have always called actress Angie Harmon names. When she was a kid they called her "square eyes" because all she wanted to do was watch the square box in the living room. When she costarred with Sam Waterston in "Law & Order," he ...
Cast of ABC's ‘Eli Stone' has to face the music every week
McClatchy Newspapers
10/13/2008, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - "Eli Stone" _ the ABC comedy/drama/fantasy/musical _ returns Tuesday for a second season. Last year's midseason series about a lawyer who has musical visions ended with a cliffhanger questioning whether the visions were real or the result of a brain tumor. Surgery to ...
Religion on prime-time TV? Now it's mostly the Gospel According to Cable
McClatchy Newspapers
10/13/2008, by Neal Justin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - Network television has long believed in the teachings of teenage vampire slayers, talking cars, bionic crime fighters and planet-hopping ambassadors, but has had little faith in one otherwise familiar character: God. Religious figures have occasionally scored in ...
Those wild and crazy ‘SNL' gals!
McClatchy Newspapers
10/10/2008, by Madeleine Marr
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - It's good to be Tina Fey. The bespectacled comedian is not only driving "Saturday Night Live" ratings with her dead-on Sarah Palin impersonations but she just won two Emmys (Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress) for "30 Rock" and clinched a $5 ...
Movies and TV shows that poke fun at the trials of contemporary cubicle life appeal to working stiffs
McClatchy Newspapers
10/10/2008, by Patrick S. Pemberton
McClatcy Newspapers (MCT) - There's a reason why people buy red staplers, Dwight Schrute bobbleheads and stuffed Dilberts: It's because many Americans are disenchanted with their jobs, and those items _ pop culture icons that symbolize the worst in office culture _ affirm that others view the ...
‘My Own Worst Enemy,' premiering Monday on NBC
McClatchy Newspapers
10/9/2008, by Hal Boedeker
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Christian Slater suffers extravagantly in NBC's "My Own Worst Enemy." He's tortured. He's bewildered. He's infuriated.
Ultimately, he's let down by this preposterous drama series, which debuts at 10 p.m. EDT Monday.
"My Own Worst Enemy" is a split-personality thriller ...
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