Peter Allen

Alex (ALLEN COVERT) has one sweet life. After walking away from his death-by-accounting job, he's now a video game tester at Brainasium, the company responsible for the worldwide gaming phenom of Eternal Death Slayer. At 35, he may be the oldest tester in the business (he's called Gray Bush by his co-workers), but he's also the best. But when his roommate fails to pay the rent for six months because he's spent every last cent at Madame Wu's Filipino Palace ('They're not hookers, they're massage therapists!'), Alex unfortunately finds himself on the street. His friendly dealer, Dante (PETER DANTE), can't let Alex crash because he has a business to run and besides, the guard lion will be arriving any day. His friend Jeff (NICK SWARDSON) agrees to put him up, until that unfortunate accident involving Alex and the action figure in the bathroom; which Jeff's mom happens to, well, catch. Alex's last resort is to move in with three hot babes - that's what he tells his friends at any rate. In actuality, the 35-year-old finds himself living with his sweet and loving 80-year-old grandma Lilly (DORIS ROBERTS), along with her two roommates: the 'been there, done that repeatedly' octogenarian Grace (SHIRLEY JONES) and the not-quite-all-there, overly medicated Bea (SHIRLEY KNIGHT). Lilly dotes on Alex and keeps him housed and fed, in exchange for a few simple chores around the place; like taking out the trash and sandblasting the house.

Animal enthusiast Peter Gaulke (Steve Zahn) and his sidekick Fred Wolf (Allen Covert) host an ailing wildlife TV show Strange Wilderness, which is in a steep ratings decline. Desperate to save the show, Peter hatches a Hail Mary scheme to find the one animal that could truly turn the show around and change the nature-show landscape forever - Bigfoot.

Angry and depressed over losing his job, accountant Terry Allen (Peter Krause) begins to suspect his new, Middle Eastern neighbor is at the center of a terrorist conspiracy. Terry becomes obsessed about revealing the man s true identity and finally takes matters into his own hands - with shocking results.

1957. The Latin Quarter, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel became a haven for a new breed of artists fleeing the conformity and censorship of America. The hotel soon turned into an epicenter of Beat writing that produced some of the most important works of the Beat generation. It came to be known as the Beat Hotel. Alan Govenar s feature documentary The Beat Hotel explores this amazing place and time. Fleeing the obscenity trials surrounding the publication of his seminal poem Howl, Allen Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, happened upon the hotel on rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, and Brion Gysin. Run by the indefatigable Madame Rachou, the Beat Hotel was a hotbed of creativity and permissiveness, where Burroughs and Gysin developed the cut-up writing method; Burroughs finished his controversial book Naked Lunch; Ginsberg began his poem Kaddish; Somerville and Gysin invented the Dream Machine; Corso wrote some of his greatest poems; and Harold Norse, in his own cut-up experiments, wrote a novella, aptly called The Beat Hotel. British photographer Harold Chapman s iconic photos and Scottish artist Elliot Rudie s animated drawings, interwoven with the firsthand accounts of French artists Jean-Jacques Lebel, British book dealer Cyclops Lester, and 95 year old George Whitman, capture the Beats just as they were beginning to establish themselves on the international scene and bring The Beat Hotel to life on the screen.

The Spectacular Spider-Man: Season 1: Episode 2 -- An electrician named Max Dillon becomes the supervillain known as Electro after a freak accident and it's up to the Spectacular Spider-Man to stop his rampage. Meanwhile, Peter tries to tutor the popular Liz Allen.

Msnbc's Tamron Hall, Peter Alexander and Ron Allen report.

In this London Comment, Peter Allen explains why some change is good, some is bad, and some things shouldn't be changed in the first place.

As Peter Allen explains in this London Comment, Russia is tired of being forgotten and ready to take back its spot in the public eye.

In this Comment from London, Peter Allen takes a look at the G-20 Summit and why he thinks the proceedings are nonsense.

As Peter Allen explains in this London Comment, there are both pros and cons to having government run banks.

Up To The Minute London contributor Peter Allen comments on change in The Church Of England.