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TV Junkie: 'Balloon Boy' to Become Mini-Series; 'Monty Python' Doc Premieres Sunday on IFC
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• Fri, Oct 16
By Tom Lewis 8:00pm Supernanny ABC - Season Premiere 8:00pm Ugly Betty ABC - Season Premiere. Last week's premiere got bumped to this week. 12:35am Late Night With Jimmy Fallon NBC - Actor Eddie Izzard; actress Gina Gershon; comic Amy Schumer. Saturday
TV Junkie: LA's 'Southland' Axed; Uh Oh 'Hawaii Five-O'
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• Fri, Oct 9
By Tom Lewis 10:00pm Comedy Central Presents Comedy Central - Comic Nick Swardson performs. 11:35pm The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien NBC - Writer Zack Hample; Lady Antebellum performs. Saturday 11:25pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Drew Barrymore hosts; Regina Spektor performs.
TV Junie: Jon Rains on Kate's Parade; NBC to Comcast?
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• Thu, Oct 1
By Tom Lewis 8:00pm Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday NBC - A bit of SNL 10:00pm Private Practice ABC - Season Premiere 10:00pm The Jay Leno Show NBC - Comic Chris Rock. 12:35am Late Night With Jimmy Fallon NBC - Actor Ryan Reynolds; actress Emma Stone; Miranda Lambert performs.
Boston Is Completely Nuts
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• Fri, Sep 25
By Jimmy Bramlett In fact that hit was so memorable that on Saturday Night Live that followed the World Series game, that home run ball “landed” in the “Weekend Update” desk. Football. Hockey. Basketball. Overall LA Titles in the 80s Boston Titles in the 00s
TV Junkie: The Battle For Sunday Night Begins in Earnest - Showtime Takes It (for now)
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• Fri, Sep 25
By Tom Lewis 8:00pm Law & Order NBC - Season Premiere 8:30pm 'Til Death FOX - Season Premiere 9:00pm Southland NBC - Season Premiere 9:00pm Medium CBS - Season Premiere 10:00pm NUMB3RS CBS - Season Premiere Saturday 11:30pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Season Premiere
TV Junkie: 'FlashForward' Premieres; B.J. Novak Video; ABC Comedy Does Well
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• Thu, Sep 24
By Tom Lewis The TV Junkie Plan: "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday", "Parks and Recreation", "The Office", "Community", "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia", "The Daily Show", Conan, Fallon 8:00pm Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday NBC - News the SNL way.
ESPN Throws LA Under the Bus
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• Wed, Sep 23
By Guest Writer Sometimes I wish I had a job at ESPN. This wish stems from the hope of saving something I love. I grew up with ESPN. I watched it evolve from amateur hour. Remember Charlie Steiner being a Sportscenter host long before calling games for the Yankees and Dodgers? Remember how he’d spontaneously bu...
TV Junkie: Time Lapse of LACC for Emmys; Manny vs. Manny; tonight's Premieres
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• Thu, Sep 17
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By Tom Lewis 8:00pm Bones FOX - Season Premiere 8:00pm Saturday Night Live Thursday Weekend Update NBC - Season Premiere 8:00pm Survivor: Samoa CBS - Season Premiere 8:30pm Parks and Recreation NBC - Season Premiere 9:00pm Fringe FOX - Season Premiere 9:00pm The Office NBC - Season Premiere
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TV Junkie: Conan's First Guests; The Peabodys; 'Law & Order' Will ...
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• Tue, May 19
CA We were pleased that AMC's "Breaking Bad" won at Monday's Peabody Awards ceremony but we weren't happy to read that "Saturday Night Live"'s Lorne Michaels is considering a "MacGruber" movie. "MacGruber" is funny for the 20 second segments it has on ...
