ABC gives "Revenge" and "Suburgatory" full seasons; "Happy Endings" earns 6 scripts
"Revenge" saw a ratings bump this week, while "Suburgatory" has been a perfect companion to "The Middle."
Forbes magazine investigating Bethenny Frankel's "$120 million lie"
Her Skinnygirl cocktail mix was actually sold for $8.1 million, not $120 million — a figure that made her one of the highest-earning women in entertainment. Meanwhile, Frankel denies she lied.
"The Simpsons" reacts to its 2-season pickup
Watch the promo featuring the "They'll never stop 'The Simpsons'" song.
Occupy Wall Street inspires "Occupy Sesame Street"
Big Bird & Co. are "protesting" on the streets of NYC.
HBO traveling back to the '50s for a Dick Wolf Cold War drama
The "Law & Order" boss is teaming with a "Boardwalk Empire" drama on a think tank whose mission to prohibit the launch of a nuclear bomb.
"The Kids Are All Right" to become an HBO series
The Oscar-nominated movie is set to become a TV show.
It's just not funny, says Glenn Garvin, who adds: "With tediously unfunny scripts and a listless cast that looks as if it can barely wait for the director to shout 'Cut!' so it can head en masse to the unemployment office, 'Last Man Standing' is some kind of voracious video parasite that sucks out all intellect, sense of purpose or will to live. Even the laugh track sounds thin and nervous, as if ABC executives are holding guns to the heads of the Modern Family cast just off-camera, threatening to shoot them all unless the 'Last Man Standing' studio audience produces a few titters."
It's like she threw out the rule book and decided to do an impromptu and unpredictable show, says Tim Goodman. "After (last night's) debut of 'The Rosie Show,' I can only hope she doesn't let anyone tamper with it," he says. "Because it's a little crazy. 'The Rosie Show' is, in fact, something of an oddity in that it looks haphazard and thrown together (though it's not, despite being live on the East Coast). It looks – and in the tightly packaged world of talk shows, this is a crime – like a lot of fun."
The Mike White and Laura Dern series, also starring Luke Wilson, is "not-quite-comedy, not-quite-drama, not-quite-entertaining" and avoids HBO's curse of egregious self-indulgence, says Robert Bianco. "'Enlightened' may be many things, but it isn't smug, cynical or grating, which separates it from most other HBO series these days," he says.
