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The Bill Engvall Show
- Metascore35
- 2007-2009
- 3 seasons
- TBS
- Comedy, Family
- TV-PG
A sitcom revolving around the life of therapist Bill Pearson and his family.
- Metascore35
- 2007-2009
- 3 seasons
- TBS
- Comedy, Family
- TV-PG
A sitcom revolving around the life of therapist Bill Pearson and his family.
Tonight's TV Hot List: Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009
Bill Engvall Show9/8c TBS For three seasons now, Bill Engvall's sitcom has been addressing the quirks of married life and family dynamics. Consider it the Engvall Angle. These are nice little perspectives on domestic tug-of-wars, such as the up-and-down battles over lowering the toilet seat. Or shaving a beard, as is the case tonight. It gets hairy in the Pearson household when Susan demands that Bill cut off his post-fishing-trip beard. Bill stands up to her and refuses, which is never a good move for a husband, no doubt. And it'll be a close shave for brainiac Bryan when he takes a cue from Trent and begins tormenting Lauren.Read on for previews of Househusbands of Hollywood, Being Human, The Terminators and Country at the White House.
Tonight's TV Hot List: Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009
CNN & Essence: Reclaiming the Dream8/7 CT CNN Expanding upon her insightful Black in America 2 reports, Soledad O'Brien hosts a forum discussion focused on African-American issues at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. Participants include CNN's Roland Martin, Essence editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray, NAACP president Benjamin Jealous, philanthropist Malaak Compton-Rock (Angel Rock Project) and activist Phill Wilson (Black AIDS Institute).Read on for previews of Bill Engvall Show, Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith, Face the Ace and Assault in the Ring.
TBS Turns to George Lopez, Kevin James and Animation for Chuckles
TBS says it's "very funny," so it's only fitting the network will look for more laughs in the 2009-10 season, in both 3-D and 2-D form and from former sitcom stars.Already scheduled to return are Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, which will launch its second season May 27, and The Bill Engvall Show, which will inhabit ...
TBS Renews The Bill Engvall Show for Third Season
Clearly finding The Bill Engvall Show, well, "very funny," TBS has picked up the family sitcom for a third season, Variety reports.The comedy, starring the eponymous stand-up, Tim Meadows and Nancy Travis, will return with 10 new episodes next summer.The series just concluded its second season run, averaging 2.3 million viewers and topping the 18-49 ad-supported cable demo.The Bill Engvall Show will also air bonus new episodes on Nov. 15. — Joyce EngUse our Online Video Guide to watch full episodes of The Bill Engvall Show.
What Has Lost Alum Cynthia Watros So Spooked?
There was a quiet spell following her dramatic exit from Lost, but Cynthia Watros' workload has gone from 0 to 60 in recent months. Tonight at 10 pm/ET, she stars opposite Eric Roberts in the second installment of NBC's Fear Itself anthology series, and later this summer, she'll surface on TBS' The Bill Engvall Show. TVGuide.com invited Watros to preview her new gigs as well as ponder future spooky appearances by Lost's Libby. TVGuide.com: You've been keeping busy lately!Cynthia Watros: A little bit, yeah! TVGuide.com: On the one hand, you're serving up some horror. On the other, you're doing comedy. Do you like striking that balance?Watros: I like to juggle both ends. It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time. TVGuide.com: In Fear Itself's "Spooked," you play a woman who hires Eric Roberts' P.I
Video Q&A: Bill Engvall and Tim Meadows
TBS' The Bill Engvall Show premieres its second season this Thursday at 9 pm/ET, and Bill himself — joined by on-screen sidekick Tim Meadows — dropped by TVGuide.com to share a preview. (Perhaps fittingly, given the proximity of this blog posting to another, one of the first episodes is a riff on How I Met Your Mother. Ha!) Give a watch....Related:• Bill Engvall's TVGuide.com Celebrity Blog
TBS' Bill Engvall Gets Eyed by CBS
And you thought that Bill's "remote control" interstitial was in your face. The Bill Engvall Show is getting a plum showcase on CBS this Monday night, offering up a Season 1 repeat that will hopefully lead folks to give the family-friendly comedy a try when it unveils its sophomore run Wednesday, June 12, on TBS.How this all works: In exchange for giving Bill the airtime, CBS will get to plug-plug-plug its fall line-up on TBS, in earnest, later in the summer. Speaking of Engvall, he and TV bud Tim Meadows dropped by the other day to give me a video Q&A. Funny fellas! Watch for that next week. — MWM
Will we see Cynthia Watros ...
