Cheers & Jeers: 30 Rock's Matt Damon --- a Bourne Comedian?
Cheers & Jeers: David Letterman Goes Another Round with Joaquin Phoenix
Cheers to David Letterman for not letting Joaquin Phoenix off the hook. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine. After the Oscar-nominated actor used the Late Show host as part of his I'm Still Here hoax, Phoenix returned to come clean—and Letterman cleaned his clock, comedically speaking. Dave proudly declared ...
Cheers & Jeers: Stephen King on Sons of Anarchy --- Boo!
Jeers to Sons of Anarchy for stalling out with its stunt casting of Stephen King.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.The horror novelist — an avowed fan of FX's biker-gang drama — popped up in a cameo as "Bachman" (an elbow-in-the-ribs reference to his nom de plume Richard Bachman). A cleaner brought in to erase evidence of a crime, he was hired after Gemma...
Cheers & Jeers: Meet the Prez --- The Event's Blair Underwood
Cheers to The Event for electing to cast Blair Underwood as the President.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.As Chief Exec Elias Martinez, the eternally charismatic leading man brings a much-needed gravitas to NBC's far-fetched headscratcher. The L.A. Law grad's road to the White House has been paved with increasingly intriguing roles in recent years...
Cheers & Jeers: Michael Shannon Shines on Boardwalk
Cheers to Boardwalk Empire for giving Michael Shannon the part that should make him a star. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.
Cheers & Jeers: Rubicon --- Annie, Get Your Gun!
Cheers to Annie Parisse for bringing some much-needed sex appeal to Rubicon.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.AMC's chilly conspiracy serial cast the smoldering actress as Andy, a part-time painter who takes her justifiably paranoid neighbor, intelligence anyalyst Will Travers (James Badge Dale), into her apartment — and her bed...
Cheers & Jeers: January Jones --- No Draper on the Runway
Jeers to Project Runway for marring one of its best challenges ever with one of its worst guest judges: January Jones.
Cheers & Jeers: Terriers --- An Underdog Worth Rooting For
Cheers to FX for unleashing Terriers on the viewing public.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.The cable net's latest dramedy, from exec producers Shawn Ryan (The Shield) and Ted Griffin (Oceans 11), got off to a slow start in the ratings last week, perhaps due to a slightly misleading title...
Cheers & Jeers: A Pair of Reunions on Parenthood
Cheers to Parenthood for making a couple of welcome additions to the family.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The Season 2 opener introduced the reliably sleazy William Baldwin — who previously played Peter Krause's brother on the too-short-lived Dirty Sexy Money — as Krause's boss at a struggling shoe company...
Cheers & Jeers: Not-So-Amazing (Nancy) Grace
Jeers to Swift Justice.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide MagazineNo, I'm not talking about Taylor Swift's VMA revenge on Kanye West — although I'd rather watch those two mudwrestle than this new syndicated Judge Judy not-gonnabe with Nancy Grace. Can someone please explain this browbeating brute's appeal? As if she doesn't have enough time on her nightly hourlong self-titled HLN jeremiad to badger would-be witnesses, now she's appointed herself judge, jury and executioner on small-claims cases brought by plaintiffs and defendants naïve — or attention-starved — enough to allow Grace to make a final, binding decision...
Cheers & Jeers: My Boys to Men?
Jeers to TBS for burying one of TV's most enjoyable sitcoms, My Boys. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! The "Very Funny" cable network burned off the whopping nine-episode season of its sly charmer about Chicago sportswriter PJ (Jordana Spiro) and her pals on Sundays opposite such sky-high-profile cable competition as Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Mad Men — whose costar Joel Murray, aka rehabbed alky Freddy Rumsen, guested on Boys as the owner who sold the gang's hangout, Crowley's, to Brando (Reid Scott) in the season finale.
Cheers & Jeers: A Killer Nikita
Cheers to Nikita for putting the boot in reboot.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.Lots of action franchises have been revamped in recent years, with mixed results (Bionic Woman, we hardly knew ye). But with a sizzling star (Maggie Q), a sleek visual style and a sly sense of humor about itself, the fourth incarnation of La Femme Nikita may be the sexiest — and most successful — yet. Paired with The Vampire Diaries, this rogue assassin could kick serious butt for the CW on Thursdays...
