Ryan Phillippe is the new Julian Assange.

Tags: charlie's angels, community, damages, happy endings, ken marino, marlon wayans, memphis beat, new girl, saturday night live, taran killam, wildwood

As a huge fan of Joshua Malina (and his Twitter, which is seriously the best) and Michael Ian Black, I was delighted to discover their collaborative web series Backwash, which launched last week. The show is a collection of seven-minute shorts and there are only 13 of them in the can, but it really is a nice little comedy diversion to break up the cat videos and local news mishaps you usually spend your day watching. Plus, it's star-studded!

Tags: Allison Janney, Backwash, Jo Lo Truglio, John Stamos, Jon Hamm, Joshua Malina, Ken Marino, Michael Ian Black

The In the Motherhood premiere just made me sad, everybody. Why get some of the best comedic talent on television together just to make something so inoffensive and mediocre? It's such a waste of everything. Cheryl Hines, Jessica St. Clair, Megan Mullally, Ken Marino, Rachael Harris, skinny Horatio Sanz and Kenny Powers' best friend/the nudie cokehead from Reno 911! are all so good it almost made up for the largely flat jokes (to be fair, there were one or two jokes that did work, but the rest weren't even awful, they were just meh, which is almost worse) and contrived, unoriginal situations (getting caught having sex at work, getting caught faking a pregnancy, how to tell the kids -- spoiler alert, six-year-olds reading this! -- Santa's not real -- such groaners), but I don't think even they make it worth watching a second episode of this.

Tags: ABC, Cheryl Hines, Horatio Sanz, In the Motherhood, Jessica St. Clair, Ken Marino, Megan Mullally, Samantha Who?