Comedian and LA resident Bill Burr gives us a video tour of Greenwich Village in New York, where he spent 15 years honing his comedy chops before moving to Los Angeles in 2008. Check out the places where he saw some of the top comedians of today get their start - oh, and of course he dishes out plenty of sharp observational humor throughout the cab ride, walkabout, and subway journey. more ›

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If you're a Showtime subscriber you have to watch "The Big C" with Laura Linney tonight. Sure, go ahead and watch "Weeds" beforehand, there really isn't anything else to watch at 8pm, but we're not sure what that show is about anymore - it ceased to be funny a couple seasons ago and seems to be more about absurdism than character or plot development. David Bianculli of TVWorthWatching.com and NPR has given "The Big C" a largely negative review while continuing to fawn over "Weeds" - I couldn't disagree with him more. more ›

Happy Summer Everybody Tonight the show to watch is "GasLand" on HBO at 9pm. This movie will disabuse you of the notion that there's anything "clean" about natural gas obtained by fracking which is pretty much the only way we can get it now that the easy sources of the fossil fuel have been depleted... more ›

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To tell the truth, we didn't even remember what the heck "Toy Story 2" was about when we agreed to take our 5 year-old son Calvin to an advanced screening of "Toy Story 3" this week but in doing a bit of research we thought it was nuts that there hasn't been a "Toy Story" movie since 1999! That being said, we were less than sanguine when we went to the theater to absorb what we thought would be another phoned-in installment of this Hollywood franchise but we ended up being more than pleasantly surprised. more ›

It's Wednesday which means "duelling" web clip comedy shows "Web Soup" on G4 at 9pm tonight and "Tosh.0" on Comedy Central at 10:30pm. Which show do you prefer? Yes, they both show web clips but they have some differences: more ›

Tonight marks the season finale of AMC's "Breaking Bad" at 10pm. We've been very fortunate over the last year in having been able to interview all the regular cast members of this incredibly compelling series: we talked with series stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul a the 2009 Emmys Nominated Performers Reception, and we spoke with Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and series creator Vince Gilligan at the season 3 premiere event in Times Square NYC, and we've since interviewed Dean Norris, Anna Gunn, RJ Mitte, and Bob Odenkirk. more ›

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The TV Junkie Plan: "Lakers vs. Celtics", "The Lazy Environmentalist", "Glee", "Justified", "Chelsea Lately", Letterman, Ferguson (John Waters, Taraji P. Henson) more ›

If you've watched TV over the past 20 years, chances are you've seen a lot of Bob Odenkirk's work. He's been a writer on "Saturday Night Live" (Chris Farley's "Matt Foley, motivational speaker who lives in a van down by the river" is one of Odenkirk's "SNL" creations), he was the co-creator and co-host with David Cross of HBO's incredible "Mr. Show with Bob and David", and after acting and writing his way through scores of other shows he's been an integral part of the last two seasons of AMC's "Breaking Bad" as Saul Goodman, the sleazeball lawyer who will do anything for his client. more ›

RJ Mitte plays Walt Jr., the son of former chemistry teacher now crystal meth wizard Walter White in AMC's "Breaking Bad". The critically acclaimed show will have the first of it's season 3 ending two-part finale air tonight at 10pm. Despite the role of Walt Jr. being his first major role as a series regular, the articulate and mature RJ (he's only 17!) is incredibly aware of the effort that goes into his show and the privilege of working with and for multi-Emmy winning cast, writers, and crew. more ›

This week we submitted out Television Critics Association awards nominations and here are some of our picks (we'll see what makes it to the actual voting round). Most of our selections aren't what gets the most viewership or is the most "fun", we went for quality and innovation, which we think should be the entire point of the TCAs: more ›

The TV Junkie Plan: "Throwdown With Bobby Flay", "Worst Case Scenario" (first 1/2 hour), "Curb Your Enthusiasm"/"Curb: The Discussion", "The Daily Show" (Morgan Freeman), Ferguson (Evangeline Lilly) more ›

The Summer doldrums are setting in but we'll try to keep things interesting for you (watch for our TV on DVD reviews starting this week). If you have HBO, tonight you must absolutely check out "I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale". Cazale was the brilliant actor whose every film was nominated for an Oscar (from Dog Day Afternoon to The Deerhunter and beyond) and he was the husband of Meryl Streep before his untimely death in 1978. 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 ›

