Television

In this unique HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: TV, 25 admit-two VIP passes will be given away to an exclusive Chicago screening party kicking off season four of the hit TNT television show “The Closer,” which stars Golden Globe winner Kyra Sedgwick.

HollywoodChicago.com critic Patrick McDonald has interviewed stars Michael Bunin, Kyle Howard and Reid Scott of the set-in-Chicago hit TBS television show “My Boys”. Read the full interview here!

Amy Ryan from TV’s “The Wire” and Ben Affleck’s “Gone Baby Gone” has just signed onto new episodes of NBC’s hit TV show “The Office”. Read our full news story on this here!

Ricky Gervais broke the news on his blog.

Peter at /Film has the story:

Quote:Steve Carell has signed on to star as Dunder Mifflin’s quasi-top dog, Michael Scott, on NBC’s The Office for three more years.

Legendary comedian George Carlin died on Sunday, June 22, 2008 of heart failure. He was 71. Read our full news story here.

“TV has its hits and misses, right? For every great sitcom, there’s a
pile of crappy ones. Some get cancelled right out of the gate — others
drag on for years, begging to be put out of their misery.”

http://tv.popcrunch.com/the-25-worst-sitcoms-ever/

Quote:”Tara,” written by Oscar winner Diablo Cody, stars Toni Collette as
a wife and mother with dissociative identity disorder. John Corbett
co-stars as her husband. 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ia8ca7c8381ec…

Quote:Seth
Rogen: We called The Simpsons and asked if we could write an episode.
Evan actually met James L Brooks at a party and James said he really
liked Superbad so we thought there’s our in. Maybe we could ask to
write a Simpsons.

The Onion AV has a good interview with the Soup’s Joel McHale.  I know so many guys that have men crushes on him…

http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/joel_mchale

“The Simpsons” cast has sealed a four-year deal that hands it more “D’oh” and solidifies the animated hit’s 20th season.Production on the show has been delayed for several months as voice actors and 20t