Question: Will we see Cynthia Watros back on Lost this season?Answer: No, but you will see her in TBS' The Bill Engvall Show. Sources confirm to me exclusively that Watros will play Nancy Travis' free-spirited friend in three episodes of the show's upcoming second season (debuting June 12). Okay, that's all for this week. Actually, that's all for next week too. I'm taking a few days off next week to recover from Upfrontapalooza, so that means no Ask Ausiello next week. The good news? There'll still be lots going on in Ausholand (i.e. my vodcast, my Ausiello Report blog, etc.). And if you're r
Summer Finale Preview for Entourage, Rescue Me and More
TV's sizzling summer season has saved its best for last. Here's our guide to the season enders you will not want to miss. Entourage, HBOFinale airs Sunday, Sept. 2, at 10 pm/ET"Medellin" — triumph or fiasco? That's the question that Entourage has been asking during its fourth season, which began with prettyboy movie star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) on the set of the violent Spanish-language film about drug lord Pablo Escobar. "We'll get lots of answers," promises exec producer Doug Ellin. The season finale was shot on location at the Cannes Film Festival last May. "Scenes took place live during the Ocean's Thirteen premiere, so our guys had to get their lines down while crowds were screaming." Post-finale, Entourage goes on hiatus until June. And then? "I have not a single idea," says Ellin, laughing.
Nancy Travis Spills the Secrets to Bill Engvall's Success
A veteran of the sitcoms Becker and Almost Perfect and a slew of other TV programs and films, Nancy Travis has returned to series television as Susan Pearson, the wife of The Bill Engvall Show's titular family man. In the vein of other famous TV wives/mothers such as Debra Barone and Clair Huxtable, Travis' Susan provides a calming balance to Engvall's reactionary Bill Pearson. The New York native recently chatted with TVGuide.com about her role on the TBS sitcom, which airs Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET — and drew boffo ratings with last week's premiere. TVGuide.com: Do you feel like Bill Engvall is coming on at a good time, given the number of family-oriented sitcoms that have ended their runs over
Nielsens Smile on Bill Engvall, and More Short Cuts
TBS' The Bill Engvall Show debuted on Tuesday to 3.9 million total viewers, making it the No. 3 most-watched basic-cable sitcom telecast ever, trailing only the first two episodes of TBS' House of Payne.... Merv Griffin has been hospitalized for a recurrence of prostate cancer discovered during a routine examination a few weeks ago, says the AP.... The Last Mimzy topped the DVD sales chart last week, while Shooter was the No. 1 rental for a third straight cycle.... Standing still pays. Gisele Bundchen tops Forbes.com's list of the world's richest models, having earned $33 million in the last 12 months. (Money can't buy a new birth date for your beau's illegitimate child, though.) Kate Moss ($9 mil) placed No. 2, followed by Heidi Klum ($8 mil).
Can Blue Collar Comic Bill Engvall Save the Family Sitcom?
Blue Collar comedian Bill Engvall will join the ranks of Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby and Ray Romano, each of whom has segued from the ranks of stand-up performer to sitcom star, with the debut of TBS' The Bill Engvall Show, which premieres tonight at 9:30 pm/ET. Paired with veteran sitcom writer/executive producer Mike Leeson (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, Rhoda), Engvall's goal is to return the family-friendly sitcom to the airwaves. Indeed, this type of program has taken a hit in recent years with the loss of such shows as Everybody Loves Raymond and My Wife and Kids. As Engvall tells TVGuide.com, "After we shot the pilot, this 70-year-old
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