Original Air Date: September 29, 2008
I’m sensing possible issues ahead for Worst Week because the second episode is nowhere near as funny as the series pilot. Hopefully, the difference is just a fluke.
Realizing he’ll probably never make any headway with her father, Sam decides to focus all of his energy and charm on Mel’s mother Angela instead. The idea is to get her to like him so that her approval will somehow rub off on her husband Dick. First things first, though, such as getting over the vomit in the vase incident (Mel’s morning sickness) and walking …read more

Original Air Date: September 22, 2008
If the premiere episode indicates what’s to come, CBS definitely has a new hit comedy in Worst Week. The best part is the lead character Sam Briggs (Kyle Bornheimer), who is so not the totally clumsy buffoon promos led me to believe he is. Instead, Sam is a normal guy, whatever that means, with a decent life who happens to have the worst luck in the world whenever he’s around his girlfriend’s parents.
Once we meet that austere and humorless couple, however, it becomes all too clear why. For instance, although Sam has …read more

The single-camera sitcom Worst Week revolves around entertainment magazine editor Sam Briggs (Kyle Bornheimer of Jericho), who tries his hardest to impress Dick (That ’70s Show’s Kurtwood Smith) and Angela (My Name is Earl’s Nancy Lenehan), the parents of his girlfriend Melanie Clayton (Erinn Hayes of Kitchen Confidential and The Winner).
Unfortunately, in addition to being sincere, Sam is just one of those cursed people whose presence creates catastrophes wherever he goes. That’s why it’s a good thing he has pregnant Melanie by his side to support him as he repeatedly attempts — and fails — to win over her …read more

Ahhh — another weekend, another Comedy Central special by someone from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
This Saturday night, it’s Larry the Cable Guy’s turn to simultaneously wow and disgust viewers with his sure to be at least mildly funny tales of his Morning Constitutions.
Does everyone even know what “morning constitutions” are? If you do, you might share my concern about listening to someone discuss the subject for an entire hour, even if it is during a redneck-friendly standup comedy performance.
Well, if anybody could do it, though, it would be good old Larry, and you can catch the entire event …read more

Who needs an Emmy when you can have a Peabody Award? Although the first award gets tons more coverage and fanfare in the general entertainment industry and among the general public, it’s the second honor that seems to generate the most respect and admiration among TV-industry insiders.
That fact might have something to do with the roster of past Peabody winners, which consistently includes the best, boldest, brightest, and bravest contenders possible. The annual Emmy extravaganza can’t hold a candle to that reputation in an era where its voters consistently overlook potential nominees that seem like a shoo-in to …read more

Original Air Date: February 27, 2008
NOTE: This series and recap contain very mature themes and language.
TRAVIS JUNIOR attempts to rig mailboxes with precision, French-made paint bombs to deter kids who drive around knocking the boxes down with baseball bats. He promptly drops the first bomb when he picks it up, however, unleashing waves of blue paint directly on his face and upper body — just before someone drives by in a truck and knocks down the mailbox he’s standing beside.
At roll call, LIEUTENANT DANGLE asks for volunteers at a camp for limbless children brought to the United States from …read more

ABC Family
Greek

Second half of first season (12 episodes) premieres on March 24
Complete first season will have 22 episodes
RENEWED for a 12-episode second season on February 14

AMC
Breaking Bad

Currently airing its 9-episode first season
Has not been renewed for a second season

Hustle

Currently on hiatus
Completed its fourth season on May 23
Complete fourth season has 6 episodes
Has not been renewed for a fifth season

Comedy Central
Reno 911!

Currently airing the first 8-episode half of its fifth season
Slated to complete its fifth season this summer
Complete fifth season will have 16 episodes
Has not been renewed for a sixth season

The Sarah Silverman Program

Second half of second season (8 episodes) premieres …read more

Original Air Date: February 20, 2008
NOTE: This series and recap contain very mature themes and language.
Every officer in the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department is called to a local high school, where there’s a pipe-bomb scare. Luckily for everyone around, the Sheriff’s Department has a hi-tech bomb robot that was made all the way in France — so it’s gotta be good, right? Uhhh…
The robot goes inside and does its thing, making the area safe for citizens again. Unfortunately, nobody knows how to speak French to communicate with the hunk of metal. So, after it’s done with …read more

Original Air Date: February 13, 2008
NOTE: This series and recap contain very mature themes and language.
All of the deputies are psyched because it’s the day they get to sell delicious Coconut Nut Clusters to help support the Sheriff’s Athletics League. Although DANGLE reminds everyone that the door-to-door sale isn’t a competition, whoever moves the most candy will get two free tickets to a local production of Our Town.
JONES and KIMBALL make the first candy stop. But, when they identify themselves as officers from the Sheriff’s Department, whoever’s in the house starts complaining about “pigs” and shoots a rifle …read more

Original Air Date: January 16, 2008
NOTE: This series and recap contain very mature themes and language.
The fifth-season premiere picks up right where the fourth-season finale left off, in WIEGEL’s hospital room after she had the baby and declared she knows who his father is.
It turns out that GARCIA wasn’t stealing DANGLE’s would-be husband. Instead, he’s there to arrest both men after producing a document that states same-sex marriages are illegal in Nevada.
At the next morning briefing, Dangle tells Garcia they now have to communicate through his attorney. The good news is that after staying in their jail, Dangle …read more