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2014
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31
 
 
Actor Josh Charles has been very busy recently making appearances to address the shocking and, according to some fans, distressing plot twist revealed in the 3/23 episode of The Good Wife. Here at TVWW, we remember Charles quite fondly for his first starring role in a weekly series: as Dan Rydell in Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
31
 
 
SERIES FINALE: As a storyteller, How I Met Your Mother has spun its titular narrative out with more determination and persistence than Scheherazade. But tonight, it ends, and we get caught up with this final, expanded episode. The final scene with the kids was filmed years ago, so at least this show’s creators knew where they were going. And tonight, with a mixture of comedy and pathos, we get there.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
31
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Hoping to cash in on the big audience attracted by the How I Met Your Mother finale, CBS uses the time slot immediately following it to launch a new sitcom featuring young people who hang together whenever possible, despite having separate lives. It’s a wasted opportunity, however. This new series, based on its concept and content, may as well have been titled ‘Friends’ with Worse Writers. This is not a recommendation. It’s a warning. Run away, run away.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
31
 
 
Now that Elizabeth (Megan Boone) finally has been confronted with the proof that her husband, Tom (Ryan Eggold), is a traitor, what’s a betrayed bride to do? Why, renew her vows, of course. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your enemy spouses closest of all…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
31
 
 
Tonight’s new installment of David Steinberg’s wonderful talk show about comedy features two brilliant performers who, like him, developed their chops at Second City: Fred Willard in Chicago, Catherine O’Hara in Toronto. In the Seventies, they starred in two of the most hilarious low-budget TV shows ever made, both of them syndicated: Willard in Fernwood 2-Night, O’Hara as one of the founding members of SCTV. Covering their careers since then could easily fill separate fu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
31
 
 
I don’t remember Craig Ferguson, in all these years, ever having a guest host – but tonight, as part of a one-day switcheroo with his former Drew Carey Show co-star and buddy, Ferguson takes tonight off. In his place? Drew Carey, spending time with Carl Reiner, Joan Jett and Cleveland author and journalist Connie Schultz. And since this show airs after midnight, on April Fool’s Day, it’s a same-day trade, because later that same day, Ferguson takes over Carey’s The
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
30
 
 
In yesterday’s games, one top seed (Florida, in the South) won, while the other (Arizona, in the West) – fell, losing to No. 2 seed Wisconsin. That means there hasn’t been a single night this entire tournament in which at least one team didn’t lose to a lower-seeded one. March Madness indeed. Today’s two games are broadcast live on CBS, with the action beginning about 2:10 p.m. ET., when Michigan State (seeded No. 4 in the East) faces Connecticut (seeded No. 7). To
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
30
 
 
After last week’s stunning episode, I hardly have to tell you to watch tonight’s installment of The Good Wife. What I do have to tell you is to warn you that, because of CBS coverage of NCAA basketball earlier in the day, tonight’s show might start late on the East Coast. So if you’re setting a recorder, allow plenty of extra time. The sports overrruns affecting The Good Wife many Sundays is the most maddening thing about CBS’s scheduling of its best drama – b
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
30
 
 
In tonight’s installment, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson takes his pretend spaceship not just through space, but also through time – to the beginning of the 1800s. And with good reason…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
30
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Last week, The Walking Dead provided something that, for it, was quite unusual: a shot of happiness, as some of the characters managed to reunite. Tonight, for the season finale, expect more reunions – but if you’re expecting a happy ending to the entire season, I’m guessing you’d better think again.