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Weekend TV Watch List
Metro’s weekend TV breakdown. ‘Hello Ladies’ COMEDY. Stephen Merchant’s (aka Ricky Gervais’ main man) new show is equal parts funny and downright uncomfortable. It can be hard to watch Merchant’s...
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‘Shahs of Sunset’ star Asa Soltan Rahmati is a ‘spiritual gangster’
Asa Soltan Rahmati is staying busy between seasons of “Shahs of Sunset.” Asa Soltan Rahmati is a busy woman. Bravo’s “Shahs of Sunset” just returned for a third season, but filming the drama-filled...
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TV Watch List: Tuesday, November 11
Metro’s Tuesday night TV breakdown. ‘Tosh.0’ COMEDY. Tosh celebrates Movember, which can only mean that he’ll be sporting a pretty epic stache. Wonder what awkward mustache videos he’s managed to...
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Ricky Gervais gets (half) serious with ‘Derek’
Ricky Gervais returns to TV — or at least Netflix — with “Derek,” in which he plays a staffer at a nursing home.Credit: Netflix Ricky Gervais is a jolly man. He’s also a serious man. The two aren’t...
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Celebrities inspire students to learn on Sundance Channel’s ‘Dream School’
Swizz Beatz is one of the celebrities featured in the series. Students are starting a new school year, and one of educators’ biggest challenges is keeping them there – and hopefully funneling them...
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TV Watch List: Monday, Sept. 16
Metro’s Monday night TV breakdown. ‘Sleepy Hollow’ DRAMA. In this latest redux of the classic Washington Irving story, Ichabod Crane and his headless nemesis are transported into the 21st century. We...
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Still ‘Sunny’ after all these years: Kaitlin Olson talks ‘It’s Always Sunny...
When It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered on FX in 2005, it was a sitcom the likes of which basic cable had never seen. Crude, irreverent to the point of insanity and unapologetically,...
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The Middle Man: Ben Affleck to direct Boston TV crime drama
Ben Affleck’s previous directing effort, “The Town,” was also set in Massachusetts.Credit: Reuters Award winning movie star and Cambridge native Ben Affleck has signed on to direct a new television...
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TV Watch List: Tuesday, September 17
Metro’s Tuesday night TV breakdown. ‘Dads’ COMEDY. We’re guessing Giovanni Ribisi is going to be totally wasted in this new sitcom about fratty business partners whose patriarchs are always hanging...
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TV Watch List: Wednesday, September 18
Metro’s Wednesday night TV breakdown. ‘Survivor: Blood Vs. Water’ REALITY. In a new twist on the tired old formula, in this season of “Survivor” returning contestants are pitted against their loved...
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TV Watch List: Thursday, September 19
‘Money From Strangers’ Metro’s Thursday night TV breakdown. ‘Wipeout’ COMPETITION. In a gross season finale, contestants with gross jobs, like poop scooping and roach poaching (their descriptors, not...
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TV Watch List: Sunday, September 22
Metro’s Sunday night TV breakdown. ‘65th Primetime Emmy Awards’ AWARDS SHOW. If there won’t be a teen starlet twerking at this awards show, then we don’t want any. Just kidding, the Emmys are...
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The Emmys are tonight: Here’s who’s nominated
Tonight, he 65th Primetime Emmy Awards will honor Hollywood’s best writing, brightest stars and greatest series of the moment. HBO takes the lion’s share of total nominations this year, clocking in at...
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TV Watch List: Tuesday, September 24
“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” picks up where “The Avengers” left off. Metro’s Tuesday night TV breakdown. ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ ACTION. Is this the most hotly anticipated new show of...
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Is ‘Sleepy Hollow’ going on a road trip through time?
It helps when you’re a 250-year-old time traveler to have the gravitas of an English accent, as Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) knows and Lt. Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie) gamely tolerates. Michael Teh is...
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TV Watch List: Wednesday, October 2
Metro’s Wednesday night TV breakdown. ‘Ironside’ CRIME/DRAMA. This remake of the 1967 television show of the same name stars Blair Underwood as a wheelchair-bound cop who, despite his handicap, is...
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For Morgan Saylor, there’s no place like ‘Homeland’
“Homeland” airs on Sunday nights at 9 on Showtime. Morgan Saylor is cheery when we get her on the phone, which, we have to admit, surprises us a little, given the fact that when we saw her character...
View ArticleVIDEO: Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock recreate ‘Big’ piano scene
Tom Hanks fans got a special treat when he recently appeared on an episode of the British program “The Jonathan Ross Show” to promote his new movie, “Captain Phillips.” Ross unveiled a giant floor...
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Norman Reedus shoots straight on zombies, crossbows and ‘Walking Dead’
Norman Reedus plays Daryl, everyone’s favorite redneck, on AMC’s smash hit “The Walking Dead.” Norman Reedus is coming off a zombie-killing high. The actor, who plays Daryl — the redneck biker with a...
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‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ cast member Carlton Gebbia dishes about...
When Carlton Gebbia decided to join the cast of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” she sat down with her two daughters to watch a few episodes of the shameless reality show. Having never watched...
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Drama Queen: ‘Beverly Hills’ housewife Kyle Richards gets real
Kyle Richards used to be known just as Paris Hilton’s aunt, but that’s changed with the “Real Housewives” franchise. There was a time when Kyle Richards was best known for being Paris Hilton’s aunt....
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TV Watch List: Monday, November 4
Metro’s Monday night TV breakdown. ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ REALITY. The Bev Hills ladies return for a fourth season that, if the promos are any indication, should be filled with the...
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TV Watch List: Tuesday, November 5
Metro’s Tuesday night TV breakdown. ‘Shahs of Sunset’ REALITY. Of all the many and varied iterations of trashy, vapid — yet endlessly entertaining — reality shows that Bravo churns out, this might be...
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TV Watch List: Wednesday, November 6
Metro’s Wednesday night TV breakdown. ‘American Horror Story: Coven’ DRAMA. Tonight, Zoe unleashes a new power. Whatever it is, it has got to be better than the “gift” of killing boyfriends with her...
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TV Watch List: Thursday, November 7
Metro’s Thursday night TV breakdown. ‘Glee’ DRAMA. Tonight, the kids have to decide if they’re more like Katy Perry or Lady GaGa. Story of our lives, right? (Personally, we’re more of a Miley Cyrus,...
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TV Watch List: Monday, September 23
“Hostages” premiers tonight. Metro’s Monday night TV breakdown. ‘How I Met Your Mother’ COMEDY. We’re not really sure where this show can go from here, now that we’ve met the title mother. The writers...
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TV Watch List: Thursday, Oct. 3
A Latino teen knocks up his white girlfriend and their disapproving families have to learn to get along in “Welcome to the Family.” Metro’s Thursday night TV breakdown. ‘The Vampire Diaries’ DRAMA. Are...
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TV Watch List: Wednesday, October 9
Metro’s Wednesday night TV breakdown. ‘American Horror Story: Coven’ HORROR. The freaky-deakiest show on TV is back, just in time for Halloween season. And this time, there will be witches. If we...
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Cambridge woman could win ‘Arabs Got Talent’
Cambridge resident Jennifer Grout could go on to win “Arabs Got Talent.” Via YouTube A Cambridge woman who has captivated audiences in the Middle East with her incredible voice could go on to become...
View ArticleVIDEO: Jimmy Fallon, Josh Hutcherson play hoops with Thanksgiving objects
If you’re searching for a fun activity to play with your dinner guests this Thanksgiving, consider playing Jimmy Fallon’s game of “Thanksgiving-themed Random Object Shootout.” “Catching Fire” star Josh...
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