“Dinner For Five” is back, and I now know about it, thanks to the miracle that is TiVo. The show nicely fills the Friday-night geek void in my life now that “Battlestar Galactica” is on hiatus.
If you missed the first two new, better-than-ever episodes, don’t fret. It’s a cable show. Repeated endlessly. Expect to bliss out during a gigantor Thanksgiving-Day marathon if your useless in-laws will stay quiet long enough.
Last week? Jon Favreau hosted Jeffrey Tambor and Jason Bateman. And Bateman told everybody “The Larry Sanders Show” was better than the soon-to-be-cancelled “Arrested Development.”
There’s no shame in Bateman admitting this! HBO’s “Larry Sanders,” scientists have determined, is certainly one of the four finest sitcoms ever created, right alongside “Fawlty Towers,” early “Simpsons” and “Cheers.” “Sanders,” in fact, may – MAY – be the best sitcom in the history of television. Hey now.
Tonight? Bruce Campbell, Roger Corman, Rob Zombie and Faizon Love.
10 p.m. Friday. IFC.
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