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  1. Happy Endings Recap: ‘Grinches Be Crazy’The signs are all around us that Christmas time is here: the colorful lights, the nip in the air, the snowy white expanse of Adam Pally’s inner […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  2. Modern Family Recap: ‘Express Christmas’When Mitch and Claire’s mom ditches their Christmas plans to hang out with her cruise ship captain boyfriend, it comes to light that everyone’s […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  3. Gavin Polone Advises NBC to Target Young Male AudiencesCurb Your Enthusiasm producer Gavin Polone’s advice for NBC: look to the example of cable networks by spending less on riskier shows that shoot […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  4. Trade Roundup: Kerri Kenney-Silver, Dan FogelmanIn addition to its three script orders earlier today, Comedy Central has started developing a half-hour scripted/improv mockumentary from Reno […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  5. Chris Parnell and Ana Gasteyer on Their Comedic Marriage of the Minds“
    By Hallie Cantor
  6. Dennis Duffy Joins Up All Night As Will Arnett’s BrotherDean Winters is guest starring on Up All Night as Will Arnett’s character’s brother, which is amazing, because the two of them could be […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  7. looking ahead
    Vulture’s Midseason TV Preview: How the New Series Will Affect the Network’s FortunesAnd there are some ambitious new series: from Smash to Touch to The River.
    By Josef Adalian
  8. Is ABC’s Work It Unfair to Women? Work It, ABC’s upcoming comedy about men dressing as women to get jobs, does not look like it’s breaking any records for being funny. But it […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  9. Penny’s Mom & Dave’s Dad Sitting in a Tree, Michael McKean & Megan MullallyHappy Endings has cast Michael McKean as Dave’s dad, who will become romantically involved with Megan Mullally as Penny’s mom. This is […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  10. Trade Roundup: Jonah Hill, The Cult of Mac, Four PlayJonah Hill will guest host Live! With Kelly on Dec. 6. It’s just a one-day stint, not a whole week like NPH or Seinfeld, but who knows? He […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  11. ABC’s Midseason Schedule Is Missing Don’t Trust the B— and CougartownABC released its midseason lineup, which includes one new comedy (it’s the one about guys who cross-dress to get ahead in a “woman’s world.” […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  12. Modern Family Recap: ‘After the Fire’The whole family’s hangin’ at the Dunphy’s (and if this were 1986, Hangin’ At The Dunphy’s would be the title of the show) to prepare donations […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  13. Talking to Molly McNearney, the Co-Head Writer of Jimmy Kimmel LiveOne of the most hot button issues in comedy right now is the lack of women writing for late night. Molly McNearney is the only woman who […]
    By Meghan O'Keefe
  14. Party Down’s Ryan Hansen Will Play Penny’s Paramour On Happy EndingsRyan Hansen from Party Down will guest star on Happy Endings this season when Penny attempts to make over his “successful but style-challenged” […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  15. Modern Family Recap: ‘Treehouse’On this week’s Modern Family, Jay is a stick-in-the-mud, Cam is flamboyant, and Haley is spoiled. Pretty standard episode…but Phil is sad! […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  16. what’s up next
    From Westerns to Pirates to Alien Cops: The TV Dramas in Development for Fall 2012We sorted through the hundreds of pilot ideas commissioned by the networks and broke out the most intriguing … and most ridiculous.
    By Josef Adalian
  17. Trade Roundup: Pilots From Weeds, Happy Endings, and Everybody Loves […] Pilots, pilots, pilots. Weeds creator Jenji Kohan and Weeds writer David Holstein sold CBS a half-hour that’s supposed to be “Sliding Doors […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  18. ratings
    ABC’s Once Has a Second Good Week in the RatingsBut ‘Allen Gregory’ bombs.
    By Josef Adalian
  19. ratings
    ABC Revived the TV Comedy With Modern Family, But Does That Make It a Hit Network?’Suburgatory’ is working, but ‘Man Up’ is fading.
    By Josef Adalian
  20. Mean Blog Post Becomes ABC’s Newest Comedy About Modern LoveABC and Tracy McMillan have embarked upon the last leg of that classic journey from super-harsh blog post to book to television show. Why […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  21. Modern Family Is the #1 Scripted Show on TV!Let’s hope his $750,000 trailer comes equipped with a box of cashmere tissues, because Ashton Kutcher is going to be mildly-to-moderately upset […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  22. Watch the Happy Endings Halloween Ep Right Now Ain’t no (skeleton) bones about it, there’s not a ghost of a chance I won’t watch the Happy Endings Halloween episode online, even if […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  23. tv
    Tune in to ABC to Learn Why You’re Not MarriedThe blog post is becoming a TV show.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  24. Tom Hanks’ New Movie, Ladies Selling Comedies, and the First Family SitcomSo many new shows being bought and sold today! What is this, folks, the television show stock market? Wait, please don’t leave. Can we start […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  25. ratings
    Once Upon a Time Starts Off StrongIt has the biggest drama premiere of the season in the demo.
