The critics may have been lukewarm on Charlie Sheen’s post-“Two and a Half Men” comeback, “Anger Management,” but viewers were certainly curious to see the show for themselves. The premiere of the new FX series posted the best ratings of all-time for a scripted comedy airing on basic cable. What’s more: it beat every single […]
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It’s doubtful that there is a living soul who cares about the Daytime Emmy Awards and doesn’t work for one of the nominated shows, but just in case those who work for the nominated shows visit Critic Speak and missed the ceremony when it aired live on HLN earlier tonight, I’ll post the winners here. And
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Three bits of interesting fall TV casting surfaced today, which should earn the established shows a few viewers who don’t normally watch… Jennifer Hudston will get a multi-episode arc on NBC’s musical “Smash,” which stars Katherine McPhee as a young woman working hard to make it on Broadway. Hudson will play a Tony-winner “who reached [her] Broadway dream but
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In one of the stranger pieces of entertainment news in some time, it was announced today that Nicolas Winding Refn, director of “Drive” and “Bronson,” will remake the 1960s cult classic “Barbarella” for European television. Yes, that “Barbarella,” the film that starred a young Jane Fonda as a warrior-like sex symbol assigned by the President of
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Showtime’s “Homeland” and NBC’s “Community” took top honors for Best Drama and Best Comedy, respectively, at tonight’s 2nd Annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards. This perfectly sets up the former–the breakthrough cable program of last year–for an Emmy win in September. But the latter show’s win was the real highlight of the night, for it has
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There had been rumblings of deals in the works ever since he won “The Celebrity Apprentice,” but now, it’s official: Arsenio Hall will once again host his own late-night talk show. Somewhat surprisingly, the deal was not struck with NBC, the network that aired “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Instead, Hall has teamed up with CBSTVD, which will
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HBO’s original programming has never catered to conservatives; since the premium cable giant ramped up production in the mid-1990s, its target audience has always been progressive, urban 20- and 30-somethings. But recently, HBO content has been exceptionally hostile toward the GOP. First, there was the HBO Original Movie “Game Change,” which sought to morph Sarah
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My fellow fans of scummy summer reality TV can rejoice, because ABC’s “The Glass House” will begin its premiere season as planned on Monday at 10 p.m. ET/PT, now that a judge has denied rival network CBS’s request for production to be halted on the grounds that the show blatantly rips off their long-running “Big Brother.”
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Over the past decade, Showtime has really made made a name for its original programming, what with “Dexter,” “Homeland,” “Weeds,” “Nurse Jackie,” and “The Big C” all becoming big hits (by premium cable standards, that is). The network may not be able to compete with HBO just yet in the ratings, but it’s clearly on
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Soon, fans will see the televised return of both Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling. The catch is that they won’t be together, or even in the same show. Lifetime has begun developing “Clarice,” a series that follows the exploits of the protagonist of the “The Silence of the Lambs”, originally played by Jodie Foster. This
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