Nasim Pedrad Starts 2nd Season at ‘SNL’
Nasim Pedrad begins her second season at “Saturday Night Live” tonight, quite a mean feat for the show’s first Iranian-born cast member; not everybody who was invitd to join last…
What is ‘The Event’? Answer is Coming Soon
For those first night samplers who fear they may never know what “The Event” is all about: Producer Even Katz says “we’re very cognizant of the audience’s patience, of rewarding…
Nucky Days: Scorsese Does ‘Boardwalk Empire’
“Broadway Empire,” the biggest new TV show of the season, which starts tonight, began as a suggestion from HBO to a writer who had already spent years writing about New…
‘Boardwalk Empire:’ Buscemi’s Role of a Lifetime
Usually, he’s seen in memorable supporting roles with colorful names – two-bit thief Carl Showalter in “Fargo,” Donny Kerabatsos in “The Big Lebowski,” the hapless Seymour in “Ghost World,” Tony…
Tim and Eric Coming to Hartford
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of the "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" make their Hartford debut in a show at the Webster Theatre Nov. 29. Tickets go on…
Smits Returns for ‘Outlaw’
Jimmy Smits returns to network TV not as President, as he did at the end of “The West Wing,” but as a Supreme Court justice who up and quits. The…
‘Parenthood’ Finds a Pace
“Parenthood” returned for its second season Tuesday and since its rocky start last spring, when just 13 episodes aired after a production delay and executive producer Jason Katims says he…
Behind Dax Shepard’s ‘Parenthood’ Tattoo
For “Parenthood” costar Dax Shepard, who came to show business through hosting “Punked,” he’s been able to flex a big tree-like tattoo that seems to fit in with the show’s…
Earls We Have Known
If there is no hurricane this weekend, then there will at least continue to be a storm of overblown stories. It makes us think of some other Earls in history.…
The TV Critic as Terrorist
The hostage situation at the Discovery Channel Wednesday, which ended with the death of the offender, shows the extent some people will go to complain about cable programming. Not blaming…