When Melissa McCarthy took the stage to host Saturday Night Live, she started out by issuing a warning to her children: Go to bed now — because mama's about to get pretty inappropriate. She explained, "They're just getting over that sink scene from Bridesmaids. We've been dealing with some night terrors."
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Bobby Cannavale will guest-star on 10 episodes of Nurse Jackie, Showtime announced Thursday.
Cannavale, who earlier this year got raves for the film Win Win, joins the half-hour series, which stars Edie Falco as a pill-popping nurse, as a hospital administrator sent to All Saint's Hospital by the new owner to whip things into shape and enhance profits.
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Just months after leaving The Office, Steve Carell is returning to TV — albeit behind the scenes — with a new interview series on Showtime.
Laughing Stock, executive-produced by Carell and David Steinberg, will bring on comedy greats from the last five decades for one-on-one discussions about their careers, influences and the evolution of comedy with Steinberg (Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg).
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Game 6 of the National Basketball Association finals emerged as a slam-dunk winner in the ratings, averaging 21.07 million viewers on ABC, according to preliminary Nielsen figures.
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This weekend, HBO offers up a comedy special (Talking Funny), a new movie about an historic TV phenom (Cinema Verite) and the return of a distinguished drama series (Treme). All are worth a look. It's actually an HBO grand slam if you count Game of Thrones, the triumphant adult fantasy series that was renewed for a second season shortly after the first episode aired. (HBO has a tradition of doing this, but rarely in recent years has the network's enthusiasm been so well deserved.)
In Thrones' eventful second chapter (Sunday, 9/8c), you begin to sense the series' range, as many characters begin disparate journeys through the sprawling land of Westeros: dutiful Ned Stark heads out with...
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