In nearly 30 years of creating or co-creating series from Spin City to Scrubs to Bad Monkey, Bill Lawrence has been one of TV’s most reliable sitcom showrunners. He has a great eye for talent in front of and behind the camera. He has a sharp sense of humor and …
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To mark the 25th anniversary of Freaks and Geeks, the beloved NBC comedy about high school outcasts in the suburbs of Michigan, cast members Seth Rogen and Samm Levine, along with the show’s creator Paul Feig, reflected on the show’s lasting impact. “This show changed my life in many ways, …
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Throughout the Season Two premiere of HBO’s basketball drama Winning Time, various characters, from Lakers assistant coach Pat Riley (Adrien Brody) to Boston Celtics general manager Red Auerbach (Michael Chiklis) talk about how difficult it is to repeat as champions. The real Riley would eventually refer to this as “the …
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If “Physician, heal thyself” wasn’t a cliché at the time Jesus said it, it almost certainly was shortly afterward. (Even Jesus described the phrase as a proverb.) The notion of a doctor being unable to tend to his own maladies is such a fundamental form of dramatic irony, professional variations …
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A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Who the F**k is Jack McKinney,” coming up just as soon as we kill the duck… If not for the unfortunate fact of HBO’s longtime pay-cable rival having the same name, Winning Time would have come into this world known as Showtime. That’s …
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