Last September, FX premiered a show about two private eyes called Terriers. The show had a sunny setting in Ocean Beach, an eclectic township of San Diego. It had two dynamic leads in the perpetually underrated Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James, who played the Cajun-accented bad guy in the first season of True Blood. Terriers was exceptionally well-written and engaging, and the more episodes you watched, the more hooked you became. It also had an absolute masterpiece of an opening credit sequence. Take a look.
Tags: Treme , The Wire , Terriers , FX , HBO , David Simon , Anthony Bourdain , No Reservations , New Orleans , Video
Watching Saturday Night Live in the streaming video era is often an exercise in frustration. Maybe there will be something outrageously funny (this happens every other week, maybe?), but while it's always more entertaining to watch whatever happens when it's actually on, you can save yourself a lot of trouble by just waiting until clips show up on Facebook or some blog the next day. Of course, some of you might have a social life and are actually doing something out with actual people on Saturday nights, too busy to care about network television. I used to be among you once. Enjoy it while it lasts.
However, if you're going to watch any episode of the show, tomorrow's season finale should be worthwhile, if only for the re-appearance of the "Dick in a Box" guys, played by this week's host Justin Timberlake and SNL cast member Andy Samberg. TMZ leaked a photo of the guys in costume taping a segment for this week's show, with special guests Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson.
If you need to catch up or just want to recall the memories of the previous two installments, the wildly unsafe for work videos are below the cut.
Tags: andy samberg , lonely island , justin timberlake , saturday night live , lonely island , dick in a box , motherlover , susan sarandon , patricia clarkson , Video
The Baja Arizona movement is evidently not nutty enough for Jon Stewart. We're told that the segment on the push to allow Southern Arizona to form a new state unconnected to Maricopa County has been spiked by The Daily Show.
To console you, here's a classic Daily Show clip, mocking Arizona State University:
Tags: daily show , baja arizona , jon stewart , Video
I have no idea what prompted someone to index the patterns of sweaters worn on The Cosby Show
(although the show's appearance on Netflix Instant Watch probably helped), but now that all the immediately useful information has been cataloged, it's time to move on to less obviously relevant concerns.
Bonus blog content: the first Cosby sweater pop culture reference I could think of:
Tags: cosby sweaters , the cosby show , bill cosby , tumblr is strange , high fidelity , jack black , john cusack , Video
I watch far too much television, so Roseanne Barr's essay on her experience developing her self-titled program for ABC was always going to be fascinating for me, but even for people with actual lives, her thoughts on the nature of fame might be the most interesting non-Tucson Weekly-related thing you read this week:
Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you. Based on Two and a Half Men’s success, it seems viewers now prefer their comedy dumb and sexist. Charlie Sheen was the world’s most famous john, and a sitcom was written around him. That just says it all. Doing tons of drugs, smacking prostitutes around, holding a knife up to the head of your wife—sure, that sounds like a dream come true for so many guys out there, but that doesn’t make it right! People do what they can get away with (or figure they can), and Sheen is, in fact, a product of what we call politely the “culture.” Where I can relate to the Charlie stuff is his undisguised contempt for certain people in his work environment and his unwillingness to play a role that’s expected of him on his own time.
Tags: roseanne barr , new york magazine , television , roseanne , matt williams , charlie sheen
If we can keep you from ever having to tune into Fox News, that's a service we're happy to provide, so here's the Jon Stewart/Bill O'Reilly debate from earlier tonight on the O'Reilly Factor.
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Tags: Community , Seinfeld , 30 Rock , The Office , Arrested Development , Modern Family , Parks and Recreation , Two and a Half Men , $#*! My Dad Says , NBC , ABC , television ratings , CBS , Idiot Boksen
Times are tough and it can get tough to get the cash together to get out of town as a couple. Thankfully, the TV show Divorce Court has a deal for you. Sure there's a catch, but isn't there always? Hopefully you get a separate hotel room from your soon-to-be former spouse as part of this deal, though. Otherwise, things could get a little awkward.
[GQ]
Tags: divorce court , reality tv , make money fast
Apparently, KVOA has decided that the Law & Order: Los Angeles episode is offensive in prime time, but not quite so much following the Carson Daly show that people forget is still on the air.
Tags: kvoa , law & order: los angeles , giffords shooting , ripped from the headlines , lorraine rivera

KVOA has decided not to run the forthcoming episode of Law and Order: LA that revolves around a congresswoman shot at a public event, which makes sense since creating entertainment out of a local tragedy could be perceived as tacky, but for me, it makes me rethink whether I should get a little queasy over the "ripped from the headlines" nature of crime procedural shows when they're not dramatizing issues that affected me personally.
An upcoming episode of Law & Order: LA that closely mirrors the events of January 8th in Tucson will not air locally on KVOA.KVOA'S General Manager Bill Shaw said he was contacted by NBC about the episode a few weeks back, and made the decision not to air it because of the timing, and sensitive nature of, the episode.
The show has made its mark taking headlines and reworking them for the small screen. But this time, Shaw said it is personal for Tucson.
"I felt it was a definite issue for us," Shaw said.
[KVOA]
Tags: Law & Order: LA , giffords shooting , ripped from the headlines , kvoa