TV Junkie: Aisha to ABC; CBS Dips; Timberlake on SNL
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• Fri, May 8
By Tom Lewis The TV Junkie Plan: Tonight - "The News Hour", "Real Time With Bill Maher", "Dollhouse", "The Soup", Letterman, Kimmel. Saturday - "SNL". Sunday - "Storm Stories", "The Tudors", "Breaking Bad" Saturday 11:35pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Justin Timberlake hosts for the third time; musica...
TV Junkie: NBC's Partial Announcement; Fallon Not A Disaster According to WSJ
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• Mon, May 4
By Tom Lewis Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on NBC at 12:35am Unless you are a Chicago Bulls or Boston Celtics fan (yeah!) this weekend's TV was kind of boring other than Sunday's "Breaking Bad" on AMC, which was excellent as usual. We wonder why the premiere of season 2 of "Ashes to Ashes" was pulled off of...
TV Junkie: Super Bowl XLIII Weekend Edition
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• Fri, Jan 30
By Tom Lewis 10:00pm Comedy Central Presents Comedy Central - Stand-up comedian Tommy Johnagin followed by Jamie Lissow 12:30am The Soup E! - Craig Ferguson and John Henson guest. Saturday 8:00pm Crusoe NBC - Season Finale 11:25pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Host Steve Martin; Jason Mraz performs.
TV Junkie: The Top 10 TV Highlights of 2008
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• Mon, Dec 29
By Tom Lewis The segment on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" during the writers' strike with associate producer Jordan Schlansky NBC - so good that they brought him back for a follow-up segment Sarah Palin/Tina Fey on "Saturday Night Live" NBC - so perfect, cemented the comeback of "SNL"
TV Junkie: Seinfeld on Letterman; Sunday Finales
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• Fri, Dec 19
By Tom Lewis The TV Junkie Plan: Tonight - "Dateline NBC", Letterman, Conan; Saturday - spend time with your family; Sunday - "Brotherhood", "Skins" Saturday There is really nothing on unless you want to watch repeats of "Celtic Woman" on PBS or the Sarah Palin appearance on "SNL". Got suggestions? P...
TV Junkie: Hannity All Alone; Hugh Laurie Hosts 'SNL'; 'Survivor'/'Dexter'/'Californication' Finales
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• Fri, Dec 12
By Tom Lewis Saturday 8:00pm A Miser Brothers' Christmas ABC Family - Heat Miser!! Snow Miser!!!! The battling Miser brothers must help save the holiday when Santa is unable to deliver gifts. 11:25pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Host Hugh Laurie; Kanye West performs.
TV Junkie: 'Leverage' Premiere w/Timothy Hutton; Malkovich on 'SNL'
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• Fri, Dec 5
By Tom Lewis The TV Junkie Plan: Tonight - "Crash", Ferguson (Malkovich!!); Saturday - "SNL" (Malkovich!!!); Sunday - "House of Saddam" 10:00pm Dateline NBC NBC - New Time Saturday 8:00pm Crusoe NBC - New Time 11:25pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Host John Malkovich; T.I. performs.
TV Junkie: 'SNL' Scores Big With McCain
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• Mon, Nov 3
By Tom Lewis 9:00pm Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash '08 NBC - The best political sketches from the current and previous elections. 11:35pm The Late Show With David Letterman CBS - Actor Ricky Gervais presents the Top Ten List; reality TV star Paris Hilton; Elvis Costello and Jenny Lewis perfor...
TV Junkie: Obama Scores Big for "Daily Show" - Can Palin Do it for "20/20"?
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• Fri, Oct 31
By Tom Lewis Saturday 9:00pm America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back FOX - It's all about 'The Grim Sleeper' serial killer! 11:25pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Senator John McCain to make cameo appearance, Ben Affleck hosts and 'American Idol' winner David Cook performs.
Torn Between Two Bitches @ The Unknown Theater
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• Thu, Oct 30
By Elise Thompson If you’ve ever sat through one of the unfunny sketches featured on Mad TV or Saturday Night Live, wherein a mediocre actor lampoons a famous politician or celebrity to whom they bear no resemblance whatsoever; caricatures said politician or celebrity poorly and exaggeratedly, and bri...