    By Josef Adalian
  26. ABC Scores Comedy From Moneyball AuthorAre you ready for some heart-warming family comedyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Oh, I guess that’s actually a football reference rather than a baseball […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  27. Modern Family Recap: ‘Go Bullfrogs!’This week on Modern Family, Phil takes Haley to visit his old college campus, the home of the fighting Bullfrogs! Or Bulldogs. (Their warrior […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  28. Happy Endings Recap: ‘Secrets And Limos’I love how much mileage Happy Endings is getting out of Max’s limo purchase! In addition to be a consistently great visual gag, the limo […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  29. Mandy Moore Heading Up New ABC Family Comedy Hey, looks like Mandy Moore is going to be a thing again! After being a really big thing from roughly 1999 until 2004, then segueing into […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  30. tv
    Mandy Moore Is Getting Her Own ShowShe’ll star in a comedy for ABC.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  31. Oh God, Finally: Judy Greer Is Developing Her Own Sitcom for ABCJudy Greer, who is absolutely hilarious in pretty much everything she’s done, including a whole bunch of terrible things in which she is the […]
    By Adam Frucci
  32. Marlon Wayans Is Developing A Genre-Spanning Comedy for ABCMarlon Wayans is making a TV comeback! ABC’s developing his “hybrid single/multi-camera comedy” about two brothers, which “has an odd […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  33. Modern Family’s New Lily Questions Metaphysics of Acting, Boobsvideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Get ready, Modern Family fans (Modern Fan-ilies? Eh). Jesse Tyler Ferguson told some […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  34. ABC Buys Another Pun-Named Script, This Time From Ellen DeGeneresEllen DeGeneres has sold ABC Weitz & Wong, a comedy about “a mixed race Jewish-Chinese couple and their two children.” Oh, ABC, you’re killing […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  35. Modern Family Recap: ‘Hit and Run’Everyone was a vigilante this week on Modern Family. Well, the men were. The women stayed home and talked about their problems, then used their […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  36. ratings
    Suburgatory and Revenge Likely to Be ExtendedThey did well in the ratings Wednesday, as did ‘Happy Endings.’
    By Josef Adalian
  37. Tim Allen Is Your One Friend’s Angry Dad In Last Man Standing Tim Allen returned on Tuesday as America’s every-man in Last Man Standing, but as Linda Holmes of NPR’s Monkey See points, Allen’s character […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  38. ratings
    13 Million People Watched Tim Allen’s Sitcom ReturnThis is good, not great.
    By Josef Adalian
  39. The B Is Back In Apartment 23’s New Title According to Entertainment Weekly, the new title of ABC’s Apartment 23 is Don’t Trust The B— in Apartment 23, which is the show’s original […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  40. Apartment 23: TV Show or Magical Portal to the 90’s?Apartment 23 will not be content with only one 90’s television star playing himself. In addition to James Van Der Beek, Kevin Sorbo from […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  41. You’ll Get All The Rhea Perlman You Need In Kirstie Alley’s The ManzanisI’m ready for Rhea Perlman to be the Danny DeVito of Kirstie Alley’s new show The Manzanis. Clearly I’m projecting my own personal wants and […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  42. ratings
    Angels, Gentleman Tank in the Ratings (Again)Their ratings keep going down.
    By Josef Adalian
  43. Modern Family Recap: ‘Door to Door’I gotta say it, this week’s Modern Family was a big episode for dramatic theater fans. Big. First we get teased by the prospect of Manny […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  44. Happy Endings Recap: ‘Baby Steps’Everything’s coming babies on Happy Endings this week! Alex realizes that teenage girls are buying and wearing the infant onesies she’s been […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  45. exclusive
    Happy Endings Introduces Max’s High-School GirlfriendFrom before the Adam Pally character was out of the closet.
    By Josef Adalian
  46. ratings
    Ratings: Kevin Dillon’s New CBS Comedy Isn’t Worth $#*!Also: ‘Charlie’s Angels’ tanks in week two.
    By Josef Adalian
  47. ABC’s New Jailhouse Comedy Has an Amazing NameABC just bought a new half-hour “jailhouse lawyer comedy” about a disgraced Wall Street banker (serious question: are there any Wall Street […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  48. talk
    Was Suburgatory Heavenly, Hellish, or Somewhere in Between?What did you think of ABC’s new family comedy?
    By Margaret Lyons
  49. Modern Family Recap: ‘Phil on Wire’This week, Modern Family tackled an vital issue for humanity, and one extremely close to my heart: people getting cranky when they don’t eat […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  50. ratings
    Suburgatory Just May Be Another Comedy HitIt did really well in the ratings.
    By Josef Adalian
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