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Subhash K Jha takes a look back at Madhur Bhandarkar’s Aan: Men At Work and we hear from Shatrughan Sinha about the joy of making the film.

Actually, there are many men at work–both on and off screen—in Aan: Men At Work. While the cop-heroes sweat it out in their humid halos, the men behind the scenes also make their presence felt in rapidfire motions in this emotionless pictureshow . No sobbing Matajis(thank God!) but loads of slithering and sliding Mata Haris.

There’s of course director Madhur Bhandarkar, in his first foray into frenzied action. Big guns with bigger nozzles attached to them—of both the human and the mechanical mind—strut around with such exaggerated machismo , it becomes hard to tell the bad and good guys apart. Bhandarkar treats his heroes and villains (all festooned to the plot with formulistic splendour) like characters in an extended videogame for juvenile grownups.

After two seasons, NBC made the decision to lose Found. Among several cancellations at NBC like Night Court and Suits LA, unfortunately, the weekly procedural thriller also just didn’t make the cut, with NBC deciding the title will come to an end after its second season wraps in a few weeks. With just two episodes left and no heads-up given, it’s likely that the finale will leave audiences on a cliffhanger that will never get resolved. After a whirlwind season that has so far seen Gabi (Shanola Hampton) lose the upper hand on her ex-captor, Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), the cancellation will come as a punch in the gut to audiences who have been eager to follow the pair’s cat and mouse game.

First debuting in the fall of 2023, Found introduced viewers to a different kind of procedural. While many similar titles have followed the police as they work on cracking a case,...

The 1991 spoof Hot Shots! found itself to a small degree mirroring the front pages of the newspapers – and 20th Century Fox was worried.

Save for a few sporadic examples – the first Scary Movie, for instance, and more recently The Goes Wrong Show on the BBC – it feels like the era of the successful screen spoof came to a juddering halt in the 1990s. In 1993, we had the second of two Hot Shots! films, and in 1994 the Naked Gun trilogy came to an end. After those? It was slim pickings.

There were further attempts to breathe fresh life into the spoof – Spy Hard, Jane Austen’s Mafia!, Wrongfully Accused – but nothing that could live up to some of the movies we got in the 80s and early 90s.

In 1991 in particular, the spoof was a box office draw. This was the year when many big budget Hollywood productions came in well below box office expectations.

Toto, Christopher Cross, and Men at Work are teaming up in 2025 for the latest ’80s crossover tour.

The US run kicks off in West Palm Beach on July 18th, with subsequent stops in Boston, Atlantic City, Nashville, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and more. See the full schedule below, and stay tuned for more dates to come.

Get Toto, Christopher Cross, & Men at Work Tickets Here

A Citi cardmember pre-sale for tickets to Toto, Christopher Cross, and Men at Work’s 2025 tour begins on Wednesday, December 11th. It will be followed by a Live Nation pre-sale for select dates on Thursday (use code Joy), December 12th, and the general on-sale on Friday, December 13th via Ticketmaster.

Once tickets are on sale, fans can look for deals or get tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program.

“Christopher and Colin [Hay] have been close friends of mine for a long time,...

Thankfully, not all movies are Oscar bait and sometimes the best form of escapism is turning on a movie that doesnt require too much attention or analysis. Cheesy movies with clich love stories, nonsensical plots and one-dimensional characters arent always box office gold, but they can become cult classics.

Cheesy movies dont need A-list stars like Jennifer Lawrence or Leonardo DiCaprio, although they can be places to spot such stars before they become household names. All a good cheesy movie needs is a ridiculous story, silly humor, and a few memorable lines for audiences to appreciate the camp, even decades later.

Hollywood Brothers Made an Action/Comedy About Sanitation Workers Men at Work (1990)

Written and directed by Emilio Estevez, Men at Work is a buddy comedy in which he also co-stars with his brother, Charlie Sheen. As James St. James and Carl Taylor, respectively, Estevez and Sheen play prankster garbage...

HBO has given out a straight-to-series order for a single-camera comedy series starring Steve Carell from Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, Variety has learned.

The untitled, half-hour series has been given a 10 episode order. The official logline states that the show is “set on a college campus, centering on an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter.”

“HBO has long been a standard bearer of quality TV,” Lawrence said. “Getting to do a show there with Steve Carell is an immediate career highlight for Matt and me. Nothing can go wrong now.”