TV Junkie: Tuesday
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• Tue, Oct 28
By Tom Lewis 9:00pm Greek ABC Family - Season Finale 11:30pm Charlie Rose PBS/KCET - Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels. 12:35am Late Night With Conan O'Brien NBC - Actress Tina Fey; actor Peter Sarsgaard; the Black Crowes perform. Tina Fey pic via NBC/Universal
TV Junkie: Weekend Edition
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• Fri, Oct 24
By Tom Lewis It's a Jon Hamm/"Mad Men" weekend: on Saturday, the man who plays Don Draper will be hosting "Saturday Night Live" and Sunday brings us the season finale of the mult-Emmy-winning show from AMC. Both are a must watch. Saturday 11:25pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Host Jon Hamm (aka Don Draper fro...
TV Junkie: Thursday
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• Thu, Oct 23
By Tom Lewis 9:30pm Saturday Night Live Thursday Weekend Update NBC - I dunno if Amy Poehler can top "SNL"'s "Palin Rap" but let's give her a chance. ("All we are saaaaying, is give terrorism a chance") 10:30pm The Sarah Silverman Program Comedy Central - Sarah thinks she sees Osama Bin Laden on the stre...
TV Junkie: Wednesday
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• Wed, Oct 22
By Tom Lewis Other than the Sarah Palin edition of "SNL" last weekend, there weren't too many bright spots for NBC in terms of viewership. FOX and ABC didn't fare much better and of all the big networks only CBS had more viewers last week than the week before. Those waves of pilots and new programming haven...
TV Junkie: Weekend Edition
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• Fri, Oct 17
By Tom Lewis The TV Junkie Plan: Tonight - "Real Time with Bill Maher", "Crash", Letterman (Tina Fey!), Conan (Mike Birbiglia!!); Saturday - "SNL"; Sunday - "True Blood", "Mad Men" Saturday Pic of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton via NBC
TV Junkie: Thursday
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• Thu, Oct 16
By Tom Lewis 9:30pm Saturday Night Live Thursdays NBC - A special presidential race edition of 'Weekend Update' 10:00pm Life on Mars ABC - Did anyone watch this last week? What did you think? 11:35pm The Late Show With David Letterman CBS - Presidential candidate John McCain (if he shows up); Ne-Yo pe...
TV Junkie: Tuesday
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• Tue, Oct 14
By Tom Lewis We love Tina Fey's parody of Alaska Governor Sarah "Jessica" (because she's so stylish) Palin but evidently even she doesn't know the next time she will apear on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" to parody the Vice Presidential candidate. As of today, yeah it's Tuesday, Fey and NBC stated that t...
Get Out: Saturday
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• Sat, Oct 11
By Jessie Murray Everyone associates the Largo with Jon Brion. But tonight, SNL comedians Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen take over the venue with their own brand of entertainment. With two shows, one at 8 p.m., and one at 10 p.m., you have double the chance to see these guys in action. Apparently their last show was q...
TV Junkie: Weekend Edition - Louis CK!!Original at LAist
• Fri, Oct 3
By Tom Lewis 10:00pm Life NBC - New Time Slot 12:05am Jimmy Kimmel Live ABC - Actor Shia LaBeouf; actress January Jones, Betty Draper from "Mad Men"; Nelly performs. Saturday 11:25pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Anne Hathaway hosts; the Killers perform.
DVD Review: A Grab Bag of Laughs from Comedy Central
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• Wed, Oct 1
By Tom Lewis This is a pretty bad DVD. It seems that someone at Comedy Central suddenly realized that there were episodes of their programs that dealt with drugs, specifically marijuana and hallucinogens, and decided to aggregate those episodes on one DVD - get it "home grown"? Behold this collectio...
