Check out our Emmys post mortem and contribute your surprises/disappointments. --- Charlie Sheen gets roasted on Comedy Central tonight - are you going to watch? --- Tonight CBS has 3 hour of season & series premieres, check those in the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan. more ›

Alec Baldwin is going to skip out on the Emmys tonight, after Fox axed his joke about Rupert Murdoch that might have hit too close to home. Baldwin was slated to use his low-talking charms to play a fictional TV executive in the opening video for the Emmys tonight. But News Corp-owned Fox didn't like his joke about the company's phone-hacking scandal, according to Deadline Hollywood. more ›

The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards happen this Sunday and we will be self-medicating to get through the "Glee"-ified ceremony. Please check out our predicted winners as well as the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan for the weekend. "Real Time With Bill Maher" returns tonight! more ›

Tonight NBC premieres "Up All Night" & "Free Agents" at 10 & 10:30pm. "Up All Night" has the star power but it's the "Free Agents" cast we're interested in. Check it out. --- HBO's Sunday finales did well numbers-wise if not critically. --- All this and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan. more ›

The Emmys snubbed "Jimmy Kimmel Live" among other worthy shows this year, WTF? --- The data says that the "Friends" characters had 85 sex partners in 10 seasons. Poor Chandler. --- Don't miss "Louie" and "The Green Room With Paul Provenza" tonight, they are in the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan. more ›

"Breaking Bad" returns to AMC on Sunday at 10pm / If you are remotely interested in the Tour de France, tomorrow's stage is the one to watch (3:30am on Versus) / More Emmys Fallout: "Sons of Anarchy" showrunner Kurt Sutter vents and so do we. / All this and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan. more ›

Live at the crack of dawn this morning from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood, Melissa McCarthy (Mike & Molly) and Joshua Jackson (Fringe) had the honor of announcing the nominees in the major categories for the 63rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards. more ›

Speaking of Emmys we've taken the sad tally of our picks for the Emmys and compared them to the winners: we scored 6 out of 19 but the Academy surprised us and picked 3 of _our_ preferred picks so can we add these to our Win column? That would make our success rate a much-preferred 50%. The big upsets were Kyra Sedgwick and Edie Falco winning. Even hardcore fans of Sedgwick and "The Closer" would have to admit that she's done much better performances in better-written seasons of that series. Our amusing anecdote about that win was that her husband, Kevin Bacon, told us to keep an eye on her statuette while I was washing up in the men's room - he placed it next to my sink. more ›

This coming week is when the Fall premieres begin but until then it's slow-going as this weekend only features new episodes of "Rubicon" and "Mad Men" - everyone seems to be on a Labor Day break. I think I bitched about this last year that this weekend is a huge opportunity for public television and some of the movie channels, like TCM, to reap the benefits of no other new programming but again they seem to have dropped the ball. more ›

We had a tough time finding a place to upload our video yesterday, hence we are a day late. We'll have a photo gallery up soon as well. more ›

The Emmys are finally here and we'll be reporting them live today. I'll be on the red carpet where arrivals are expected to start at 2:30pm and conclude at 4:45pm. We'll be tweeting via @TheTVJunkie and we will attempt to Ustream from the red carpet at our channel depending on how pummeled the cellular network is in downtown LA. Lindsay William-Ross will be liveblogging the awards on LAist starting at 5pm with nuggets from myself in the press room. Later on the the evening we will be at the HBO after-party at the Pacific Design Center so follow my twitter feed for updates from there. HBO is expected to walk away with a couple dozen awards by the end of the Emmys so we expect spirits to be high. Tomorrow we will have a wrap up of the day with our own high-quality photos and video. more ›

The 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards is this Sunday and will be airing "live-live," meaning East Coasters and West Coasters alike will be able to watch the broadcast at the same time. You'll also be able to help write host Jimmy Fallon's Emmys script via Twitter. more ›

The 2010 Primetime Emmys happen in 12 days, here are some of the scheduled presenters: Will Arnett, Stephen Colbert, Edie Falco, Tina Fey, Laurence Fishburne, Ricky Gervais, January Jones, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Morrison, John Krasinski and Sofia Vergara. more ›

Yesterday Nickelodeon's "Dora the Explorer" celebrated its 10th anniversary. The groundbreaking series was the first animated Latina character on TV in a leading role. Today, she is seen by over 100 million kids around the world. The show airs in over 150 countries, and it is translated in over 30 languages. What was also remarkable about Dora is that she was neither a cutesy Strawberry Shortcake or sexed-up She-Ra female character - she's just intelligent, confident, and independent. Our two kids were brought up watching Dora but there was a very definite time when they had enough of the repetition and static animation style of the series. The Dora formula was easily parodied in "Saturday Night Live"'s "Maraka" by Robert Smigel which made us realize how unwatchable Dora had become. more ›