Cheers & Jeers: Can Tyra Banks Revamp Top Model?
Jeers to Tyra Banks for trying — and failing — to remodel America's Next Top Model.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.After falling short of finding the show's goal 14 times, the supermodel states repeatedly that she's "raising the bar" for Cycle 15, bringing in top-name designers...
Cheers & Jeers: Sons of Anarchy Adopts Hal Holbrook
Cheers to Hal Holbrook for his stunning performance on Sons of Anarchy.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.The octogenarian character actor classes up the third season of FX's biker drama as Katey Sagal's Alzheimer's-addled dad. His work as a widower is even more heartbreaking when you realize Holbrook recently lost his real-life wife, Designing Women star Dixie Carter.Deservedly Oscar-nominated for 2007's Into the Wild, Holbrook could be the one to break SOA's Emmy jinx...
Cheers & Jeers: Dallas Roberts Does Rubicon
Cheers to Rubicon for giving Dallas Roberts a role he can run with.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.The Juilliard-trained actor (who, ironically, is originally from Houston) has spent the summer swiping scenes on AMC's paranoid thriller as American Policy Institute wonk Miles Fiedler. Whether he's flirting with a coworker or fretting over a security breach, Roberts makes his character's squirreliness compelling...
Cheers & Jeers: Project Runway --- Always the Bridesmaid...
Cheers to Project Runway for taking the fashion equivalent of chicken bleep and turning it into chicken salad.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.The 11 remaining designers on Lifetime's creatively resurgent reality show were presented with real-life women (read: not models) in real-life bridesmaid's gowns (read: monstrosities) and asked to turn them into something chic. The results ranged from the high-stylish ...
Cheers & Jeers: Top Chef Takes a Victory Lap --- in Orbit!
Cheers to Top Chef: D.C. for following up its first-ever Emmy victory over The Amazing Race with one of its most amazing episodes ever. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! The five remaining chef-testants were charged with...
Cheers & Jeers: Mad About Miss Blankenship
Cheers to Randee Heller for creating the summer's hottest breakout character: Mad Men's Miss Blankenship.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.Don Draper's incompetent yet snark-tastic new secretary — perhaps the first one ever at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce whom he doesn't want to sleep with, and vice versa — has stolen every scene she's been in. Even her smallest gestures, like adjusting her wig or barking "I don't work for you!" at a hungry job seeker, drive viewers mad with laughter. No wonder she's got her own...
Cheers & Jeers: Is Rizzoli & Isles Full of Beantown?
Jeers to Rizzoli & Isles for committing the biggest crimes against Boston since Bill Buckner and "Bucky F---ing Dent."Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.TNT's hit summer drama is ostensibly set in Beantown, but most of the stock L.A. locales where the show is actually shot look more like Malibu than Massachusetts. It's too bad R&I couldn't shoot on location, like the vastly superior mystery adaptation Spenser: For Hire did back in the '80s, but apparently it's cheaper to fake it on a backlot.Even worse, Angie Harmon's Texas twang keeps slipping through her stab at a Boston brogue....
Cheers & Jeers: Entourage Overexposes Sasha Grey
Jeers to Entourage for saddling Sasha Grey with a part beyond her acting capabilities: playing herself.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.When it was first reported that HBO's showbiz satire was stunt-casting the porn-star of Sasha Grey's Anatomy as Vincent Chase's new, um, love interest, we assumed it would be a quickie — one or two episodes and out...
Cheers & Jeers: The Closer Enlists Gary Cole
Cheers to The Closer for recruiting Gary Cole as a guest star. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine. The ubiquitous character actor reports for duty in the Aug. 30 episode of TNT's summer hit as an Army Major who refuses to believe the killings of three servicemen just back from Afghanistan is a gang-related drive-by. It takes a strong actor to butt heads with Kyra Sedgwick's Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson, but Cole is more than up to the task.
Cheers & Jeers: Top Chef 's Homer Cooking
Cheers to Top Chef: D.C. for knocking it out of the park — Nationals Park, that is.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The six remaining cheftestants on Bravo's Emmy-nominated reality show each took a swing at "elevated baseball cuisine," serving their dishes to Nats fans, players (including Adam Dunn, a latter-day Babe Ruth who sampled all six and promptly served up a tater of his own) — and the judges (including Cal Ripken Jr. lookalike Tom Colicchio)...
