Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh trust you'll like their smart new TNT series
McClatchy Newspapers
1/23/2009, by Neal Justin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - TNT's gallery of characters _ hard-nosed detectives, burdened lawyers, daredevil con artists _ suffer the kind of ordeals that made Oedipus Rex poke his eyes out. Pure torture for them, high entertainment for us. The network's newest members, Mason and Conner of ...
Oscar-winning actress gets to play action star in NBC miniseries
McClatchy Newspapers
1/23/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Indiana Jones has nothing on Tess Chaykin, Mira Sorvino's character in the new NBC miniseries "The Last Templar." Chaykin's an adventurer, history expert and action hero, just like the Harrison Ford film character. And she does it all in high heels.
Sorvino makes a ...
‘The Electric Company' recharged for a new generation
McClatchy Newspapers
1/19/2009, by Peter Larsen
The Orange County Register (MCT) - Three decades after "The Electric Company" went dark, PBS flipped the switch Monday on a new version of the '70s kids show, seeking to entertain and educate another generation of children. "'The Electric Company' has such love," says executive producer Karen ...
Tim Meadows returns to his comedic roots: Chicago and improvisation
McClatchy Newspapers
1/19/2009, by Kevin Pang
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - When I offered Tim Meadows some of my Cajun gravy-topped corncakes, he politely said no, twice in fact. "I'm on a diet," said the trim-looking comedian. Sporting a goatee, Meadows dug into his bowl of oatmeal instead.
Meadows, 47, whose tenure on "Saturday Night Live" ...
Laurence Fishburne steps in to save CBS' top-rated series ‘CSI'
McClatchy Newspapers
1/14/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - After Jan. 15, Gil Grissom's bug-studying, evidence-sorting, murder-solving ways come to an end on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." William Petersen, who has played Grissom since the CBS series launched in 2000, leaves the series with little pomp and circumstances. The ...
‘Make ‘Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America,' beginning Wednesday on PBS
McClatchy Newspapers
1/13/2009, by Verne Gay
Newsday (MCT) - REASON TO WATCH: Nearly all-encompassing portrait of the funny business. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Better to ask, what is this not about? Comedy, friends, comedy _ in all its glorious silliness, though only the best-known figures are covered here. (Billy Crystal hosts and Amy Sedaris ...
Five things to know about ‘American Idol's' new judge
McClatchy Newspapers
1/12/2009, by Andy Edelstein
Newsday (MCT) - When "American Idol" returns for its eighth season this week, the show will have a fourth judge for the first time in its history: Kara DioGuardi. Here are five things you might want to know about the 38-year-old singer-songwriter-producer. _She grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y., the ...
Hey, Paula: You're still our ‘American Idol'
McClatchy Newspapers
1/12/2009, by Chuck Barney
Contra Costa Times (MCT) - It makes sense that Kara DioGuardi is getting most of the ink as "American Idol" returns for its eighth season Tuesday night. The talent show's new judge is a fresh face, an unknown commodity. But, please, let's not forget Paula Abdul, who has been forced to abdicate her ...
PBS gets on the laugh track with new documentary ‘Make 'Em Laugh'
McClatchy Newspapers
1/12/2009, by Neal Justin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - According to most historians, the first comedy bit took place in 3,000 B.C. when a caveman bopped his roommate on the head with a club, sending his startled victim into the flames of a nearby fire. That classic clip isn't included in PBS' "Make 'Em Laugh: The ...
Has ‘24' finally started to run out of time?
McClatchy Newspapers
1/9/2009, by Hal Boedeker
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has done the impossible so often on "24" that the routine may be wearing out. The seventh season of the Fox thriller starts with four hours _ at 8 p.m. EDT Sunday and Monday _ and some compelling plots. Terrorists threaten U.S. airliners ...
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