November 6, 2008
I'll say it. Emilio Estevez should be more famous than his brother. However, while Emilio's acting career has more or less dwindled into oblivion (this may be by choice, but still), brother Charlie Sheen is the highest paid actor in television (he'd probably be the highest paid person on TV if it wasn't for that limey curmudgeon Simon Cowell). Emilio was an original member of the Brat Pack, starred in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire, had a resurgence in the nineties with The Mighty Ducks, and has since faded away. He wrote and directed his pet project Bobby a couple of years back, to solid reviews, and he's got a new movie he's going to write and direct, called The Public, slated for next year. However, he's decided to go in front of the screen again, and he'll do it alongside his brother Charlie. It was announced today that Emilio Estevez will guest star on an episode of Two and a Half Men later this season.
October 6, 2008
Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-nominated series Two and a Half Men boasts of a small but unique cast that brings together Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer and Holland Taylor in a comedy series that has spanned five seasons, with its sixth beginning a few weeks ago. Tonight, we’ll get to see the gang come back for Episode 6.03, “Damn You, Eggs Benedict,” which sees Charlie attempting to cook while Alan tries dating two women at the same time.
Two and a Half Men is created by Chuck Lorre, the man behind another successful comedy series, The Big Bang Theory. He brings together the wonderful mix of great actors with the ability to create dynamism through comedy and laughter. The show boasts of a cast that includes Holland Taylor, one of the most revered actresses in television today.
September 29, 2008
Last week we saw the sixth season premiere of Two and a Half Men, which stars Charlie Sheen as the bachelor whose life turns upside down when his newly separated brother Alan (Jon Cryer) and his son Jake (Angus T. Jones) move into his pad. The premiere followed Charlie as he encountered a former lover whose son looks a lot like him. He soon got worked up by the possibility that the kid was his, considering that he saw himself as the most eligible bachelor in Malibu.
Tonight, the fun continues with Episode 6.02, titled “Forty Dollars.”
September 22, 2008
The highly anticipated sixth season of Two and a Half Men premieres tonight, exactly five years after the first episode of the series initially aired. The sitcom revolves around a freewheeling bachelor named Charlie whose carefree lifestyle is interrupted when his newly separated brother Alan moves in, along with Alan's son Jake. Despite the complexities of their lives and their own strained relationship, they manage to create a family unit that promises to make each of them a better man.
Read on for a preview of sixth season opener of Two and a Half Men.
September 18, 2008
I love TV comedy. For me, there's nothing better. Good comedy is always, always hard to come by. It's forever hit and miss, the bad comedy consistently overwhelming the good comedy. The success rate for a comedy of any kind is abysmally low. More fail than succeed. This is nowhere more apparent than on television. But, even so, today's crop TV comedy is very, very good. The Best Comedy category of the Emmys is, as a result, quite hard to predict this year. The nominees are diverse, both in tone and quality – Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, 30 Rock, Entourage and Two and a Half Men. One of these shows will take home a cute little statue this Sunday. Let's take a gander at who the favorites might be.
August 29, 2008
These Emmy voters. Who are they? Considering the process they must go through to watch the nominated episodes for Best Comedy and Best Drama, you'd think they were locked in a closet for eleven and a half months out of the year. The system seems overly complicated: to get your show up for initial consideration, you send the Emmy voters one episode of your series. When the field is then pared down to the final nominees (as they are now), each series provides six episodes (or, six hours for dramas, six half-hours for comedies) to the voters. First, however, the academy places those six episodes on three separate tapes. The tapes are then randomly distributed to the Emmy voters, all of whom receive two of the three tapes. This means, of course, that not every Emmy voter is seeing the same episodes. Perhaps this makes sense to some people (probably the same people who were responsible for nominating Two and a Half Men for Best Comedy). Anyways, the fine folks at Gold Derby recently got a hold of the specific episode lists that each Best Comedy series sent out to voters. You will find those lists below, along with some commentary.