Cheers & Jeers: The Real Housewives of Miami's Heat
Cheers & Jeers: Californication's Shameless Showtime Promo
Jeers to Californication for sucking up to the hand that feeds it — Showtime. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! In the inexplicably long-running smutcom's fourth season, the grotesque Marcy Runkle (Pamela Adlon) is being romanced by big-time Hollywood producer Stu Beggs (Stephen Tobolowsky, aka Groundhog Day's Ned Ryerson, wasting his talent).
Cheers & Jeers: CSI and Lights Out --- Fears of a Clown
Cheers to CSI and Lights Out for putting Bill Irwin in touch with his dark side. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! A graduate of Barnum & Bailey's Clown College, Irwin was best known for...
Cheers & Jeers: Modern Family's Outsider --- Matt Dillon
Cheers to Modern Family for inviting Matt Dillon to the party.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Dillon's big-screen career careened wildly off course after he unwisely chose to follow up his Oscar-nominated turn in 2004's Crash by taking a backseat to Lindsay Lohan and an anthropomorphized VW in the all-too-prophetically ...
Cheers & Jeers: Lost and Found
Cheers to Lost's castaways for washing up all over TV. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Cheers & Jeers: Two and a Half Men --- What the Chuck?
Jeers to Chuck Lorre for biting the hand that feeds him — and his entire crew. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! The Two and a Half Men cocreator's vanity card this week read, "I exercise regularly. I eat moderate amounts of healthy food. I make sure to get plenty of rest. I see my doctor once a year and my dentist twice a year. I floss every night. I've had chest x—rays, cardio stress tests, EKG's and colonoscopies. I see a psychologist and have a variety of hobbies to reduce stress. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't have crazy, reckless sex with strangers ...
Cheers & Jeers: Desperate Measures?
Jeers to Desperate Housewives for wasting a pair of beloved TV veterans. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Cheers & Jeers: Community Spreads the Love
Cheers to Community for giving viewers a reason to celebrate Valentine's Day. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! With all due respect to a certain weekly entertainment magazine (where — in the interest of full disclosure — I must admit I worked for many years), "TV's smartest comedy" airs 90 minutes earlier than the glib, heartless Parks & Recreation.
Cheers & Jeers: Justified's Great Big Bads
Cheers to Justified for cooking up a juicy new family of miscreants to tussle with Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in Season 2. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! The prodigiously gifted character actress Margo Martindale (Million Dollar Baby) heads up the clan as Mags Bennett, a marijuana queenpin who ...
Cheers & Jeers: The Good Wife's Great Guests
Cheers to The Good Wife for rounding up an impressively diverse roster of guest stars.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.This week's stellar episode, "Real Deal," marked the return of guaranteed Emmy nominee Michael J. Fox as Louis Canning, a canny lawyer who exploits his own disability to win sympathy. His encore was subtler and more intriguing, as his motivation for competing (then unwillingly collaborating) with Lockhart Gardner on a class-action lawsuit wasn't clear. Was he still a corporate shill or had he suddenly grown a heart? The resolution was refreshingly nuanced for a network drama—and left the door open for Fox to come back.But the former Alex P. Keaton was just the biggest name in a long list of gifted actors who graced the hour...
Exclusive: Padma Lakshmi in a Bikini! Top Chef Hits the Bahamas for All-Stars Finale
Snow may have blanketed the country this winter, but the sight of Padma Lakshmi in a bikini could be hot enough to melt even the thickest ice. TV Guide Magazine reports exclusively that the Top Chef host recently traded bone-chilling Manhattan for the balmy Bahamas to film the four-part All-Stars finale, which Bravo will begin airing in March.Want more Top Chef dish? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.Fellow judge Gail Simmons' first reaction upon hearing of the sun-soaked locale: "Thank God! I was like, 'It's perfect—whatever you want!'" Simmons joined Lakshmi, head judge Tom Colicchio and Top Chef's largest panel of finale guest judges ever—Wolfgang Puck, Morimoto, Michelle Bernstein, Hubert Keller, Eric Ripert, Lidia Bastianich, Curtis Stone, Alfred Portali, Art Smith and Lorena Garcia—for shooting at Nassau's luxurious Atlantis resort and casino on the aptly named Paradise Island...
Jimmy Fallon's Top Chef Birthday Bash
For once, you don't need to stay up past midnight to see Jimmy Fallon when the Late Night host serves as the guest of honor on tonight's Top Chef All-Stars. To celebrate his 36th birthday, the reality-show fanatic invited his friends and family to a three-hour feast prepared by the eight remaining cheftestants at Manhattan's Colicchio & Sons. "I'm so lucky," says Fallon. "It was really like something where you go, 'Oh, this is crazy — I can't believe this is happening.'" Adds Fallon's mom, Gloria, "His birthday parties as a kid weren't this elaborate. We'd go to McDonald's and play games in the backyard."
