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...
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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
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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
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Stargate: Infinity - The Complete Series Courtesy Shout! Factory
New releases announced today, February 8:The Bill Engvall Show - The Complete 1st Season will be coming out May 20 The Weather Channel's Epic Conditions (DVD or Blu-ray Disc) will be coming out May 13 Greg the Bunny - Best Of The Film Parodies Vol. 2: The Passion of Greg The Bunny will be coming out May 6 Stargate: Infinity - The Complete Series will be coming out May 13 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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Bill Engvall by Danny Feld/TBS
TBS has ordered a second 10-episode season of The Bill Engvall Show, the cabler announced on Tuesday. Engvall also will host Blue Collar Comedy: The Next Generation, a special airing on TBS Nov. 17.... HGTV is moving ahead with a third round of Design Star, and is currently receiving applications from wannabe contestants. Meanwhile, Season 1 champ David Bromstad's Color Splash has been picked up for three more 13-episode seasons.
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Well here we are the season finale of The Bill Engvall Show. It has just flown by. It seems like only yesterday that I was writing you about the season premier of my show. Over the last eight weeks I have been telling you about various aspects of putting on a show. However this week I thought that I would take the time to thank you the viewer for watching my show. I am so blessed to have such great fans like yourself, not only have you supported me in my stand-up but now with the TV show. I am thrilled that you have stood up and said that yes we want a family type sit com. Sometimes I feel that the viewing public is over looked or not even considered when shows are put on. This is where I must give a great deal of thanks to TBS. They believed that my show is the type of show that the viewing public wanted to see and you answered with a resounding yes. It looks as though we will be back for another season next year and more fun shows. Please tell your friends and co worker...
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Entourage's Adrian Grenier, Rescue Me's Denis Leary
TV's sizzling summer season has saved its best for last. Here's our guide to the season enders you will not want to miss.
Entourage, HBOFinale airs Sunday, Sept. 2, at 10 pm/ET"Medellin" — triumph or fiasco? That's the question that Entourage has been asking during its fourth season, which began with prettyboy movie star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) on the set of the violent Spanish-language film about drug lord Pablo Escobar. "We'll get lots of answers," promises exec producer Doug Ellin. The season finale was shot on location at the Cannes Film Festival last May. "Scenes took place live during the Ocean's Thirteen premiere, so our guys had to get their lines down while crowds were screaming." Post-finale, Entourage goes on hiatus until June. And then? "I have not a single idea," says Ellin, laughing.
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Well, gang, we are coming to the end of the first round of shows. I hope that you are enjoying our little play. Tonight’s episode deals with gift-giving. When we are children we really don’t think much about gift-giving because we are usually the ones receiving the gifts. Even when when we did have to give gifts, like on birthdays or Mother's Day, our parents would go and buy them for us. When we had to give gifts to our parents, we usually made a coin holder (in the old days this was also an ashtray) out of clay and then painted it. Or we mushed our hands into wet clay so that our parents had a permanent impression of our little mitts. So when we grow up and start dating or get married we (especially men) are totally unprepared in the proper ways of buying gifts. Trust me on this one: It took me forever to figure out that women actually do care what you give them. But in defense of my stance on this subject, when I ask my wife what she wanted for her birthday she told me...
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Hey, everyone, hope that you're continuing to enjoy The Bill Engvall Show. This week's blog is about the difference between stand-up comedy and acting on a sitcom. One of the questions that I always get asked is, “Which do you prefer? Stand-up or acting.” They are two completely different forms of entertainment, yet they are also somewhat similar. Stand-up basically involves me standing in front of a microphone and talking to people and hopefully making them laugh. There are no do-overs and the response is instant. I think that's one of the things that makes me love stand-up so much. I love being out on the high wire with no net. When you are doing a stand-up show and the crowd and you are on the same wavelength, there isn't a better feeling in the world. It is as if you are in total control. I have had several shows in which there was almost an out-of-body experience. Not to get weird here, but I see myself pacing back and forth and the audience is laughing and the feelin...
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Bill Engvall and wife Gail by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
Hey everyone. Well now that we have covered pretty much all there is to making a sitcom over the last three weeks, I thought that I would tell you how dreams do come true. When I was a young man living in Winslow, Arizona, one of my favorite pastimes was to go to the Tonto drive-in with my father. We would sit there in his Ford pick-up with a big bag of home-popped popcorn. (Why should we pay for theirs when we could pop our own and put as much butter on it as we wanted?) Anyway, he and I would sit there and watch John Wayne movies like Rio Bravo and the Sons of Katie Elder. As I would sit there watching the Duke beat the snot out of the bad guys, I would think "Man I want to be an actor someday." Of course back in those days you didn't tell your father that you wanted to be an actor, because a) he would not have known what to say, and b) where was he going to get me any training in Winslow? The only department store we had was a Montgomery Wards catalogue outlet. That's right, if ...
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