When Neil Patrick Harris returns to TV next week, he won't be cracking jokes in another sitcom. Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris (debuting on September 15th on NBC) marks the return — overdue or not — of the variety show, that long-dormant format in which kooky skits, musical guests, and frenzied production numbers are jammed into an hour of family-friendly entertainment. "When you think of the variety shows we all grew upon — Sonny and Cher and Donny and Marie — those [programs] all said, 'Sit on the couch, be entertained with a little song,...
- 9/10/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Back in May, the cast of the Emmy-winning coming-of-age TV series The Wonder Years reunited to film some extras for the show's DVD release. The beloved show about growing up in the 1960s (filmed in the late '80s and early '90s) has been off the air for two decades, and the actors hadn't all gotten together in over 16 years.
Stars Fred Savage and Jason Hervey shared a few "sneak peek" pics on Twitter, but the general public would have to wait a little longer to fully indulge in our childhood nostalgia.
Well, that long wait has finally come to an end.
Stars Fred Savage and Jason Hervey shared a few "sneak peek" pics on Twitter, but the general public would have to wait a little longer to fully indulge in our childhood nostalgia.
Well, that long wait has finally come to an end.
- 10/21/2014
- by Saryn Chorney, @sarynthumps
- People.com - TV Watch
Back in May, the cast of the Emmy-winning coming-of-age TV series The Wonder Years reunited to film some extras for the show's DVD release. The beloved show about growing up in the 1960s (filmed in the late '80s and early '90s) has been off the air for two decades, and the actors hadn't all gotten together in over 16 years. Stars Fred Savage and Jason Hervey shared a few "sneak peek" pics on Twitter, but the general public would have to wait a little longer to fully indulge in our childhood nostalgia. Well, that long wait has finally come to an end.
- 10/21/2014
- by Saryn Chorney, @sarynthumps
- PEOPLE.com
Last night at 92Y, our favorite Robert F. Kennedy Junior-High-Schoolers — Kevin Arnold, Winnie Cooper, and Paul Pfeiffer — waxed nostalgic before 200 fans during their “first public appearance together in front of a live audience,” promoting season one of The Wonder Years on DVD. Only hours had passed since Fred Savage, Danica McKellar, and Josh Saviano appeared on Good Morning America together, so there weren’t many hugs or how’ve-you-beens exchanged backstage. Still, it was fun to watch them watch generation-old clips of their precocious selves selected by the effusive moderator, "Fresh Air" TV critic David Bianculli. Vulture picked up a few factoids at the event. It took six takes to film Kevin and Winnie’s first kiss. During take one, McKellar’s smile got in the way and she rolled her eyes. Director Steve Miner told Savage to give McKellar his coat, but he wound up stroking her hair on...
- 10/21/2014
- by Jenna Marotta
- Vulture
In just over a week since its debut, Transparent has climbed to #1 on Prime Instant Video and earned a near-perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes with a 98 percent critic rating.
With the overwhelming success of the show, Amazon Studios has greenlit a second season of Transparent, to air in 2015.
Viewers and media outlets from Et to the Today Show to NPR continue to buzz about Transparent, helping to turn the dramatic comedy into something of a water cooler hit. Reviewers have embraced the show’s “transcendent empathy” and it’s ability to challenge expectations:
"After I saw the pilot, I called this the best show of the fall. It turns out it’s the best show of the year.” – James Poniewozik, Time “Transparent is a drama/comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories. It’s that good.” –David Bianculli, NPR “It...
With the overwhelming success of the show, Amazon Studios has greenlit a second season of Transparent, to air in 2015.
Viewers and media outlets from Et to the Today Show to NPR continue to buzz about Transparent, helping to turn the dramatic comedy into something of a water cooler hit. Reviewers have embraced the show’s “transcendent empathy” and it’s ability to challenge expectations:
"After I saw the pilot, I called this the best show of the fall. It turns out it’s the best show of the year.” – James Poniewozik, Time “Transparent is a drama/comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories. It’s that good.” –David Bianculli, NPR “It...
- 10/7/2014
- Hollywonk
For cord-cutters who aim to watch the best of television without a cable box (or, in some cases, even a television), HBO has long been the big missing piece of the puzzle. HBO has its own streaming video service, HBO Go, but you can only access it if you already have a cable subscription (or if you have a friend or relative with a subscription who will share their password with you). Cord-cutters ask all the time about the possibility of HBO Go being offered independently, but it would completely undermine HBO's very lucrative business model to do so, and it hasn't happened yet, and likely won't anytime soon. But today in a very big deal for the future of streaming TV — and for the ongoing war for streaming supremacy between Netflix and Amazon (a rare battlefield where Amazon is an underdog) — HBO and Amazon announced an agreement to,...
- 4/23/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
New York — James Gandolfini's portrayal of Tony Soprano represented more than just a memorable TV character. He changed the medium, making fellow antiheroes like Walter White and Dexter Morgan possible and shifting the balance in quality drama away from broadcast television.
The passage of time since "The Sopranos" ended in 2007 brought all of that into sharp relief even before Gandolfini's death of a heart attack while vacationing in Italy on Wednesday.
Television characters certainly weren't one-dimensional when David Chase cast the little-known Gandolfini in the lead role of his series about the personal and work families of a New Jersey crime boss. But there were limits: Flaws in a TV hero character had to be affectionate grace notes, like Jim Rockford's poor choice of friends or Arnie Becker's womanizing on "L.A. Law."
The unwritten rule: Don't make your central character someone viewers will recoil from. Break the mold and failure looms.
The passage of time since "The Sopranos" ended in 2007 brought all of that into sharp relief even before Gandolfini's death of a heart attack while vacationing in Italy on Wednesday.
Television characters certainly weren't one-dimensional when David Chase cast the little-known Gandolfini in the lead role of his series about the personal and work families of a New Jersey crime boss. But there were limits: Flaws in a TV hero character had to be affectionate grace notes, like Jim Rockford's poor choice of friends or Arnie Becker's womanizing on "L.A. Law."
The unwritten rule: Don't make your central character someone viewers will recoil from. Break the mold and failure looms.
- 6/21/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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