Cheers & Jeers: Californication Hits a New (Rob) Lowe
Cheers & Jeers: Community --- My Dinner with Abed
Cheers to Community for its brilliant mash-up spoof of — excuse me, homage to — Pulp Fiction and My Dinner with Andre. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Exclusive: Top Chef Shocker --- What Really Happened!
How close was last night's elimination vote on Top Chef: All Stars? Razor-thin! TV Guide Magazine had exclusive access to the "last supper" challenge in the Bahamas, where guest judge Wolfgang Puck initially indicated that he preferred cheftestant Antonia Lofaso's single bite of grouper to Mike Isabella's surf-and-turf concoction. After chatting with head judge Tom Colicchio during a break in filming, Puck changed his mind...
Cheers & Jeers: Modern Family's Odd Couples
Cheers to Modern Family for mixing and matching its characters in delightfully unexpected ways.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Who would've thought salty old man Jay (Ed O'Neill) would blend so beautifully with Cameron and Mitchell's most flamboyant homie, Pepper (Nathan Lane)? Turned out that after a few drinks...
On the Set: Top Chef All-Stars' Bahamas Showdown
Seated around a table at a lavish estate in the Bahamas, the Top Chef All-Stars judges are ready for their "last supper." The only ingredient that's missing? "I need a pillow to sit on," says Tom Colicchio, prompting guest judge Wolfgang Puck to request one as well. "Hey, Wolf, just sit on your wallet," quips Colicchio. "You'll be fine." The judges crack up, but it's no laughing matter for the remaining cheftestants: The winner's billfold will be fattened with $200,000, the show's biggest prize ever. This week's elimination challenge is inspired by the book My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals by Melanie Dunea, who joins Colicchio, Puck, host Padma Lakshmi and judges Gail Simmons, Masaharu Morimoto and Michelle Bernstein for the feast. In the kitchen...
Cheers & Jeers: David Morse Does Knockout Work on Lights Out
Cheers to Lights Out for putting David Morse back into the spotlight. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! The 57-year-old actor is no stranger to quality TV drama, from his 1982-88 stint as...
Cheers & Jeers: How We Met Barney's Father
Cheers to John Lithgow for his chameleon-like performance on How I Met Your Mother. (And yes, Ted, chameleon is pronounced with a hard c.) Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! Who better than the five-time Emmy-winner who's run the gamut from over-the-top comedy (3rd Rock from the Sun) to under-your-skin creepiness (Dexter) to embody the two faces of Barney's long-lost dad, Jerry? First, we saw him the way Neil Patrick Harris' ladies' man wished ...
Cheers & Jeers: Criminal Minds' Games
Cheers to Criminal Minds for thinking outside the proverbial box.
Cheers & Jeers: Detroit 1-8-7: Like Father, Like Son
Cheers to Detroit 1-8-7 for keeping it in the family. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT KEEP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN LAST NIGHT'S EPISODE!ABC's rookie cop drama engaged in the best kind of nepotism by casting...
Cheers & Jeers: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Jeers to NBC for airing The Event despite troubling parallels to tragic real-life events. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! As news continued to break of a potential nuclear catastrophe in Japan, the network's ill-fated sci-fi series unveiled an episode that invoked containment domes, fallout zones and a possible meltdown at a nuclear power plant. It seems the aliens use uranium to create portals to bring in more of their own, which was the real reason behind the Chernobyl disaster (there was even a deformed alien survivor of the 1986 calamity in the Ukraine). President Martinez (Blair Underwood) juggled a visit from the Japanese prime minister with the decision to remove uranium rods from a nuclear facility ...
Cheers & Jeers: Survivor Redeems Itself
Cheers to Survivor for upping its game with Redemption Island. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT KEEP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN LAST NIGHT'S EPISODE! It's been years since CBS' reality staple has really gotten me hooked, but the 22nd season has proven to be...
