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Land a Comedy Central series, and you’re bound to be flung into the public eye, even if you’re already an accomplished standup comic. Of course, that’s exactly what happened to Amy Schumer.

Tags: Movies & TV, Television, Game of Thrones, Inside Amy Schumer, Maron, New Girl

Amy Schumer is on the fastest of fast tracks.

Tags: News Feature, Judd Apatow, Inside Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer

Throughout its seven seasons, Mad Men has remained as elusive as its complicated lead character Don Draper. Audiences never quite knew what the heavy-drinking, handsome ad man would do next, much like the story itself.

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, television, Saturday Night Live, Game of Thrones, Veep, Modern Family, Louie, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Inside Amy Schumer, Maron, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Silicon Valley, The Comedians, Bessie

Early into the second season of Silicon Valley (10 p.m. Sundays, HBO), data compression startup Pied Piper is experiencing growing pains.

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, Saturday Night Live, Television, Game of Thrones, Veep, Modern Family, Louie, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Inside Amy Schumer, Silicon Valley, Blackish, The Comedians, Grace and Frankie

In most apocalyptic scenarios, we often imagine the lucky few to survive as being the toughest, hardest, most disciplined born leaders. Phil Miller is none of these things.

Tags: Movies & TV, Saturday Night Live, Will Forte, Television, Game of Thrones, Modern Family, Louie, Inside Amy Schumer, Silicon Valley, The Comedians, New Girl, The Last Man on Earth, The Casual Vacancy, Beyond the Tank, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

Comedians playing fictional versions of themselves on scripted television is nothing new — just ask Lucille Ball or Jerry Seinfeld — but it’s certainly a hot trend right now.

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, Television, Game of Thrones, Veep, Modern Family, Louie, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Inside Amy Schumer, Silicon Valley, Blackish, The Comedians, VICE, Lip Sync Battle, Orphan Black, The Last Man on Earth, Saving My Tomorrow: Part Three

The phrase “best TV show you’re not watching” is overused, but Orphan Black is one of the few shows that’s definitely deserving of the title.

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, Television, Game of Thrones, Veep, Louie, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Inside Amy Schumer, Silicon Valley, The Comedians, VICE, Lip Sync Battle, Orphan Black, Best Bars in America, Knock Knock, It’s Tig Notaro, The Last Man on Earth

While HBO pokes fun at modern day tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, AMC’s newest drama gives viewers a look at the early-1980s “Silicon Prairie” with Halt and Catch Fire.

Tags: Movies & TV, television, Game of Thrones, Veep, Louie, AMC, Small Town Security, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Inside Amy Schumer, Maron, Silicon Valley, Crossbones, Halt and Catch Fire, Big Ballet, The Sixties, Our America With Lisa Ling

The Daily Show has propelled more comics to fame than just host Jon Stewart. Steve Carell, Ed Helms, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver (OK, a lot of white guys) and many others sparked their careers with regular appearances on Comedy Central’s “fake ne

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, David Letterman, Comedy Central, Steve Carell, The Daily Show, Portlandia, Ed Helms, Television, Parks and Recreation, Game of Thrones, Modern Family, Hannibal, Vice, Inside Amy Schumer, Stephen Colbert, The Mindy Project, Silicon Valley, The Late Show, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, SNL Digital Shorts, Bad Teacher, New Girl

Move over, Sheldon. The Big Bang Theory may have helped popularize or mainstream “nerd culture,” but Silicon Valley keeps it real with sharp wit, spot-on tech references and just a touch of social awkwardness — the makings of any tru

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, Martin Starr, Portlandia, Television, Parks and Recreation, Game of Thrones, Workaholics, Parenthood, Hannibal, Inside Amy Schumer, The Mindy Project, Silicon Valley, Thomas Middleditch, Josh Brener, Kumail Nanjiani, The Boondocks, Chrisley Knows Best

In 2030, a man sits his children down to tell them the story of how their parents got together. Nine seasons later, audiences are still eavesdropping on the Longest Story Every Told, How I Met Your Mother (Series Finale, 8 p.m. Monday, CBS)

Tags: Movies & TV, Saturday Night Live, Portlandia, Television, Inside the Actors Studio, The Walking Dead, Modern Family, Psych, How I Met Your Mother, Parenthood, Hannibal, Inside Amy Schumer, Helix, Broad City, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Ted Mosby, Surviving Jack, House of Food

Spring is coming — despite what the weather would have us believe — with a fresh crop of new series and returning favorites.

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, television, Portlandia, Parks and Recreation, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Girls, Workaholics, Parenthood, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Hannibal, Vice, Inside Amy Schumer, Broad City, spring TV preview, TripTank, Silicon Valley, TURN, Fargo, 24: Live Another Day, Bro

We’ve survived The Ice Truck Killer, The Skinner, Trinity, The Doomsday Killer and other non-nicknamed bad guys, and in this final season of Dexter (9 p.m. Sundays, Showtime) our leading man must make some serious decisions about his “dark

Tags: Movies & TV, True Blood, Television, Wilfred, Small Town Security, Dexter, Inside Amy Schumer, Maron, Ray Donovan, The Out List, Anna Nicole, Gideon’s Army

It’s time to spark up a J, laugh out loud and then question your existence with an Australian guy in a gnarly dog suit. Wilfred’s back (10 p.m. Thursdays, FX).

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, True Blood, Television, Veep, Wilfred, Small Town Security, Hannibal, Inside Amy Schumer, Maron, The Soup Investigates, Miss You Can Do It

Now in its sixth season, Southern-fried vampire drama True Blood (9 p.m. Sundays, HBO) has truly “turned.” What started as a somewhat realistic take on the genre, suspenseful and sexy with a wink of camp, is now a full-blown supernatural so

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, True Blood, Television, Magic City, Veep, Small Town Security, Hannibal, The Real World: Portland, Inside Amy Schumer, Maron, Showville, Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Stephen Moyer, Alan Ball, Spike Guys Choice 2013, Intervention, Bob Benson, Pete Campbell, Love Marilyn

After a three-week run of episodes (April 1-15) taped at the Duke Energy Convention Center last summer, Antiques Roadshow will premiere behind-the-scenes footage from the show’s Cincinnati stop (8 p.m. Monday, CET).

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, Television, Inside the Actors Studio, Game of Thrones, The Killing, Veep, Small Town Security, Hannibal, The Real World: Portland, Inside Amy Schumer, Maron, Antiques Roadshow, The American Baking Competition, MasterChef

It’s often said that the vice president of the United States is “one heartbeat away” from the role of commander in chief. But if Veep (10 p.m., Sundays, HBO) is any indication, sometimes second-in-command is actually much further down the t

Tags: Movies & TV, Mad Men, Television, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Project Runway, Game of Thrones, Veep, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Vice, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell, Inside Amy Schumer

A simple 30-second spot that aired last week during Saturday Night Live might well have changed advertising forever. What? You didn't notice? Coming in pretty far below the public radar, the Smirn

Tags: News Feature, James Franco, Beyonce, Inside Amy Schumer, Jared Leto

Jozo's offers authentic, reasonably priced Creole and Cajun fare

Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Misfits, Breaking Bad, Inside Amy Schumer, cronut