The Mentalist Series Finale
Drama

“The Mentalist” star Simon Baker reflects on “loving the experience”

After seven seasons, FBI consultant and master of observation Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) will help crack a final case as The Mentalist concludes with back-to-back new episodes on CBS Wednesday, Feb. 18, beginning at 8pm ET/PT. In “Brown Shag Carpet,” Jane agrees to once again pretend to be a renowned psychic and be used as bait in an attempt to lure out a serial killer and give the FBI a chance to apprehend him. Then in the series finale, “White Orchids,” Lisbon (Robin Tunney) accepts Jane’s surprise marriage proposal, but a killer’s quest for revenge may cost them the happy […]

No Picture
Comedy

What’s “Odd” is new again: Matthew Perry reboots The Odd Couple for CBS

One could excuse Matthew Perry if he feels snakebit. Since Friends disbanded in 2004, Perry has led respectable but ultimately rejected efforts in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Mr. Sunshine and Go On. Fortunately, Perry’s latest project, a sitcom reboot of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, has a few things going for it that his previous attempts did not. It’s got a solid foundation of well-known source material from the 1968 Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau film and the 1970s Tony Randall/Jack Klugman TV series. It’s got an incredibly simple premise. And it’s on CBS, who’s giving it a plum premiere […]

SNL40 Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary
Comedy

#SNL40: Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special on NBC Sunday

Remember Mike Myers’ Middle-Aged Man character on Saturday Night Live? (“You’re looking at my gut, aren’t you? Well, I’m working on it!”) SNL is celebrating its own middle-age milestone with a live, three-hour Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special on NBC Sunday, Feb. 15, beginning at 8pm ET, featuring clips from the most memorable sketches and appearances by esteemed SNL alumni and special guests. The special begins with a red-carpet show Sunday at 7pm ET on NBC. Live From New York, It’s #SNL40 Saturday Night Live and I were born in 1975, and we grew up together. My first TV […]

Based On The Comic

The Walking Dead returns Sunday: Can the group regroup in the wake of new losses?

Quick catch-up, Walking Dead fans. When Season 5 reached its wrenching midseason finale in November, we’d lost Bob and Beth, the safety of the church and all hope for a cure in Washington, D.C., to assorted bad decision-making — and discovered we hadn’t lost Morgan (Lennie James) after all. So what does that mean for the Grimes crew moving forward — especially poor Maggie (Lauren Cohan), who has watched every last member of her family die horribly? “We’re going to see Maggie in a way that we’ve never seen her and, I think, fighting a dark side that she’s always […]

Documentary

‘The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst’ on HBO — The infamous eccentric breaks his silence in six-part docuseries

As a son of prominent New York real estate mogul Seymour Durst, Robert Durst was born into a life of privilege and endless opportunity. But it didn’t shelter him from tragedy. When he was 7, Durst witnessed his mother’s death, leaving him permanently psychologically scarred — and eventually passed over when his father passed down the family business. In fact, for much of his life, Durst has been at the epicenter of a storm of bizarre events, including the still-unexplained disappearance of his wife Kathie in 1982, the killing of a close friend who believed Durst was responsible for Kathie’s […]

2015 NASCAR TV schedule
Magazine Archive

2015 NASCAR TV schedule on FOX, FOX Sports 1, NBC and NBCSN

2015 NASCAR TV schedule on FOX, FOX Sports 1, NBC and NBCSN for the Sprint Cup Series, XFINITY Series (formerly Nationwide Series) and Camping World Truck Series. NASCAR embraces change as much as it does tradition, and 2015 is no exception as the sport implements ways to cut teams’ costs while improving competition and the fan experience. Here’s what’s new at the races: New Schedule Atlanta is now the site of the Cup Series’ second race of the season, and Darlington moves back to its traditional Labor Day weekend date. There will be a new “West Coast swing” with consecutive […]