Posts with tag AndyRichter
Posted Jul 23rd 2008 9:02AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Video, Celebrities, 30 Rock, Awards, Emmys, Reality-Free
With seven separate nominations in the Guest Actor and Actress categories, it's hard to believe that any
30 Rock guest stars were left off this year's list. The men nearly swept the nominees list for Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, earning four of the five available spots. The ladies made up half of the Guest Actress category; not bad!
Still, a few brilliant and hilarious performances were left out. You can't argue with
nominations for Will Arnett and Elaine Stritch, but I'd swap one or two of the nominees with a few of my own favorites. Check out my list of overlooked
30 Rock guest stars after the jump. And yes, I left out
Jerry Seinfeld. Emmy got that one right.
Continue reading Eight 30 Rock guest stars that Emmy forgot - VIDEOS
Posted Apr 25th 2008 1:02PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Programming, Animation, Celebrities, Children, Reality-Free
While Amy Poehler has had steady work both on and off the stage of Saturday Night Live over the last few years it looks like she may be moving up to "big time" status along with former SNL cast mate Tina Fey. And, it might all begin this weekend. Not only is she starring with Fey in the movie Baby Mama, which is being released today (and is expected to be the box office champ, despite mixed reviews), Poehler also has a new cartoon premiering on Nickelodeon.
The Mighty B, which premieres Saturday at 10:30 AM, features Amy as the voice of Bessie Higgenbottom. Bessie is world's most ambitious Honeybee scout in the known universe. She wears her uniform all of the time, leads her troop with a military-like zeal, and has the most badges than any other Honeybee in history. But, she wants to earn all of the Honeybee badges, and she's determined to earn them. Sometimes she imagines herself as the superheroine The Mighty B, to help her through the tasks that will earn her another badge.
Continue reading A big weekend for Amy Poehler
Posted Apr 9th 2007 6:19PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cancellations
Oh,
come on!
NBC
has canceled Andy Barker, P.I. After airing only four episodes, the network sent the remaining two episodes to Saturdays and
Scrubs will air in its place starting this Thursday night (that was already the plan, it's just happening earlier).
This is so depressing. Did anybody see the chicken episode two weeks ago? I howled with laughter over that one. Admittedly, last week's episode wasn't that great. According to
The Futon Critic,
Barker had its lowest ratings last week with 1.8. I'd like to know what kind of numbers NBC had on its website, where it posted all six episodes of
Andy Barker for free before it even premiered on the network.
I just knew that it wasn't going to survive because A) Andy Richter is cursed, B) People wouldn't get it, and C) NBC wasn't going to give it a chance. You have to watch closely to see past the main story of Andy, the naive CPA-turned private investigator and find the humor in the supporting characters. Tony Hale as a video store geek and Marshall Manesh as an Afghani restaurant owner had hilarious lines, but maybe they weren't obvious enough to people.
Posted Feb 28th 2007 7:15PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, NBC, The Apprentice, Medium, My Name Is Earl, Web, Heroes, Friday Night Lights, The Black Donnellys
NBC has
announced that they plan to stream their mid-season shows,
The Black Donnellys,
Andy Barker, P.I., and
Raines on NBC.com. The network is also set to stream all produced episodes of
Andy Barker and the pilot of
Raines before their premiere dates. There will also be web exclusive content for both
The Black Donnellys and
Andy Barker.
In addition to all that,
Medium and
Identity will also begin streaming full episodes in March. That brings NBC's total of full episode streaming series to 13 when added to
The Apprentice, Heroes, 30 Rock, Las Vegas, Friday Night Lights, Passions, Studio 60, and
My Name Is Earl. The network also plans to make the full seasons of
Heroes and
Friday Night Lights available, starting with the pilots, beginning in the spring.
Continue reading NBC adds to their streaming lineup
Posted Jan 30th 2007 7:27PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Interviews, TCA Press Tour
There are a few things we know about Andy Richter's new NBC comedy
Andy Barker, P.I.: Richter plays an accountant who accidentally becomes a private investigator, Conan O'Brien is one of the executive producers, and it will air on Thursday nights later this season. What we
don't know, at least for sure, is what Thursday comedy it's going to replace. Even Richter didn't know as of ten days ago, as he told me and a group of reporters at NBC's press tour party.
"I don't know who we're gonna replace," he said. But he's not worried, because no matter who they replace, "we're just a place holder. Programming is so loosey-goosey now, and it's such an open, anything-goes kind of a game."
Continue reading Even Andy Richter isn't quite sure what time his new show will air
Posted Jan 20th 2007 11:45AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Monk, USA
(S05E11) Tony Shalhoub has garnered a few Emmys for his role as Adrian Monk, and I know some have complained that at this point it's almost as if he's given the award automatically. I don't care whether or not Shaloub "deserves" to be nominated year after year, but I do know that it's Monk that makes Monk worth watching. I don't watch this series because of the complex plots, because they're rarely complex. Clues to the suspect's identity are made more obvious than hints in an Encyclopedia Brown story, especially in this episode when a mysterious man strangles his lover in the opening scene, a man who is clearly Andy Richter even though they try to obscure him.
Continue reading Monk: Mr. Monk Makes a Friend
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