Lawrence and Tarses wrote the first episode of the series. Both serve as executive producers, with Carell also executive producing in addition to starring. Lawrence executive produces via Doozer Productions along with Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer. Warner Bros. Television, where both Lawrence and Tarses are under overall deals, is the studio.

“We’re so excited to be...

With its list of May 2024 releases, Amazon Prime Video is giving us the kindest gift of all: cougar Anne Hathaway.

May 2 sees the premiere of The Idea of You, a romantic-comedy that features Hathaway as a 40-year-old mom finding romance with a 24-year-old boy band singer (Nicholas Galitzine). Having saved the medium of film forever, Prime Video is celebrating with some big time library titles this month as well. American Fiction and BlacKkKlansman arrive on May 14 and will be followed by Creed and Pearl: An X-traordinary Origin Story on May 16.

For its TV offerings, Prime is leading off with Outer Range season 2 on May 16. This James Brolin sci-fi Western will continue the mysteries of the strange happenings on Thanos’ ranch. Reality TV fans will be able to enjoy the Daniel Tosh-hosted competition series The Goat on May 9.

Here’s everything coming to Prime Video and Freevee in April – Amazon...

Danny Masterson, once a popular actor, faced heinous allegations of sexual assault by multiple women, leading to his conviction on two of three charges. The accusations against Masterson included allegations of rape, sodomy, and drugging his victims, with violent and disturbing details emerging during the trials. The Church of Scientology, of which Masterson is a member, was accused of stalking, harassing, and threatening his accusers, and has faced long-standing allegations of controlling and oppressive behavior. They sent us a press statement...

Warning: This article contains references to sexual assault, which might be upsetting to some readers. Reader discretion is advised.He's been acting since the age of five and became one of the most recognizable faces on television by the early 2000s. However, as commendable and successful as Danny Masterson's rise as a star was, in 2017, everything he had achieved began swiftly falling apart when three women came forward with heinous allegations about him.

The Thing (1982) had a strong and talented cast led by Kurt Russell. Kurt Russell went on to have an impressive career and has recently starred in major movies, such as Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and The Fast and the Furious series. The Thing cast also included Keith David, Wilford Brimley, and T.K. Carter, among others.

The Thing is a classic horror film from 1982, and here is everything that the cast has done since the film's conclusion. The film follows a team of researchers who are determined to study an alien spacecraft that has been found in Antarctica. While there, they discover an alien who has been buried in ice and can imitate human form, making the group have to decipher who's real and who's in "The Thing" in disguise. The movie is a remake of 1951's The Thing From Another World and another film has been speculated to be in the works.

Fandoms everywhere can now rejoice, for in October Our Flag Means Death finally returns to our screens for its second season. Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi will be romancing the high seas once more thanks to an enormous outpouring of love and support from the show’s fans. The safety of the cult favorite is not yet known beyond season two, but if this one is as good as the first, it certainly won’t be for lack of trying.

Talking of little shows that could, Doom Patrol is back for its last ever block of episodes, having long outlasted the many of the other ill-fated DC streaming series. Season two of The Gilded Age is also streaming this month, with Bertha challenging both Mrs. Astor and the old system in this new run.

And if none of that is up your street, there’s always Jason Statham punching sharks in the face,...

Rhys Darby in ‘Our Flag Means Death’ season 2 (Photograph by Nicola Dove/Max)

Max’s 2023 October lineup of series includes new seasons of Our Flag Means Death, The Gilded Age, and 30 Coins, as well as the second half of Doom Patrol season four (the final season). A documentary focusing on the notorious Bling Ring premieres on October 1st, along with all five Final Destination films.

In addition to a batch of horror films joining the network’s lineup, Max is celebrating Halloween with new seasons of Ghost Adventures and The Haunted Museum.

Series & Films Arriving On Max In October 2023:

October 1

3 Godfathers (1948)

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)

All About the Benjamins (2002)

The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)

Angels in the Outfield (1951)

The Answer Man (2009)

Anthropoid (2016)

Appaloosa (2008)

The Apparition (2012)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Badlands (1973)

Be Cool (2005)

Bee Season (2005)

Beetlejuice (1988)

The Benchwarmers (2006)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Blindspotting (2018)

Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012)

Cesar Chavez (2014)

Charlie Wilson’s War...

