Conan O'Brien takes the honor of Guest Programmer at TCM tonight very seriously - his film picks are great and his tenure will be very funny. It all starts at 5pm on TCM. --- "Chelsea Lately" is the only late night show with a new episode tonight & it's a great one! --- HuffPo not telling the whole story about comedian (and Chelsea regular) Jo Koy. more ›

Moby, The Crystal Method and Shepard Fairey headline tonight's Dance For Equality at Avalon. The MoveOn.org / Courage Campaign fundraiser benefits continued efforts to overturn Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California after being approved by a majority of voters in 2008. more ›

Please check out our interview with four-time Emmy-winner Greg Fitzsimmons. You may be watching up to 3 shows he is is involved with in 2011. --- Veteran documentarian Bud Greenspan died earlier this month and he will be honored on Universal Sports with 9 consecutive nights of his films being featured on the network starting on January 1st with his film on the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic games. We'll have more on this as these dates approach. more ›

Today TCM is running a marathon of John Wayne Westerns in honor of the world premiere of the newest adaptation of "True Grit." Check 'em out - a lot of classic film moments. --- CBS is shuffling "Blue Bloods" to Wednesday nights, more proof that Friday is where shows are sent to die. --- Comedy Central has a funny holiday mash-up app. Check it out along with our Must-Watch Plan for tonight. more ›

Comedian Jim Norton (featured in the video interview we did) will be a guest star in this Sunday's episode of HBO's "Bored To Death" in a part written specifically for him by series creator Jonathan Ames. Check it out, his appearance is very funny - Sunday, 10pm, HBO. more ›

TV on DVD: More like "movies on TV on DVD", we are of course, referring to TCM's ever expanding "Greatest Classic Films Collection" which now includes "Westerns" and "War". These collections include trailers and other promotional clips and sometimes commentary for each movie - "Westerns" includes The Stalking Moon (1968 with Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster), Ride the High Country (1962, directed by Sam Peckinpah, with Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley), Pat Garrett and BIlly the Kid (1973, directed by Sam Peckinpah, with James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson) and Chisum (1970, with John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George) and it's a worthy collection, particularly if you are a Sam Peckinpah fan as there is commentary by a couple of his biographers, and pretty affordable at around $25. more ›

On this lazy (observed) 4th of July, we're not too motivated to check out the pseudo-comedians of the "Last Comic Standing" so we'll be enjoying a classic (classic) and classic (modern) pair of movies: To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck, and the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink. more ›

It should be noted that Comedy Central is now re-running "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" on Monday nights starting tonight | If you're going to tune into tonight's Clint Eastwood-fest on TCM, keep an eye out for character actor Eddie Garrett who plays a cop in Dirty Harry. Garrett was a regular on the TV series "Quincy" and "The Odd Couple" and was an accomplished photographer as a kid who published a book of his photos... more ›

In less than two days, the TCM Classic Film Festival begins with more than 50 screenings, panel discussions, Q&As, and parties slated. With everyone from Eve Marie Saint and Martin Landau, to Tim Roth and John Carpenter introducing and discussing the creation of and influence of classic films, it's a festival that shouldn't be missed. If there isn't any decent new television on, and that's frequently the case, we always find ourselves switching over to TCM and you'll often find us highlighting a film in the TV Junkie. more ›

KCRW has plenty of excellent original programming, but among the best is "The Treatment", a weekly film-heavy pop culture show that airs on Wednesdays at 2:30pm. We suggest that you crawl through the archives and grab podcasts to play during long drives or other such travel. Mitchell has been a film critic for many newspapers, most notably and recently, the New York Times. He has taught at Harvard, is the host of Turner Classic Movie's "Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence", and has produced two excellent documentaries about the experiences of being black in this country: The Black List: Volume One and The Black List: Volume Two. more ›

The TV Junkie Plan: "Better Off Ted", "Lost" (maybe), "MythBusters" (if not "Lost"), "South Park", "Reno 911!", Letterman, Fallon. more ›

Unless you are a basketball or baseball fan, this weekend's options are kind of slim - feel free to sift through our picks - what are you going to watch? If it's not on our list, let us know and we'll talk about it. more ›

Our friends over at BBC America's "Top Gear" have really done it - they have achieved unprecedented success with "Project Sipster": the creation of a car that gets 84mpg , goes from 0-60mph in 7 seconds, and whose cost was to be $7000 or less. You can see more in this video. Suck it Tesla and watch "Top Gear" on BBC America tonight at 8pm. more ›

