First Look: Unhitched

BuzzSugar — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:30:00 -0800

If you've been missing Rashida Jones ever since Karen Filippelli left Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch, your wait is almost over. Unhitched, the new Fox comedy starring Jones, Craig Bierko, Johnny Sneed, and Shaun Majumder as four newly single, 30-something friends living together in Boston and attempting to restart their romantic lives, is set to premiere Mar. 2.

Bierko's Jack "Gator" Gately is a recent divorcee who still believes he can find "the one." He probably can't get any good advice from his friend Tommy (Sneed), a womanizing beer brewer who's been divorced three times already. Rounding out the guys' section is Freddy (Majumder), a heart surgeon who hasn't been on a date since approximately 1992. Then there's Kate (Jones), a lawyer who's - conveniently - handled all three of the guys' divorces and now is reentering the rocky dating pool herself after being dumped by her fiancé of seven years.

The comedy comes from the Farrelly Brothers (Dumb and Dumber, Shallow Hal, There's Something About Mary), and whether you like their particular brand of bawdy humor will probably have a lot to do with your feelings about these first clips from Unhitched. In one, Tommy picks up a girl at the ATM and goes home with her, only to walk in on an intervention her family is holding to talk about her sex addiction. In the other, Gator ends up in a kinky sex scene with a monkey. Oh, those Farrelly Bros., always pushing the envelope.

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TV Tonight: Nip/Tuck

BuzzSugar — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:30:00 -0700

"LA's newest implants" aren't of the silicone kind; they're Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, who are making the leap from Miami to Los Angeles in tonight's season premiere of Nip/Tuck. And while the new city provides a welcome change of scenery, the satisfaction is for the viewer only as business isn't exactly booming at the McNamara/Troy office. In fact, the two men find themselves without any clients at all and must resort to hiring a publicist to get their practice rolling. The publicist (played by Lauren Hutton) tells the duo that they must perform surgery on celebrities to create buzz.

Celebrities creating buzz is a mantra that the show has certainly taken to heart. Tonight's episode has bevy of celebrity cameos including Hutton, Tia Carrere, Bradley Cooper, Oliver Platt, and Craig Bierko, but it is Jennifer Coolidge who steals the show. She plays a patient on the TV show the doctors are hired to consult for called Hearts 'N Scalpels. It's a show-within-a-show format that is smart, funny, and, best of all, a satire of Nip/Tuck itself.

With the move to LA and the onslaught of celebrity cameos, I'm hoping that there is enough realistic drama to save Nip/Tuck from the strained slump that was season four. Tonight's episode is definitely a step in the right direction, which is good, as I know I'm not the only one who misses the good ol' Carver days!

Photo courtesy of FX