Weekend Edition It's Memorial Day weekend which means lots of war movies on TV, we've picked the best of the bunch for the schedule below. We'll stick with original programming tonight with Bill Maher, "Party Down" (which has been excellent this season), and "The Soup". Then we wait for Sunday's must-watch episode of "Breaking Bad" - yesterday series star R.J. Mitte told us that... more ›

"Lost" epilogue in the DVD set that will explain a few things. See the interview clip of him on G4's "Attack of the Show" at the end of this post. Speaking of G4, you are cordially invited to vote on their E3 '10 Booth Babes between now and June 4th - winner to be announced on June 15th on "Attack of the Show". more ›

Jimmy Fallon did something pretty cool last night, he Ustreamed a live session of him and almost his entire staff while "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" was being broadcast on the East Coast in an online service called "Watch Jimmy With Jimmy". more ›

It wasn't our intention yesterday to gloss over the "series" finale of "Law & Order" - with series in quotes because with so many spin-offs we're not really sure that "Law & Order" is over with, particularly for LA denizens as "Law & Order: Los Angeles" will be launching this Fall. There's also been talk of a big made-for-TV movie as well as cast members of the original making regular appearances on each of the spin-offs. more ›

Tonight we will stagger from last night's series finale of "Lost" to tonight's series finale of "24". In the 8 1/2 years since the premiere of "24" the show has gone from being an avant-garde, in-your-face morality play about terrorism, torture, and politics, to something formulaic and predictable. "24"'s combination of raw action and comical xenophobia was an entertaining circus to most of us but (disturbingly) taken as "truth" by the Bush II regime, the military, and "patriotic" pundits like Rush Limbaugh and his ilk. The series was at its strongest when it was about Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer and at its weakest when it became plot-focused. more ›

Supposedly the cycling world was "rocked" by the allegations of doping that ex-Tour de France winner Floyd Landis made about his former teammates at US Postal Service. This weekend not only marks the finale of the Amgen Tour of California (be sure to watch today through Sunday as all these stages will be going through the greater-Los Angeles area) but it also marks the finale of Floyd Landis' credibility. more ›

The TV Junkie Plan: Tour of California, "Community", "Parks and Recreation", "The Office", "30 Rock", "The Mentalist", "Watch What Happens Live" (Jerry Seinfeld), Kimmel (Josh Holloway, Slayer) more ›

Yesterday we expressed our frustration with Versus' complete lack of content in Monday's broadcast of the Amgen Tour of California - we had deluded ourselves that things couldn't get any worse. Tuesday's broadcast of stage 3 from San Francisco to Santa Cruz started out great, beautiful footage of familiar roads and climbs, albeit without an attempt at an explanation for why no footage from stage 2 could be broadcast on Monday. more ›

We went to the 69th Annual Peabody Awards held at the historic Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York yesterday to see 36 recipients pick up the awards that they were chosen for in 2009. The Peabodys are interesting as they narrow the recipients down to any number of winners from over 1000 submissions - see the complete list of recipients here. The recipients can be in virtually any medium, from the web to film, but we focused on interviewing recipients who had a direct connection with television and were happy to have connected with: more ›

In last night's penultimate episode of "24" we (finally) experienced some of the uncompromising action that made the series so exciting when it first debuted almost nine years ago. Now the stage has been set for next Monday's finale, it's official: it's Jack Bauer vs. the World. We're tuning into "Lost" tonight to see how they're setting up for Sunday's finale. more ›

Last night marked the series finale of "The Pacific", and while we've expressed frustration with accuracy, and a general feeling of apathy for the characters, last night's episode was probably the best one - without a shot being fired. [Spoiler Alert] As we saw these men return to the States, reintegrate (or not) with their families, we finally felt some real empathy for them. It was very well done with the exception of the myriad of post-scripts preceding the credits. more ›

The TV Junkie Plan: "How to Save the Planet", "Attack of the Show", "Community", "30 Rock", "The Office", "30 Rock", "The Daily Show" (Zoe Saldana), "The Colbert Report" (Gorillaz!!), Ferguson (Busy Philipps) more ›

Weekend Edition This weekend marks the season premiere of "Doctor Who" tomorrow night at 9pm on BBC America, so check out our interview earlier today with the series star Matt Smith and his sidekick, Karen Gillan. more ›

The TV Junkie Plan: "Attack of the Show", "FlashForward", "Fringe", "Sober House With Dr. Drew", "The Daily Show" (Tracy Morgan), Kimmel (David Duchovny, Spoon performs!), Fallon (Chris Rock) more ›