Question: A baby for Carla and Turk on Scrubs? Babies always spell doom (Friends, Mad About You, etc). I'm a little concerned.
Answer: Don't be — it's Scrubs! As Judy Reyes said in this week's TV Guide, "We've got a team of about 12 writers, and about 10 of them are new parents. So there's just going to be an endless supply of stories about how this all goes down."
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Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser is mad about cars. Or, more specifically, a car dealership. OK, even more to the point, he's mad about a sitcom pilot he's currently developing for CBS about a guy who sells cars for a living. At the same time, the Mad About You alum is happy to be bringing The Thing About My Folks — which he wrote and produced, and in which he plays son to one of his idols, Peter Falk — to DVD. Reiser found a few minutes to speak with TVGuide.com about his new TV foray (including whether there's a role in it for Falk), and the very special "extra" included in the Folks DVD.
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Mark DeCarlo of Taste of America
When it comes to second helpings, fans of Travel Channel's Taste of America (Tuesdays at 8 pm/ET) apparently cannot be sated. Having debuted its sophomore season just last week, the series finds actor-comedian Mark DeCarlo hosting a sometimes mouthwatering (and sometimes eye-popping!) look at the nation's cuisine. (Tonight's episode is a discourse on the best in U.S. holiday kibble.) Hungry for some answers, TVGuide.com caught DeCarlo fresh from his latest foodie foray.
TVGuide.com: Whenever I watch these types of "let's go around and sample all kinds of food" shows, I have to wonder: What was your weight before you got the gig, and has it fluctuated since?Mark DeCarlo: You know what, I've been pretty steady. When I'm home, I play ice hockey about four times a week, which keeps me in good shape, and on the road I go to the gym a
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Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson
Here's a sentence I never thought I'd type: The tabloids were right all along. After, like, years of speculation, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey have announced their plan to "part ways," according to a remarkably grammatically correct statement released by the thimble-brained former Newlyweds. "This is the mutual decision of two people with an enormous amount of respect and admiration for each other." Whew — so long as their publicists are still getting along. In related news, the Hollywood Reporter says that Mad About You cocreator Danny Jacobson has been hired to write Lachey's WB sitcom pilot, about a music baseball star whose young marriage comes under constant scrutiny. Nice to see a promising thespian really stretch for a change, eh?
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Question: Since the heyday of Friends, Seinfeld, Will & Grace, Frasier (or even going back further to The Cosby Show, Mad About You, Cheers and many others), the sitcom format has become nearly obsolete and the networks have clearly reached a point of desperation. In the last few years, only The Simpsons, Scrubs, Arrested Development and Family Guy have succeeded in making people laugh while watching network TV. HBO has a distinct advantage due to its lack of censorship. This year, however, the networks seem to be improving with the additions of Kitchen Confidential and the close-to-being-very-funny How I Met Your Mother. Once Mother finds its true voice (Ted and Robin are simply not funny) and NBC brings Scrubs back from its inexplicable hiatus, we might finally be able to enjoy a few amusing comedies. Notwithstanding the dissertation above, my question is about Freddie. In my not-so-humble opinion, Freddie Prinze Jr. is not funny. His family on the show is not funny. The concept of ...
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If I were to sum it up in one sentence, I would say: "This monkey of an episode was smokin' but extremely disturbing, scars and all — the middle was a drag, and the end was a real p---er!" But let me elaborate. First of all, why did I have to be eating a late dinner while watching the scene with Ava's dead and decomposing son Adrian on the floor right after Matt had his fantasy sex scene? Pretty. Besides that, I never thought I'd see Vanessa Redgrave smoke pot with her real-life daughter Joely Richardson and watch a gorilla get plastic surgery in the same hour. At least there was no Carver this week. Christian said, "For the first time in weeks, I forgot all about the Carver," but you know he's not telling the truth. Last week he told Sean the Carver raped him, but he wouldn't admit it to Kit, so you know there will be repercussions. But back to this week. As soon as angry Matt walked into the drag bar, I knew right away it would end in violence. What I didn't expe
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Comedy Central has wrapped production on the pilot for what is described as sports version of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, tentatively titled Sports Central. Except in this case, it would seem that smart-mouthed "reporters" could have their butts whooped by not-amused NFL players waiting in the studio's parking lot.... Kelly Lynch (you loved her in Road House) has landed the lead in the Lifetime pilot The Hunters, about a family of spies.... Never in My Wildest, a Mad About You-esque romantic comedy penned by comedienne/Seinfeld crony Carol Leifer, is in development at CBS.
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Question: I have always been a fan of your column and just love your taste in shows, but I was a little disappointed to hear that you have given up on comedies from network TV. I have been so loyal to certain comedies over the years, like the gems Everybody Loves Raymond, the dearly departed Friends and the laugh-out-loud riot Scrubs. But recently I have realized that networks are putting on more procedural dramas and reality shows than traditional 30-minute comedies. I admit I find myself watching sitcoms like Less than Perfect and Still Standing, which are both very mediocre, to fill my needs, but I miss the old sitcoms of yesteryear. My question, though, is that I have heard many good things about comedies coming this fall, like Everybody Hates Chris, How I Met Your Mother and Twins, and was wondering what you thought of them. I know that one of these fall seasons there will be a new comedy to love, like my old faves Roseanne and Mad About You. At least we still have Scrubs and ...
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