POPPA’S HOUSE: Actor, co-creator and executive producer Damon Wayans on new CBS comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/04/2024
Damon Wayans as Poppa, from the CBS original pilot POPPA’S HOUSE - Season 1 | ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc./ Sonja Flemming/ All Rights Reserved

The new CBS Monday night (streaming subsequently on Paramount+) half-hour series POPPA’S HOUSE is a family comedy in multiple ways. Onscreen, POPPA’S HOUSE concerns amicably divorced podcaster Poppa, who goes from working as a radio host to doing a podcast from his home studio. His routine is disrupted when his adult son Damon, Damon’s wife Nina (Tetona Jackson), and their little daughter Maya (River Blossom) move in next door to him. Behind the scenes, the series was co-created, with Kevin Hench, by executive producer Damon Wayans, who plays Poppa. Wayans’s real-life son, Damon Wayans Jr., plays Damon. Wayans Jr. is […]Read On »


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MAGNUM P.I.: Actor Zachary Knighton talks being Rick in the new series – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/11/2018
Zachary Knighton as Orville of the CBS drama MAGNUM PI | © 2018 Karen Neal/CBS

The original MAGNUM P.I., about a private investigator (played by Tom Selleck) in Hawaii, ran for eight seasons on CBS, 1980 through 1988. CBS has had a lot of success rebooting two other successful older series, HAWAII FIVE-0 and MacGYVER, both co-developed and executive produced by Peter M. Lenkov. It therefore seemed natural for the network to tap Lenkov to co-develop and executive producer a new edition of MAGNUM P.I.  In the update of MAGNUM P.I., the title hero is now an Afghanistan war veteran played by Jay Hernandez. However, some things are the same: Magnum is still living in […]Read On »


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ONE BIG HAPPY: Nick Zano discusses the Season Finale – interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/28/2015
Nick Zano as Luke and Elisha Cuthbert as Lizzy in ONE BIG HAPPY | © 2015 Greg Gayne/NBC

In NBC’s ONE BIG HAPPY, which has its first-season finale Tuesday, April 28, 2015, Nick Zano stars as Luke. Luke is a straight man who has made a plan with his lesbian best friend/roommate Lizzy, played by Elisha Cuthbert, to have a baby together. However, just as Lizzy gets pregnant, Nick falls head over heels with Prudence, played by Kelly Brook, who can only stay in the U.S. if Nick marries her. Hence the show’s title. Zano, originally from New Jersey, has done a lot of television comedy before, along with television drama and films, including BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA, JOYRIDE […]Read On »


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ONE BIG HAPPY: Elisha Cuthbert discusses Season 1 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/07/2015
Elisha Cuthbert stars as Lizzy in the NBC sitcom ONE BIG HAPPY | © 2015 Chris Haston/NBC

In NBC’s new half-hour comedy ONE BIG HAPPY, Tuesdays at 9:30 PM, Elisha Cuthbert plays Lizzy. In the series created by Liz Feldman, Lizzy is a lesbian who lives with her straight male best friend Luke (Nick Zano). The two have been planning to have and raise a baby together. However, at just about the same moment that Lizzy discovers she’s pregnant, Luke meets Prudence (Kelly Brook), who’s the love of his life. In order to prevent Prudence from being deported – she’s English – Luke marries her, so the household is now Lizzy, Luke, Prudence and the impending Lizzy/Luke […]Read On »


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TV Review: WILFRED – Season 3 – “Comfort”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 06/24/2013
Jason Gann, Zachary Knighton, Elijah Wood, Vincent M. Ward, Dixie Perkinson and Jim Mahoney in WILFRED - Season 2 - "Comfort" | ©2013 FX/Prashant Gupta

Stars: Elijah Wood, Jason Gann, Fiona Gubelmann, Chris Klein, Zachary Knighton Writers: Cody Heller & Brett Conner, series created by Jason Gann & Adam Zwar, adapted for American television by David Zuckerman Director: Randall Einhorn. Network: FX, Thursdays @ 10 PM Airdate: June 20, 2013 The second episode, “Comfort,” of WILFRED’s two-episode third-season premiere sees Jenna (Fiona Gubelmann) and new husband Drew (Chris Klein) returned from their honeymoon. Wilfred (Jason Gann) thinks they’ve returned from the dead, which requires Ryan (Elijah Wood) to explain that people don’t come back when they die. A combination of jealousy over Ryan’s friendship with […]Read On »


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TV Review: NEW GIRL – Season 1 – “Pilot” – Series Premiere

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 09/21/2011
Zooey Deschanel in NEW GIRL - Season 1 | ©2011 Fox/Autumn Dewilde

Stars: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Damon Wayans, Jr. (pilot), Lamorne Morris (post-pilot), Hannah Simone Writer: Elizabeth Meriwether, series created by Elizabeth Meriwether Director: Jake Kasdan Network: Fox, Tuesdays @ 9 PM Original Telecast: September 20, 2011 How one reacts to NEW GIRL depends in large part on how one reacts to its leading lady Zooey Deschanel. Deschanel (sister of BONES’ Emily Deschanel) is adorable in the way that kittens and bunnies are adorable. This is not to say there is anything infantile about her – Deschanel is bright and funny and sexy in a perfectly grown-up way – but […]Read On »


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Breaking News: ABC announces Fall 2011 Schedule

By CARL CORTEZ 05/17/2011
Joe Anderson and Luisana Lopilato in THE RIVER - Season 1 | ©2011 ABC/Francisco Roman

ABC made some bold moves with its Fall 2011 Schedule today in New York for the annual upfronts. The biggest new is Tim Allen is returning to ABC with his LAST MAN STANDING comedy, while a reboot of CHARLIE’S ANGELES anchors Thursday nights at 8:00. Midseason has a slew of programs waiting in the wings, but the most ambitious is the found footage series THE RIVER from PARANORMAL ACTIVITY creator Oren Peli and executive producer Steven Spielberg. Below is the schedule and after that is the ABC press release information on all of their new series. ABC FALL 2011 SCHEDULE […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: It’s HAPPY ENDINGS for Elisha Cuthbert

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/13/2011
Elisha Cuthbert in HAPPY ENDINGS | ©2011 ABC/Bob D'Amico

In ABC’s new comedy HAPPY ENDINGS,  premiering tonight at the special time of 9:30 PM, with a second episode in the regular 10 PM timeslot, Alex, played by Elisha Cuthbert, is supposed to marry David, played by Zachary Knighton. However, she ditches him GRADUATE-style at the altar for another guy. While Alex’s new romance doesn’t last, the show explores the lasting ramifications of the breakup on both characters and their group of mutual friends. Calgary, Canada-born Cuthbert played Jack Bauer’s peril-prone daughter Kim off and on over the ten-year span of 24 and more recently co-starred in the missing-persons drama […]Read On »


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