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On TV Tonight: The Pitchmen have something to sell you

It’s not every country in which salesmen are celebrities, but when Billy Mays passed away last week, his life was being mentioned alongside Michael Jackson’s and Farrah Fawcett’s. Today, an all-day marathon of his Discovery channel show about pitching ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  1 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Michael Jackson,  Farrah Fawcett,  Discovery Channel

On TV tonight: You’ll Dance Your Ass Off, and you’ll like it

Dance has been a ritualized, sexualized and demonized human activity since the days of the cavemen, who used to do the Robot around the campfire to pass the time. And now it’s a workout scheme, in a reality show hosted by that chick from Hairspray ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  29 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Marissa Jaret Winokur

On TV this weekend: Hung plays the penis game

Whang. Johnson. Pickle. They’re just three of the euphemisms we employ in our discussion of Hung, the new show about a man (Thomas Jane) and his anatomical gifts. Yep, the guy who once played the Punisher is now cast as a hustler, with a struggling ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  26 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Thomas Jane,  HBO

TONYPD: Brunch violations

Forget a doughnut stop—TONY’s cop is out to bust New York’s biggest offenders at brunch. CRIME: Abusing the all-you-can-drink deal When bottomless drinks leads to doing body shots off the busboy before teatime, you’ve gotten more than your money’s ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  24 Jun 2009

On TV tonight: The Philanthropist does it for the kids

That’s weird—NBC describes protagonist Teddy Rist as a billionaire playboy turned vigilante-philanthropist. When Bruce Wayne took the What Color Is Your Parachute? test in high school, that was exactly the occupational path he scored as well. Quelle ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  24 Jun 2009
Related Topics: NBC

On TV tonight: New Jersey gets Real (Housewives)

Is the reason you’re watching The Real Housewives of New Jersey not a Garden State girl at all, but a dude—and a 22-year-old one at that? Albie Manzo is the son of one of this season’s big-haired wives (no, not the phone sex one or the one who threw ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  23 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Fordham University,  Frank Sinatra

What’s up with that?: Heating trucks

Q: What is the story with the heating truck parked outside the MacDougal Street Ale House (between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets)? A: It’s one of New York’s many heating trucks, and we’ve got the story behind why MacDougal Street was paved around it ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  22 Jun 2009

On TV tonight: Make It or Break It fakes it well

Five reasons to watch tonight’s new gymnastics-themed show (we know you were going to anyway): 1. The drama blends the bitchy infighting of Bring It On with Olympic-level athletics. Okay, the caliber is not nearly that high, but the stunt doubles here ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  22 Jun 2009

On TV Tonight: Nurse Hawthorne, heal thyself

Sorry, doctors, your thunder has officially been stolen. Nurses are the hottest television commodity since crimesolvers with really good attention spans, what with Nurse Jackie on Showtime, NBC’s fall drama Mercy and HawthoRNe, a Jada Pinkett Smith ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  16 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Jada Pinkett Smith,  NBC,  Holly Hunter,  Kyra Sedgwick,  Michael Vartan

On TV tonight: Make way for the Top Chef Masters

This is otherwise known as I’m a Celebrity Chef, Get Me Out of Here, right? No, not really. This big-name edition of the Bravo hit takes on a new format (six groups of four are narrowed down to one winner each, then those six move on to a Champions ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  10 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Christopher Lee

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