Theater review DOG DAY AFTERNOON 2 hours,15 minutes, with one intermission. At the August Wilson Theatre, 245 W. 52nd St. There’s been a robbery! A new Broadway play starring Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach has stolen the title of the classic New York film “Dog Day Afternoon” and slapped it on a midseason-replacement sitcom. You … Read more
It would have been a boss move. Tony Danza was champing at the bit to dust off his apron and reprise his iconic “Who’s the Boss” role opposite TV daughter Alyssa Milano in a spinoff about the pair living in a woke world. “We had a shot at it. I thought it might happen,” Danza, … Read more
Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her representative, Bill Veloric, told The Associated Press in an email. A success … Read more
D’oh! “The Simpsons” is doing the Springfield version of a Christmas special, now streaming on Disney+. “O C’mon All Ye Faithful” is a special double episode that follows British mentalist Derren Brown as he comes to Springfield. Events soon spiral into chaos, which includes Homer getting hypnotized into believing that he’s Santa. It also comes out … Read more
Ellen DeGeneres isn’t always in the laughing mood. Patrick Warburton said that the comedian and former talk show host, 66, once confronted him in public after he turned down a guest role on her 1990s sitcom. “I did a guest spot or two on ‘Ellen,’” Warburton, 59, said in a clip from SiriusXM’s “The Spotlight with … Read more
“Happy Days” premiered on Jan. 15, 1974 — and primetime television was never the same. The ABC series, set in Eisenhower-Era Milwaukee, materialized on the heels of the 1950s nostalgia craze generated by the movie “American Graffiti.“ The show revolved around the all-American, middle-class Cunningham family: loving parents Marion (Marion Ross) and Howard (Tom Bosley), their … Read more
Matthew Perry, who died Saturday at age 54, is beloved for playing Chandler Bing on the NBC sitcom “Friends.” But he nearly didn’t take the famously funny role. In 1994, Perry was virtually unknown and, as he said on a 2015 episode of “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” he had “no money.” He needed a … Read more
Newfoundland is a remote island in the North Atlantic and the most easterly province of Canada. It’s also the locale for “Son of a Critch,” the family-friendly CW sitcom from Emmy-winning “Schitt’s Creek” producer Andrew Barnsley. Based on the eponymous memoir of Canadian comedian/actor Mark Critch, Newfoundland is miles away, thematically, from the onscreen work … Read more
When Malcolm-Jamal Warner was about 7, he made a prediction. “I told my parents that I was going to either be a famous poet, a famous actor or famous basketball player,” he told me on this week’s “Renaissance Man,” adding, “so don’t ask about my game.” We all know Malcolm-Jamal went on to play Theo … Read more
Joel McHale takes a walk on the wild side in the “Animal Control” — which doesn’t reinvent the wheel but is entertaining nonetheless. The Fox sitcom, premiering Feb. 16 (9 p.m.), was created by Rob Greenberg and Bob Fisher (“The Moodys,” “Wedding Crashers”) and follows the personal and professional lives of group of Animal Control … Read more
Gina Rodriguez stars in “Not Dead Yet,” a new ABC sitcom following the “Jane the Virgin” alum playing a woman scrambling to get her life together. Although it has its charms, it’s decidedly average. Premiering Feb 8 (8:30 p.m.), the show was created by David Windsor and Casey Johnson (“This Is Us”) and is about Nell … Read more