HBO has set a Jan. 28 premiere for Gabriel Byrne's In Treatment, which will air a new episode every Monday through Friday. Each half-hour shows a "session" between Byrne's psychotherapist and one of his patients.... It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator/star Rob McElhenney proposed to cast mate Kaitlin Olson on Dec. 7 at Danny DeVito's beach house.... SOAPnet's "Serial Bowl V" New Year's Day marathon this year presents 13 Season 4 episodes of One Tree Hill, which launches its new season Jan. 8 on the CW.
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OK, again, digging ya’ll who checked in last week. The fun we had, huh? And what better way to recover from the lost joys of The Land of the Lost than with some love for the City of Brotherly Love. As bhm1304 guessed last week, the best FX sitcom you’re not watching is…It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.Granted, while it’s not really always sunny here, as a right proud Philly boy who just spent Labor Day wandering Center City, reading in Rittenhouse Square and chowing down on The Continental’s insane crab Pad Thai, I have to say that this town does indeed rock.Much like this dirty little gem. Centered on foul-mouthed pub owners Mac, Charlie and Dennis, his barmaid sister Sweet Dee and a still unnamed coffee-shop waitress who could teach Friends Gunther a thing or two about stealing scenes, Sunny is best compared to Seinfeld…if Jerry’s posse had less morals and raging drinking problems. Once Danny DeVito joins in for season 2 as Dee and Dennis&#...
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As a Philly boy, I gotta say, "Amen." I mean, even though I'm probably going to hell for laughing my butt off, there is something so right about how wrong this new comedy is. And not just because it laughs with — instead of at — my hometown. Or because star-creator Rob McElhenney grew up, like, around the corner from my folks. Not that I knew him or anything. He's St. Joe's Prep; I'm totally Bonner. Anyway, after a summer of sinfully lame reality, I'm praising the TV gods for sending me a scripted series that's both sharp and sick enough to poke fun at everything from racists to gays to these three dim-witted pals running a bar and running amok. Trolling Temple to recruit black friends? Swishing around the pub for their affluent, Judy Garland-loving patrons? Ding! ding! ding! It's a bad-taste buffet, and I dig it. I'm also digging Drew Carey exile Kaitlin Olson as the gang's sexable waitress, especially since this town does have
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