Former sitcom star and high-profile member of the Church of Scientology Danny Masterson has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for violent crimes a jury says he committed during the height of his "That 70's Show" fame, per Variety. The actor was sentenced today on charges of forcible rape stemming back to the early 2000s; he was found guilty on two of the counts, while the jury reportedly ended up deadlocked on a third charge.

Masterson was once known for playing Steven Hyde, an anti-authority teen stoner and fan-favorite character on the long-running sitcom "That '70s Show." His other credits include movies like "Yes Man" and "Dracula 2000" and roles on sitcoms like "Men at Work" and "The Ranch" (the latter a Netflix series that reunited Masterson with former "'70s Show" costar Ashton Kutcher before he was fired in 2017). It was Masterson's fame that his victims and prosecutors in...

Over the course of their 20-plus-year career, the New Pornographers have often specialized in catchy ambiguity. If leader Carl Newman was just a machine cranking out power-pop tunes, it would get boring. But there’s also a lot of mixed emotions going on under the surface of their studiously nuanced pop-rock formalism — like if Cheap Trick was as quick-witted as Steely Dan, or the Romantics were as throughtful as Rem. The Canadian band’s iconic 2000 debut, Mass Romantic, was a masterclass in hook-mad fun highlighted by songs with resolutely unfun...

The Sun Valley film festival announced Emilio Estevez is set to receive the Pioneer Award at the festival’s upcoming pioneer party.

Estevez joins previously announced Sun Valley film festival honorees including Variety‘s 10 Producers to Watch, Josh Brolin, Sophie Thatcher and Nina Yang Bongiovi, who are set to receive the Vision Award, the Rising Star Award and the Variety Creative Impact Award in Producing, respectively.

On March 31, Estevez will receive his Pioneer Award, and on April 1, will host a special screening of his 2011 feature, “The Way.”

After collaborations “The War at Home” and “Nightbreaker,” Estevez joined his father Martin Sheen once more for “The Way,” a feature that Estevez not only starred in, but also directed, produced and wrote. “The Way” follows Tom (Sheen) as he embarks on a pilgrimage throughout the El Camino de Santiago after his son Daniel (Estevez) died while traveling through that very path. Estevez...

“Subtraction,” from idiosyncratic Iranian helmer-writer Mani Haghighi is a tense Hitchcockian thriller set in Tehran, where a heavy, non-stop rainfall signals a lingering malaise. There, a young couple come across their doppelgängers. The film premiered at the Toronto festival.

The idea for the plot grew out of the helmer’s long-ago trip to Southwest Iran to look at places where the Iran-Iraq war took place.

“It was a hot summer day and I wandered into a local mosque to cool down and get some rest,” Haghighi says. “The people who ran the mosque had put on an exhibition of photographs from the war years. I was casually looking at these pictures and I was suddenly transfixed by one of them. It was a picture of me, in military uniform, badly wounded in the neck, being carried by two other soldiers. As one of the characters says in ‘Subtraction,’ ‘It’s...

Men at Work have been featured on A Million Little Things over the years — Delilah (Stephanie Szostak) and the kids gave Maggie (Allison Miller) a signed copy of lead singer Colin Hay‘s album, once owned by Jon (Ron Livingston), and his music was used in the Season 1 finale. Now, TV Insider has learned exclusively, the lead singer of the ’80s band is going to be appearing onscreen. Hay will be making a cameo as himself in the April 20 episode, “Lessons Learned” after creator DJ Nash reached out and asked him to appear. In the episode, Eddie (David Giuntoli) struggles to reconnect with fans at a music convention, which comes as he’s reached a year of sobriety and he’s trying to focus on the positive things in his life. That’s where he’ll meet up with Hay. Check out a first look photo above. “David, who plays Eddie,...

The second season of “The Amber Ruffin Show” will return with new episodes Feb. 25, Peacock announced Tuesday.

The critically acclaimed late-night variety series is hosted by comedian Amber Ruffin, who made history as the first Black woman to write for a late-night network TV show when she joined the writer’s room of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” in 2014. Ruffin’s own show premiered in 2020, as one of the first originals for the Peacock streaming platform. Over the course of the first and second seasons for the show, Ruffin has used the show to cover breaking topics in the news cycle, including police brutality, Meghan Markle, violence against Asian Americans and the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

“The Amber Ruffin Show” received a nomination for outstanding variety series writing at the 2021 Emmy awards. The series is produced by Universal Television and Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions, and Ruffin executive produces alongside Jenny Hagel, Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker.

