Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, June 16. All times are Eastern.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, June 14 and Saturday, June 15. All times are Eastern.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, June 13. All times are Eastern.

The Takeout would like to officially voice our hope that someone will #SaveAPBio, and not just because Patton Oswalt so keenly hopes it will happen. Though Oswalt is undeniably biased—he plays the long-suffering Principal Durbin on the Mike O’Brien-created sitcom—he’s also clearly passionate about this thoughtful,…

Janine, a woman driven to a place of sweetness and singular focus by extreme hardship and physical and psychological abuse, seems to vibrate in place. She’s guileless, all raw emotion and pure need, with so much love pouring forth that to look at her can be difficult. This is not a world built for such a person, even…

It’s been 15 years since Mountain Dew first unleashed Baja Blast on the unsuspecting public, a partnership with Taco Bell that was a first for the vividly-colored soft drink brand. But now the Dew has dared to dance the wicked dance again, this time with KFC, unstoppering the cork on a soda that was created to pair…

Fellow humans: If taking out your phone while on the train, placing an order for a double tall vanilla latte, then grabbing it from the counter when you arrive at Starbucks seems like entirely too much trouble, Amazon would like your attention. Business Insider reports that the monolithic corporation has begun…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, June 12. All times are Eastern.

Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports, and arguing on Slack.

“Breaking Through The Noise” shouldn’t work. The plot does all sorts of things that rarely succeed—twists that come from nowhere, characters acting in ways that seem out of character, some moments of anti-climax, loads of implausibility, the list goes on. Yet it does, because a lot of those things are also pretty true…

In last night’s loss to the Golden State Warriors, the Toronto Raptors hit eight three-pointers. It’s bad news for Toronto fans (though not too bad—they’re still up one game on the Warriors), but probably pretty great news for Ontario McDonald’s locations. That’s because last year, McDonald’s signed a sponsorship…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, June 11. All times are Eastern.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, June 9. All times are Eastern.

“No more fucking,” Lorraine Zimmer (Julie White) says to two members of President Tom Kirkman’s team, after they have, in fact, fucked. It’s a surprising, lively moment, a moment of bracing frankness, and it briefly throws the show off-center. Suddenly, there are people in that room—not exposition-delivering machines,…

Meet Miss Eva Cado!

This week, Forbes declared that Jay-Z is the first hip-hop artist to become a billionaire—to be precise, he has “accumulated a fortune that conservatively totals $1 billion,” thanks to a “steadily growing kingdom [that is] expansive, encompassing liquor, art, real estate (homes in Los Angeles, the Hamptons, Tribeca)…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, June 6. All times are Eastern.

Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports, and arguing on Slack.

Here’s a thing that just about everyone who watches this show will presumably agree on: Yvonne Strahovski is very good at her job. Here’s another: The uniform for the wives is a lovely color. Thus endeth the consensus on Serena Joy.