EDITION: U.S.
GoneCountry
What to Watch Weekend, March 7-8
by Kim Potts, posted Mar 7th 2009 5:00AM
'Breaking Bad'(Sun., 10PM, AMC) 2nd season premiere
See the performance that nabbed a Best Actor drama Emmy for funny guy Bryan Cranston.
He kicks off his sophomore season as Walt, the mild-mannered chemistry teacher who creates a meth lab to earn cash and secure his family's future after he's diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Walt and his former student/partner Jesse (Aaron Paul) think they may have made an error in judgment when their drug lord partner Tuco takes his violent tendencies to a new level tonight, but breaking up with a drug lord can be, well, tricky. Meanwhile, Walt's also fretting that his brother-in-law, local DEA agent Hank, is hot on his drug-cooking trail.
What to Watch Weekend Jan. 24-25
by Kim Potts, posted Jan 24th 2009 5:00AM
'15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards'(Sun., 8PM, TBS and TNT)
More celebs, more red carpet, more rambling acceptance speeches, as the Screen Actors Guild doles out statues for the year's best film and TV performances, as voted by the stars themselves.
The 15th annual kudosfest includes a Lifetime Achievement Award for James Earl Jones, as well as a line-up of presenters that includes TV faves Christina Applegate, Jon Hamm, John Krasinski, Eric McCormack and Kyra Sedgwick.
The leading contenders for the tube awards: 'Mad Men,' '30 Rock,' 'Boston Legal,' 'The Closer' and the HBO miniseries 'John Adams' have three nominations each, while the Meryl Streep/Philip Seymour Hoffman/Amy Adams drama 'Doubt' leads the movie field with five nods.
What to Watch Friday, Sept. 26
by Kim Potts, posted Sep 26th 2008 5:00AM
'2008 Presidential Debate'(9PM, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox)
With the presidential race essentially deadlocked, tonight voters get a chance to see candidates John McCain and Barack Obama go head-to-head live during the first presidential debate of the 2008 election season.
PBS newser Jim Lehrer travels to the University of Mississippi in Oxford to play moderator of the event, which will find the candidates answering questions (or craftily trying to avoid answering them, as the case may be) about the economy, their plans for handling the ongoing financial market scandals, taxes, foreign policy, their political experience and their running mates.
With the election a little less than six weeks away, tonight's debate -- the first of three before Nov. 4 -- could tip the scales for either contender, a la the famous 1980 Reagan/Carter debate and the Kennedy/Nixon debates of 1960.
What to Watch Friday, Aug. 22
by Kim Potts, posted Aug 22nd 2008 6:00AM
'Meerkat Manor' (8:30-10PM, Animal Planet) 4th season finale
This three-episode mini-marathon concludes with an installment called 'The Darkest Day,' and if you read the rumors that popped up online in June, you know that title refers to yet another sad meerkat death.
No spoilers for those who don't know, but suffice it to say that it always seems like the fan favorites are among the furry little 'kats who take the hardest hits.
Elsewhere in the Kalahari, Wilson and Phillippe try to get their grooves on with the ladies, Rocket Dog gets ready to bring her second litter of pups into the world and Zorro, the Commandos' dominant male, goes MIA. Never a dull moment in desert ...
What to Watch Friday, Aug. 15
by Kim Potts, posted Aug 15th 2008 6:00AM
'Gone Country 2' and 'Outsider's Inn'(8PM & 9PM, CMT) premieres
Lorenzo Lamas or Jermaine Jackson, boot scootin' boogiers? The soap star and the Jackson 5 singer are among the seven new B-listers trying to break into the country music scene in 'Gone Country's' second season.
The rest of the wannabe line-up includes 'N Sync-er Chris Kirkpatrick, 'Fame' singer Irene Cara, Skid Row hair band star Sebastian Bach, 'American Idol' cast-off Mikalah Gordon and actress Sean Young, whose penchant for tabloid behavior should provide some reality fireworks.
Meanwhile, Maureen 'Marcia Brady' McCormick has roped fellow season one alums Bobby Brown and Carnie Wilson into helping her run a B&B in rural Tennessee on 'Outsider's Inn.' But unlike Tori and Dean before them, Bobby and Carnie don't seem to be 'inn love' with the idea.
Maureen McCormick reunites with Brown and Wilson for reality show
by Erin Martell, posted Jun 9th 2008 7:05PM
If you're one of the dozens of people who watched Gone Country, CMT has another reality show for you. Maureen McCormick is joining up with former co-stars Bobby Brown and Carnie Wilson for Outsider's Inn. The actress will manage a bed and breakfast in rural Tennessee with Wilson and Brown's help. Brown is the inn's entertainment director, and Wilson is the chef. The eight-episode season of Outsider's Inn will premiere on CMT in August. Viewers can expect to see the unlikely team of entrepreneurs handle day-to-day operations of the inn, interact with guests, and engage in bizarre behavior. I can't imagine the kind of entertainment Bobby Brown will arrange for the B&B.
Barry Williams: The TV Squad Interview
by Joel Keller, posted Mar 28th 2008 11:02AM
There are six human beings on this planet who will be forever linked by one experience: growing up on the set of The Brady Bunch. But, of the six actors who played the Brady kids during the show's 1969-74 run, none has embraced the role as consistently and enthusiastically as Barry Williams, who played Greg. Over the years, Williams has been involved in every reunion show (including the ill-fated "dramatic" show The Bradys in 1990) and has never shied away from discussing the show during interviews. He even wrote a book about the experience, 1992's Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg, where he recounted stories like his crush on co-star Maureen McCormick, his "date" with his TV mom, Florence Henderson, and Robert Reed's constant arguments with the producers. The book was made into a TV movie in 2000.Now, at 53, Williams has a blog, called The Greg Brady Project, which debuted in December. There, Williams tells stories about his experiences as an actor over the last 40-plus years while a series of co-writers wax nostalgic about the past, and not necessarily about The Brady Bunch. I spoke to Williams by phone earlier this month. We talked about the blog, why he's embraced his Greg Brady past more than his co-stars, and what he thinks of some of those co-stars' new projects. The interview is after the jump.
%Gallery-19285%
TV Squad Hot Topics
Most Popular Articles
From Our Partners
- Ratings: The Mentalist Sees a Season High, Grey's Rises, 30 Rock Pops, Office Falls
- Matt's Inside Line: Scoop on NCIS: LA, Person of Interest, House, Big Bang, White Collar and More
- Vampire Diaries Boss Talks Offing Originals, Teases 'Major Jeopardy' for All by Season's End
- Project Runway All-Stars Recap: Seasonal Subjective Disorder
- Good Wife Exclusive: Michael J. Fox, Jill Flint, Elizabeth Reaser Returning this Spring
- More From TVLine
- Watch Gloria Estefan's Campy New Video, ‘Hotel Nacional'
- Movie Review: The Imagination-Lacking Journey 2: Mysterious Island
- DreamWorks Is Remaking Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca
- ‘We Take Care of Our Own' Video: Sing Along With Bruce Springsteen
- Air's Nicolas Godin on A Trip to the Moon, Working With the Dead, and Space Travel
- More from Vulture
