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Nicholas Ottone | Tuesday, February 13, 2018
After the Super Bowl, 27 million viewers tuned into “This Is Us” to watch Jack Pearson, the show’s beloved patriarch, die. Fans of the show realized the culmination of a season’s worth of emotional groundwork, an episode rooted in grief and guilt, while everyone else probably stared in confusion. “This Is Us” premiered in the
Jimmy Kemper | Wednesday, January 25, 2017
“Saturday Night Live” (SNL), for better or worse, is a fundamental institution in American political comedy. No other late-night show has received as many Emmy nominations, covered so many topics or introduced so many comedians to us as SNL has over its 40-year-plus run. This history of great comedy has made it disappointing over the
Carlos De Loera | Monday, September 26, 2016
SNL creator Lorne Michaels chose not to renew the contracts of Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah and Jon Rudnitsky for the upcoming season. This comes as a bit of a shock because Killam and Pharoah, both cast members since 2010, had become two of the most popular and consistently funny members of the cast. Rudnitsky had been a strong member since
Matt McMahon | Monday, January 18, 2016
The last true bastion of network comedy block scheduling — which the NBC TV network ran as its “Comedy Night Done Right” in different iterations on Thursday nights from 2009 to 2013 — may finally have a worthy successor. However, with NBC’s abandonment of its sitcom programming, its new successor mirrors neither network nor night of
Maura Monahan | Monday, November 2, 2015
A new website has its heart set on shining the lights of Broadway on theatre fans everywhere. In late October, Broadway producers Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley launched a new streaming website called BroadwayHD, which provides, after payment of subscription or rental fees, access to a library of filmed stage productions. While its selections
Nick Laureano | Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Football season is upon us, along with a brand new commercial for the University that will air during game broadcasts on NBC. Let’s take a look at some of the best and worst Notre Dame ads from recent years. 5. “Goals” “This is our goal. Let no one ever again say we dreamed too small.” —
Erin McAuliffe | Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Jay Leno is a name that resonates with generations. His impressive career, work ethic and comedic enthusiasm have helped him engage with everyone from myself to my parents to my grandparents through an impressive variety of mediums. These mediums include television, film, books, web series and live comedy, but Leno cited live shows as his
Matthew Munhall | Thursday, November 6, 2014
It is a particularly dire time for the network sitcom. The broadcast networks boast just two ultra-popular comedies — “The Big Bang Theory” and “Modern Family” — and neither are particularly fulfilling on a creative level. This season, NBC pulled its two-hour comedy block from Thursday nights, ending its iconic “Must See TV” lineup after
Allie Tollaksen | Sunday, September 28, 2014
When advertisements for the upcoming NBC series “A to Z” started to become ubiquitous on all forms of social media, I was, to the credit of the show’s marketing team, intrigued. The new single-camera sitcom stars Ben Feldman (“Mad Men”) and Cristin Milioti (“How I Met Your Mother”), two actors I’ve always cheered for, so