May 12, 2006 |
Malcolm: The Beginning, Middle and End
By Matt Webb Mitovich
This Sunday at 8:30 pm/ET, television bids farewell to the, um... er... what was the name of that family on Fox's Malcolm in the Middle? Whether or not it was, as lore has it, the Wilkersons, the clan was tirelessly overseen by Hal and Lois and populated by sons Francis, Reese, Malcolm, Dewey and Jamie. Has it really been six and a half years and 150 episodes since viewers first met the... bunch? Yep. And to think that a Fox rival took a pass on the promising series!
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Spike Lee Inspired King of the Hill?!
By Anthony Layser
This Sunday (at 7:30 pm/ET) will mark the 200th episode and 10th season finale of Fox's King of the Hill. The achievement is yet another feather in the cap of series creator Mike Judge, who turned Beavis and Butt-head into household names and directed the oft-quoted cult hit Office Space. Known as the staid sibling of The Simpsons and Family Guy, KOTH has quietly garnered solid ratings with very little marketing and even less media attention. The fact that it's kept going so long is even a surprise to Judge. "When the show was about to go on the air, I'd been working like crazy on the Beavis and Butt-head movie," claims the dry-witted Texan. "I thought, 'Who knows what it will do? Who knows what people will make of this?' But I wasn't dreaming of 200 episodes, that's for sure." Even if Judge had ventured to guess how people would react, it most likely wouldn't have changed his approach. Setting out to create a cartoon unlike anything that had come before, and inspired by life in the Dallas suburb where he once lived, KOTH's impetus was a simple panel cartoon. The image Judge illustrated was one he'd seen out his back window many times — four guys standing in front of a fence saying, "Yep, yep, yep" and the fourth guy thinking, "Yep." Though its profundity may seem elusive, the cartoon is basically the same one that spawned some of the show's core characters and has been part of the credit sequence for all 200 outings.
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Surreal House Mom Dubbed a Flo-ny
By Raven Snook
Like its past five editions, VH1's sixth round of The Surreal Life(Sunday at 9 pm/ET) features seven spotlight-hungry celebrity housemates just trying to get along. But this season's major change caused a lot of the drama: the addition of Florence Henderson as on-call counselor. Instead of soothing the pain of the more troubled participants ([cough] Tawny Kitaen [cough]), Henderson pushed people's buttons and polarized the cast. "Mrs. Brady" had her final say on last week's episode, and now two of her detractors — Andrea Lowell and Maven Huffman — speak out about Flo-the-phony. (Unfortunately, Kitaen was on another planet and couldn't be reached for comment.)
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John Krasinski Hails Office Romance
By Matt Webb Mitovich
What do Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson and B.J. Novak all have in common, besides being primary players on NBC's The Office (Thursdays at 9:30 pm/ET)? Each of them has either been Q&A'd by or penned blogs for TVGuide.com during this, the series' second season. Who is conspicuously MIA from that list? That's right — on the occasion of the season finale, we finally got on the phone with...
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Survivor's Shane Smoked by Betrayal
By Allison Corneau
Every reality show has a contestant fans love to hate, and for CBS' Survivor: Panama — Exile Island (tonight at 8 pm/ET), Shane Powers willingly accepts the title. As he provided a wealth of comic relief for castaways and viewers alike, the Los Angelino took Survivor fans on an emotional roller coaster as he struggled with a severe nicotine addiction and dealt with the anxiety of being away from his son. TVGuide.com sat down with Shane the day after his elimination to chat about the shocking betrayal by his "allies," the fate of his acid-wash denim shorts, and his voting strategy going into Sunday's season finale.
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May 12, 2006 |
Malcolm: The Beginning, Middle and End
This Sunday at 8:30 pm/ET, television bids farewell to the, um... er... what was the name of that family on Fox's Malcolm in the Middle? Whether or not it was, as lore has it, the Wilkersons... |
Spike Lee Inspired King of the Hill?!
This Sunday (at 7:30 pm/ET) will mark the 200th episode and 10th season finale of Fox's King of the Hill. The achievement is yet another feather in the cap of series creator Mike Judge... |
Surreal House Mom Dubbed a Flo-ny
Like its past five editions, VH1's sixth round of The Surreal Life(Sunday at 9 pm/ET) features seven spotlight-hungry celebrity housemates just trying to get along. But this season'... |
John Krasinski Hails Office Romance
What do Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson and B.J. Novak all have in common, besides being primary players on NBC's The Office (Thursdays at 9:30 pm/ET)? Each of them has either... |
Survivor's Shane Smoked by Betrayal
Every reality show has a contestant fans love to hate, and for CBS' Survivor: Panama — Exile Island (tonight at 8 pm/ET), Shane Powers willingly accepts the title. As he provided ... |
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