Cheers & Jeers: Boardwalk Empire's Man in the Iron Mask
Cheers & Jeers: The Office Mismanages Timothy Olyphant
Jeers to The Office for failing to justify Timothy Olyphant's guest gig. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine. The charismatic Justified star has proven wildly overqualified for the job of playing ...
Cheers & Jeers: Hail to the Comedian-in-Chief!
Cheers to Jon Stewart for his truly fair and balanced interview with President Barack Obama on The Daily Show.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!In his first sitdown with a current Chief Exec, Stewart walked a fine line between respect and irreverence — and never lost sight of the Comedy in Comedy Central, even though the Prez was not in a jokey mood. Dispensing with any opening shtick, he brought Obama out immediately and let the show run several minutes longer than usual (to the dismay of some DVR users). Stewart was critical of the President and his party...
Cheers & Jeers: Taylor Made for Late Show
Cheers to Taylor Swift for charming David Letterman on Late Show.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The 20-year-old country-pop sensation couldn't have been more composed during her first visit to Letterman's couch...
Cheers & Jeers: Weeds Goes Up in Smoke
Jeers to Weeds for turning into a long, strange, very bad trip. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.
Cheers & Jeers: Desperate Sports-wives
Cheers to Vanessa Williams and Eva Longoria Parker for proving they're good sports on Desperate Housewives. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.
Cheers & Jeers: Debra Winger Gets the VIP Treatment
Cheers to In Treatment for coaxing Debra Winger into therapy.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.The Oscar-nominated Terms of Endearment costar has worked infrequently in recent years, which makes her the perfect choice to play a stage diva who's making a comeback after a long time out of the spotlight on the new season of Gabriel Byrne's HBO shrink-rap serial (starting October 25). Aside from a guest gig as a school principal on the final season of Law & Order and her role as the mother...
Cheers & Jeers: Criminal Minds' Scary Kerry O'Malley
Cheers to Kerry O'Malley for a Criminal-ly good performance as a bad mother.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!In only a few scenes on this week's Criminal Minds, the accomplished stage and screen actress created a complex portrait of a Midwestern mom who abandons her disturbed 13-year-old son...
Cheers & Jeers: Is Jason Derulo Out of His "Mind"?
Jeers to Jason Derülo for doing the worst damage to "Georgia" since General Sherman.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The 21-year-old pop footnote behind such instantly forgettable trifles as "Whatcha Say" and "In My Head" had the gall to cover "Georgia on My Mind" on Dancing With the Stars: The Results. The classic tune...
Cheers & Jeers: The Talk is Cheap
Jeers to The Talk for filling an hour of daytime TV with not-so-hot air.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.CBS' new View wannabe got off to an awkward start, to say the least. Despite Julie Chen's insistence that she and her five — count 'em! — cohosts had "instant chemistry," mostly it just came off as forced merriment....
Cheers & Jeers: Rubicon Wraps It Up --- For Now
Cheers to Rubicon for crossing the finish line in fine style.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The first season of AMC's conspiracy thriller ended with a relatively action-packed episode that answered some key questions while leaving others hanging. James Badge Dale's intelligence analyst Will Travers finally put together all the pieces of the puzzle to determine how API, his thinktank, had manipulated tragic world events for profit and confronted one of the masterminds behind the plan, Truxton Spangler (the brilliantly chilling Michael Cristofer). Meanwhile, Will's ex-bedmate, Andy (Annie Parisse), was revealed to be an operative — who was sadly unable to save widow Katherine Rhumor (Miranda Richardson) from being murdered in the middle of Central Park...
Cheers & Jeers: CSI --- Viva Ann-Margret!
Cheers to to CSI for bringing Ann-Margret back to the Strip.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.The Viva Las Vegas vet brought glamour, pathos and sex appeal to her role as a Sin City philanthropist with a dark secret who's ...
Cheers & Jeers: Teen Idols?
