Michael Schur, one of the creators of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” spent six years in Lorne Michaels’ writing room. The other, Dan Goor, was a writer for Conan O’Brien, so perhaps he inherited some of that same humor by proxy. Perhaps’s that’s why the pilot episode felt a lot like an extended SNL short. (I love SNL shorts so I’m an easy sell.)
Like Schur and Goor’s other successful pet project, “Parks and Recreation,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” seems to be following the ensemble formula of focusing on a quirky main character, and his interactions with peripheral but equally as quirky characters. Here, Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) is the comic lead of a group of cops in the fictional 99th Precinct. My guess is that the setting matters less than the dynamic between the characters, although I’m sure it’ll come in handy for the odd hipster/yuppie jokes.
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It’s that wonderful time of the year! It’s not quite Christmas but Fall has begun and you know what that means. Candy corn is available for purchase, apple cider is ready for sipping, people are planning their costumes because Halloween is just around the corner.
ABC Family is gearing up for another great year of their annual ’13 Nights of Halloween’ special event. Starting Saturday, October 19th, viewers can tune in to the network for 13 chilling nights of “scary” programming. Okay, so it’s not as scary as it used to be but you can always catch a few classics every now and then as well as some creepy new episodes from ABC Family’s original series.
Check out this year’s lineup for ’13 Nights of Halloween.’
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Huge news for fans of The Fosters! We have just received word that Rosie O’Donnell will be joining the cast as a guest star in the new season! Rosie O’Donnell will be joining the show in a recurring role and is set to appear in three episodes when the show returns with the second half of season 1.
The Fosters returns to ABC Family with new episodes in January of 2014.
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HBO offered us only 9 episodes for The Newsroom but this new season of the Newsroom was way more too excited to only have episodes recaps. Tensions, dramatic moments, political struggle and personal convictions let’s have a look on this ambitious season which ended last Sunday.
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