Masters of Sex News, Episode Recaps, Spoilers, and More

Our top moments of the week: 11. Best Explanation: Remember when Gwen Stefani Adele Dazeem-ed Stephen Colbert's name at the Emmys? According to Adam Levine, Stefani was super-nervous backstage, even after he offered a helpful mnemonic device. "We're going up there, and the whole time she's like, 'I can't pronounce Colbert. I can't pronounce it,'" Levine says on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. "I was like, 'If he wins, think: cold bear.'" Of course, Stefani went with...

Fri, Sep 5, 2014

CSI Recruits Heroes' Greg Grunberg

TV vet Greg Grunberg has landed a guest-starring role on CSI, Entertainment Weekly reports. The Heroes and Alias alum will...

Fri, Aug 29, 2014

Showtime Renews Ray Donovan, Masters of Sex

Showtime has renewed hit dramas Masters of Sex and Ray Donovan for 12-episode third seasons, the network announced Wednesday.

Wed, Aug 20, 2014

Top Moments: Clinton Name-Drops In on Colbert, The Bridge Makes an Eye-Popping Move

Our top moments of the week: 13. Worst Meltdown: The Power of Veto competition gives Zach one last chance to save himself in the Big Brother house and, as usual, he is over-confident. After failing to...

Fri, Aug 8, 2014

Top Moments: Sharknado 2 Bites Off More Buzz, Bachelorette's Awkward Sex Talk

Our top moments of the week:10. Best Impression: We're just going to pretend Zach's ridiculous gameplay this week on Big Brother is his impersonation of the recently evicted Devin. How else to explain his awful moves once he gets a slight taste of power as HOH? The highlight of Zach's stupidity comes at the nomination ceremony, where he compares alliance member Christine to notorious Season 14 floater Jenn and calls ...

Fri, Aug 1, 2014

Weekend Review: I'll Take Manhattan

Remember when nostalgia used to signify a comforting escape into the past? It hasn't been the same since Mad Men took us beneath the surface glamour to expose the grim consequences of chasing and selling the American dream. WGN America's bold new period drama Manhattan (Sunday, 9/8c) goes even further, eschewing the romantic veneer altogether in a gritty story of scientific mavericks operating in extreme circumstances. Looking back at a bygone time (World War II) with a jaundiced eye, the ambitious Manhattan is far more serious in intent than the channel's more recent effort at historical-fiction original programming, the lurid Salem.

Fri, Jul 25, 2014

Missed the Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex Premieres? Watch Them Here!

Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex both returned for their second seasonson Sunday, and if you missed either episode, we've got you covered. Season 2 of Donovan finds the titular Hollywood fixer (Liev Schreiber) looking for a way to fix his biggest problem: himself. Returning shows: Where we left off After Bill's surprising declaration of love on Masters of Sex last season, he and Virginia are now taking their research out of the lab and into the bedroom. Watch both premieres below:

Wed, Jul 16, 2014

Seth Meyers on Hosting the Emmys: Jokes Will Be "Upbeat," Not "Cutting"

Seth Meyers says his first few months of hosting Late Night has prepared him to host the Emmys for the first time in August. "I feel the most ready than I've ever felt, but...

Sun, Jul 13, 2014

Ray Donovan Season 2: Can Ray Fix Himself?

On the second season of Showtime's Ray Donovan, Liev Schreiber's titular Hollywood fixer will have to find a way to fix his biggest problem: himself.The drama's first season dealt primarily with Ray's complicated history with his father Mickey (Jon Voight), whom Ray eventually tried to have killed by Sully Sullivan (James Woods), one of Mickey's old Boston rivals. Although Mickey actually ended up killing Sully instead, the biggest twist of the first season revealed that Ray, like his brother Bunchy (Dash Mihok), had been sexually abused as a child by a priest.Summer TV: Get scoop on your favorite returning showsWhile the revelation helped color exactly why Ray carries so much hatred for Mickey, who failed to protect his son, it also provides fertile ground for the show to explore its main character in Season 2. "It was a big reveal and we need to deal with it and we do," executive producerAnn Biderman tells TVGuide.com...