Exclusive: Dannah Shinder, SVP of Television at Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions, has joined Berlanti Productions as EVP, Television.

The hire of Shinder follows the recent promotion of SVP Television Jonathan Gabay to EVP Television at Berlanti Prods., run by partners Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter and president David Madden. Like most businesses in the U.S., Berlanti Television went through some post-pandemic staff turnover. The division has been actively recruiting executives to oversee its vast portfolio of existing projects and development, and the search is ongoing.

During her stint at Brownstone, Shinder developed projects including Over My Dead Body at HBO Max, Red Queen and The Six at Peacock, Bedrock at Fox, Divorced From Reality at Netflix, Sh*tshow. She produced Fox comedy pilot Patty’s Auto and developed and served as co-executive producer on three seasons of the Emmy-nominated series Shrill starring Aidy Bryant for Hulu.

Just in time for the Australian Open — the first Grand Slam event of the tennis season — streaming service Pandora has released a list of the most “thumbed up” songs by Australian artists on its platform. The new data is part of a collaboration between Pandora and the Tennis Channel, timed to the start of the Australian Open tournament, which runs from February 8th to February 21st.

Gotye and Kimbra’s 2011 mega-hit, “Somebody That I Used To Know,” tops Pandora’s list, followed by Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” (featuring Charli Xcx), and AC/DC’s classic,...

The CW has put in development Revelations (working title), a one-hour drama based on Stephen King’s short story The Revelations of ‘Becka Paulson, from writer Maisie Culver (Last Man Standing), Katie Lovejoy (Dead Inside) and Warner Bros. TV.

Written by Culver, in Revelations (wt), after accidentally shooting herself in the brain with a nail gun, a Pollyanna-ish Becca Paulson is recruited by an over-it Jesus to be his “chosen one” in stopping the apocalypse. In order to save the world, Becca will have to prove that our deeply backward planet Earth is redeemable — starting with her quirky midwestern hometown.

Lovejoy will executive produce. Culver will co-executive produce. Warner Bros. TV is the studio.

Culver was a writer on Last Man Standing from 2012-2017 on ABC, before its move to Fox in 2018. She previously served as a production assistant on Breaking In and Men At Work.

Lovejoy, a Humanitas Prize...

Adam Goldberg, star of “God Friended Me” and the upcoming Russell Crowe pic “The Georgetown Project,” is developing a series at Quibi which is loosely based on his own experiences with social media, Variety has learned exclusively.

The project in question is called “@GeneralStories” (working title) and also hails from Eric Siegel and Stampede Ventures. Goldberg is on board to direct.

It follows millennial couple Charlie and Lake who decide to uproot their young family and hectic life in Los Angeles to move in with Lake’s parents and open a general store in a small East Coast town after a downsizing trend they notice on Instagram. Before they know it, they become Instagram stars themselves and what began as a hobby and sales tool to support the store, quickly become an obsession and exposes problems the family didn’t know (or weren’t prepared to admit) they had.

Goldberg...

There’s a ridiculous amount of TV content out there waiting to be streamed during your downtime — and a lot of it won’t cost you one shiny penny.

TVLine already offers a premium streaming guide, which delivers a rundown of subscription rates, original series and select library content offered by established, new and forthcoming streamers. We also publish a monthly list of TV shows and movies coming and going on Netflix.

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Exclusive: Fox has put in development Tough Love, a single-camera family comedy from writer Lacey Friedman, Jamie Tarses and Sony Pictures Television.

Written by Friedman, Tough Love, loosely based on Friedman’s real-life experience, centers around an aimless, self-involved 21-year-old who reluctantly becomes the guardian to her grandfather and siblings after their mother passes away.

Friedman and Tarses executive produce. The project is a co-production between Sony Pictures TV and Fox Entertainment.

Friedman was most recently a co-producer on CBS comedy series 9Jkl and a writer on The Goldbergs. Her other writing credits include Party Girl, Your Family or Mine and Men At Work. She is repped by 3 Arts and attorney Jeffrey Hynick at Jackoway Tyerman.

Prolific producer Tarses is currently an executive producer on Amazon’s upcoming Ya drama series The Wilds.

