The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards are coming up this Sunday, September 17th and The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV Editor Erik Adams breaks down a category and gives us his picks for who should win, and who will win. First…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, August 27. All times are Eastern. Black tie optional.
Provoking any number of emotions—from child-like delight to other, less innocent reactions—in the hearts and connected organs of its legions of adult fans, the My Little Pony movie released its first teaser trailer today, confirming that, yes, the characters are all still ponies, and they’ll be hanging out with a lot…
For several years, Hank Azaria has been most familiar to television audiences as the voice of literally hundreds of characters on The Simpsons, including fan favorites like bar owner Moe, Chief Wiggum, and Professor Frink. But this spring Azaria steps back in front of the camera to star in Brockmire as the namesake…
Although she’s currently engaged in a Feud with Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon’s already booked her next TV gig. Deadline reports the erstwhile Bette Davis has signed on for a recurring role on Showtime’s Ray Donovan. She’ll very much stay in the movie business, though, playing a studio head by the name of Samantha…
It was Showtime today at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, and the pay-cable network had some good news for Ray Donovan and Homeland fans (of which we assume there are many). The Liev Schreiber-led show has been picked up for a 5th season of flouting the law, while Homeland was renewed for two more…
If you’re anything like me, you love singing in the shower. (I used to enjoy dancing, too, until a really embarrassing fall disabused me of the desire, a story about which the less is said, the better.) But we live in an apartment with no windows in the bathroom, meaning moisture builds up instantly on everything.…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, June 26. All times are Eastern.
Indulging in the very definition of a teaser—i.e., “one who goads others into an unhappy or miserable reaction”—Showtime has released the latest promo for its long-running Catholic guilt-and-murder parade, Ray Donovan. Starring Liev Schreiber as the titular sweaty ball of glowering stubble, the series is set to return…
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
In its third episode, The Grinder looks inward to find its plot in this episode, just as it did in the second episode. Its inherent metaness is less elegant than “A Hero Has Fallen,” wherein the plot of the show-within-a-show mirrored the state of The Grinder itself, although the dreaded sophomore slump was avoided in…
Showtime has renewed two of its most popular dramas, Ray Donovan and Masters Of Sex, for fourth seasons. Showtime President David Nevins announced the renewals at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, calling them “signature series” for the network and lauding Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber, who nabbed an…
The L Word co-star Sarah Shahi has signed on for a one-episode guest spot on Showtime’s Ray Donovan, reuniting with former fictitious fiancee Katherine Moennig. Shahi will play an Armenian pop star named Hasmig, who presumably needs the help of Liev Schreiber’s Hollywood fixer to get her out of a public relations…
According to Deadline, the once-and-future Joey Potter will be appearing in a season-long arc on Showtime’s Ray Donovan. She’ll be playing a “shrewd and chic businesswoman” named Paige, who happens to be the daughter of the character played by Ian McShane—who is also joining the show, as we’ve previously reported. Ray…
Showtime’s Ray Donovan—a show that is not only still on, but still being inexplicably nominated for awards—has an uncanny ability to pull respected actors into its terrifying maw. Maybe it’s all of those awards? Either way, it stars Liev Schreiber as an antihero who does antihero stuff, and Jon Voight plays his dad.…
The job of a showrunner seems to be the most vague-yet-obvious in all of TV. The name gives away that they run a show, but the meaning of that is impossible to figure out for anyone unwilling to do even the most cursory research. We see it as being similar to the job of a sea captain. They spin their little wheel to…
Since the executives at every cable network are apparently engaged in an extended champagne bender stretching between last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys and next Monday’s Primetime Emmy Awards, the programmers at the most prominent networks are renewing series with drunken abandon. Third season for Rectify?…
For two shows that could not be more different in style and quality, it’s bizarre how much Ray Donovan and Masters Of Sex have in common. Both are fundamentally interested in the intimacy of sex and how it relates to the rest of the world. Both are particularly invested in one romantic relationship’s success or…
Showtime has solved the question of how to replace Dexter in its Sunday summer slot by pairing Ray Donovan with Masters Of Sex. Both shows will premiere July 13 at 9 and 10 p.m., respectively. The programs had their first seasons last season, with Ray Donovan riding its Dexter lead-in to become the highest-rated first…
Cementing her role as prestige drama’s one-woman vice squad, Betsy Brandt is moving on from the meth-choked cul-de-sacs of Albuquerque to the sex-choked (but in a cold, clinical way) hallways of academia. The former Breaking Bad star and most-likely-former-Michael J. Fox Show star will appear in the second season of …
