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TBS Turns to George Lopez, Kevin James and Animation for Chuckles

• May 20, 2009 12:54 PM ET
• by Joyce Eng
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Kevin James, George Lopez

TBS says it's "very funny," so it's only fitting the network will look for more laughs in the 2009-10 season, in both 3-D and 2-D form and from former sitcom stars.

Already scheduled to return are Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, which will launch its second season May 27, and The Bill Engvall Show, which will inhabit ...
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TBS Renews The Bill Engvall Show for Third Season

• Sep 11, 2008 06:26 PM ET
• by TV Guide News
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The Bill Engvall Show courtesy TBS

Clearly finding The Bill Engvall Show, well, "very funny," TBS has picked up the family sitcom for a third season, Variety reports.The comedy, starring the eponymous stand-up, Tim Meadows and Nancy Travis, will return with 10 new episodes next summer.The series just concluded its second season run, averaging 2.3 million viewers and topping the 18-49 ad-supported cable demo.The Bill Engvall Show will also air bonus new episodes on Nov. 15. — Joyce EngUse our Online Video Guide to watch full episodes of The Bill Engvall Show. read more

Susan's Best Friend

• Jul 9, 2008 07:04 PM ET
• by Bill Engvall

Hey everybody, Well its time for another installment from the set of the Bill Engvall Show. This week is a very special week for us. Cynthia Watros makes the first of three guest star appearances on our show. Cynthia plays Susan’s best friend since childhood and comes to visit her and the family. She plays a character named AJ and is a bit of a thorn in Bill’s side. She feels that Susan has given up on the fun things in life. AJ is a world traveler and does not have roots anywhere. She takes Susan salsa dancing and this starts to bother Bill. Not because he doesn’t want Susan going out with AJ, but because he realizes that maybe he and Susan are living in a bit of a rut. So Bill turns to his best friend Paul(Tim Meadows) to teach him how to salsa dance. This was one of the funniest scenes that I have been a part of. Tim Meadows is simply hysterical in this. It was really hard to keep a straight face as Tim taught me to dance. Bill Pearson ends up showing ... read more

I read Mark's comments in the ...

• Jun 27, 2008 04:00 AM ET
• by Matt Roush

Question: I read Mark's comments in the last Ask Matt about the USA Network cross-promotion of In Plain Sight on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and while it was a pretty cheesy cross-promotion, I felt it was harmless. Plus, every Dick Wolf show has done this sort of cross-promotion when getting started, so it was not unexpected that he would be a good corporate citizen and do it for another USA Network show. More of a problem is what TBS has done to take those on-screen promos we all find so annoying to the next level. I have stopped watching Family Guy on TBS because of it. While the show is running, it suddenly freezes, and Bill Engvall walks on screen holding a remote, with Family Guy "paused" in the background. He makes some sort of supposedly funny comment tying what just happened to his show ("Stewie would never do anything like that on The Bill Engvall Show"), makes a pitch for his show, and then hits the remote to restart the Family Guy episode, which goes right into a ... read more

No Gifts, Please!

• Jun 25, 2008 05:21 PM ET
• by Bill Engvall

Hey everyone, Hope that you are enjoying the Bill Engvall Show. Well, it's time for another installment of what's been going on at the set. This week's show deals with a common problem that most couples and parents have. The "A story" is about giving gifts to each other. I have found that the longer that you are married the harder it is to find the right gift. Now, some people are blessed with the ability to find that perfect gift. My wife has this attribute. I on the other hand for the life of me cannot find the perfect gift. I think that is because being a male, we just don't think that hard about gifts. Women remember the tiniest things that we say and in turn are able to turn that into the gift that we really want. I have also learned in my years of being married that when a woman says "I don't care what you get me." They really mean, "I do care but I am going to see what you come up with."A prime example: One year my wife said those famous words "I don't care" and I found ou... read more

What Has Lost Alum Cynthia Watros So Spooked?

