CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
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Podtalk: Kaitlyn Dever & Beanie Feldstein Open Up on ‘Booksmart’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 22, 2019 - 10:37amCHICAGO – It’s time for the gals to party down. The new film “Booksmart” is the story of two best friends who are outside their popular group in high school, and decide to blow it out on the last day of Senior Year. Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein are the dynamic duo, and the film is a funny expansion on breaking down barriers.
Interview: ‘Joel Murray & Friends’ at the New iO Chicago Venue
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 28, 2014 - 12:48pmCHICAGO – iO Chicago continues the Grand Opening at its new venue with one of its most famous alumni – the illustrious Joel Murray. Besides opening the seventh season of “Mad Men” with a brilliant monologue as Freddy Rumsen, Murray brings his “Joel Murray & Friends” show to the new iO Chicago on August 30th.
TV Feature: The 5 Network Shows Most on the Bubble
Submitted by BrianTT on April 17, 2013 - 12:25pmCHICAGO – As the networks finalize their schedules, there are more periods than question marks. CBS has already renewed most of their line-up while some programs on other networks have nothing to worry about. At the same time, there are some axes that everyone knows are going to fall. But what about the shows in the middle?
TV Review: ABC Pairs ‘Last Man Standing,’ ‘Malibu Country’ on Fridays
Submitted by BrianTT on November 2, 2012 - 1:46pmCHICAGO – I wasn’t a big fan of “Last Man Standing” when it premiered over a year ago but it looks like a landmark program when compared to the vastly inferior new sitcom with which it has been paired, the new “Malibu Country” with Reba (who apparently goes by one name now) and Lily Tomlin. Both shows hearken back to the old-fashioned TGIF brand of programming, complete with laugh tracks and borderline offensive cliches.
TV News: ABC Renews Four Shows Including ‘Body of Proof’
Submitted by BrianTT on May 12, 2012 - 11:05amCHICAGO – ABC decided to throw TV journalists a curveball late on Friday when they announced the renewal of two on-the-bubble shows that most were predicting would get the axe — drama “Body of Proof” and comedy “Don’t Trust the B—— in Apt. 23.” They also announced the expected renewals of “Last Man Standing” and “Private Practice” and confirmed that “Missing” and “The River” would not return.
TV News: ABC Renews ‘Happy Endings’
Submitted by BrianTT on May 11, 2012 - 3:06pmCHICAGO – Here’s some great news to end your week — ABC has officially renewed “Happy Endings,” bringing their total of renewals in advance of next week’s full schedule announcement to eight. This leaves two comedies in question for the network — “Don’t Trust the B—— in Apt. 23” and “Last Man Standing.” Expect a cancellation for the former and renewal for the latter, maybe even today.
TV News: Full Seasons Ordered For ‘Once Upon a Time,’ ‘Happy Endings,’ ‘Last Man Standing’
Submitted by BrianTT on November 4, 2011 - 3:21pmCHICAGO – ABC made some TV viewers very happy this week when they announced that two of their new shows and one of their almost-new shows would be on until at least May 2012 with full-season orders for “Once Upon a Time,” “Last Man Standing,” and “Happy Endings.” This brings the total of new programs given a full-season order to a remarkable 13. While few of the programs are what could be called breakout hits, there’s no denying that this freshman class has been pretty strong.
TV Review: ABC’s Abysmal ‘Man Up’ Inspires Hatred of Mankind
Submitted by mattmovieman on October 18, 2011 - 7:15amCHICAGO – What can be said about “Man Up” that wasn’t already said about “Last Man Standing”? Neither show has the slightest shred of insight into the mind of modern man. They appear to have been conceived by network executives who hate men with a fiery passion. How else to explain the thoroughly insulting, utterly asinine portraits of masculine arrested development?
TV News: Tim Allen’s ‘Last Man Standing’ Opens With Strong Ratings
Submitted by BrianTT on October 12, 2011 - 10:41amCHICAGO – Critics may have been cruel but audiences were curious enough to see what Tim Allen’s “Home Improvement” schtick looks like in 2011, sampling the series premiere of ABC’s “Last Man Standing” to the tune of a solid 3.5 rating in the key 18-49 demo. Last year, “No Ordinary Family” opened in the time slot with a 3.2 rating and it’s worth nothing that the baseball game on FOX ate into every other network, especially with younger viewers, so there’s reason to believe that the numbers would have otherwise been higher.
TV Review: Tim Allen Sinks to Idiocy & Beyond in ‘Last Man Standing’
Submitted by mattmovieman on October 11, 2011 - 7:27amCHICAGO – There’s something inherently unmanly about the need to prove one’s own manliness. What passes for virility in the mind of Mike Baxter (Tim Allen) is clearly masking a deep well of insecurity. He never passes up an opportunity to prove that he is, in fact, a man.