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Finale Watch: The Wire, Breaking Bad | Roush Dispatch | 3/7/2008
Its final season may have been built around a number of Big Lies, but here's the honest truth: HBO's The Wire is TV for the ages. Though it spent much of its acclaimed existence under the pop-culture radar, despite annual appearances on critics' best-of-year lists, this heartbreaking and searing masterpiece of urban decay and corruption will live on as all great literature does. Any self-respecting DVD library would want to include the five seasons of The Wire. It's that good, and that... read more
Ask Matt | 2/11/2008
Q: The cast and crew of Breaking Bad have done a great job ? at making me depressed! I couldn't get more than halfway through the pilot, and I wanted to cry through the 30 minutes I did see! I think that for a TV show to affect me this strongly means that the writers and actors are nothing short of amazing and deserve some kudos. I never saw Bryan Cranston in Malcolm in the Middle, so I am not familiar with his comedic work, but watching him in this show made me wonder if he's capable of even... read more
Cheers: Malcolm's Dad Goes Bad | Cheers & Jeers | 1/21/2008
Cheers to Bryan Cranston for his image-shattering performance in Breaking Bad. I always knew he was a committed actor: The Malcolm in the Middle episode when dad Hal learns how to roller-boogie remains one of the greatest tour de forces in sitcom history. But who knew Cranston could handle dark material like AMC's dramedy about a dying chemistry teacher who resorts to selling crystal meth (and worse crimes) to save his family? Cranston's not Bad — he's brilliant.• Read and react to... read more
AMC's Breaking Bad Is One Hot Meth | TVGuide.com's Strike Recovery Guide | 1/18/2008
The when: Sundays at 10pm/ET (with many encores), premiering Jan. 20. Why watch?: Judging by the pilot, this promises to be a smart, stylish, grimly funny, ultimately serious look at how life can treat one poorly and how bad choices can make things that much worse... but not always worse, and not in every way. Walter White is a high-school chemistry teacher in Alburquerque, New Mexico, who is just turning 50 as the series begins. His job pays so poorly that he has to moonlight at a car wash; he... read more
Bryan Cranston Previews His Bad New Role | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/18/2008
For seven seasons, Bryan Cranston goofed off as Malcolm in the Middle's oddball dad, Hal. Now, he's returning to series TV with Breaking Bad (premiering Sunday, Jan. 20, at 10 pm/ET on AMC), an hour-long dramedy whose humor is a bit darker ? he's a chemistry teacher who turns to churning out homemade crystal meth after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. We talked with Cranston about his trip to the dark side and to hear about some of his career highlights. TV Guide: Are you ready to... read more
Breaking Bad Cooks Up Seriously Dark Comedy | Roush Review | 1/16/2008
Is there a more fearless actor than Bryan Cranston? We know him best as a comedian, going to extremes to appear ridiculous as Malcolm in the Middle's harried Hal. But that nutty dad had it easy compared to Walt White, the milquetoast-turned-maker of crystal meth played by Cranston in AMC's bold, bizarre Breaking Bad. This show is Weeds with a death wish. "I am awake," Walt declares, not long after a diagnosis of inoperable lung cancer turns this sad-sack chemistry teacher into a criminal ... read more
Cable Channel Likes X-Files Vet's New Hot Meth | Today's News: Our Take | 5/23/2007
According to Variety, AMC is thisclose to greenlighting Breaking Bad, X-Files writer-producer Vince Gilligan's new series starring Bryan Cranston as a suburban husband and father who, upon learning he has terminal cancer, uses his chemistry-teacher know-how to remake himself into a crystal-meth dealer. Soudns like Weeds on crack. Er, meth. read more
Pilot Talk: Will & Grace Boyfriend Is NYC's Mayor | Today's News: Our Take | 2/2/2007
The latest pilot developments, this time per Reuters:• Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale (Will & Grace) has landed the lead in M.O.N.Y., NBC's drama about a socially conscious public advocate who suddenly finds himself New York City's interim mayor.• Rebecca Mader (last seen on Fox's Justice) has been cast as Jane's top associate at the covert ops agency in ABC's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.• Rachelle Lefevre (What About Brian's Heather) has landed the female lead in Life on Mars, David... read more
January 22, 2007: Paint Me | How I Met Your Mother | 1/23/2007
Any Mother episode with Bryan Cranston is all right by this blogger, so let’s hope that heart attack wasn’t fatal. I do so love me that Hammie D.This week joked around with two story lines, New Dart and Ted’s thwarted attempts to fire his former boss. The second story line was funny, the first was high-larious. Naked Marshall is Marshall’s humiliating secret from his past: a collegiate, male version of Robin Sparkles, if you will. The gang’s joy at discovering the... read more