• Jun 12, 2008 04:00 AM ET
• by Matt Webb Mitovich

Cynthia Watros

There was a quiet spell following her dramatic exit from Lost, but Cynthia Watros' workload has gone from 0 to 60 in recent months. Tonight at 10 pm/ET, she stars opposite Eric Roberts in the second installment of NBC's Fear Itself anthology series, and later this summer, she'll surface on TBS' The Bill Engvall Show. TVGuide.com invited Watros to preview her new gigs as well as ponder future spooky appearances by Lost's Libby. TVGuide.com: You've been keeping busy lately!Cynthia Watros: A little bit, yeah! TVGuide.com: On the one hand, you're serving up some horror. On the other, you're doing comedy. Do you like striking that balance?Watros: I like to juggle both ends. It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time. TVGuide.com: In Fear Itself's "Spooked," you play a woman who hires Eric Roberts' P.I read more

Video Q&A: Bill Engvall and Tim Meadows

• Jun 11, 2008 08:35 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

TBS' The Bill Engvall Show premieres its second season this Thursday at 9 pm/ET, and Bill himself — joined by on-screen sidekick Tim Meadows — dropped by TVGuide.com to share a preview. (Perhaps fittingly, given the proximity of this blog posting to another, one of the first episodes is a riff on How I Met Your Mother. Ha!) Give a watch....Related:• Bill Engvall's TVGuide.com Celebrity Blog read more

The Bill Engvall Show Returns to TBS Thursday, June 12

• Jun 11, 2008 04:39 PM ET
• by Bill Engvall

Well, we are underway! The Bill Engvall Show is well into production now and it just gets more fun. I am so thrilled with the way the writers have stepped up this show. We had a great year last year and my charge to the writing staff was to make it even funnier and they have. In our first episode we deal with a couple of things that are near and dear to my heart. First off, anyone who has a cell phone will understand, and by now I am guessing that is pretty much anyone with a heartbeat. One of my pet peeves about these things is that we can put a rover on the planet Mars but I cannot get a good cell signal in the area where I live. I don’t know that there is anything more frustrating than finding in the middle of a conversation screaming into the phone, ARE YOU THERE, ARE YOU THERE? AGGGGH. Now the cellular companies will tell you, ‘well the signal is a straight signal and the buildings get in the way.’ Here is a novel idea: why not put a satellite in space an... read more

TBS' Bill Engvall Gets Eyed by CBS

• Jun 5, 2008 12:58 PM ET
• by TV Guide News

Bill Engvall and Graham Patrick Martin in The Bill Engvall Show by Danny Feld/TBS

And you thought that Bill's "remote control" interstitial was in your face. The Bill Engvall Show is getting a plum showcase on CBS this Monday night, offering up a Season 1 repeat that will hopefully lead folks to give the family-friendly comedy a try when it unveils its sophomore run Wednesday, June 12, on TBS.How this all works: In exchange for giving Bill the airtime, CBS will get to plug-plug-plug its fall line-up on TBS, in earnest, later in the summer. Speaking of Engvall, he and TV bud Tim Meadows dropped by the other day to give me a video Q&A. Funny fellas! Watch for that next week. — MWM read more

Will we see Cynthia Watros ...

• May 14, 2008 04:00 AM ET
• by Michael Ausiello

Question: Will we see Cynthia Watros back on Lost this season?

Answer: No, but you will see her in TBS' The Bill Engvall Show. Sources confirm to me exclusively that Watros will play Nancy Travis' free-spirited friend in three episodes of the show's upcoming second season (debuting June 12).

Okay, that's all for this week. Actually, that's all for next week too. I'm taking a few days off next week to recover from Upfrontapalooza, so that means no Ask Ausiello next week. The good news? There'll still be lots going on in Ausholand (i.e. my vodcast, my Ausiello Report blog, etc.). And if you're r read more