HBO took eight out July's ten spots for Top TV Songs from the soundtracks of Euphoria season one and Big Little Lies season two. Netflix's Last Chance U season four and season three of the Spanish-language series Money Heist, took the number five and four spots with "War With Us" by YoungBoy Never Broke Again and "Who Can It Be Now?" by Men At Work.

Euphoria featured "151 Rum" by Jid, "Work" by Charlotte Day Wilson, "Mount Everest" and "When I Rip" by Labrinth, "In My Dreams" by Anohni and "Smalltown Boy" by ...

Exclusive: Kirsten Nelson (This is Us) and James Lesure (Men at Work) are set as series regulars opposite Sarah Drew in The Republic of Sarah, CBS’ drama pilot from Fulwell 73 and CBS TV Studios.

Written by Jeffrey Paul King and directed by Marc Webb, The Republic of Sarah is said to have a Northern Exposure feel. It centers on a small New Hampshire town that is thrust onto the world stage when the discovery of a valuable resource within its borders compels the residents to declare themselves an independent nation, thus setting the unlikely young mayor, Sarah Cooper (Drew) and her Cabinet of inexperienced locals on the path of running a brand-new country.

Nelson will play Francine, Morrisville’s sheriff. Unflappable and resolute, Francine lives her life according to old-school principles of honor and duty and isn’t afraid to speak her mind when she feels those principles are being ignored.

Fox has given out pilot orders to projects that hail from Lon Zimmet and Billy Finnegan. 20th Century Fox Television will produce both projects.

The Finnegan project is a single-camera comedy currently titled “Richard Lovely.” It follows the title character, the disgruntled author of the best-selling children’s book series, “Mr. Mouse.” He doesn’t hate children, but rather just everything about them. After a publicity fiasco involving an unexpectedly savvy 9-year-old kid, Mr. Mouse appears in Richard’s real life as he is forced into an unlikely father/son relationship that will change his life forever

Finnegan will write and executive produce the project with Kat Coiro also executive producing. Finnegan is an executive producer and writer on the Netflix comedy “Grace and Frankie.” His other credits include writing for “The Real O’Neals,” “Bad Teacher,” and “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23.” He is repped by CAA and Rise Management.

Men at Work just announced their first tour in nearly 20 years, but anyone calling it a “reunion” is really stretching the definition of that word. The only member of any previous lineup returning is frontman Colin Hay, who will be joined by members of his solo band. “The set list obviously will feature all the known and even lesser known Men at Work songs, perhaps with a couple of later songs thrown in,” he wrote on his website, “but make no mistake, it will be a Men at Work show,...

Tale of the Sea (Hekayat-e Darya) is Bahman Farmanara’s resonant elegy to the conclusion of an artistic era and his salute to a generation of Iranian writers, artists, musicians and filmmakers who are leaving the scene. Abbas Kiarostami, who died just over a year ago, is the name most international viewers will recognize, but many more are mentioned in this simple, atmospheric tale. It is the writer-director-producer’s most personal film since Smell of Camphor, Fragance of Jasmine and has the same kind of melancholy wistfulness. A starry cast including Fatemeh Motamed-Arya (Gilane, Men at Work), Leila Hatami (A Separation) and...

The CW has found a femme fatale to headline one of its fall pilots: Sarah Wright Olsen (Parks and Recreation, Marry Me) will star in the network’s noir-style revenge drama Skinny Dip, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Olsen will play the lead role of Joey, a rich trust-fund baby whose husband tries to murder her by throwing her overboard during an anniversary cruise. She somehow survives and teams up with a former detective (Valor‘s Matt Barr) to find out why her hubby tried to kill her… and to get her revenge.

Based on the Carl Hiaasen novel, the...

A new character will debut in Flash episode 13 and will stick around at least until episode 14, that being the good intentioned leader of Gorilla City (The home of the sentient Apes in the comics, and apparently the CW show Flash), another ape, Solovar. If your left hand is evil, you hold Grodd, and if your right hand has good intentions then you cradle Solovar. This ape has been around the comics for a long time, and while he has had evil tendencies at times, Solovar is typically the logically thinking leader controlling Gorilla City.

