Some truly sad news is coming out late Thursday night, in particular to everyone who watched for many years “Everybody Loves Raymond” on CBS. Sawyer Sweeten, the young actor who played Geoffrey Barone, one of the two sons of Ray Romano’s title character, passed away this morning after committing suicide. He was only 19 years old. […]
We’ve known for a long time that Vince Gilligan had at least a relative interest in doing some more movie work. He wanted his schedule to be a little looser following “Breaking Bad” for that reason, and to a certain extent it is. He has a full showrunning partner on “Better Call Saul” in Peter Gould, […]
Aziz Ansari, Mike Schur teaming up again – Weeks after the end of “Parks and Recreation,” it looks like one of its former stars in Aziz is working again with its showrunner. Aziz and Schur are working alongside “Parks and Recreation” co-executive proudcer Alan Yang on a new comedy for Netflix, the service that has also […]
Matt Carter Better Call Saul, The Americans
While we’ve speculated a lot over the years that certain cable series are major warriors in DVR viewing, we have not had a chance to view much in the way of real data … at least until now. The fine folks over at TVbythenumbers have started to compile some real data that show ratings after […]
The numbers are in for Sunday, and it certainly proving itself to be a strange spring for many of the shows on the air right now. First and foremost, NBC is completely falling apart on Sunday night again and this has been going on for March and April. For some reason, they cannot figure out […]
We understand that for some, awards season can be incredibly exhausting … especially if you are a singer in the country music genre. In between the CMA Awards, the American Country Awards (or whatever they are called now), the CMT Awards, and the other mainstream music awards shows, they are very busy year in and […]
Matt Carter Arrow, Episode of the Week, Justified, Outlander, Scandal, Scorpion
Before we talk about the candidates for Episode of the Week for the week of April 12, let us first recognize the winner of the CarterMatt poll from last week: With 51% of the vote, the “Afterlife” episode of “Agents of SHIELD” season 2 wins the honor for the week of April 5. Congrats to […]
Matt Carter Grimm, The Amazing Race, The Messengers
What was The CW thinking premiering a new show like “The Messengers” on Friday night? We feel like it is as simple as this: They’re pretty satisfied with the rest of their lineup, and they didn’t have a lot of room for this show. It’s not much of a vote of confidence to premiere it […]
Matt Carter Bones, The Vampire Diaries
Is the departure of Nina Dobrev already hurting the ratings for “The Vampire Diaries“? We are not willing to go that far just yet, but it does appear clear yet again that this is not the same culture-defining show that it once was. Last night, the latest episode of the CW series drew a 0.6 […]
While many in the English-language TV community may have never heard of “Sabado Gigante,” this does not change the fact that this show is more than a little bit of a big deal. This is the longest-running variety series on TV (even longer than “Saturday Night Live”), and it survived everything from a move from Chile […]