TV Junkie: Weekend Edition
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• Fri, Sep 26
By Tom Lewis Here's the TV Junkie plan: Tonight - Obama/McCain Debate, "Real Time with Bill Maher", Letterman, Conan; Saturday - Chris Rock, SNL; Sunday - "Dexter", "Mad Men", "Life and Times of Tim" Saturday 11:25pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Anna Faris hosts; Duffy performs. Pic of Chris Rock via HBO
TV Junkie: Weekend Edition
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• Fri, Sep 19
By Tom Lewis This is the TV Junkie (weekend) plan: (Tonight) Bill Maher, Project Earth; (Saturday) SNL (we hope Tina Fey/Palin comes back; (Sunday) Emmies, True Blood, Entourage Saturday 11:25pm Saturday Night Live NBC - James Franco hosts; Kings of Leon perform.
TV Junkie: Weekend Edition - "Survivor" Finale on SundayOriginal at LAist
• Fri, May 9
By Tom Lewis 10:00pm Battlestar Galactica SCIFI - Lots of doom and gloom in this week's episode. Saturday 11:30pm Saturday Night Live NBC - Shia LaBeouf hosts, My Morning Jacket performs. TV Junkie Pick O' The Night. Sunday 10:00pm Brothers and Sisters ABC - Season Finale. Thankfully.
Live From New York - LAist @ Saturday Night LiveOriginal at LAist
• Mon, Apr 14
By Tom Lewis It was a surreal evening to say the least and it's impressive to see how friendly and open this group of people is. Special props go to Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, and Casey Wilson who were very kind and indulgent. Season 33 of "Saturday Night Live" resumes on May 10th - I'll be tun...
Live From New York - LAist @ Saturday Night Live - LAist
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• Mon, Apr 14
Live From New York - LAist @ Saturday Night Live CA - Apr 14, 2008 Special props go to Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, and Casey Wilson who were very kind and indulgent. Season 33 of "Saturday Night Live" resumes ...
Happy Birthday Saturday Night Live! Part 6
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• Sun, Oct 21
By Sloane Berrent Submit them here. Today's clip is a Spartan Cheerleader skit featuring Chris Farley and Cheri Oteri. Saturday:. * With the show still far from finalized, the day begins with a run-through, with props, in front of Lorne Michaels. ...
LAist Interview: Patrick O'Sullivan Waxes About Walken
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• Thu, May 31
By Christine N. Ziemba Does the cast change from week to week? Patrick O: There have been different cast members since the beginning and a few guest stars, but the core group still remains intact. They're great and they all have their "own" Walken impersonations. So give a shout out to your (diverse) cast.
TV Junkie: 'Heroes', '24', 'DWTS', all winding up/down; Shatner on Conan (not literally)
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• Mon, May 14
By tomdog The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (Comedy Central, 11:00 p.m.) Author Jeremy Paxman The Colber(t) Repor(t) (Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m.) Author William Langewiesche (say that 10x fast) The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC, 11:35p.m.) Final 3 American Idol contestants; Taylor Hicks performs (y...
20 Mother's Day VideosOriginal at LAist
• Sun, May 13
By Tony Pierce Fountains of Wayne - "Stacy's Mom" Queen - "Tie Your Mother Down" Journey - "Mother, Father" LL Cool J - "Momma Said Knock You Out" Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On" Mr. T - "Treat Your Mother Right" SNL - "Mom Jeans" Buckethead - "For Mom" John Lennon - "Mother"
TV Junkie: 'Idol' Charitystravaganza; New 'Lost'; Bogeyfest on TCM
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• Wed, Apr 25
By tomdog The Daily Show With John Stewart (Comedy Central, 11:00 p.m.) Gary Shandling(!) The Colber(t) Repor(t) (Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m.) GAO head David Walker Late Night With Conan O'Brien (NBC, 12:35 a.m.) SNL alum Darrell Hammond(!!); Andrew W.K.(!!); Blue October performs
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