Q: Can you please tell me when "The Americans" and "Tyrant" are returning to the FX channel?
It looks like FX has you covered straight through the summer, if those are your shows. "The Americans" is slated to return March 16, with a 13-episode season that will run into June, when "Tyrant" should be back.
I say "should be" because while FX has been generous enough to offer a precise premiere date for "The Americans," it hasn't done so yet for "Tyrant." Both of its previous seasons had June premieres, though, so it's a safe bet Season 3 will as well.
Late Laughs for the week of February 14 - February 20, 2016
Jimmy Kimmel Live
"The Bachelor" is like a reality show version of The Hobbit. Everyone is on a mission to try to get the ring, and, along the way, many of these pilgrims become insane.
Donald Trump got a major endorsement today from none other than Sarah Palin. She agreed to endorse him and he agreed to let her shoot that fuzzy animal off his head.
The last full moon: Syfy's werewolf drama prepares for its last season
Laura Vandervoort and Greyston Holt star in "Bitten"
The last full moon: The werewolf thriller/drama from Space (Canada's sci-fi network) is coming to an end, and it's not even happening on a full moon. Not that that really matters. Real werewolves don't need a full moon to transform, of course.
Culinary cunning: Bravo's 'Recipe for Deception' brings mind games to the kitchen
Chris Oh, Max Silvestri and Jonathan Waxman as seen in "Recipe for Deception"
Ah, food! It brings people together like nothing else does. But in Bravo's latest cooking competition, it also turns people into dirty liars.
New Releases for the week of February 14 - 20
Steve Jobs
The year is 1984, and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (Fassbender) is riding high after the successful launch of the Macintosh computer. Behind the spotlight, though, lives a troubled man who humiliates and belittles his subordinates, alienates Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Rogen) and refuses to acknowledge his daughter from his ex-girlfriend, Chrisann (Waterston). Over the course of the next several years, as Jobs launches three different computer products at two different companies, his personal relationships and ambitions push him to become one of the fathers of the modern digital computing age.
Director: Danny Boyle. Stars: Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Kate Winslet, Katherine Waterston, Michael Stuhlbarg. 2015. 122 min. Biography.
Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (Cranston) is one of the most celebrated screenwriters in Hollywood during the 1940s. However, he refuses to hide his communist sympathies, speaking publicly about his support of organized labor and joining the Communist Party. As paranoia about communists sweeps the nation, Trumbo and many of his peers are thrown into prison. After serving their sentences, they find themselves blacklisted in the film industry and unable to find work. Now living in poverty, Trumbo begins ghostwriting, and watches from the sidelines as others receive credit for his Academy Award-winning screenplays. Meanwhile, his family life deteriorates as his wife (Lane) and children need to find jobs to support the struggling family.
Director: Jay Roach. Stars: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Michael Stuhlbarg, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., John Goodman. 2015. 124 min. Biography.
The 33
Mario Sepúlveda (Banderas) is, along with 32 others, a gold miner from the Chilean city of Copiapó who becomes trapped deep beneath the Earth's surface when the mine shaft collapses. In the rescue chamber, they find an empty first aid kit, a non-functional radio and very little food. Back on the surface, public outrage grows as news of the mining company's horrible safety record spreads, and the government vows to find any survivors and bring them home to their families in this true story based on the 2010 disaster.
Director: Patricia Riggen. Stars: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin. 2015. 127 min. Biography.
Return to rock: Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese light up HBO with 'Vinyl'
Bobby Cannavale and Olivia Wilde star in "Vinyl"
It's only rock 'n' roll, but he likes it. In the 1970s, The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger was one of the most recognizable and influential figures in the music industry, rubbing elbows with other icons of the day. So who better to consult for a TV series about the hedonistic era?
Grandfathered, on Fox
Jimmy (John Stamos) and Sara (Paget Brewster) stop at nothing to find out who bit Edie (Layla/Emelia Golfieri) at school in this new episode. Elsewhere, Gerald (Josh Peck) and Vanessa (Christina Milian) meet with a tech investor (guest star Drake Bell).
Q: I love "The Whole Nine Yards," and someone was telling me about another movie with Bruce Willis and Kevin Pollak. What is it called?
Actually, Bruce Willis and Kevin Pollak have starred in three other movies together.
It's easy to forget that both are as comfortable in drama as comedy, so your friend might have forgotten that they also appeared in the 2005 action-drama "Hostage" together.
They also appeared in the 2012 buddy-cop comedy "Cop Out" and in the 2004 sequel to "The Whole Nine Yards," predictably titled "The Whole Ten Yards." Your friend may have forgotten this one because it was a flop.
Q: Whatever happened to Richard Dean Anderson after "MacGyver"? I have not seen or heard anything about him in years. How old is he now and did he ever get married and have children? Also, was the man who played his grandfather, Harry, his real grandfathe
It's actually hard to say exactly what's happened to him, because Richard Dean Anderson is an incredibly private guy.
Anderson, who just turned 66, had one more big role after "MacGyver" -- Jack O'Neill in the long-running sci-fi series "Stargate SG-1" (and, later, the less long-running "SGU Stargate Universe").
The X-Files, on Fox
Actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani guest stars in a new episode of this much-anticipated series. Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) are called in when a dead body with mysterious injuries is found in the woods.