At the NBC party at the 2010 Television Critics Association summer sessions, "Late Night" host and host of the upcoming Emmy Awards, Jimmy Fallon, told us what he likes about visiting Los Angeles. This was shot at the Beverly Hilton on July 30, 2010. more ›

We'll be at the Television Critics Association summer session all week and will start live-blogging tomorrow - we will post highlights of our liveblogs here at LAist. Today we will do a "Parenthood" set visit among other things. More to come! more ›

Primetime Emmy Nominations: Be sure to check out the full list that was announced this morning at 5:30am Pacific. There weren't a lot of surprises for us among the nominees but we were very pleased to see "Modern Family" garner plenty of nominations as well as Andre Braugher for his role in "Men of a Certain Age". As we predicted a few months ago, HBO's "You Don't Know Jack" was repeatedly honored as well as its stars Al Pacino and John Goodman. We're not sure how AMC's "Mad Men" could get multiple writing nominations but "Breaking Bad" didn't(?!) - furthermore, in this category, it really seems that the nomination for the final "Lost" episode seems to be egregious sentimentality. Next week we'll post our picks for the Emmys and then we'll call it at the end of August. more ›

It's a big day for television favorites like Fox's Glee and AMC's Mad Men, as the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations were announced here in Los Angeles. more ›

The TV Junkie Plan: Tour de Suisse, Celtics vs. Lakers, "Food Party", "Dinner With the Band", Letterman (DEVO!!), Ferguson (Stan Lee) more ›

The TV Junkie Plan: "NOVA", "Lost", "Justified", "Chelsea Lately" (Busy Philipps), Letterman (Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings), Ferguson (Donald Glover) more ›

We made it to the 37th International Emmys last night and got a quick word with Sir David Frost, who has interviewed every US president since 1969: looks like he'll be interviewing President Obama in the next six months. The host of the event was the perpetually cheerful and energetic Graham Norton whose "The Graham Norton Show" can be found on BBC America every Saturday night. Also, Dr. Henry Kissinger was there to present an award to Germany's ZDF TV for actively broadcasting western programming into East Germany during the Cold War. more ›

Mayor Villaraigosa walked the red carpet at the 2009 Primetime Emmys on Sunday and voiced his support for the celebration and the importance of the industry to the economy of the region. more ›

Even though we've already had a couple dozen season premieres over the last two weeks, traditionally the "Fall season" doesn't begin until the week after the Emmys making tonight the launch pad for at least nine shows. --- "Heroes" fans, former or otherwise, are you looking forward to tonight's premiere? Anyone out there with a Sprint contract to look at the "exclusive" content? Enlighten us. --- Last night's Emmys had the highest viewership in three years but still lost out to football. more ›

The TV Junkie survived the 100+ F temps of the downtown concrete furnace to bring you these video interviews with actors, producers, writers, comedians and reality show performers. We've divided up our footage into comedy, drama, and reality television segments. more ›

The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards are happening right now at L.A. Live's Nokia Theatre in downtown. Although they will be broadcast at 8 p.m. on CBS here in Los Angeles, LAist TV Editor Tom Lewis is backstage giving us some live updates. If you do not want spoilers, then do not click or look below this paragraph. We warned you! more ›

Welcome to Emmys day! Amid the high heat, red carpet arrivals are underway right now at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live in downtown. Grab a drink (preferably the official drink of the day) and enjoy the live arrivals coverage on KTLA right now with Carrie Ann Inaba & Chris Harrison, who we interviewed yesterday. more ›

The best seat in the house for a Hollywood stroking session like tonight's Emmy Awards is probably in front of your television set (though LAist's intrepid TV Junkie, Tom Lewis, may argue he's got the best spot since he's on the Red Carpet). If you're playing the home version of tonight's TV big event, there are two things you don't want to forget: Your booze and your ballot, so you can keep lubricated and score at the same time. more ›

Emmy Weekend This week/weekend it's all about the Emmys and Sunday night at 8pm is where it's at. This puts the broadcast in conflict with a new episode of the Emmy-nominated "Mad Men" as well as the premieres of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Bored to Death" - thank goodness for repeat broadcasts and HBO-On-Demand. LAist's TV Junkie will be at the show, on the red carpet and in the press room so stay tuned to LAist for up-to-the minute posts on Sunday. more ›