ABC’s The Real O’Neals concludes its first season on Tuesday with the comfort of knowing it will be back in the fall: The midseason family comedy was picked up for a second season, a deserving result for a charming show that showed promise over the course of its 13 episodes.
Before our intrepid TV Club correspondents traveled to this summer’s Television Critics Association press tour, we asked readers to submit questions that we could pose to the TV pros attending the event. (And we made one up ourselves.) With those questions and the answers they prompted, we bring you the TV Club…
Whenever you’re likely to come across a parade in film or television, you’re just as likely to come across a parade gone terribly, horribly wrong. These aren’t your garden variety float malfunctions, nor are they Ferris Bueller improving the Von Steuben Day Parade with a little Wayne Newton and The Beatles. These are…
For the second time in The Last Man On Earth’s short run, Fox aired two episodes back-to-back—and for the second time in The Last Man On Earth’s short run, airing two episodes back-to-back flatters the show. The first time was when the unusual one-man show pilot aired with the second episode immediately afterwards in…
We begin each new year on a hopeful note by cataloging our most anticipated pop culture of the next 12 months. But before we look ahead to 2015, it’s time to see how our most anticipated entertainment of 2014 panned out. Wes Anderson’s latest film kicked off our Inventory of hopes and dreams in January, and The Grand…
When the viewers, creators, critics, and scholars of the future reflect on the television of the 2010s, 2014 will have a special shine to it. This year, there were more places to see original TV series than ever, yet that did nothing to dilute the quality of those series. Television is stronger than it’s ever been, as…
In an obvious message to TV fans across the world who hoped their favorite cancelled shows would find new life on the Internet, Yahoo has swung its mighty scepter and declared that Fox’s short-lived military comedy Enlisted would not be given another chance at life. “People of Earth, we have the power to save the…
In June, The A.V. Club’s Tournament Of Episodes exhaustively catalogued and accurately identified (with no room for further debate) the finest television episodes of the 2013-14 season, declaring The Good Wife’s “Hitting The Fan” the absolute best. Because that feature partially pulled from the past six-plus months of…
After its last-minute rescue of Community, Yahoo is now reportedly considering taking in another stray by picking up Fox’s Enlisted, Deadline and The Wrap report. Both sites say Yahoo is in early discussions with 20th Century Fox TV about reviving the canceled cult comedy on its Yahoo Screen service, after fans…
Earlier this month the cast and crew of Enlisted returned to the Austin Television Festival, one year after they’d screened the pilot episode in the buildup to the show’s premiere. This time around, the future was much less rosy than it was before: Enlisted had been canceled by Fox weeks earlier, a consequence of…
A few weeks ago on The A.V. Club, my colleague Todd VanDerWerff wrote a terrific piece on how the modern sitcom is suffering from a lack of conflict, where genuine issues between characters are being sanded off in favor of creating a comfortable hang-out vibe. In his extensive list of examples, he cited the…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for June 15. All times are Eastern.
For a show that’s as irreverent as Enlisted can be, it’s also a show that takes itself as seriously as the institution that it’s based on. After shooting the pilot episode and realizing that it was full of various inaccuracies, showrunners Kevin Biegel and Mike Royce hired military consultants to help them iron out…
Here’s what’s up in the world of television for Sunday, June 8. All times are Eastern.
It’s been over two months since Enlisted was last on the air, and the news since then has not been good. Fox rolled out its schedule for 2014-15 a few weeks ago, and Enlisted was nowhere to be seen, shipped off to the farm upstate with Dads, Surviving Jack, Rake, and all the other shows that just couldn’t find a good…
A few days ago, while blitzing my way through the back half of The Mindy Project’s second season, I realized something: The show was as formless as ever, and many of the characters lacked even the most basic of definitions. But when any of those characters, no matter how poorly conceived, entered a scene with Chris…
The Critics’ Choice TV Awards—the wackier, more unpredictable cousin of the Television Critics Association Awards—released the nominees for its June 19 ceremony today, correcting wrongs perpetrated by the TCA and the American Broadcasting Company by giving a Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nod to the year’s…
We asked you to make your picks for the Tournament Of Episodes Readers’ Choice nominees earlier this week, and you did not disappoint, naming nearly 200 episodes that we didn’t have on our initial list of 17. We whittled that down to 15 (since we couldn’t get it down to just 10), and now, it’s time for you to vote for…
As the sun sets on another busy day of preparing the fall TV schedule—allowing for the sun to rise on a new tomorrow of renewals and cancellations, series orders and pilots turned down—Fox announced that it doesn’t live with Dads anymore. But just as every ray of sunshine must give way to an equal amount of rain, the…
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