FlipBoardWhitney (NBC) – Second season premiere. You know what? I don’t really hate Whitney. The show — and, by definition, its titular star — kind of became shorthand for “EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG WITH TELEVISION” back when NBC was screwing around with “THE SHOWS WE ALL LIKE,” and it definitely isn’t my particular cup of bourbon tea, but it’s probably not as bad as people make it out to be when they demonize it for all of NBC’s sins. I dunno. Maybe I’m wrong. It’s not like I watch it or anything.
Modern Family/Nashville (ABC) – Matthew Broderick guest stars on Modern Family tonight. There should be more movies about people taking days off. Dominic Toretto’s Day Off, Brian O’Conner’s Day Off, Letty Whatsherface’s Day Off, The Characters Ludacris And Tyrese Plays’s Day Off, etc. All the greats.
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only (Spike) – A two-hour tribute to Eddie Murphy. I don’t know why this is on Spike.
American Horror Story: Asylum (FX) – Sister Jude hires a Nazi hunter tonight. TV PITCH: A show called Nazi Hunter starring David Caruso. That’s all I got so far. Ratings gold.
Moonshiners (Discovery) – From TV Guide: “The arrival of a new lawman makes the moonshiners nervous in the second-season premiere.” You know what they say about nervous moonshiners, don’t you? Yeah, me neither. Something folksy and Southern, probably.
The Soup (E!) – I lost track of this show for a while when E! moved it to Wednesdays, but it remains appointment television as long as it continues to alert us about the existence of shows like Untold Stories of the ER, as Burnsy reminded me recently.
LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Martin Short and Suraj Sharma on Kimmel; Alec Baldwin on Letterman; Billy Crystal on Ferguson; Helen Hunt, Pauly D, and Kylie Minogue on Leno; Chris Tucker and Kellen Lutz on Fallon; and Kristen Stewart and Glenn Howerton on Conan.
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Arrow, ya’ll.
All I know about reality tv is what I see on The Soup. And it actually covers me just fine in conversation!
I for one would like a writing job on Nazi Hunter, I love the idea of taking old sitcom and movie stars and making them the nazi’s Nazi Hunter chases each week. For the series premiere I’d like to throw out Dick Van Dyke as a former S.S. commandant
Oh Whitney, what strange and unwatchable adventures do you and your terrible friends have in store for me? Cannot wait.
I agree with your points on Whitney to the letter. There’s so much worse out there to be shaking your fist at.
Arrow, ya’ll. That show kicks buttocks.
Holy shit Leno that guest list for leno tonight is weak, even for leno
I can’t wait until someone who played a patient/friend of patient/other part on that ER show gets famous. Going back to see them with their penis in a stove or whatever is going to be fantastic.
“everything that is wrong with television” is, and always will be, “two and a half men.”
There were at least 6 occasions last year where I watched Whitney, simply because it was on at the same time as some of my favorites. I just never bothered changing the channel. I didn’t hate it at all. Perfectly acceptable viewing with no expectations.
Stop hating.
I just don’t think Whitney is funny, nor do I care about the characters enough to go, “well they’re trying!”… Although I was giving Big Bang Theory episodes a shot yesterday after previously openly dissing the show to friends and found myself chuckling a few times, so I think I blew a funny fuse.
Rewatching Cheers on Netflix makes me wish they never ended.
Pretty sure now a days that show would have Parks and Rec level numbers and that makes me sad.
When will the real world/road rules challenge get some respect?
Stupid sexy nurse.
I finally figured out why I hate Whitney. It’s NBC’s attempt at making a CBS sitcom, a bland mult-camera sitcom taped in front of a live studio audience.
It’s the future, it’s what NBC wants to make instead of things like Community or Parks and Rec, so really it IS the summation of all that is wrong with that network.
Really the only thing it’s missing is Jay Leno.
Love Joel, love the guest stars that come on and mock themselves. But TV is almost too stupid to ridicule. It gets stale. And if I hear “Meanwhile, over on Good Day New York…” ONE MORE TIME….
I agree with the Evil Twin, I hated Whitney when I thought it was a game of musical chairs that meant there would be no Parks & Rec or Community. But I don’t hate Whitney, I just think it’s worthless. It’s bland, cynical, mean-spirited, and easy with no effort to create compelling characters.
Are you asking if I would watch Whitney if it were a weekly themed pornography half hour starring Whitney Cummings? “This week: Nurse Whitney inspects some cocks” or whatever, I don’t know how to write porno tag lines, but you get what I mean. Would I watch that?
I would ask, “Will it be filmed in front of a live studio audience?”