Sun, Jul 13, 2014

Weekend TV: FX's Creepy Strain, Return of Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex

"It's not for everyone," growls the grizzled, sword-wielding Armenian pawnshop owner (Game of Thrones' David Bradley), whose unromantic notion of vampire slaying includes mass decapitations and body burnings. Likewise, FX's deliciously freaky and gruesomely graphic The Strain (Sunday, 10/9c) won't be for all tastes. But the network is betting, probably correctly, that a midsummer popcorn feast of classic monster-movie horror, served without apology and blessedly free of irony, will resonate with fright fans eager to jump out of their seats, which turns out to be a Strain specialty. This could, and deserves to be, FX's Walking Dead-sized blockbuster.

Fri, Jul 11, 2014

Critic's Notebook: The Emmy Nominations

No one expects the Emmy nominations to please everybody — there's simply too much TV these days, including on unconventional platforms like Netflix, and there are always going to be shows and performers that won't make the cut, however deserving. But even when the Emmy voters get something right, like adding HBO's freshman hoot Silicon Valley to the best-comedy contenders, we still find ourselves griping over where they stumbled, nowhere more glaringly than in the drama-series race. (For a list of nominees in the major categories, go here.)

Thu, Jul 10, 2014

VIDEO: Bill and Virginia Heat Up the Season 2 Masters of Sex Trailer

"Things have changed," Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) says in the new Season 2 trailer for Masters of Sex -- and boy, she isn't kidding. In the revealing — and we're not just talking about...

Fri, Jun 27, 2014

Orange Is the New Black, Fargo Top Critics' Choice TV Awards Winners

Orange Is the New Black and Fargo topped the fourth annual Critics' Choice Television Awards Thursday with three victories each. Orange Is the New Black won...

Fri, Jun 20, 2014

Emmys: TVGuide.com's Picks for Drama Series

Emmy ballots are due Friday! Voters have mere hours to check off the names and shows they think are worthy of getting a nomination come July 10. We here at TVGuide.com have a few picks in mind ourselves. And so, here's our final dream ballot for Best Drama Series:

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

Emmys: TVGuide.com's Picks for Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Emmy voting is underway! This week, voters will be checking off names and shows they think are worthy of getting a nomination come July 10. We at TVGuide.com have a few selections in mind ourselves. Next up: our dream ballot for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Wed, Jun 18, 2014

Emmys: TVGuide.com's Picks for Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Emmy voting is underway! This week, voters will be checking off names and shows they think are worthy of getting a nomination come July 10. We at TVGuide.com have a few selections in mind ourselves. Next up: our dream ballot for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Tue, Jun 17, 2014

Sarah Silverman Is Headed to Masters of Sex

Sarah Silverman, the potty-mouthed comedienne known for making doody jokes in her stand-up routine, is up for some Sex...

Mon, Apr 28, 2014

Breaking Bad's Betsy Brandt Joins ABC's The Club

Breaking Bad alum Betsy Brandt has joined the cast of ABC's The Club, TVGuide.com has learned. The drama pilot from Oscar-nominated screenwriter Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) is an upstairs-downstairs soap centered on a private country club. Get the latest pilot season news Brandt...

Mon, Mar 24, 2014

Breaking Bad's Betsy Brandt Joins Masters of Sex

Betsy Brandt has landed a recurring role on Masters of Sex, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Breaking Bad alum will appear in the Showtime drama's upcoming second season as...

Tue, Mar 18, 2014

How I Met Your Dad Adds Workaholics' Anders Holm

Anders Holm has joined the How I Met Your Dad pilot as the soon-to-be ex-husband of Greta Gerwig's Sally, TVGuide.com has confirmed.

Sat, Mar 15, 2014

Keke Palmer Joins Masters of Sex

KeKe Palmer has landed a recurring role on Masters of Sex, Showtime announcedWednesday. Palmer will play Coral, a nanny who's hired to care for the Masters' new baby. Masters of Sexstars Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as famed sex researches William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Caitlin Fitzgerald plays Masters' wife Libby.

