My friend Melinda asked me last night if BFF was coming back with all new episodes. After I got her message, it took me a minute to recover from the pain of remembering that the lovely comedy from NBC, which starred Jessica St Clair and Lennon Parham as characters who moved in together after a life-changing emotional event, was still over way before it should have been. But it only took me that one minute to recover because, BFF friends,
A nice-guy salesman, a frozen tundra of a setting, “You-Betcha” accents as far as the ears can hear, and some shady dealings in murder and deception – uff da, we’re back in FARGO! This time around it’s a slick TV drama set in a small town, premiering on FX at 10/9c. While the show shares a title, and some of the classic FARGO-verse charm and quirk, with the 1996 movie of the same name (from the Coen brothers who serve
Tonight on FOX (9:30/8:30c), be sure to check out ENLISTED, their latest single-camera comedy starring Geoff Stults, Chris Lowell, and Parker Young. Stults is hot-shot soldier Pete Hill, whose mistake overseas sends him back to the Florida army base where his two brothers (Lowell and Young) are stationed. The brothers Hill are all a part of the Rear Detachment (Read D) unit that mows lawns and rescues dogs while other soldiers are deployed, and Pete’s return puts him in charge
Tonight on USA, PSYCH returns for the 8th (and against my hopes and dreams, likely final) season premiere! Fresh off a season that found Shawn’s secret getting out (to Juliet, no less!) and the Chief on “hiatus” thanks to the awful, awful, awful Anthony Michael Hall, or rather, his character, Harris Trout. Worst of all, PSYCH is no longer “needed” by the SBPD!
Tonight on TBS, GROUND FLOOR, their latest foray into half-hour comedy premieres with back to back episodes at 10/9c. The show, from DOOZER (with Warner Horizon TV), the gang behind COUGAR TOWN and NBC’s upcoming UNDATEABLE (this one is co-created by Bill Lawrence and Greg Malins), tells the story of what happens when upwardly-mobile banker named Brody (Skylar Astin, PITCH PERFECT) has what he thinks will be a one-night-stand with Jenny, the pretty girl he meets at the bar (Briga
While it’s never a show that’s on the top of my list, as far as what I race to catch up on when I’m behind a few days, I was as surprised as everyone else who watches that MIKE & MOLLY had not originally been on the CBS Fall Schedule. I had a feeling that when one of the lesser comedies (which I actually thought would be THE MILLERS) was canceled, M&M would make their way back, and I was
Not to sound like a broken record today, or anything, but SEAN SAVES THE WORLD (premiering tonight at 9/8c on NBC) is another case of “When Bad Comedies Happen to Good People.” Sean Hayes plays a slightly more subdued version of the Just-Jack we all remember fondly from WILL & GRACE. This time, he’s Sean, a single dad with a teenage daughter, a pretty outwardly mean mother (Linda Lavin, who did illicit some laughs from me, I have to admit),
If I’m being honest, and that’s all I want to do for you is be honest, THE MILLERS on CBS (premiering tonight at 8:30/7:30c) could be alternately called “When Bad Comedies Happen to Good People.” Will Arnett plays Nathan Miller, son of Carol (Margo Martindale) and Tom (Beau Bridges), brother to Debbie (Jayma Mays who replaced Mary Elizabeth Ellis when the pilot went to series), brother-in-law to Adam (Nelson Franklin, replacing Michael Rappaport), and best friend to Deweyne (JB Smoove).
Have I told you lately how much I love BOB’S BURGERS? Because I do. Maybe more than just about any other comedy on the air. The genius animated series about Bob Belcher, his lovely wife Linda, and their, let’s be honest, clinically insane children Louise, Gene, and the best thing on earth, Tina, has their season 4 premiere tonight at 8:30/7:30c on FOX (and FOX just renewed the show for season 5!!!) in an episode that had me laughing from
Remember that time at the end of Season 4 of THE GOOD WIFE where we all thought “oh she’s calling Will” only to realize that Alicia actually called Cary, and she’s made the decision to leave Lockhart/Gardner for her own firm (Florrick/Agos)? When Season 5 premieres tonight at 9/8c, we’re thrown right into the immediate aftermath of that decision, and what comes next, and for lack of a better term, is wonderful. Now that the decision is made, and that