This interview contains major spoilers for all six seasons of The Sopranos. Everyone’s talking about The Sopranos, whose final nine episodes begin Easter Sunday. Magazines from EW to Vanity Fair to Obscure Sports Monthly has run stories on the influential and already-enshrined-in-the-TV-Hall-of-Fame family drama responsible for putting HBO on the map. It would be irresponsible … Continue reading
David Cross is awesome. We can all agree on that, right? He’s a brilliant stand-up comic – Shut Up You Fucking Baby is one of the great modern comedy albums [Note from Nick: No.]. He’s been the best part in many shitty movies like Small Soldiers and Men and Black II and part of the … Continue reading
Many have said it before, but let’s say it again: NBC has been having a shitty run lately. The network went from one of the most successful eras in tv history during its Seinfeld/Fraiser/Friends/ER days to dropping to fourth place of the four major networks and getting the stuffing kicked out of it by ABC … Continue reading
WALSH’S ‘PRIVATE PRACTICE’ The name of the much-anticipated Grey’s Anatomy spin-off, previously known around here as Addison, Kellerman, and Benny, was revealed to media buyers to be Private Practice. The series, which focuses on Kate Walsh’s neo-natal surgeon as she moves to the city of Angels, is being touted as taking Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery … Continue reading
GIAMATTI. LINNEY. WILKINSON. MORSE. That, friends, is the starting line up for HBO’s John Adams, an upcoming seven-hour miniseries based on the Pulitzer Prize winner by David McCullough. The series will tell the story of the titular founding father and second president (played by Giamatti) through his wife Abigail (Laura Linney). In addition to this … Continue reading
GUGINO, NOT GOLD Carla Gugino is a talented actress with a string of bad luck when it comes to television. She’s been a part of two high profile flops since 2003, “Karen Sisco” and “Threshold,” which, in tv land, is enough to stick you with the infamous “show killer” nickname (see also Paula Marshall, Ted … Continue reading
It’s funny going down to Little West 12th Street – it’s in what used to be the Meat Packing District of Manhattan, and it was where you went to buy meat… either the kind that comes from an animal or the kind that’s hidden inside the skirt of a tranny hooker. The neighborhood is very … Continue reading
Tonight is the series premiere of the new sketch comedy show, The Whitest Kids U Know. The show, which is produced by Jim Biederman, aka one of the guys behind The Kids in the Hall, is pretty goddamn hilarious. I’ve had a chance to see the first episode, which airs tonight, and it’s a mix … Continue reading
TUBE OF D You remember David Duchovny, don’t you? He’s the guy who, for about thirty minutes there in the nineties when The X-Files was huge, made it okay to be a conspiracy theorist. After a series of cable cameos, independent films, and gigs guest hosting late-night talk shows, Duchovny is coming back to television … Continue reading
A new sketch comedy show is premiering on Fuse on March 20 – The Whitest Kids U Know. I happen to know some of these guys, and can tell you from first-hand experience that they’re funny as hell. The boys won Best Sketch Group at the Aspen Comedy Festival in 2006, and they’ve done an … Continue reading