When the son finds he must "man up" after his father is incarcerated for some rather shady accounting practices, life becomes a roller coaster ride for the entire family. Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) is a widower who has a thirteen year old son and finds the entire family needs his support (and common sense) to survive. Mom (Lucille) lives in a penthouse by herself but cannot afford her chosen lifestyle. Michael has two brothers, Buster and GOB, in addition to a sister Lindsay and her husband Tobias plus a daughter called Maeby. They each must learn to cope with their sudden alternate financial dilemma. Seems the family financial assets have been "frozen" due to dad's shifty money handling. Each member of this rather dysfunctional family needs to learn how to cope with limited finances after living a rather pampered existence before dad went off to prison. The show is narrated by a familiar voice (Ron Howard) who is also an executive producer. This "riches to rags" story shows how selfishness and materialism can create some rather unpleasant personality conflicts but a sense of humor will prevail. And there is plenty of humor on this show.

A pair of young women make for "strange bedfellows" when they finally become friends of sort after one's attempts to scam the other fail. June Colbern moves to New York only to find her dream job falls apart when the mortgage company she went to work for suddenly falls apart as the company goes under due to ripping off schemes. After losing her apartment she moves in with Chloe who June discovers is a con artist. They do become friends however and Apartment 23 becomes a place of interest to other local residents like Robin, a neighbor obsessed with Chloe, Eli who lives next door and spies on the women. Chloe has one good friend in James Van Der Beek (played by James Van Der Beek) on whom she can rely. Starring as Chloe is Krysten Ritter from Veronica Mars & Gilmore Girls, Dreama Walker from Gossip Girl & The Good Wife is June Colbern, Robin is played by Liza Lapira from Fast & Furious and Crazy, Stupid, Love. James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek, Mercy) plays a fictionalized version of himself. Fun series with plenty of New York scenery.

"Whose Line Is It Anyway?" is an American improvisational comedy show that first aired in 1998. The show is based on a British version that aired in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The American version features a group of four comedians who perform comedic skits and games based on audience suggestions.

"Arthur's Law" is a German dark comedy TV series about a man named Arthur Ahnepol who is unhappy with his life and wants to start over. He decides to rob a bank, but things go wrong, and he ends up in jail. While in jail, he meets a man who tells him about "Arthur's Law," which states that if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. Arthur begins to believe in this theory, and when he is released from jail, he puts it to the test.

According to the series' creator Marc Cherry, "Desperate Housewives TV show" recreates the suburban malaise of the hit movie American Beuaty, substituting irony for melancholy. Cherry reportedly conceived the show after watching news reports about Andrea Yates. When he first pitched the show, Cherry called it a "parody" of soap operas; when ABC picked-up the show, executives told Cherry to focus on the soap opera and the parody would take care of itself. They were right. Up and down Wisteria Lane, four women wage love and sustain family life, cleverly concealing all kinds of insidious plots, illicit affairs, and the occasional felony. Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Eva Longoria Parker have imprinted their styles on their characters, collecting armloads of Emmys, Golden Globe Awards, and Screen Actors' Guild Awards along the way. In April, 2007, ratings experts reported "Desperate Housewives" was the most popular tv show in its global demographic, boasting more 120 million worldwide viewers. Behind the scenes, a little bit of the show's history reveals how Disney executives can overdose on their own sugary snacks. Shortly after programmers Lloyd Braun and Susan Lyne gave the go-ahead for "Desperate Housewives," the suits fired them, because they simultaneously had approved an extremely "risky" TV show called "Lost."

Sketches are a comics best format for television and Nick Swardson has a show that's loaded with them. Each episode displays some sort of rank and raunchy humorous ingredients that will make 7th graders giggle and adults cover their heads. But along the way some of it is actually funny even if rather dark. Skits about cats in wheelchairs, snipers who masturbate, and incestual dreams involving the Nightmare on Elm Street movies are unusual fare for family television nights and when the show's main character sits and tells us about what we are about to see we begin to wonder what world this is. Nick's dead cat, Fitzgerald, is fair game for another episode as are a fatherly bucket list for a dying son, urine powered cars, and even a Gay Robot. Never one to be short on "off the wall" ideas, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time will give viewers a peek into a rather weird place, the mind of Swardson. Imagine, if you will, recovering a time capsule full of sex objects, or following Gay Robot as he buys airplane tickets to visit the alien probe site (area 51 come to mind?), or maybe learn how a forest ranger steps in to break up intimate moments between homosexuals. All this and more can be found on the Nick Swardson's Pretend Time show.