2009 Awards Shows

HBO, Returns Sundays beginning Jan. 18 Blending quietly in their normal suburban neighborhood is so a thing of the past for Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), a closeted polygamist, and his three wives — Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicki (Chloë Sevigny) and Margie (Ginnifer Goodwin) — and their eight children. Season 2 concluded with Barb choosing her family over starting over, when she made a “coming out” confession to their neighbor Pam. “We’re all ONE family,” Barb told Pam in defense of why Margie can’t be a surrogate for her. The all-too-creepy Alby (Matt Ross) succeeded in edging himself in as leader […]

Spike presents the follow-up to 2007’s animated series Afro Samurai with the original movie Afro Samurai: Resurrection, premiering Jan. 25. Set in a lawless world that is part feudal Japan and part future wasteland, solitary warrior Afro fights demons from his past while battling would-be assassins at every turn. Samuel L. Jackson returns as the voices of Afro and his sidekick Ninja Ninja. Joining the voice cast are Lucy Liu as Afro’s new nemesis, Sio, and Mark Hamill as Bin, Sio’s servant. Bent on revenge against Afro, the cunning and beautiful Sio isn’t your typical baddie, and Liu made it […]

Showtime, Sundays beginning Jan. 18 Leave it to Showtime to take a truckload of mega-firsts — most notably the first TV series for actress Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine), the first TV project for Juno scribe Diablo Cody, and the net’s first collaboration with Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks — throw in an uber-sensitive plotline, and then cram the whole works into a mere half-hour of the funniest, most boundary-blurring weekly comedy on television. Based on Spielberg’s original concept and crafted into an unflinchingly dark sitcom by Cody, United States of Tara stars the Academy Award-nominated Collette as Tara Gregor, an […]