Cheers & Jeers: Detroit 1-8-7 Shoots and Scores
Cheers to Detroit 1-8-7 for a truly brilliant — and shocking — episode.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!ABC's underrated-in-every-sense-of-the-word cop drama proved just how good it is — not just good for you — with "Stone Cold," scorchingly directed by Cadillac Records' Darnell Martin. The hour's main case...
Cheers & Jeers: The Chicago Code's Winning Delroy Lindo
Cheers to Delroy Lindo for his magnificent performance on The Chicago Code. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Cheers & Jeers: Miley Cyrus on SNL --- The Best of Both Worlds
Cheers to Saturday Night Live for getting the most out of guest host Miley Cyrus.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Despite her dual role on Hannah Montana, she's not the world's most versatile actress — that's one of the running gags in SNL's "Miley Cyrus Show" sketch, with Vanessa Bayer as the always overly effusive pop star. So NBC's venerable skitcom carefully cast her in roles she could handle: herself (defending her reputation in a self-aware opening number, "Sorry That I'm Not Perfect," teaching kids how to overact for the Disney Channel and stepping in for fellow Disney ...
Cheers & Jeers: American Idol's J. Lo Note
Jeers to American Idol for bringing its live results show to a screeching halt to promote Jennifer Lopez's new video, "On the Floor."Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!With more than 10 minutes left in the telecast, host Ryan Seacrest disingenuously asked J. Lo and her fellow judges if they'd reached a final verdict on the last of the three "wild cards" they were selecting. "It's live TV — we just need a couple more minutes," Lopez pleaded unconvincingly....
Cheers & Jeers: Larenz Tate Gets Justified
Cheers to Justified for turning Larenz Tate back into a Menace II Society.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The charismatic actor first broke out as teenage gangsta O-Dog in the Hughes Brothers' 1993 inner-city saga. Since then, he's mostly played nice guys in movies like Love Jones and on TV series like FX's Rescue Me. The cable net's top-notch crime drama let Tate cross over to the wrong side of the law as a violent convict who flees a halfway house — and who happens to be the ex-brother-in-law of Deputy U.S. Marshal Rachel Brooks (Erica Tazel). She teams with Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) to track him down....
Cheers & Jeers: The Good Wife's "Great" Episode
Cheers to The Good Wife because, to put it in Facebook parlance, "it's complicated."Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!A few weeks after its inspired Social Network-themed hour, CBS' sophomore drama once again waded into the shark-infested waters of the Internet with ...
Getting to Know Lights Out's Pablo Schreiber
On Lights Out, Pablo Schreiber plays Johnny, a once promising boxer who now (mis)manages the career of his brother, former heavyweight champ "Lights" Leary (Holt McCallany). In real life, he can relate to living in the shadow of a more celebrated sibling as the half-brother of movie star Liev Schreiber (Salt). "I've always...
Cheers & Jeers: Piers Morgan Tonight --- The Sheen is Off
Jeers to Piers Morgan for blowing his big interview with Charlie Sheen by sucking up. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! The British tabloid vet was alleged to be the antithesis of his...
Cheers & Jeers: Itzhak Perlman Gets Back to His Roots
Cheers to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for creating the year's most delightful musical mashup: Itzhak Perlman and the Roots. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Cheers & Jeers: Two and a Half Men --- Good Luck, Chuck!
Cheers to Chuck Lorre for giving Cheers & Jeers a shout-out.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!On his website, the Two and a Half Men cocreator posted the vanity card that would've aired after last night's episode of his sitcom The Big Bang Theory — had CBS not censored it: "It was more fun writing these things when I was fairly certain no one was reading them," it began. "That is no longer the case. These days it seems like ...
Cheers & Jeers: A Top Chef Cut Down to Size
Cheers to Top Chef: All-Stars for taking one cheftestant down a much-needed peg.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't watched this week's episode, stop reading now.Following his sweep of the Muppets cookie quickfire and the Target all-night elimination challenge, Dale Talde was getting a little big for his britches ("I crushed an episode!" he exclaimed. "I've won $30,000, but I'm a greedy American."). Pride goeth before the fall: His oyster-wrapped steak failed ...