Today, we learn that Solovar will join us, and I for one being an Apetivist am happy to learn that not all Gorillas will be evil in the show. Or so we are led to believe. For all we know, Solovar could be highly irritated that Barry threw Grodd into their world, disrupting their ape-lives and Solovar now seeks revenge.

The claws are coming out on Monday’s Significant Mother (The CW, 9:30/8:30c) as Lydia faces off against her former archrival — and fellow cougar — Pepper Spinner, played by Denise Richards.

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TVLine has an exclusive sneak peek of the ladies’ reunion, which starts just as awkwardly as you’d imagine, considering Spinner’s on a date with Lydia’s son when they bump into each other.

Nate and Jimmy excuse themselves for a minute, leaving Lydia alone with Pepper, who shares her philosophy on why “little boys are into grown women.

Denise Richards is sharpening her claws and heading prowling to The CW later this summer.

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The former Twisted star will appear in Episode 2 of Significant Mother, a new comedy from Alloy Entertainment, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Mother follows young restauranteur Nate (90210‘s Josh Zuckerman) who returns home from a business trip to discover that his mother Lydia (The L.A. Complex‘s Krista Allen) is dating his best friend/roommate Jimmy (The Vampire Diaries‘ Nathaniel Buzolic).

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Richards will play “notorious cougar” Pepper Spinner,...

On TV this Wednesday: The Middle has an a-mah-zing guest star, Men at Work clock out and Revolution-aries stand divided. As a supplement to TVLine’s original features (linked within), here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.

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8 pm Revolution (NBC) | Monroe, Charlie and Connor return to Willoughby and...

Former Bunhead Sutton Foster will let her hair down — and scare up some fun — in Psych‘s nightmare-ish Season 8 finale.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Foster has landed a role in the USA Network comedy’s James Roday-penned installment, titled on “A Nightmare on State Street.”

Described as “a new vision in terror,” the episode — the storyline of which was decided upon by fans via an online poll — follows a sleep-deprived Gus into dream therapy as he attempts to get to the bottom of recent night terrors. After his treatment, however, nothing is what it seems, and he soon learns that “in dreams,...

Love him or hate him, you have to admit one thing about Charlie Sheen: The guy is pretty damn entertaining.

The man who stole the 2011 media spotlight from every other celebrity with his bizarre behavior and madcap yammerings is currently making a comeback on the big screen, continuing this weekend with his turn in "Scary Movie 5." If the trailers and clips are any indication, Charlie doesn't do much in the movie beyond hang out in bed with Lindsay Lohan — which is, of course, just fine.

It's not enough, though. We want even more Charlie Sheen movies. So while we continue to wait patiently for real Charlie Sheen movies like "Machete Kills" (he plays the President of the United States in that one) and make-believe Charlie Sheen movies like "Hot Shots! Part Trois" (or even the fraternal reunion "Men at Work 2: Still Working"), here are seven movies that could've used some Sheen.

If you're stoked on "Stoker," you can thank "Prison Break" star Wentworth Miller, who is making his screenwriting debut with the gothic Park Chan-wook affair. Miller wrote the script under a pseudonym, and the results ended up on the 2010 Black List of hot screenplays that weren't yet snagged by studios.

Wentworth, we hardly knew ye!

Miller isn't the only surprising star doing double-duty as a writer, either. He joins an impressive list of famous, Hollywood faces that wield a mean pen or, more likely, the latest version of Final Draft.

Rashida Jones

Her "Parks and Rec" alter ego Ann Perkins is "a beautiful tropical fish" and "a beautiful, rule-breaking moth," and even "a beautiful, talented, brilliant, powerful musk ox," on occasion, according to her Bff Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler). Off-screen, Rashida Jones is proving to be a rather formidable creative force as well. She and writing partner Will McCormack penned...

By Rachel Bennett

Television Editor & Columnist

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A week ago, Breaking Bad finished the first half of its fifth and final season. In other words, summer TV has ended.

Although some shows, such as FX’s Louie and AMC’s Hell on Wheels, still have more episodes to go before their seasons conclude, NBC will be unveiling some of its new fall series this week — and the other networks won’t be too far behind.

To be honest, summer TV isn’t my favorite. I use the season to catch up on TV I’ve missed more than I do to watch such new offerings as TBS’s Men at Work and E!’s Married to Jonas.

However, this doesn’t mean all of summer TV is a bust.

