'Terriers' comes to Netflix Instant, productivity says goodbye
Brilliant-but-canceled detective series still has no DVD set, but you can watch all the episodes
The guys from "Terriers" still don't have a DVD, but they've come to Netflix.
I have a lot of things I should be watching today for next week's reviews and podcast, yet I'm sorely tempted to devote the entire day to watching "Terriers" now that the brilliant-but-canceled FX detective drama has arrived on Netflix Instant.
Review: Syfy's 'Neverland' takes the magic out of Peter Pan
Too much explaning, not enough entertaining in prequel miniseries
Q'orianka Kilcher, Charlie Rowe and a CGI Tinkerbell in "Neverland."
'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' - 'Pilot': The worst people in the world
What did everybody think of the new FOX comedy?
Jaime Pressly and Katie Finneran in "I Hate My Teenage Daughter."
I posted my review of FOX's "I Hate My Teenage Daughter" yesterday. Now it's your turn. I couldn't stand it, but you may have felt more kindly about it, had more built-up affection for Jaime Pressly and/or Katie Finneran (or Chad L. Coleman from his "Wire" days), or genuinely found it funny.
What did everybody else think? Will you be tuning in next week?
Also, if anyone watches "The Exes" on TV Land tonight, feel free to discuss it here if you want.
Review: TV Land's 'The Exes'
Donald Faison, Kristen Johnston and company go for deliberately retro laughs
Kelly Stables, Donald Faison, Kristen Johnston, David Alan Basche and Wayne Knight in "The Exes."
In one of the few laugh-out-loud lines in TV Land's new sitcom "The Exes" (tonight at 10:30), we meet Eden, the pint-sized, sexpot assistant to divorce lawyer Holly. Eden is played by Kelly Stables, whom the Internet Movie Database very generously lists at 5' tall, and one of Holly's clients suggests that Eden "looks like someone threw a hot chick in the dryer."
'Parenthood' - 'Missing': The Max on the bus goes round and round
Kristina goes back to work, Max goes missing, and Crosby likes Dr. Joe
Max (Max Burkholder) wanders the streets of Oakland in "Parenthood."
A review of last night's "Parenthood" coming up just as soon as I like a jean jacket on a baby...
'New Girl' - 'Bells': The thrill of the fight
The guys step to the forefront in one of the strongest episodes so far
Winston (Lamorne Morris) and Jess (Zooey Deschanel) work with some high school kids on "New Girl."
A review of last night's "New Girl" coming up just as soon as I have a $40,000 bar mitzvah...
'Sons of Anarchy' - 'To Be, Act 1': Tell me you love me
Jax, Tara and Gemma all scramble in the first half of the season finale
Lenny the Pimp (Sonny Barger) meets with Jax (Charlie Hunnam) on "Sons of Anarchy."
A quick review of tonight's "Sons of Anarchy" coming up just as soon as I get you a bigger bowl...
HBO announces February premieres for 'Eastbound & Down' and 'Life's Too Short'
The return of Kenny Powers will be accompanied by new Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant series
Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) is (bleeping) in, when "Eastbound & Down" returns to HBO in February.
More good news for cable TV fans: a day after FX announced the January premieres for "Justified" and "Archer," HBO announced that "Eastbound & Down" will be back on Sunday, February 19 at 10, followed at 10:30 by the new mockumentary series "Life's Too Short."
You know "Eastbound" by now: Danny McBride is the profoundly stupid, yet confident, relief pitcher Kenny (Bleeping) Powers, trying to make his way in the world after his career ended. The third season will be 8 episodes.
"Life's Too Short," meanwhile, is the latest collaboration between Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who have already given TV "The Office" UK and "Extras." This one's much more in the "Extras" vein, with Warwick Davis (Wicket from "Return of the Jedi" and Professor Flitwick from the "Harry Potter" films, among many other fantasy/sci-fi roles) playing a down-on-his-luck version of himself, trying to hustle a way back into the spotlight. The 7-episode season will feature cameos by Johnny Depp, Sting, Steve Carell and even Gervais and Merchant themselves.
Review: Why I hate FOX's 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter'
The last new show of the fall is also one of the least
Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly address their loathsome offspring in "I Hate My Teenage Daughter."
Review: 'Scott Turow's Innocent' kicks off TNT mystery movie series
Bill Pullman, Marcia Gay Harden and Richard Schiff star in belated, silly 'Presumed Innocent' sequel
Bill Pullman in "Scott Turow's Innocent."
TNT has already established quite the profitable brand for itself as home to the kinds of square-jawed, retro dramas that the broadcast networks stopped making a long time ago. So it stands to reason that the channel would eventually try getting into another business the networks have largely abandoned: the made-for-TV-movie. And if they can be the kinds of movies that fit comfortably alongside "The Closer" and "Rizzoli & Isles," so much the better.
Over the next three weeks, TNT will be airing a half-dozen mystery movies, all based on works by best-selling authors like Sandra Brown and Mary Higgins Clark, all starring actors who are past their career peak but have the ability to make you stop channel surfing to say, "Oh, I like him/her."
The movies kick off tonight at 9 with "Scott Turow's Innocent," a very belated sequel to Turow's "Presumed Innocent," which was made into a hit 1990 film starring Harrison Ford as prosecutor Rusty Sabitch, who was accused of murdering his mistress, only for it to be revealed (21-year-old spoiler alert!) that his scorned wife Barbara had done it and framed him for the deed.
