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TV News: Will Downton Abbey Continue Beyond Season 6? And more
Headlines on Pamela Adlon, Downton Abbey, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Empire, Gotham and more.
TV News: Cast Additions for Murphy’s ‘Queens,’ X-Files reboot?
Recurring Shows Glee. Ryan Murphy‘s Glee, which ends its series run this season, unveiled a significant plot line during last night’s episode. Football coach Shannon Beiste (Dot Marie Jones) revealed in an emotionally charged scene that she is becoming a man, joining Amazon Prime’s Transparent in prominently featuring transgender storylines. Glee will continue the story through the end of …
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TV News: Kelley Adapting King’s ‘Mr. Mercedes’, Community Gets a Date, ‘Hannibal’ Has Its Tooth Fairy, more
David E. Kelly is turning Steven King’s Mr. Mercedes into a mini, Strathairn Gets Blacklisted, Hannibal has cast Francis Dollarhyde, Yahoo sets a start date for Community, Ann Curry bolts NBC and more TV headlines
Review: The Simpsons “Bart’s New Friend”
The Judd Apatow-penned episode of The Simpsons aired somewhat quietly against the noise and spectacle of last night’s Golden Globes ceremony. Apatow’s brand of gross-out, manboy humor would normally seem a perfect fit for the long-running series, but the script defiantly veered in a more old-fashioned direction – probably appropriate given that it was originally …
Simpsons Pays Tribute to Charlie Hebdo
Last night’s episode of The Simpsons penned by Judd Apatow ended last night with a nice tribute to the slain French cartoonists in the form of Maggie Simpson posed like the urchin in the Les Misérables advertisements.
Quick Hit: The Simpsons
Allow me to be the first to admit that I am one of those formerly ravenous fans of The Simpsons. I grew up just as the show grew into its early 90s-era brilliance, and my attention waned as the series began to decline later that decade and into the 2000s. I blink, and, suddenly, I’m almost 40 …
Apatow ‘Simpsons’ Script To Air
According to an article originally posted in TV Guide, Judd Apatow’s 25-year old script for Fox’s The Simpsons will air on the network next Sunday. The episode, titled “Bart’s New Friend,” was written in 1990 after the show had only aired six episodes. Apatow reveals in the article that he was obsessed with The Simpsons at age 22 and …
FOX trailers next Fall’s GOTHAM
FOX briefly interrupted your 24-gasm tonight to give you a taste of their upcoming DC series Gotham which traces the origins of Batman, Cat Woman, Riddler, Joker, Penguin et al. while apparently adding in a few new wrinkles. I’m not sure the network can be trusted to do this right, and if they do to …
Are you watching Cosmos?
I keep meaning to write about the importance of Cosmos now airing on FOX and on National Geographic, but I haven’t. Nevertheless, you should be watching this show. It’s more important now when more US citizens believe in angels than believe in global warming than it was when Carl Sagan originally created the show in …