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Natasha Lyonne Is Fighting With Mark Ruffalo Over Which One Should Star In A...
Netflix Everything gets rebooted these days, but there’s one property that has so far gone unsullied: Columbo, the peerless and unique detective show that gave Peter Falk arguably (well, almost...
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Natasha Lyonne And Rian Johnson Are Making A Detective Show, Which Is Almost...
Netflix It was almost a year ago that the internet got into a bit of an argument: Who should star in a theoretical reboot of Peter Falk’s detective classic Columbo? Is it Mark Ruffalo, who has a kind...
View ArticleR.I.P. Peter Falk
Peter Falk, who won four Emmys for his work as the star of “Columbo,” has died at the age of 83. Family members tell KNX-1070 that Falk died Thursday night at his home in Beverly Hills. They declined...
View ArticlePeter Falk earns his angel wings at 83
Peter Falk was a giant. Not in stature, of course. One of the things that made him interesting on film was his perpetually rumpled appearance, the way he looked like life had put its thumb on him at...
View Article“Alzheimer’s Disease ain’t nothin to Falk with.” -Roger Ebert
America lost its favorite cross-eyed detective today as Peter Falk, best known as Columbo, died in Beverly Hills at the age of 83, just two years younger than Hugh Hefner. I think we can all agree that...
View ArticleThat Time William Shatner Guest-Starred On ‘Columbo’ And Dressed Like This
We’ve had a busy day around here. We covered everything from awesome casting news to Juggalos to a double dose of Breaking Bad to a call for a revolution to math. That’s an incredibly full day. So,...
View ArticleA Quick Note About The Time Johnny Cash Played The Murderer On An Episode Of...
A lot of people will tell you that between shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad, the last 10-15 years may represent the greatest period in the history of television drama. This...
View ArticleDISCUSSION: Better Lawman: Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens Or Columbo?
This weekend I was watching an old episode of Columbo — “Troubled Waters,” in which Columbo solves the murder of a cruise ship singer while he and his wife are on vacation on the open seas, and don’t...
View ArticleFriday Conversation: What TV Show Or Movie WOULD You Like To See Get Rebooted?
The world has gone god dang reboot crazy these days, as Dustin outlined in this post earlier today. And that list is just the TV shows. It doesn’t even mention the news that Paul Feig is making an...
View ArticleTV’s greatest cops
Television has delivered viewers an array of police characters over the years, from Peter Falk”s rumpled but underestimated Lt. Columbo to always fashion-forward Sonny Crockett to the morally...
View ArticleThe best TV police procedurals ever
HBO's The Night Of is basically two familiar TV genres in one: a police procedural that overlaps with a courtroom procedural. It's far from the first to try that (Law & Order) waves hi, but the...
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Presenting The Peak TV Fake Show Challenge
Getty/NBC Being a rascal can be fun when the results are mostly harmless. I really recommend it. I once spent the better part of a month trying to convince people that drywall was invented by former...
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Who Should Play Columbo In The Reboot Someone Is Probably Going To Make?
Universal It is 2018 and reboots are hot hot hot. Actually, they’ve been hot for a while now. And a lot of them aren’t really “reboots” — in the strictest sense of the word — as they are continuations...
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Please Allow ‘Poker Face’ Star Natasha Lyonne To Explain Her Dream World...
Peacock Natasha Lyonne is one of our most eccentric screen stars. She’s also one of our most eccentric interviews. Like her characters on Russian Doll and the forthcoming detective show Poker Face,...
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