Here are the choices for the brightest and darkest spots of summer TV 2012:

Biggest Disappointment

The Newsroom (HBO)

It’s no...

With the sound of klaxons blaring and meme airlocks being sealed, Charlie Sheen's Anger Management has triggered its automatic 90-episode pickup, FX relayed in a statement filled with similarly automatically generated platitudes. According to the network, the show has met both its "designated average ratings threshold" and acceptable minimum definition of "comedy," becoming the highest-rated new sitcom on cable in 2012 (to the coincidental chagrin of Men At Work, we guess). The network expressed dutiful excitement about maintaining that plateau and extending its bargain with the self-aware devil for at least the next two years it will take to ...

There are some sets of famous siblings that everyone just knows: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, and Chris and Liam Hemsworth, to name a few. But then there are those celebrities, each famous in their own right, whom you would never think of as brothers or sisters to other stars.

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Here are 5 pairs of celebrities whose sibling relationships may shock you:

1) Kirk Cameron and Candace Cameron Bure

They were both late '80s/early '90s sitcom icons (she played D.J. Tanner on Full House, and he rose to fame as heartthrob Mike Seaver on Growing Pains) but many are surprised to discover that the two are brother and sister. During the height of their fame, Kirk once guest-starred on Full House as D.J.'s older cousin,...

It appears NBC’s former problem child, Dan Harmon may have found a new home. TV Guide reported earlier today that the former Community showrunner is close to a deal to bring an untitled multi-camera comedy pilot to Fox, his first major move since being booted from the NBC clever-but-cult-favorite comedy he created. Harmon is also hard at work in developing an animated series called Rick & Morty for Adult Swim.

Since becoming a darling with fans and some of the media, New Girl has expanded Fox’s idea of what makes for a good comedy. For one, it’s Not animated. Animated series are not a bad thing, but outside of Raising Hope, and before New Girl was a hit, the only comedies Fox seemed willing to develop were spinoffs of Family Guy. The climate is changing at Fox as former Community executive producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan are...

Anger Management reversed two weeks of downward trending with a visit from Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife Denise Richards — and with nary a champagne bottle in sight.

FX’s freshman comedy this Thursday drew 2.65 million total viewers, with 1.42 mil landing in the coveted 18-49 demo, marking week-to-week gains of 9 and 13 percent, respectively.

The series was also up in the Men 18-34 (+26%) and Women 18-34 (+45%) demos.

Wait, it just hit me: Richards was in Wild Things, and Sheen played “Wild Thing” in Major League. I just let out a Keanu Reeves-like whoa.

Elsewhere on Thursday:

* Burn Notice (5 million total viewers, 1.3 demo...

Now that May sweeps has swept on by and the “in-season” TV season has passed … well, don’t put down that remote just yet. Not by a stretch. Because it is time to (So You Think You Can) Dance, solve more White Collar crimes, taunt those Pretty Little Liars, return to Dallas, Suits up, play with some Political Animals, say farewell to Eureka and more.

Here are more than 100 dates, from series premieres (shown in blue, with a brief summary) to returning faves, with a few finales and specials thrown in.

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From the return of Charlie Sheen to the beginning of the end for Breaking Bad, the TV schedule barely cools off this summer.

Below, we've listed the premiere/return dates for a number of programs. Set your DVR accordingly...

Thursday, May 24

8 p.m. Duets (ABC)

8 p.m. So You Think You Can Dance (Fox)

10 p.m. Men at Work (TBS)

10 p.m. Rookie Blue (ABC)

Tuesday, May 29

8 p.m. The Cataline (CW)

10 p.m. Tosh.0 (Comedy Central)

10:30 p.m. Workaholics (Comedy Central)

Thursday, May 31

8 p.m. Breaking Pointe (CW)

Sunday, June 3

8 p.m. Secret Millionaire (ABC)

9 p.m. Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)

9 p.m. Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition (ABC)

9 p.m. The Glades (A&E)

10 p.m. Longmire (A&E)

11 p.m. Teen Wolf (MTV

Monday, June 4

8 p.m. Hell’s Kitchen (Fox) – Part 1

9 p.m. Masterchef (Fox) – Part 1

10 p.m. Teen Wolf (MTV) – Regular Time Slot

Tuesday,...

We know you're probably preparing yourselves for the season finales of some of your favorite shows, but there's plenty of new and returning series premiering this summer to not just tide you over until the fall, but completely entertain you.

