With more than 5.2 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute or preparing for old age by brushing up on synopses of Matlock episodes. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,354,589-week series, Wiki Wormhole.
Every day is a holiday—at least, according to the people that run those “What national day is it?” calendars. This year alone, we’ve observed such auspicious occasions as National Chicken Cordon Bleu Day and National Hug A Newsperson Day (yes, we’re mad that you forgot about it). But this day, May 25, belongs to the…
After a short stay on TBS, Cougar Town alum Josh Hopkins is returning to ABC: The actor has just been added to the cast of Quantico, a new primetime drama that will premiere in the fall. Executive producer Joshua Safran—whose credits include Gossip Girl and Smash—created the show, which will follow a group of hot,…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, April 1. All times are Eastern.
In the last few years, there’s been a positive trend of long-running sitcoms going into their last season with the knowledge that it is their last season, and taking that knowledge to end the show definitively. 30 Rock, The Office, and Parks And Recreation all ended their runs with seasons that tied up whatever loose…
Likely eliciting howls of protest from cast members’ families, TBS has canceled Ground Floor, the multi-cam sitcom that starred Skylar Astin and Briga Heelan. Deadline reports that the show’s second season, which aired its last episode on February 10, will be its last. It seems the show couldn’t quite build on an…
Of all the reasons why Cougar Town has stayed as consistently funny and emotional as it has for five-plus years, the chemistry of its cast is at the top of the list. The impression provided both on and off-camera has always been that this is a group of people who genuinely love working together, going back to the…
In The A.V. Club’s 100 Episodes feature we define the shows that have made it to this point as “an unusual group”—an entirely true assertion, given it’s the only way you’ll be able to mention The Andy Griffith Show, Supernatural, and The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air in the same breath. And after this year, Cougar Town will…
It’s been an interesting couple of years in the career of Community showrunner Dan Harmon: He was fired and re-hired from the show, which was canceled by NBC and then un-canceled by Yahoo. Between all of that, Harmon helped bring the animated sci-fi comedy Rick And Morty to Adult Swim and took his popular podcast, …
When the schedule for the 2013-14 TV season was announced last spring, it was dotted with new comedies from Doozer, the production company fronted by Scrubs and Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence. With that latter series still on the air and Ground Floor, Surviving Jack, and Undateable on deck, Doozer appeared poised…
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In one fifth-season episode of Community, an app that seems like a strange cross between Yelp and all those “grade your teacher” websites is unleashed on Greendale, where the unsuspecting student body finds it can suddenly rate anybody and anything. Students rate teachers! Teachers rate…
You’d think the networks would have pretty much everything figured out in advance of their upfronts presentations to advertisers, which begin Monday, but they were still making and nixing last-minute deals all through Saturday, with at least a couple of shows still hanging in the balance headed into tomorrow, when NBC…
It’s a tricky thing for a show to reach the end of its season and not know if it’s coming back next year. There’s a lot of questions that must float around the writers’ room when that uncertain end is drawing near: Do we tie up all loose ends and try to satisfy everyone, running the risk of coming back without any…
Here’s what’s up in the world of television for April 1. All times are Eastern
Toward the end of “Love Is A Long Road,” as Bobby and Andy bemoan their unsuccessful quest to pick out the best possible gift for Travis’ college graduation, Tom chimes in at the end of the bar with his own thoughts on what graduation means: “It’s a milestone. A time to consider where you’ve gone but also where you’ve…
The last-minute twist is a move that can be difficult to pull off in a comedy. So many contemporary sitcoms are built along a three-act structure that adding an unexpected wrinkle risks detracting from all the good work that was done before. Sometimes it comes across as the show being too clever for its own good,…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, March 18. All times are Eastern.
Earlier this season, I talked about how one of the greatest strengths of Cougar Town is its strong memory. Be it its roster of callback jokes or its commitment to the bonds between its characters, this is a sitcom where the writers are as familiar with the show as anyone slavishly updating the show’s wiki. That…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, March 11. All times are Eastern.
