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Smash Is Everything A Theater Geek Would Want In A TV Show About Musicals
NBC‘s musical-theater series Smash is a show for dreamers: Actors who want to be in the spotlight, writers shelling out hundreds to see Broadway shows, and TV viewers who need a new drama series to obsess over. We loved the first episode and hope you will, too. More »
If Dwight Schrute Gets His Own Show Will It Be The Kiss Of Death For Him?
Even though the future of The Office is uncertain now that Michael Scott has taken his leave and run off to Colorado with Holly, NBC is still betting on the remaining characters being able to hold the show together. Their faith in one character, in particular, is so strong they’re even in the process of developing a spin-off for him. Do you want to wager a bet as to which Dunder Mifflin employee just might have the necessary charisma to carry their own show? More »
Are You There, Chelsea? Is As Bad As We Thought It Would Be
Chelsea Handler‘s new sitcom based on her life Are You There, Chelsea? premiered on NBC last night, and I took one for the team and watched it. More »
NBC Is Bringing Back Community!
“Community is coming back,” NBC Entertainment President Robert Greenblatt says. He can’t confirm season 4 yet, but to the people who think it’s gone forever he says, “I need to fix that.” More »
Video: Check Out Chelsea Clinton’s (Somewhat Wooden) NBC Debut
If this scion of political power doesn’t run for office within ten years, I’ll eat my hat. More »
The Problem With Whitney Isn’t Its Star, It’s The Title
NBC star Whitney Cummings has been a lightning rod for negative attention this TV season. She’s got two shows in prime time, both of which are part of the reason this was supposed to “the season of funny women ruling prime time.” There’s reason to believe that she could have been our next funny feminist icon. The problem is that a lot of women don’t like her. Or her shows.
Just yesterday, Emily Nussbaum at The New Yorker called her “this year’s sexy-girl hate magnet.”
I never thought I’d be a Whitney apologist, but I think some of the vitriol aimed at Whitney Cummings’ eponymous show is misplaced tall poppy syndrome.
Not since CougarTown has a show been more poorly titled. More »
Community Fans Create Try To Save Their Show With OccupyNBC Twitter
How do you want to save Community from cancellation: Signing a petition, sending beards to NBC, or following the OccupyNBC Twitter? Why not all three! More »
NBC Cancels The Playboy Club But Orders A Full Season For Whitney
Try as they might, the bunnies of NBC’s The Playboy Club couldn’t shake their cute little tails long enough to keep viewers interested. But what’s Whitney doing right, then? More »
They Are Giving Dane Cook His Own TV Show
Following the glowing critical success of 2 Broke Girls and Whitney, the geniuses at NBC have decided to balance out all that estrogen with some good ol’ fashioned bro humor. And what better person to deliver said bro humor than the guy whose comedy album every frat pledge on your hall freshman year played at max volume, over and over, while laughing so hard he spit Natty Ice everywhere? More »
Ladies Be Filmin’: NBC’s Prime Suspect
As Detective Jane Timoney on Prime Suspect, Maria Bello is essentially a female Jimmy McNulty (of The Wire, duh): natural born POlice who’s determined to solve the case, even if it’s not making her any friends. Dogged. Aggressive. Medium unlikeable. She’s the kind of character that, on a lesser show, would result in the lieutenant saying things like “Timoney, you’re really chapping my ass here.” But Prime Suspect is not a lesser show. Prime Suspect is awesome. More »
Ladies Be Filmin’: NBC’s Whitney
First things first: while Whitney has a lot of problems, it is, blessedly, nowhere near as bad as the godawful advertising campaign (brilliantly discussed at Splitsider and parodied by Best Week Ever) indicated. Sure, there are a lot of hacky jokes about gender (it’s funny when people act like the opposite gender from what they are!) and sure, the laugh track is grating, but I didn’t hate it nearly as much as I thought I would. More »
Best Week Ever’s Fake Posters Sum Up Our Feelings On ‘Whitney’ Succinctly
As we have already spent time telling you, the promotional materials for NBC’s new show Whitney make it look like the whole of the show’s “humor” lies in reiterating sexist stereotypes about men and women. Women love to shop and cry! Men love to look at boobs and watch football! And so forth. Well, the cut-ups over at Best Week Ever seem to agree with us, and they took it one step further by making some awesome Photoshopped posters that capture the ad campaign’s true spirit. Click through for two more. More »
NBC Is Trying to Win Over Whitney‘s Target Audience with a F— Yeah Tumblr
We’re reasonably sure that this Fuck Yeah Whitney NBC Tumblr we stumbled upon for Whitney Cummings‘ new sitcom Whitney is actually managed by NBC. If that’s true, then we get a rare look into TV executives’ heads and what they think gets the kids’ attention these days. More »
Ladies Be Filmin’: Free Agents
You know what’s hilarious? When dudes act like ladies, am I right? Like, if a guy cries, that is super funny, because men don’t cry. More funny truths: single people are sad (LOL) and married dudes just want to be single again (sort of contradicts the first truth, but funny nonetheless!). More »
12 New Fall TV Shows to Watch Out For
It’s that time again: The time of preparation for new seasonal television shows! We had some good ones over the summer, many of which we either wrote about or recapped. But many of those are now winding down, and as it’s now September, it’s time to start gearing up for the new fall shows—and believe you me, there are MANY of them. We’ve already told you about Ringer and American Horror Story, so forgive us if we don’t repeat ourselves here; but! Do take a look at these 12 shows. We think they’re going to be worth checking out: More »
5 Better Premises for Sarah Silverman’s New NBC Sitcom
Hey, Sarah Silverman got her pilot picked-up! That’s exciting news to me, a huge Sarah Silverman Program fan, although the premise sounds pretty conventional: she’ll star as a woman who’s newly single after having spent most of her adult life in a relationship. Boo-ring! (Imagine my voice dropping two octaves while saying that. Actually, first imagine my voice, then lower it two octaves. Great, now we’re both in prison.) Because I care, here are five suggested premises for Sarah’s new show: More »
Video: Leaked ‘Wonder Woman’ Pilot Footage Proves This Show Would Have Sucked
Er, after seeing this merely 36-second clip, we’re not at all surprised that NBC’s Wonder Woman never made it to air. This is like a parody of a bad B flick from the 80s. “Okay, she made it past the gate.” Hey The Peacock: we’re totally available to punch-up your dialogue if you need us. More »
Betty White Gets Her Own Reality Show – A Senior Citizen’s Version of ‘Punk’d’
Yes. Yes. Yes! And just in time for April Fool’s Day. More »
Video: Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Real Housewives of Late Night’ is Best
Real Housewives mockeries and impersonations are almost, if not more, funny than the actual episodes. There is one caveat, though: the impersonator must know the show inside and out, to capture the true essences of its hilarity. Fortunately, Jimmy Fallon has been outed as a Real Housewives fanatic and recently appeared on Watch What Happens: Live with Andy Cohen. His in-depth fan knowledge of the series translates into pure comedy genius in his skit “Real Housewives of Late Night,” which is back for it’s second season. More »