Wed, Mar 12, 2014

2013's Best Episodes: Hannibal's Delicious Homage, Big Bang's Sexy Gameplay

Torture! Clones! Betrayal! Sexting! And just sex! From touching series finales (farewell, 30 Rock and The Office!) to Game of Thrones' brutal Red Wedding, 2013 was brimming with fantastic hours of television. TVGuide.com has compiled the top 25 episodes. Which ones made the cut? Tune in all week to see the full list. What were the best TV shows of 2013?Here are Episodes 20-16. (Catch up with Episodes 25-21.)

Wed, Dec 25, 2013

Matt Roush's Top 10 of 2013

1. Breaking BadWhat a way to go out — with a bang, on a tragic yet triumphant high, at the peak of popularity and notoriety. What could be more satisfying than that? There wasn't a wasted moment or unexplored opportunity for suspenseful conflict in the intense last chapters of AMC's masterful thriller, charting Walter White's ultimate descent into criminal infamy. Bryan Cranston brilliantly captured the character's mood swings, from wounded pride to murderous rage to sorrow over the family he lost due to his dark machinations. No maddening ambiguities in this grand finale...

Wed, Dec 18, 2013

Breaking Bad, Good Wife and New Blood Top Golden Globe Nods

Breaking Bad, The Good Wife and lots of fresh faces led Thursday's Golden Globe Awards, while defending champ Homeland was shut out.A day after nabbing three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, Breaking Bad earned three Globe ...

Thu, Dec 12, 2013

House of Cards, Masters of Sex Among Freshman Series Honored by AFI

House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black, Masters of Sex and...

Mon, Dec 9, 2013

Orange Is the New Black, Breaking Bad Score Writers Guild Nominations

Breaking Bad leads the nominees for the Writers Guild of America awards, which were announced on Thursday. The AMC drama, which concluded its run in September, received four nominations, including one for Best Drama Series.

Thu, Dec 5, 2013

Behind the Scenes of Showtime's Provocative New Drama Masters of Sex

Only eight episodes into its first season, Showtime's Masters of Sex has already offered more twists and turns than the Kama Sutra. Audiences seem to like playing Peeping Tom. Ratings have been strong, and the network announced it would renew the show for Season 2. What's the secret to Sex's success? You can start with the offbeat chemistry of classically trained British thespian Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon) and comic actress Lizzy Caplan (Party Down) as William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the pioneering researchers who revolutionized the study of sex in the 1950s. "The producers clearly knew what...

Fri, Nov 22, 2013

The Weekend Playlist: Amazon's Alpha House, Almost Human

There's another serious new player in the ever-expanding universe of online original-content providers (see: Netflix and Hulu) — and happily, Amazon's entry into this suddenly cluttered marketplace is not just seriously funny, but it's as bracingly timely as the latest exasperating political headline. Alpha House (three episodes bow Friday on amazon.com, with future episodes available to Amazon Prime subscribers) is satire at its most blistering and biting, delivered by a master of the trade: Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau, whose contempt for political cynicism, venality and hypocrisy doesn't keep the jaded protagonists of this bawdy, brazen comedy from being great company. The setting is a Washington, D.C., row house, home away from home for four Republican senators, led by the fearlessly outrageous John Goodman as a good-old-boy/former football star who's outraged to discover he won't be able to coast through his next election. (His new opponent: a legendary Duke coach. As someone observes: "You're like a retired god. He's active.")

Fri, Nov 15, 2013

Showtime Renews Homeland and Masters of Sex

Homeland and Masters of Sex have been renewed for fourth and second seasons, respectively, Showtime announced Tuesday. Homeland has...

Tue, Oct 22, 2013

The Weekend Playlist: Walking Dead Is Back, and So Is Homeland's Brody

It's raining zombies, quite literally, by the end of the first hour of The Walking Dead's fourth harrowing season (Sunday, 9/8c, AMC). And when it rains, it pours blood. Just how fans like it. But it's in the pauses between the gruesome action, those eerie and unsettling silences, when we're reminded there's no rest for the living in a treacherous world where swarming walkers are constantly pressing against the prison-shelter gates, insatiable and relentless. In these quieter moments, Dead reinforces its claim as TV's greatest horror drama by making us care so desperately about the characters' humanity.

