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Bob's Burgers Premieres Tonight

Bob's Burgers premieres tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET on Fox. This new animated comedy comes from creator Loren Bouchard (Home Movies, Lucy, Daughter of the Devil) about a man, his family and their floundering burger joint. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and occasionally spotty service, Bob and his lovable and quirky family are convinced their burgers are their ticket to success. I'm especially looking forward to the performance of H. Jon Benjamin, who kills on Archer, and Kristen Schaal, whose career has skyrocketed since she became a stalker on Flight of the Conchords. Both have distinct voices and know how to bring the comedy. Watch interviews with the cast during Comic-Con 2010 at the Fox website.

Fatburger Is Bob’s Burgers — For Now Anyway

Nearly 70 Fatburger restaurants across the country have transformed into Bob’s Burgers to promote a new animated FOX comedy of the same name.

For the remainder of the month, all 64 Fatburger locations from Miami to Chicago will appear as Bob’s Burgers. The restaurant chain will also offer the fictional burger featured on the series as a special.
The new series features a side-splitting third-generation restaurateur, Bob Belcher, who runs Bob’s Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids.
Bob’s Burgers premieres this Sunday, Jan. 9 @ 7:30 PM on FOX. 

Californication, Episodes, Shameless, The Cape, Bob's Burgers, Off the Map

Season Premiere: When last we left carousing writer Hank Moody (David Duchovny) way back in December 2009, he was being hauled off to jail after it was revealed that he’d ignorantly and consensually nailed then-16-year-old Mia (Madeline Zima) way back in Season 1. Upside-ish, it also came out that he was the actual author of Mia’s bestselling book—not that his girlfriend and daughter care much after those statutory-rape charges.

Season 4 is all about Hank’s road to redemption: He has to stay out of prison, make some money to stay afloat and oversee the film version of his newly reclaimed novel (starring a hysterically over-the-top actor played by Rob Lowe playing Brad Pitt playing David Duchovny playing Hank Moody). Of course, there’s plenty of sex (with Carla Gugino and Rescue Me’s Callie Thorne, among others), drugs and rock & roll (his daughter joins an all-girl band with odd taste in cover tunes), but it all plays like the final debacherous chapter for Californication. If this really is The End, it’s a damned good, and satisfying, conclusion; if not, can’t wait to see Hank on the movie-promotion circuit next year.

Series Debuts: The much-publicized performance of Friends’ Matt LeBlanc as Matt LeBlanc on Showtime’s Episodes isn’t just a one-note goof portraying the former “Joey” as an arrogant prick—he’s an arrogant prick who can also be charming, manipulative and show-biz smart. Soon after a married writing team (Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig) sells their hit British TV comedy to a U.S. network and move to Los Angeles to adapt it, they realize the ’Mericans are going to completely alter/ruin their highbrow original—specifically, by casting LeBlanc in the lead. Episodes is funnier and deeper than the Hollywood-insider premise would suggest and, at only seven 30-minute installments, never drags.
Shameless, starring William H. Macy as a perpetually drunk/broke/absent single father of six, however, is a tougher sell: While Macy, Emmy Rossum (as his 20-something daughter who runs the household) and the kiddie cast are excellent, watching them live on top of each other in a rundown Chicago house and scrape by (legally and, mostly, otherwise) makes for a claustrophobic hour. Fortunately, enough wicked humor pokes through to keep Shameless from being a total downer—but they can’t have Macy being violated with a dildo by Joan Cusack every week … can they? 

Series Debut: If I can get through this without laughing, so can you: An honest cop (David Lyons) framed for murder and believed dead disappears underground, only to wind up with a gang of circus performers who also rob banks. There, the not-dead cop trains to become The Cape, a superhero who fights with his, well, cape. With the help of an “investigative blogger” (Summer Glau), The Cape will battle crime, clear his name, return to his wife and son, and … OK, I’m tapping out.  

Series Debut: If only Bob’s Burgers were half as funny as The Cape. The only thing this badly scribbled new brick in the “Animation Domination” wall has going for it is the voice of H. Jon Benjamin—and you can hear him on FX’s far, far, far superior Archer come Jan. 27. Just leave Sundays to Seth MacFarlane and Matt Groening, Fox. 

Series Debut: From the producers of Grey’s Anatomy, it’s Doctors Without Borders meets Doctors Without Pants. Like the show, that zinger sucks—and it’s still funnier than Bob’s Burgers.