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“Episodes,” Hollywood And Reverend Al

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Season 4 of "Episodes," premieres tonight, a funny, smart and dead-on satire of Hollywood. [Credit: Showtime]

Sea­son 4 of “Episodes,” pre­mieres tonight, a fun­ny, smart and dead-on satire of Hol­ly­wood. [Cred­it: Showtime]

MATT LEBLANC’S EX-WIFE: You were arrest­ed for dri­ving drunk with our kids in the car!

LEBLANC: Yeah, well, when you say it that way, it sounds terrible.

Scene from Sea­son 3 of “Episodes”

The fourth sea­son of “Episodes” pre­mieres tonight on Show­time, promis­ing anoth­er sump­tu­ous feast of Hol­ly­wood send-ups. David Crane’s (“Friends,” “Joey”) hand­i­work has it all: self-obsessed actors, self-impor­tant exec­u­tives, mawk­ish phoni­ness and blood­less betray­als, all set among ubiq­ui­tous lies and decep­tions.  Crane’s satire is pitch-per­fect: over­drawn enough to be fun­ny, but real enough to be (almost) true. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

David Stockman sez we’re all gonna die! He’s wrong. Right?

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Showtime's Savanarola from The Borgias

Show­time’s Sava­naro­la from The Borgias

Sea­son 3 of The Bor­gias pre­mieres on Show­time this Sun­day . For those not yet ensnared in this addic­tion, the series tells the sto­ry of Renais­sance Pope Alexan­der VI, one of the papacy’s most dev­il­ish­ly inter­est­ing char­ac­ters. Show­time takes the usu­al Hol­ly­wood lib­er­ties with his­to­ry, though Alexan­der, born in Spain as Rodri­go de Bor­gia, led a life that needs no embell­ish­ing. Con­tin­ue read­ing →