Cheers & Jeers: The Chicago Firebrand
Cheers to The Chicago Code for unleashing the bear inside Jason Clarke. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! The Australian actor is probably best known to American audiences as Tommy Caffee, the velvet-glove politician to Jason Isaacs' iron-fisted sibling Michael on Showtime's late, great Brotherhood. But as detective Jarek Wysocki in Fox's Windy City cop drama, he blows through crime scenes like a man on a tornado-like mission to uproot corruption. He's an instantly fascinating character, and Clarke charges him with kinetic energy.
Cheers & Jeers: And This Year's Best Super Bowl Commercial Is…
Cheers to the NFL for scoring the biggest victory on Super Sunday — and no, we're not just talking about the Packers' thrilling 31-25 triumph over the Steelers. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! There was plenty of star power on display in this year's Super Bowl ads: Oscar winners (Cuba Gooding Jr. and Timothy Hutton for Groupon.com, Adrien Brody coolly crooning for Stella Artois), overexposed pseudocelebs (Kim Kardashian's skanky Skechers spot, GoDaddy.com's tired trio of Jillian Michaels, Danica Patrick and... Joan Rivers?), rappers (P. Diddy predictably shilling for Mercedes Benz, a pair of Eminems — Claymated for Brisk and in the flesh for Chrysler's moving ode to Detroit) and truly odd couples ...
Cheers & Jeers: Vanessa Minnillo Exceeds Expectations on 30 Rock
Cheers to Vanessa Minnillo for her surprisingly solid 30 Rock guest spot.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Nothing in the teen beauty queen-turned-VJ's resumé suggested she could hold her own opposite Emmy winner Tina Fey, but she was sharp, fast and funny as Carmen Chao, an MSNBC anchor of indeterminate ethnicity (in real life, Minnillo's the product of an Irish-Italian dad and a Filipina mom). In an attempt to help Jack's wife, Avery, outmaneuver Carmen for an NBC Nightly News gig, Fey's Liz faked a pregnancy...
Cheers & Jeers: Blue Bloods' Blue-Chip Cops
Cheers to Blue Bloods for putting a squad of veteran crimefighters back on the job.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Magnum P.I.-turned-NYPD Commissioner Tom Selleck tops the list of cops, but CBS' rookie hit has also gotten Donnie Wahlberg — who traded NKOTB for the LAPD in NBC's underrated 2002-2003 crime drama Boomtown — back on the beat as his son, hotshot detective Danny Reagan. Meanwhile, Nicholas Turturro, who served seven seasons as Det. James Martinez on ABC's NYPD Blue, has rejoined the force as Sgt. Anthony Renzulli, the seen-it-all partner of newbie patrolman Jamie Reagan...
Cheers & Jeers: Heidi Klum --- Surely She Can't Be Serious!
Jeers to Heidi Klum for her poorly tailored new Lifetime show Seriously Funny Kids. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Cheers & Jeers: The Bachelor --- The Brad Pack Plays Vegas
Jeers to the women of The Bachelor for pushing their luck in Las Vegas. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! What a jackpot of nutcases and basketcases Brad Womack brought to Sin City. There was Shawntel N. — not to be confused with Chantal O. — the funeral director who spent her first solo date discussing the gory details of embalming and leakage (just another day at the orifice!). And there was Ashley S. — not to be confused with her BFF, teddy-bear enthusiast/dentist Ashley H. — who tearfully described getting sent home as feeling like ...
Cheers & Jeers: The Importance of Being Ernest Borgnine
Cheers to Ernest Borgnine for making Betty White look like a rookie.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The recipient of the 2011 Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild is five years older than last year's winner (who somewhat improbably took home a SAG trophy this year for Hot in Cleveland). The guy has done it all, making 164 movies...
Cheers & Jeers: Ricky Gervais Visits The Office
Jeers to The Office for mishandling Ricky Gervais' cameo. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Cheers & Jeers: American Idol's Jenny from the Blah
Jeers to American Idol for hitting a new (J.) Lo. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! Despite her alleged star power ...
Cheers & Jeers: Lights Out Connects with The Wire
Cheers to Lights Out for hooking up with a pair of veterans from The Wire.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!FX's hard-hitting boxing drama costars Pablo Schreiber — best known as disaffected dock worker Nick Sobotka from Season 2 of HBO's inner-city masterpiece — as Johnny Leary, the ethically shady manager of Holt McCallany's "Lights" Leary....
