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    May 10, 2013 | Zap2It

  1. Family Tree: HBO brings Christopher Guest mockumentary style to TV

    Channel Guide Magazine
    Family Tree Sundays beginning May 12 HBO, 10:30pm ET The Christopher Guest troupe of actors from films like Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and For Your Consideration seem like a little family all their own. So it’s only appropriate that they...
    2. May 9, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'

    <strong>&quot;Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday).</strong> Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went to 11 and whose guitar you were not to touch or even to look at -- Guest has been an architect of modern comedy, from the improvised dialogue that marks his films to the documentary style in which most have been shot. Its sound is his sound, its look his look. (Ricky Gervais owes him his career, if we are to consider that career based on "The Office"; "Parks &amp; Recreation" could almost be Guest's own work.) In the wonderful "Family Tree," hangdog Chris O'Dowd ("Bridesmaids," "The IT Crowd"), finding his life stalled after losing a girlfriend and a job in short order, goes in search of his roots and relatives. It's a trip that takes him into the theater, a boxing club, England's rural north, the back end of pantomime horse and finally to America. Michael McKean, a regular member of Guest's repertory company, plays Tom's father; Nina Conti his troubled ventriloquist sister. Jim Piddock, another Guest player, co-wrote the series and also appears in it, as Tom's antique-dealing downstairs neighbor. Familiar faces Fred Willard, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr. and Amy Seimetz will also arrive in due time.
    Los Angeles Times Television Critic
    "Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...

    Tags: The IT Crowd (tv program), Arts and Culture, Atticus Shaffer, Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi

    3. May 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Review: HBO's 'Family Tree' rooted in warm, goofy eccentricity

    Christopher Guest, the director of &quot;Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind," has made a TV series for HBO.
    Christopher Guest, the director of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind," has made a TV series for HBO. The eight-episode "Family Tree," which premieres Sunday, is his first work in seven years, and like his films it is sweet and funny and not a little...

    Tags: England, Christopher Guest, Chris O'Dowd, Girls (tv program), Jim Piddock

    4. May 9, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. McNamara's Picks: 'Scandal,' 'Family Tree,' 'Elementary'

    Los Angeles Times Television Critic
    "Scandal": Shonda Rhimes' whacked-out buzzfest of a political drama comes to a much-fanticipated close after its first full season (it debuted as a mid-season replacement.) As super-sleuth and super-stylin' D.C. power-fixer Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington)...

    Tags: Television Industry, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kerry Washington, Game of Thrones (tv program), Chris O'Dowd

    5. Apr 22, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Bryan Cranston to play LBJ in play by Robert Schenkkan

    Bryan Cranston is going from playing a meth dealer on AMC's &quot;Breaking Bad" to playing President Lyndon B. Johnson in a new stage production of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan.
    Bryan Cranston is going from playing a meth dealer on AMC's "Breaking Bad" to playing President Lyndon B. Johnson in a new stage production of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. "All The Way" will open the new season at...

    Tags: Bryan Cranston, Martin Luther King Jr., Arts and Culture, Hillary Clinton, Methamphetamine (drug)

    6. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Michael McKean, Jefferson Mays in 'Yes, Prime Minister' at Geffen

    The death of Margaret Thatcher this week has created renewed public interest -- and, for some, nostalgia -- for British politics during the 1980s. &quot;Yes, Prime Minister," the play based on the popular '80s sitcom that ran on the BBC, is scheduled to have its U.S. premiere at the Geffen Playhouse on June 12. The company announced Wednesday that the cast will feature Michael McKean, Jefferson Mays and&nbsp;Dakin Matthews.
    The death of Margaret Thatcher this week has created renewed public interest -- and, for some, nostalgia -- for British politics during the 1980s. "Yes, Prime Minister," the play based on the popular '80s sitcom that ran on the BBC, is scheduled to have...

    Tags: Politics, Margaret Thatcher, Jonathan Lynn, Entertainment Events, Tony Awards

    7. Jan 29, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  7. ‘Dark Knight Returns’: Animated movie inspires tears from Kevin Smith

    Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times
    Kevin Smith has no small amount of praise for Frank Miller's “The Dark Knight Returns.” “‘The Dark Knight Returns,' for ......
    8. Jan 28, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  8. ‘Dark Knight Returns’: Mark Valley talks Superman, ‘Human Target’

    Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.com
    Frank Miller's genre-shaking graphic novel “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” is getting the movie treatment. The second installment in the ......
    9. Jan 4, 2013 | Orlando Sentinel

  9. Julia Roberts to star in ‘The Normal Heart’ on HBO

    The TV Guy - Orlando Sentinel
    Barbra Streisand tried to get the movie version made for years without success, but the prolific Ryan Murphy will get the job done for HBO. “The Normal Heart,” Larry Kramer's fiery play about the AIDS crisis, will become an HBO movie...
    10. Aug 28, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  10. Hartford Investors Smiling As "Best Man" Recoups

    Good news for<strong> Hartford Stage</strong> board members and friends of the theater here who invested in the Broadway revival of <strong>Gore Vidal&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Best Man,&rdquo;</strong> staged by former artistic director <strong>Michael Wilson</strong>.
    Hartford Courant
    Good news for Hartford Stage board members and friends of the theater here who invested in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s “The Best Man,” staged by former artistic director Michael Wilson. Producers of the revival of the 1960...

    Tags: Elizabeth Ashley, Entertainment Events, James Earl Jones, Eric McCormack, John Stamos

    11. May 24, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Michael McKean makes 'break a leg' jokes after breaking leg

    The theatrical expression to &quot;break a leg" is a frequently used backstage salute that means "good luck." For Michael McKean, the "Spinal Tap" actor who was recently appearing in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man," the idiom became literal this week when he was struck by a vehicle in New York and ended up in the hospital with a broken leg and facial lacerations.
    The theatrical expression to "break a leg" is a frequently used backstage salute that means "good luck." For Michael McKean, the "Spinal Tap" actor who was recently appearing in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man," the idiom became literal...

    Tags: Randy Newman, Celebrities, Upper West Side, Broken Leg, Injuries and Wounds

    12. Apr 29, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  12. TV Land Awards salute ‘One Day at a Time,’ ‘Laverne & Shirley’

    The TV Guy - Orlando Sentinel
    The series winners: "Laverne & Shirley " for the Fan Favorite Award; "Murphy Brown" for the Impact Award; "In Living Color" for the Groundbreaking Award; "Pee-wee's Playhouse" for the Pop Culture Award; Aretha Franklin for the Music Icon Award; and "One...
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