SERIES PREMIERE: Assassins and hit men (or, to be politically correct, hit people) have proven fascinating when put in vehicles making room for dark comedy as well as drama. Cases in point: Grosse Pointe Blank or any of the movie or TV incarnations of Fargo. Starting tonight, Saturday Night Live alumnus Bill Hader joins that trigger-happy club — where trigger-happy, I just realized, in this context has a tasty double meaning. He plays a killer for hire who pursues his next target to a Hollywood acting class, and finds a new direction there. Henry Winkler plays the veteran acting coach, and dives into the role with the same sort of genial gusto William Shatner brought to Denny Crane on Boston Legal. For full reviews, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes and David Hinckley's All Along the Watchower.

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