"American Idol" fans can now shell out $1.99 for an iPhone app that will provide them with a weekly update them on the vital statistics of the remaining contenders for the rest of this season. What isn't clear from the press release is if there will be geosynchronous Ryan Seacrest hair gel monitoring. more ›

Today NBC launched a 24-hour cable channel in New York called "New York Non-Stop", replete with expanded news coverage, on-location stories, and interactive elements. When can LA expect the same investment? more ›

Sunday @ 10pm features the return of AMC's incredible series, "Breaking Bad", with Bryan Cranston (pictured, right) as Walt White, the terminally-ill high school science teacher-turned meth cooker. We've been eagerly waiting for this show to resume and AMC has done a great job whetting our appetite with their sneak webisodes and other promos. Since the other stuff we like to watch on Sunday's @ 10pm are available on-demand, this is one of our prime picks of the weekend. more ›

Tonight marks a big debut in late night TV with the start of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". While we were concerned with the departure of Conan O'Brien from "Late Night", we think he can be very successful in the earlier slot. Jimmy Fallon, at 34 years-old, will be bringing some youth to the time slot, although both Carson Daly and Conan O'Brien were younger when they started their stints on late night television. more ›

Jerry Seinfeld will be returning to TV as the producer and creator of "The Marriage Ref", a new series for NBC. No premiere date or time slot has been selected. more ›

While we still don't believe that Joaquin Phoenix's schtick on Letterman last night isn't anything other than a stunt, it doesn't mean that show's like "Late Night" need to go along with it. Do the producers of his latest movie, we don't even remember what it's called, think that this has helped them? What's your take - is Phoenix faking or tripping? more ›

The Sundance Film Festival starts today which not only means cool movies being screened and attended by celebrities in their hippest Dumb & Dumber apres-skiwear but it means a lot more content for the Sundance Channel for the year. There will be live blogging of the festival's events at the Sundance Channel's (really cool!) website and head on over to iTunes to pick up a free short film from Sundance every day from now to January 25th. more ›

There's only three weeks to go until the Super Bowl and NBC still has to sell some ads so they're looking to the movie studios to fill up the remaining (10%) of slots. So what we're saying is that at least 1 out of 10 ads will be for a movie, with all the ads adding up to over $200 million for NBC. more ›

Oops, she did it again: Were you one of the 3.7 million people who watched Britney on Sunday? That "documentary" blew all of MTV's other shows out of the water, viewershipwise, other than their Video Music Awards broadcasts. Happy Birthday Britney. more ›

This Sunday night at 8pm brings the premiere of "Britz" (pictured, right) on BBC America. "Britz" is a thriller featuring two young British Muslims, each pulled in different directions by personal experiences in post 9/11 Britain. This drama asks (perhaps a year or two late) whether the laws we think are making us safer, are actually putting us in greater danger. more ›

President-elect Barack Obama's interview on Sunday's "60 Minutes" garnered the venerable news magazine its highest ratings in nearly a decade. NBC should have got him to do a cameo on "My Own Worst Enemy". more ›

Looks like "60 Minutes" scored the first post-election interview with President-elect Barack Obama - it will air on Sunday at 7:00pm on CBS. more ›

In case you've been in a coma for the last two years, here's some breaking news: today is Election Day. Even Palestinian terrorists/freedom fighters are watching coverage (see right) so get locked and loaded "my friends". more ›

The hugely overhyped premiere of "90210" happens tonight - when NPR covers it, you know that the saturation level has been reached. more ›

This weekend concludes NBC's broadcast of the XXIX Summer Olympics which has had some very enjoyable moments, not necessarily enjoyable because of NBC, but it's not like we had a lot of choice. Who knows what moments we missed in the countless events that were not broadcast, who knows what sports would have piqued the interest of Americans, if only they had exposure to them. more ›

NPR's Monday Morning Edition broadcast had quite a profile on Bonnie Hammer, head of the USA network. Listen to it and it'll become pretty obvious how they come up with such predictable milquetoast programming - that's the secret to their success, American's just eat that crap up. more ›

This weekend presents a dilemma. The big deal this weekend is the season premiere of "Mad Men" on Sunday at 10:00pm but this puts it in conflict with HBO's excellent "Generation Kill" which runs until 10:30pm but it repeats again at Midnight so that's probably the way out of this mess. more ›