Fri, Oct 11, 2013

The Story Behind Masters of Sex's Racy Logo

To promote its new period drama Masters of Sex, Showtime came up with quite a racy logo. The sideways E in the word sex is more than just a stylish flourish; it appears to be the outline of a naked woman's body. The logo has appeared in most print and online ad campaigns and can be seen on many billboards and bus ads. But in some parts of the country, the network had to flip the E upright for its outdoor campaigns. "Because of standards, we had to modify the E," says Donald Buckley, Showtime's executive vice president of program marketing and digital services. "It's intriguing. We're having fun with it."

Tue, Oct 8, 2013

Masters of Sex's Teddy Sears on Dr. Langham's Sex Scenes and Issues with Women

"This whole thing feels like Christmas or something!" Participating in the Masters and Johnson sex study is the gift that keeps on giving for Dr. Austin Langham (Teddy Sears) on Showtime's Masters of Sex (Sunday, 10/9c).

Fri, Oct 4, 2013

Weekend Playlist: Masters of Sex and Homeland, Breaking Bad Finale on Jam-Packed Sunday

All work and no foreplay makes Dr. William Masters anything but a dull boy. With the assistance of a free-thinking single mother named Virginia Johnson, this renowned fertility specialist and pioneer in the study of sexual physiology challenges the repressive social mores of the late '50s, when Peyton Place is considered risqué and most people (according to Masters) "sit hunched in the dark like prudish cavemen filled with shame and guilt" when it came to thinking about sex.

Fri, Sep 27, 2013

TV's Top Studio Bosses Forecast the New TV Season

It's sink or swim time for the studios behind this fall's crop of new TV shows. For the past year, executives have been pitching, developing, casting and producing what they hope will be the next big hits. Now it's all out of their hands, as viewers determine whether those series will go the distance or end up on the cancellation heap.

Wed, Sep 18, 2013

Ask Matt: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Face Off, The Middle, Suits, True Blood

Send questions and comments to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter! Question: My question is about the new Joss Whedon show that has one of the most convoluted names I've ever heard: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I am a Whedon fan to the max, having watched every episode of every TV (and Internet) show he has ever done, and enjoyed them thoroughly. I am not, however, a moviegoer nor a comic book reader. I cannot remember the last theatrical production I've seen, and the only comics I read are the Buffy/Angel follow-ups. And that leaves me concerned about S.H.I.E.L.D. Every article I read, and even the just-released preview, mentions events that happened/people who existed in one or more theatrical movies, and many articles mention future movies that will tie into the events on the show. Since I never watched those movies — and most likely won't watch the future movies — am I going to be totally lost when the television show premieres?

Mon, Aug 26, 2013

Critic's Notebook: The CW and Showtime at TCA

Let's start with a little pop quiz from Tuesday's leg of the TCA press tour. Guess which network president summed up his programming philosophy this way — "The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability" — the head of The CW or the leader of Showtime?If you guessed the latter, it really wasn't much of a guess, was it? Because few things are more predictable than a new CW fall programming slate, which hardly seems new at all: not with a Vampire Diaries spin-off on tap — The Originals, which could hardly be less original — and a remake of the British series The Tomorrow People that looks like any number of interchangeable CW shows about moody teens with superpowers (minus the ability to credibly emote). While CW president Mark Pedowitz discussed plans to introduce a possible Flash spin-off within Arrow this season, and to spin off the way-past-its-prime Supernatural with a show about hunters and monsters set in Chicago, you'd be forgiven for thinking the network's initials now stand for "Clone World."

Wed, Jul 31, 2013

Masters of Sex's Unconventional Sex Scenes Made Stars Feel "More Naked"

By now, Masters of Sex star Michael Sheen has gotten used to nudity and watching sex acts performed in front of him. "We've seen so many people do bizarre things in front of you, you get used to it," Sheen said at the Television Critics Association fall previews on Tuesday. "There's a naked woman in front of you masturbating ... and you almost don't notice."

Wed, Jul 31, 2013

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