Bored to Death

By Henry Krempels 12/22/11 12:03pm

Jonathan Ames Buries Bored To Death One Drink at a Time

“One drink for everybody!” hollered Jonathan Ames. He was standing center stage at the Brooklyn Inn to administer last rites for his show, Bored To Death. Read More

By Foster Kamer 12/21/11 5:52pm

REASONS TO DRINK TONIGHT

Jonathan Ames to Hold Funeral Tonight for Death of Bored To Death, Will Buy You a Drink

The Observer was especially sad to hear about HBO’s cancelling of Bored to Death, the Jonathan Ames-penned comedy that just wrapped a hysterical third season (and often pulled entire scenes straight from the pages of this newspaper!). The show had perfected and managed into a science the fine art of lampooning New Yorkers of Read More

By Christopher Rosen 12/29/09 7:15pm

The Best TV of 2009: Spoiler Alert, it’s Mad Men and Everything Else

Maybe we’re being a bit finicky, but we have a problem with critics around the interwebs hailing 2009 as one of the strongest years for television in recent memory. Quite the contrary: from where we sit, this year felt decidedly weak. Perennial favorites, like Lost and How I Met Your Mother, were saddled by disappointing Read More

By Christopher Rosen 11/23/09 2:02pm

The Week in DVR: Thanksgiving Week Means Putting the Fun in Dysfunction: Squid and the Whale, Doubt, and Jason Schwartzman!

Monday: Heroes
When the dust settles and Heroes gets rightfully canceled (expect this to happen in the spring), it will be remembered as the Creed to Lost‘s Pearl Jam; this is a show that has degenerated so quickly into tedium, we find it hard to imagine Heroes was ever taken seriously by the geek Read More

By Christopher Rosen 10/19/09 12:27pm

The Week in DVR: Remember When Michael Keaton Was a Movie Star? Plus, Albert Brooks, Slumdog, and Bored to Death

Monday: Bored to Death

Since Sunday nights are so crowded, you’ve probably let Bored to Death slip through the cracks. Good thing then for DVR and Monday night rebroadcasts! The HBO comedy, about a Brooklyn novelist-turned-private eye isn’t necessarily the funniest new show of the fall—that would be Community [Editor's note: Modern Family!]—but it’s certainly Read More

By Molly Fischer 10/07/09 4:50pm

HBO Not Bored Yet

HBO has announced that it will renew Bored to Death, its fake-detective series set in Brooklyn and filmed in the city.

This will come as a relief to those who, l ike Sara Vilkomerson, love Jason Schwartzman in spite of his twee tendencies.

By Sara Vilkomerson 8/25/09 9:28pm

He’s Mega-Twee, But We Love Him Anyway

“Have you seen the show?” asked Jason Schwartzman, via phone from his home in Los Angeles late last week. “I haven’t yet, not really. I’m just sitting here in a cocoon … not of anticipation … what would you call it? I’m feeling right now that something is in the oven and I’ve been cooking Read More

By Gillian Reagan 6/10/08 3:40pm

HBO Slates Bored to Death

HBO is is practically boring us to death with their recent projects. Hung, a new show about a man and his second brain, looks kind of cheesy. Snorefest In Treatment is probably getting renewed. And that Scorsese project about the Atlantic City boardwalk? Zzzzz. Appropriately, HBO has just greenlighted a new show Read More

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Jonathan Ames Buries Bored To Death One Drink at a Time

Jonathan Ames to Hold Funeral Tonight for Death of Bored To Death, Will Buy You a Drink

The Best TV of 2009: Spoiler Alert, it’s Mad Men and Everything Else

The Week in DVR: Thanksgiving Week Means Putting the Fun in Dysfunction: Squid and the Whale, Doubt, and Jason Schwartzman!

The Week in DVR: Remember When Michael Keaton Was a Movie Star? Plus, Albert Brooks, Slumdog, and Bored to Death

HBO Not Bored Yet

He’s Mega-Twee, But We Love Him Anyway

HBO Slates Bored to Death

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