Casting About: Dancing Star Hits the Curb | Today's News: Our Take | 12/4/2006
Onetime Dancing with the Stars contender Vivica A. Fox has joined the cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm for the HBO series' sixth season, playing a member of an African-American family that moves into the Davids' home following a major natural disaster.... Also per the Hollywood Reporter: Malcolm in the Middle dad Bryan Cranston will play Lucifer in four new hours of ABC Family's Fallen, to air next summer.... George Wendt is Ashley Williams' father and Beverly D'Angelo is Zachary Levi's socialite... read more
Casting: Look Who's Coming to Play Barney's Brother | Today's News: Our Take | 10/27/2006
How I Met Your Mother has cast Barney's brother, and he will be played by... Wayne Brady. Adoption? Half sibling? "The less we say about it, the funnier it will be," exec producer Carter Bays tells Variety. "We like that 'What the hell?' factor." Thus far, Brady is only booked for a single, Nov. 27 appearance, but the role may become recurring (as has Bryan Cranston's gig as Ted's boss).... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Frances Fisher (Titanic) and Ivan Sergei (Charmed) have joined the cast of... read more
Brothers, Mother and Other Odds and Ends | Roush Dispatch | 10/23/2006
Some random TV thoughts:Each week since its overly somber premiere, ABC's Brothers & Sisters has improved, slowly becoming a more entertaining, if not yet compelling, family drama. The most recent episode, involving a series of eventful dates for most of the major characters, had a mostly deft light touch, showing (I think) the influence of Everwood's Greg Berlanti on the creative direction of the show.It's becoming a more suitable companion for Desperate Housewives, which also has improved... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/23/2006
Friday, Jan. 13 turned out to be a truly bad-luck day for read more
The Watercooler | 8/26/2005
Last week with the reality crew I was about toss this show into the muck, but this episode renewed my faith li read more
Ask Matt | 4/8/2005
Question: I just read online that Fox was picking up Malcolm in the Middle for a seventh season, and this brings a quest read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 11/21/2003
Judge Reinhold's friendly face graced many of our favorite '80s comedies. We're talkin' classic stuff like Stripes, Grem read more
Roush Dispatch | 9/24/2003
With a day or so's reflection, some thoughts about an Emmy Awards ceremony I'll probably have forgotten by this time nex read more
Roush Review | 9/15/2003
Who'll win? With the Emmys, who can ever say? Because so many of the same people and shows get nominated year after yea read more
Ask Matt | 9/9/2003
Question: I am a huge fan of Malcolm in the Middle. I think it's by far the best network sitcom on the air. But in the p read more
Ask Matt | 9/8/2003
Question: I am a huge fan of Malcolm in the Middle. I think it's by far the best network sitcom on the air. But in the p read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/2/2003
Where the prime-time Emmy nominations are concerned, we here at TV Guide Online adhere to one simple rule: If you ain't read more
Roush Review | 3/3/2003
Fox's groaningly garish Oliver Beene (Sundays, 8:30 pm/ET) isn't just a companion piece to Malcolm in the Middle. It's a read more
Ask Matt | 9/30/2002
Question: Now that this year's Emmys are over, who didn't win that you feel is deserving, and who's been snubbed that yo read more
Roush Review | 8/5/2002
Was it something we said? After years of critics griping about the Emmy Awards process — the same TV shows and stars read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/19/2002
Emmy really shook things up this year, suddenly ignoring Malcolm in the Middle's child star Frankie Muniz — but nomi read more
Today's News: My Take | 7/18/2002
When it comes to Emmy recognition, HBO's mortuary drama Six Feet Under is no stiff: The quirky soap scored a field-best read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/3/2002
It isn't a perfect world. We all know that. Our country is at war. Our stocks are tanking. And, after the Academy of Tel read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/22/2002
During Sunday evening's broadcast of the 74th annual Oscars (starting at 8 pm/ET on ABC), host Whoopi Goldberg probably read more
Roush Review | 6/18/2001
When a favorite show hits a home run, the memory lingers on. Which is why, when reflecting on last season, it seemed mor read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 9/12/2000
Entertainment Tonight's fifth annual post-Emmy party, held at Barneys New York in Beverly Hills, drew its fair share of read more