From "True Blood" Season 5 to the premiere of TNT's new "Dallas" reboot to the TV return of Charlie Sheen in FX's "Anger Management" to the beginning of the end of fan-favorite shows "The Closer" and "Damages," we've got you covered with all of the most important summer TV premiere dates.

For those who think summer TV is just filler, this lineup proves otherwise: HBO's new Aaron Sorkin series "The Newsroom" will make its debut, as will USA's ambitious and star-studded "Political Animals"; comedy fans have new seasons of "Episodes," "Louie" and MTV's "Awkward."; and reality TV addicts will get more "Big Brother," "The Bachelorette" and "Bachelor Pad," "Snooki & JWoww" and...

We know you're probably preparing yourselves for the season finales of some of your favorite shows, but there's plenty of new and returning series premiering this summer to not just tide you over until the fall, but completely entertain you.

From "True Blood" Season 5 to the premiere of TNT's new "Dallas" reboot to the TV return of Charlie Sheen in FX's "Anger Management" to the beginning of the end of fan-favorite shows "The Closer" and "Damages," we've got you covered with all of the most important summer TV premiere dates.

For those who think summer TV is just filler, this lineup proves otherwise: HBO's new Aaron Sorkin series "The Newsroom" will make its debut, as will USA's ambitious and star-studded "Political Animals"; comedy fans have new seasons of "Episodes," "Louie" and MTV's "Awkward."; and reality TV addicts will get more "Big Brother," "The Bachelorette" and "Bachelor Pad," "Snooki & JWoww" and...

Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone are back — and we’ll drink to that!

BBC America and Logo are reviving the cult comedy Absolutely Fabulous for three new specials, it was announced Monday. Ab Fab creator Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley will reprise their aforementioned roles as the boozy broad and her gal pal. So, how happy does this news make you, sweetie darlings?

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People forget, but former Brat Packer Emilio Estevez has been directing films since 1986's Wisdom. He went from that to the underrated garbage men flick, Men at Work, in 1990. I count that as one of the personal favorites of my teen years because it was so damn stupid. Bowling with trash can lids? Who does that? Estevez made his first truly credible film in 2006 with the multi-character JFK film...

Chicago – Martin Sheen’s sons certainly command the spotlight, whether it was Charlie’s adventures of this year, or the emerging auteur talent of Emilio Estevez. Estevez wrote and directed the upcoming film “The Way,” which stars his father.

The elder Sheen and Estevez have been on a nationwide tour, promoting and opening the personal film along the journey. They were in Chicago on the weekend of August 19th, as part of the Chicago International Film Festival Summer Gala. Martin Sheen was honored by the festival for his career work, receiving the Silver Hugo Award from the Founder and Artistic Director, Michael Kutza.

“The Way” stars Martin Sheen as Tom, an American physician who goes to France to collect the remains of his adult son, who accidently died while walking “The Camino de Santiago” (also called the Way of St. James, a Christian pilgrimage from many points to the Cathedral...

Today we have the trailer for "The Way" adventure film, starring Martin Sheen (The Departed) and his son Emilio Estevez (The Mighty Ducks). Check it out below. Plot: An American father (Sheen) travels to France to recover the body of his estranged son (Estevez) who died while traveling "El camino de Santiago" from France to Santiago de Compostela (Spain). The new movie is written and directed by Estevez, and already premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. It is now set to get a limited theatrical release on October 7th. Estevez has previously directed "Bobby" and "Men at Work," which co-starred his brother Charlie Sheen. Trailer: If you cannot see the player, click here.

This definitely doesn't look like "Men at Work."

"The Way" definitely does look a bit meta-cryptic, though, as Martin Sheen plays a mourning father who embarks on a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago with his son's ashes, a free spirit (played by Sheen's real-life son, Emilio Estevez) who was killed during a storm along the famous 800-km path from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela in the north west of Spain.

Although the premise is a bit depressing, the film itself looks to be rather uplifting and inspiring with something of a "Wizard of Oz" kind of vibe as Sheen meets several other eccentric lost souls on his journey, including Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt and Yorick van Wageningen.

"The Way" is Emilio Estevez's first directorial effort since his 2006 multi-character look at the assassination of Robert Kennedy, "Bobby." From the looks of it, he's definitely come a...