CBS’ Mom, which recently celebrated its 100th episode, is reliably chugging along thanks in no small part to the combined strengths of its leads, Allison Janney and Anna Faris. We asked the pair, as well as their Mom castmates, to rank history’s greatest TV moms.
Allison Janney is now an Oscar-winner, making her Hollywood stock rise considerably, so CBS has smartly decided to renew her Chuck Lorre sitcom Mom for a sixth season before she can get lured away by some better offer. Granted, CBS didn’t specifically say that it wanted to keep Janney from running off, but it’d…
In a refreshing acknowledgement that some people in Hollywood recognize that there are issues more important than awards season, the stars and producer of the sitcom Mom announced that they are foregoing the usual “for your consideration” Emmy ad campaign. Instead, the show will spend that $250,000 ad budget on a…
TV megaproducer Chuck Lorre—whose role as the co-creator of The Big Bang Theory grants him a permanent honorary position as king of the nerds and viceroy of the internet—has issued a challenge to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Lorre has demanded that Assange prove he’s not just a “hired gun” by directing his…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, December 15. All times are Eastern.
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, November 24. All times are Eastern.
CBS has just announced that it’s renewing Survivor, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, and a bunch of other stuff that isn’t Supergirl, no matter how many times we shake our TVs, insisting they give in to our demands. The network announced a whopping 11 renewals today, none of which star Melissa Benoist or fill our hearts…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, February 18. All times are Eastern.
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, November 5. All times are Eastern.
TVLine reports that Ellen Burstyn will play perhaps the oldest mom in the Plunkett family on Mom this season. She’s been cast as Bonnie’s (Allison Janney) estranged mother Shirley, who abandoned Bonnie when she was only four. Shirley’s return will create problems for Bonnie and Christy (Anna Faris), and she’ll have a…
In last week’s penultimate episode of Mom’s second season, most of the show’s major characters were sitting in a circle at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, where Bonnie Plunkett (played by Allison Janney) had to make an amends after falling hard off the wagon. “It’s not easy to say this,” she began, “but I lied to you…
Lovable underdog TV writer Chuck Lorre, known for creating such cult hits as Dharma & Greg, Grace Under Fire, and the short-lived Two And A Half Men, is finally getting the well-deserved recognition that has, thus far, eluded him. According to Variety, two of the newest additions to the Lorre-verse, Mom and Mike &…
One year ago at the Sundance film festival, Zach Braff’s indie dramedy Wish I Was Here debuted, accompanied by a fair amount of pre-screening hubbub. The film was already controversial, because of writer-producer-director-star Braff’s decision to finance a good chunk of it via Kickstarter. But Braff was also one of…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, October 30. All times are Eastern.
The first season finale of Mom ends, at least on my screener, on a smash cut to the executive producer credit. It’s a surprising move for a multi-camera sitcom, because it’s the sort of thing that’s usually used to underline a major moment or turning point. The last scene of “Smokey Taylor And A Deathbed Confession”…
“Broken Dreams And Blocked Arteries” is all right there in the title, huh? It’s a fast-paced rip through most of the season’s major plotlines, one that takes up under 20 minutes of screentime and gives away at least 90 of its seconds to a lengthy “previously on” montage that catches us up on everything that’s happened…
“Clumsy Monkeys And A Tilted Uterus” succeeds primarily for one reason: It features Gary from Alphas as the husband of the couple that will be adopting Violet’s baby! Ryan Cartwright proved himself to be an effortlessly great actor when it came to both comedy and drama on that earlier program, and it’s great fun to…
Every so often, a TV show decides you should really like one of its characters more than you do—or at least be far more invested in them than you are—and then it proceeds to toss that character into storylines willy-nilly, as if that character is the reason you are watching the show. For a good example of this taken…
CBS will remain CBS for the foreseeable future: The network renewed 18 series today, including every Chuck Lorre comedy it didn’t order three seasons of yesterday and no-brainers like NCIS and 60 Minutes. (Or, as those two programs are known to CBS’ target demographic—your parents—“everything that’s on TV.”) The mass…
“I don’t want my baby being raised by religious fanatics,” Violet cries. “I want it being raised by homosexuals!” And with that, she maybe, hopefully, possibly takes Mom to another level. “Sonograms And Tube Tops” is the episode I’ve been waiting for, an episode where everything works and the Chuck Lorre factory’s…