Jonathan Ames Buries Bored To Death One Drink at a Time
“One drink for everybody!” hollered Jonathan Ames. He was standing center stage at the Brooklyn Inn to administer last rites for his show, Bored To Death. Read More
Bored to Death
Jonathan Ames to Hold Funeral Tonight for Death of Bored To Death, Will Buy You a Drink
The Observer was especially sad to hear about HBO's cancelling of Bored to Death, the Jonathan Ames-penned comedy that just wrapped a hysterical third season (and often pulled entire scenes straight from the pages of this newspaper!). The show had perfected and managed into a science the fine art of lampooning New Yorkers of Read More
The Best TV of 2009: Spoiler Alert, it’s Mad Men and Everything Else
Maybe we're being a bit finicky, but we have a problem with critics around the interwebs hailing 2009 as one of the strongest years for television in recent memory. Quite the contrary: from where we sit, this year felt decidedly weak. Perennial favorites, like Lost and How I Met Your Mother, were saddled by disappointing Read More
The Week in DVR: Thanksgiving Week Means Putting the Fun in Dysfunction: Squid and the Whale, Doubt, and Jason Schwartzman!
Monday: Heroes When the dust settles and Heroes gets rightfully canceled (expect this to happen in the spring), it will be remembered as the Creed to Lost's Pearl Jam; this is a show that has degenerated so quickly into tedium, we find it hard to imagine Heroes was ever taken seriously by the geek sect. Read More
The Week in DVR: Remember When Michael Keaton Was a Movie Star? Plus, Albert Brooks, Slumdog, and Bored to Death
Monday: Bored to Death
Since Sunday nights are so crowded, you’ve probably let Bored to Death slip through the cracks. Good thing then for DVR and Monday night rebroadcasts! The HBO comedy, about a Brooklyn novelist-turned-private eye isn’t necessarily the funniest new show of the fall—that would be Community [Editor's note: Modern Family!]—but it’s certainly one Read More
HBO Not Bored Yet
HBO has announced that it will renew Bored to Death, its fake-detective series set in Brooklyn and filmed in the city.
This will come as a relief to those who, like Sara Vilkomerson, love Jason Schwartzman in spite of his twee tendencies.
He’s Mega-Twee, But We Love Him Anyway
"Have you seen the show?” asked Jason Schwartzman, via phone from his home in Los Angeles late last week. “I haven’t yet, not really. I’m just sitting here in a cocoon … not of anticipation … what would you call it? I’m feeling right now that something is in the oven and I’ve been cooking Read More
HBO Slates Bored to Death
HBO is is practically boring us to death with their recent projects. Hung, a new show about a man and his second brain, looks kind of cheesy. Snorefest In Treatment is probably getting renewed. And that Scorsese project about the Atlantic City boardwalk? Zzzzz. Appropriately, HBO has just greenlighted a new show Read More
