Cheers & Jeers: A Cosby Kid Joins Community
Cheers & Jeers: Top Chef: All Stars' Casualty of Wars
Cheers to Top Chef: All Stars for eliminating its most distasteful cheftestant.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Marcel Vigneron, the cock-of-the-walk who somehow only grew cockier after getting his head forcibly shaved by his competitors during Season 2, was mercifully sent packing...
Cheers & Jeers: NCIS Says, "Hi, Bob!"
Cheers to Bob Newhart for his heart-rending performance on NCIS. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Cheers & Jeers: Two and a Half Men --- The Sheen is Off
Jeers to Two and a Half Men for treating its star's dead-serious self-destruction as a joke.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!CBS' inexplicably long-running sitcom continues to make light of Charlie Sheen's real-life debauchery, even as his alarmingly gaunt and haggard appearance reflects the toll it's taking on him...
Cheers & Jeers: Is Ted Williams Just What Dr. Phil Ordered?
Jeers to Dr. Phil McGraw for mining Ted Williams' rocky private life for ratings gold. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine. "I want to help 'the Man with the Golden Voice,'" the daytime-TV Ph.D. (who weirdly sported matching black leather jackets with Williams) disingenuously declared before launching into what amounted to a three-day on-air intervention. But did he really help Williams — a man who was living on the street a few weeks ago — by sticking TV cameras in his face and encouraging family members he'd abandoned to confront him with his failures? McGraw piled on, calling Williams "a...
Cheers & Jeers: SVU's Man in the Irons Mask
Cheers to Jeremy Irons for his sterling guest shot on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The Oscar-winning British actor brought aching nuance to an uncommonly complicated role: a sex-addiction specialist conflicted over revealing the identity ...
Cheers & Jeers: Stacy Keach Lights Up Lights Out
Cheers to Lights Out for putting Stacy Keach back into the ring. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! The veteran character actor has been knocked down a few times — most notably, he was incarcerated for cocaine possession in the mid-'80s, interrupting his run as hard-nosed PI Mike Hammer, and suffered a mild stroke in 2009. But he's returned to ...
Cheers & Jeers: The Golf Channel Swings to the Right
Jeers to the Golf Channel for teeing up Rush Limbaugh on The Haney Project.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.Everybody loves Ray Romano and Charles Barkley — pro tutor Hank Haney's first two pupils — but right-wing hacker Limbaugh is a lightning rod. You'd think the cable net ...
Cheers & Jeers: Emmy Rossum Gets Shameless
Cheers to Emmy Rossum for her flawless performance as a wise-beyond-her-years teenager on Shameless. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine. The 24-year-old actress is still best known for her glossy musical turn in 2004's big-screen version of Phantom of the Opera, but she's right at home in...
Andre Braugher: Man of a Certain Range
Andre Braugher blows into a midtown Manhattan café on a blustery December night. He's a half hour late for an interview, having gotten snarled in Yuletide tunnel traffic en route from his suburban New Jersey home. He flashes a Hudson River-wide grin, and all is forgiven. Suddenly, it hits you: Despite his regal bearing and well-earned reputation as one of TV's finest actors (six Emmy nominations, two wins), he's not that far removed from Owen Thoreau Jr., the slightly schlubby, regular-guy car salesman he plays on TNT's Men of a Certain Age. And that's...
Cheers & Jeers: The Mentalist's Psychic Friends Network
Cheers to a couple of old pros for bringing character to The Mentalist.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Richard Roundtree and Pruitt Taylor Vince provided the dramatic muscle in an otherwise lightweight episode about a DOA at an MMA fight. The man once known as "the black private dick who's a sex machine to all the chicks" — Shaft! — proved he still knows his way around the ring as a sly trainer. If only Roundtree could recur, like he did in recent years on Heroes and Desperate Housewives. Maybe Simon Baker's Thomas Jane could distract himself from obsessing over Red John with a few boxing lessons?...
Cheers & Jeers: All in the Modern Family
Cheers to Modern Family for welcoming a disparate pair of guest stars. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Cheers & Jeers: Going Southland
Jeers to Southland for turning into LAPD Rehab.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.I have no doubt that police officers and their spouses suffer from substance-abuse issues at a high rate along with the rest of the population, but it seems like everyone's copping on Season 3 of TNT's crime drama...
Cheers & Jeers: Californication's a No-Go for Carla Gugino
Jeers to Californication for wasting Carla Gugino.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.Showtime's smarmy sex-com strands the gifted actress with a throwaway role as an attorney defending David Duchovny's sleazy writer. It's a pale reprise of her ball-busting turn as a Hollywood agent on Entourage.Gugino deserves a better gig...
Cheers & Jeers: And the Winner Is…
Cheers to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon for earning the most Cheers in 2010! Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.
Cheers & Jeers: The Closer Gets Another Christmas Present
Jeers to the Screen Actors Guild Awards for overpraising The Closer. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine. I've never been impressed by ...
Cheers & Jeers: A Very SNL Christmas
Cheers to Saturday Night Live for a gift-packed Christmas episode. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Cheers & Jeers: Burn Notice --- The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Cheers to Burn Notice for its scorching season finale. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! USA Network's action drama wrapped its current run with a chilling sight: Ex-spy Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan), amid a D.C. snowfall, walking back into the arms of ...
Cheers & Jeers: Human Target: Don't Miss It!
Cheers to Human Target for hitting the proverbial bull's-eye. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! Fox's sophomore sleeper may seem like a mindless action show on the surface, but dig a little deeper and you'll find one of network TV's best-written, produced and acted dramas. The ensemble, led by ...
Cheers & Jeers: Men of a Certain Age Attracts Melinda McGraw
Cheers to Men of a Certain Age for hiring an actress of a certain range: Melinda McGraw. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine. She's been one of TV's most reliable performers ever since making her series debut 20 years ago in an episode of ...
Cheers & Jeers: Paul McCartney Invades NBC
Cheers to Paul McCartney for getting back to where he once belonged: comedy. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Cheers & Jeers: The Office: Bah, Humbug!
Jeers to The Office for leaving a lump of coal in viewers' proverbial stockings.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!"Is everyone here kind of mean?" asked A.J. (Rob Huebel), the boyfriend of Michael's ex Holly (Amy Ryan), who returned to Scranton when Toby (Paul Lieberstein) was picked as a juror in the "Scranton Strangler" case...
