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TV Review: UGLY AMERICANS – Season 2 – “Callie and Her Sister”

By CARL CORTEZ 07/08/2011

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Stars: Matt Oberg, Devin Clark, Pete Holmes, Julie Klausner, Natasha Leggero, Kurt Metzger, Larry Murphy, Mike O’Gorman, Randy Pearlstein, Michael-Leon Wooley Writer: Mick Kelly Animation Directors: Aaron Augenblick, Devin Clark Network: Comedy Central, airs Thursday nights Original Telecast: July 7, 2011 UGLY AMERICANS continues to impress with this very funny episode “Callie and Her Sister” which finds Callie (Natasha Leggero) screwed over by her Satanic dad when he discovers she’s in an arranged marriage with Twayne (Michael-Leon Wooley). She doesn’t want to marry him, and wants to commit to Mark Lilly (Matt Oberg), so they decide to move in together. […]Read On »

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TV Review: FUTURAMA – Season 6B – “Law & Oracle”

By CARL CORTEZ

Fry in FUTURAMA - Season 6B - "Law & Oracle" | Futurama TM and ©2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved

Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche Writer: Josh Weinstein Director: Stephen Sandoval Network: Comedy Central, airs Thursdays Original Telecast: July 7, 2011 With its send-up of the POLICE ACADEMY movies, TRON, MINORITY REPORT and AVATAR, FUTURAMA hits a home run with “Law & Oracle” that finds Fry (Billy West) fed-up with being a delivery boy and wanting something more out of life. So, he quits the Planet Express team and enrolls in the police academy where he quickly moves up the ranks and settles in to the Future Crimes division where he discovers Bender […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: The future of FUTURAMA according to David X. Cohen – Part 2

By A.C. FERRANTE 07/07/2011

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With the animated series FUTURAMA cementing its summer foothold on Comedy Central (airing Thursday nights), the series looks like it’s going to be a regular mainstay on the network’s schedule for the next couple of years at least. David X. Cohen, who developed the series with creator Matt Groening and also serves as executive producer spoke with ASSIGNMENT X about what to expect from the future of FUTURAMA as he starts the writing process for the forthcoming Seasons 7A and 7B (set to air in 2012 and 2013 respectively). Here’s what he had to say … ASSIGNMENT X: So now […]Read On »

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TV Review: UGLY AMERICANS – Season 2 – “Wet Hot Demonic Summer”

By CARL CORTEZ 07/01/2011

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Stars: Matt Oberg, Devin Clark, Pete Holmes, Julie Klausner, Natasha Leggero, Kurt Metzger, Larry Murphy, Mike O’Gorman, Randy Pearlstein, Michael-Leon Wooley Writer: Daniel Powell Animation Directors: Aaron Augenblick, Devin Clark Network: Comedy Central, airs Thursday nights Original Telecast: June 30, 2011 When UGLY AMERICANS arrived last year, I was intrigued by the premise which mixed humans, demons and monsters in an alternate reality version of New York, but I still wasn’t ready to give it a chance. Boy was I missing something. Now that it’s made it to season 2, I’m hooked. It’s clear creator Devin Clark has crafted one […]Read On »

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TV Review: FUTURAMA – Season 6B – “Ghost in the Machines”

By CARL CORTEZ

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Voices: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche Writer: Patrick M. Verrone Director: Ray Claffey Network: Comedy Central, airs Thursdays Original Telecast: June 30, 2011 After last week’s exceptional “Benderama” episode of FUTURAMA which featured none other than Bender becoming a super-being, this week finds Bender committing suicide (or was he murdered) and ends up a ghost that haunts the machines at Planet Express in order to murder Fry. It all starts when Fry saves the life of a human over a robot during a parade mishap. Fry believes human life is more precious than robot […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: UGLY AMERICANS creator Devin Clark reveals the Season 2 dark side of New York City

By CARL CORTEZ 06/30/2011

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The world of New York City is not what it seems in the Comedy Central animated series UGLY AMERICANS (which has its second season premiere tonight). In the hilariously bizarre series (which features animation in the EC Comics vein), Mark Lilly is our hero – a social worker for the Department of Integration who has to deal with zombies, demons and wizards on a regular basis. The key to UGLY AMERICANS success is it plays everything very seriously, deriving the comedy out of the outlandish situations surrounding our hero. Creator Devin Clark spoke with ASSIGNMENT X this week in an […]Read On »

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TV Review: FUTURAMA – Season 6B premiere – “Benderama”

By DON E. PETERSON 06/26/2011

Bender multiplies in FUTURAMA - Season 6B - "Benderama" | Futurama TM and ©2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved

Voices: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche Writer: Aaron Ehasz Director: Crystal Chesney-Thompson Network: Comedy Central, airs Thursdays Original Telecast: June 23, 2011 In the second part of the FUTURAMA season 6B premiere, “Benderama” gets back to business in simply being funny (and way, way out there). When the Professor builds a contraption that can take one item and produce two similar, smaller items, it suddenly falls into Bender’s hands and a whole sub-race of lazy Bender’s slowly start to take over the world when they multiply on top of multiplying. Eventually they become the […]Read On »

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TV Review: FUTURAMA – Season 6B premiere – “Neutopia”

By DON E. PETERSON

Fry on FUTURAMA - Season 6B - "Neutopia" | Futurama TM and ©2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved

Voices: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche Writer: J. Stewart Burns Director: Edmund Fong Network: Comedy Central, airs Thursdays Original Telecast: June 23, 2011 After the gender-bending episode of Season 6A “The Prisoner of Benda” which allowed the Planet Express crew of FUTURAMA to switch brains, the Season 6B premiere of the Comedy Central series takes things one step further with gender re-assignment for the entire cast of characters. “Neutopia” begins with Planet Express broke and no money to keep their operation going. Eventually they decide to start their own airline to save their jobs. […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: David X. Cohen of FUTURAMA gives the scoop on Season 6B – Part 1

By A.C. FERRANTE 06/21/2011

FUTURAMA executive producer David X. Cohen 2.0.1 | Futurama TM and ©2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved

Sometimes it takes time for something so great to get the respect it deserves. Case in point: FUTURAMA. The animated series created by THE SIMPSONS Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen aired on the Fox network from 1999 to 2003, but was bounced around so much on their schedule, it never fully became a cultural phenomenon until the episodes started appearing on DVD. That success led to four direct-to-DVD movies, and Comedy Central resurrected the series for 26 new episodes after that. The first batch aired last summer and this year we get the other 13 […]Read On »

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Breaking News: SOUTH PARK isn’t over according to Trey Parker

By CARL CORTEZ 06/18/2011

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Many SOUTH PARK fans were a bit perplexed and concerned by Season 15’s spring finale “You’re Getting Old” which featured Stan turning into a “cynical ***hole” on his tenth birthday and ending with the divorce of his parents. Many thought this was the end of SOUTH PARK as we know it – and considering creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were Broadway sensations with BOOK OF MORMON (and took home a slew of Tony’s last week too), there could have been some truth to this. However, not only did both Parker and Stone thank SOUTH PARK fans upon accepting their […]Read On »

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