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...married parents and single parents. The family is set abuzz in the pilot when Stepgrandpa Wendal (Max Gail) announces that he's leaving Grandma Colleen (Dee Wallace)--and then doesn't. The material is typical family-comedy stuff--money fights, bedroom troubles, sibling rivalries--but the show's conversational improv rhythms and realistic, documentary style make Sons and Daughters worth adopting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: 6 Totally Funny TV Series | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

Nate Stahlings (Josh Dean), new college grad, is starting adult life on the slow track--specifically, the move-back-to-your-folks'-house-in-Missouri track. Ride is, like Sons and Daughters, partly improvised (creator Rob Roy Thomas brought us Bravo's improv-com Significant Others), and that gives the slacker comedy an appealing, meandering feel. Good-hearted, eccentric and wry, Ride goes nowhere fast, but it has a fine time getting there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: 6 Totally Funny TV Series | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...Currently, Averell performs in a local improv troupe, and, according to Eirich does “odds and ends jobs—extra work on TV shows, commercials...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Grad, Art Imitates Life’s “Amazing Race” | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...Improv comic, tour guide, former UC Rep, and snake tamer, Sam has little left to accomplish in his life except to be an associate for FM. He already runs a small country, and we hear he invented Facebook/Dormaid. We welcome the young man aboard, and don’t forget, for when you’re old—Teller is Steller...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Guard | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...last night at the show,” although he was a Sebadoh fan as a college radio DJ.The band’s set was paradoxically both reminiscent of their recordings and like nothing they’ve ever played. There were no songs, just 40 minutes of improv: a Pennsylvania Dutch kraut jam session. Moloney especially admires German rockers Can, as their “records are improvised, played on the spot…and that’s our approach too.”The hypnotic bass led the drums like dogs in heat, but most...

Author: By Evan L. Hanlon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dinosaur Jr. Roam Once More | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

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