Jeers to MTV and ABC for turning Teen Moms into Stars.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!It's sad but true: There's no simpler route to celebrity these days than to be a kid who has a kid. Bristol Palin survived another week on Dancing With the Stars after trotting out her baby, Tripp, for an at-home segment — right before doing a sexy rumba with partner Mark Ballas in front of her beaming parents. (So much for advocating teen abstinence.)Immediately afterwards, in the seemingly endless finale of MTV's top-rated Teen Mom, the quartet of titular baby mamas...
Cheers & Jeers: Community Makes the Grade
Cheers to Community for avoiding the dreaded sophomore slump.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The second season of NBC's under-the-radar sitcom may not be making a Big Bang in the ratings, but you can't deny it's explosively funny. The show has perfected the formula of well-chosen guest stars (Daily Show vets Rob Corddry and John Oliver, alt-comedy god Patton Oswalt, and, yes, Betty White, who's better in small doses like this week's cameo); snappy, pop-reference-rich dialogue; physical shtick from the masterful likes of Chevy Chase and Ken Jeong; and unexpected moments of M*A*S*H/Scrubs-esque sincerity.This week's episode, "The Psychology of Letting Go," worked in meaningful ruminations on life, death and religion as Chase's Pierce refused to accept his mom's demise...
Cheers & Jeers: Terrence Howard Lays Down the Law
Cheers to Terrence Howard for his passionate performance on Law & Order: Los Angeles.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.As suave Deputy DA Jonah Dekker, the Oscar-nominated actor (Hustle & Flow) may be the most purely charismatic cast member on any L&O show since Chris Noth. And when he butts heads with Peter Coyote's more politically minded DA, it's a battle of seductively gravelly voices to rival Alec Baldwin and Will Arnett's verbal smackdowns on 30 Rock...
Cheers & Jeers: Sons of Anarchy Revives Deadwood Vets
Cheers to Sons of Anarchy for keeping the spirit of Deadwood alive.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine!FX's motorcycle-club drama and HBO's late, great Western have more than a badass ambiance in common: No fewer than four Deadwood survivors have ridden again on SOA this season. Paula Malcomson (Old West hooker Trixie) is bringing her authentic Belfast brogue to the role of an Irish mother who tries to help Katey Sagal's Gemma rescue her abducted grandson, Abel. We only wish her ex-HBO costar ....
Cheers & Jeers: Bored of Jonathan Ames
Jeers to Jonathan Ames for overexposing himself on Bored to Death.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.The New York City novelist created, writes and executive-produces HBO's twee sitcom about a New York City novelist named Jonathan Ames (meta alert!) who moonlights as a private dick. He even ...
Cheers & Jeers: SNL's Obama Crisis
Jeers to Saturday Night Live for reelecting Fred Armisen to play President Obama.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! With this season's addition of standup comic Jay Pharoah — whose uncanny impression of the Chief Exec became a YouTube sensation — SNL had the perfect excuse to unseat Armisen, who's never found his voice as Obama...
Cheers & Jeers: Project Runway --- Viva Mondo Guerra!
Cheers to Project Runway for its most emotional episode — and season — ever.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The Lifetime hit started out with entertaining yet predictable catfights...
Cheers & Jeers: JLH is AOK on SVU
Cheers to Jennifer Love Hewitt for her emotionally naked performance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.
Cheers & Jeers: Dancing With the Stars --- Tea Party for Two?
Jeers to Dancing With the Stars for tiptoeing around Bristol and Sarah Palin.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Alaska's former First Daughter — explain to me how being the world's most ironic "teen-abstinence advocate" qualifies her as a Star? — is a half-step up from...
Cheers & Jeers: Desperate Housewives Goes Mad Again
Cheers to Desperate Housewives for revisiting the intersection of Wisteria Lane and Madison Avenue. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! Mark Moses, who terrorized Housewives as psycho killer Paul Young from 2004-2007, moved back in last night as the ...
