How did any of us survive high school? Forget grades. We're talking insecurities, anxieties and social terrors, which have rarely found such vivid comic voice as in MTV's wonderful comedy Awkward, which begins a third season of emotionally harrowing hilarity with back-to-back episodes (Tuesday, 10/9c).
It's junior year (or "the beginning of the end") for the show's self-consciously angsty narrator/blogger Jenna (the terrific Ashley Rickards), who you'd think might be in a happier place having spent the summer cocooned with full-time no-longer-secret boyfriend Matty (Beau Mirchoff). No such luck. With other friends having spent their off time in Europe, hooking up and changing their looks without keeping her in the loop, Jenna worries she's being sidelined, left behind, forgotten. It doesn't help that her sadistic tyrant of a new creative-writing teacher, the heartless Mr. Hart (Anthony Michael Hall), burrows into her fragile psyche with the very first assignment: "Write about your greatest fear." Where to begin?
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Who would've thought when The Big Bang Theory began that our favorite nerds would actually all find themselves in relationships?
But as the CBS comedy heads towards its sixth season finale, those relationships will take center stage, as some of the boys take new steps while others hit a road block. To find out which couples might be in trouble, TVGuide.com caught up with the cast of Bang on the PaleyFest red carpet Wednesday. Get the scoop:
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The Big Bang Theory's Kunal Nayyar is happily married in real life, but that didn't stop the actor from confessing his matrimonial dreams about comedian Chelsea Handler.
In this sneak peek from Saturday's episode of Rove LA (midnight/11c on TV Guide Network), Nayyar reveals just how Handler won him over. "The first thing she ever said to...
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The Big Bang Theory cast has become doting aunts and uncles to Simon Helberg's daughter, Adeline, who was born in May.
"Our house is filled with cutting-edge baby things," reports Helberg (Howard). "Kaley [Cuoco] gave some pink fruffy pants with butterfly wings. Kunal [Nayyar] gave us a futuristic mamaRoo chair that emulates car and kangaroo rides. Johnny [Galecki] gave us a stuffed bird and egg that plays a lullaby our daughter loves. And Jim [Parsons] got us an off-roading three-wheeler stroller we can take up the mountains."
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After treating his iPhone's Suri like a girlfriend last season, The Big Bang Theory's Raj (Kunal Nayyar) will finally be getting a real love interest. And costar Kaley Cuoco thinks it would make sense if Raj hooked up with Penny's never-been-seen mom.
"I know they're thinking about introducing her, and I've always wanted Lisa Kudrow to play her," Cuoco says. "I imagine her to be a skanky, dirty, trailer trashy cougar, hitting on the boys. I'd love for her to go after Raj."
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