Chris O'Dowd

Friday's TV Highlights: 'Shark Tank' on ABC

2013-05-16 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- � SERIES Undercover Boss Following last week'...

TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'

2013-05-09 14:50:00

"Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...

Review: HBO's 'Family Tree' rooted in warm, goofy eccentricity

2013-05-11 05:00:00

Christopher Guest, the director of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind," has made a TV series for HBO. The eight-episode "Family Tree," which premieres Sunday, is his first work in seven years, and like his films it is sweet and funny and not a little...

McNamara's Picks: 'Scandal,' 'Family Tree,' 'Elementary'

2013-05-09 09:01:00

"Scandal": Shonda Rhimes' whacked-out buzzfest of a political drama comes to a much-fanticipated close after its first full season (it debuted as a mid-season replacement.) As super-sleuth and super-stylin' D.C. power-fixer Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington)...

Friday's TV Highlights: 'Great Performances' on PBS

2013-05-02 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 28 - May 4, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Fashion Star In this new episode...

Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'NCIS: Los Angeles' on CBS

2013-04-29 20:00:00

Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Community' on NBC

2013-04-03 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 31 - April 5, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Gruden's QB Camp Jon Gruden...

Review: 'The Sapphires' plays like a good-time jukebox musical

2013-03-21 17:41:00

Some diversions invite comparison more readily than others. Take "The Sapphires," the most chipper film ever set in Vietnam. Already many have taken it, and liked it. If you enjoyed "Strictly Ballroom" or "The Commitments," which is to say if you fell...

Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Rip the Runway 2013' on BET

2013-03-19 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � -------------------- SERIES Arrow Jessica De Gouw reprises her role as...

Wednesday's TV Talk: Barbara Walters; Hugh Bonneville; Matt Damon

2012-12-11 20:00:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- This Morning Chris Tsakalakis, StubHub. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today “Downtown Abbey” cast members; Anne Hathaway; Jamie...

Tuesday's TV Talk Shows: Mandy Patinkin; Jane Fonda; Matt Damon

2012-12-10 20:04:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Christoph Waltz; Bruno Mars performs. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America Scotty...

Movie review: 'Bridesmaids'

2011-05-13 00:00:00

From the first overheated moments of "Bridesmaids," with its Kama Sutra-plus-six-positions sex � so satisfying for him, so exhausting for her � it's clear we're in for that rarest of treats: an R-rated romantic comedy from the Venus point of view. For...

Premiered: Sunday, May 12 on HBO Why we're watching: HBO's latest comedy comes with an impressive pedigree.

2013-05-13 22:19:00

Chris O'Dowd stars as a man in search of his roots in Christopher Guest's new HBO series, "Family Tree."

2013-05-09 14:50:00

Steadily rising up the comedy ladder with appearances on the cult U.K. hit "The I.T. Crowd" and 2011's "Bridesmaids," this Irish comic actor is something like a mix of the goofy physicality of Will Ferrell with a dryly rumpled delivery of a pre-overexposed Seth Rogen.

2013-01-11 00:00:00