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Eric and Matt here, with some post-NYCC catch up for you. On the news front, we bid farewell to Charlie's Angels, while Suburgatory, Revenge, The Secret Circle, Ringer and Hart of Dixie get full seasons and Boardwalk Empire and Sons of Anarchy are renewed.
Welcome to Channel Surfing, the IGN TV podcast. This is where the staff of IGN TV (and occasional guests) lends their print-ready voices to the world of podcasting!

Breaking Bad!! Ahem, excuse us. We just are a bit excited about this oh-so awesome show. With Season 4 having just ended, Eric and Matt, joined by IGN freelancer (and Breaking Bad reviewer extraordinaire) Seth Amitin, talk a little bit of news (How to Be a Gentleman cancelled, New Girl taking an oddly timed break) and then it's onto a whole bunch of Breaking Bad discussion this time out.

Breaking Bad: Season Finale Review

From our thoughts on the season finale, "Face Off," and the fate of, ahem, a certain character to the ever-escalating scenarios that played out all year, we have plenty to say about Walter White and his ever-tense world.
Welcome to Channel Surfing, the IGN TV podcast. This is where the staff of IGN TV (and occasional guests) lends their print-ready voices to the world of podcasting!

Hello, those who enjoy the surfing of the chat, Eric and Matt are back, with another busy week of TV news for ya. We've been teased for years with the possibility of a movie, but now it sounds like Arrested Development is actually coming back to TV? Please let this not be some elaborate hoax! Meanwhile, it looked like The Simpsons could be coming to an end due to contract negotiations… but then it didn't. Plus, we discuss Dexter having another star/contract squabble.
We began to see our first cancellations of the new season this week, and we discuss the end of The Playboy Club, Free Agents and H8R… none of which will be particularly missed. However, it was much better news for 2 Broke Girls, Whitney and Up All Night, which got full season orders. But wait, there's more! We've got the possibility of a Reno 911! revival, a new Batman animated series -- Beware The Batman -- for the fans to freak out about, the Coen Bros. developing their first TV series (Harve Karbo), a Snoop Dogg sitcom and the mega-geek team-up of Jon Favreau, Seth Green, Roberto Orci and Michael Dougherty for ABC's Ex-Comm. And, you know… other stuff too!
Not only does the Martin Scorsese-produced HBO Prohibition-era series tout great performances and thoughtful writing, but the entire series is a bit of a history lesson as well. Sure, there are the wonderful moments of gruesome violence set to dance hall jazz, but viewers also get to learn about life back in 1920 -- when VA hospitals made creepy plastic masks for guys who had half their faces blown off and premature babies in incubators were put on display for tourists.

Given the actors, writers, producers and directors involved with this ambitious OG gangster series, there was really no possible way it was going to suck in the slightest. This was always going to be the show to beat this fall.
Steve Buscemi, after decades of great supporting performances, is finally given the dream-role spotlight here. And scenes like the one where Buscemi's Atlantic City Treasurer, Nucky Thompson, tenderly recounts the memory of a childhood beating to Kelly Macdonald's widow Margaret, or the one where Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) shares some memories of some rather potent war atrocities at a cafe with a low-level thug who cut up a prostitute's face, are prime examples of how this show is almost at its absolute best when it's quiet and just lets the history and the surroundings breathe.
Sure, it's easy to throw your support behind a show about gangsters, female ninja chicks or armies of the undead out for an eternal stroll, but how about two sublimely grizzled and uniquely clever unlicensed private investigators from the Ocean Beach district of San Diego?

From executive producers Ted Griffin (writer of Ocean's 11) and Shawn Ryan (creator of The Shield), FX's Terriers crackles with excellent writing, excellent acting and the most original sleuthing exploits around. When critics enjoy a show, they like to throw around terms like "brilliant," "riveting" or "gem." Mostly, it's all just pander-play, but in Terriers' case it fits to a "T." Terriers is a brilliant, riveting gem.