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Cancelled and Upcoming Shows
In an earlier attempt to consolidate my thread, I deleted the whole thing.
1. Cedric the Entertainer has a new show debuting soon (no exact date yet) but it will be on Fox coupled with the Bernie Mac show. Cedric the Entertainer Presents Premise: Now there's two Original Kings of Comedy on FOX. Cedric pays homage to the comedy/variety shows of the 1950s, bringing to life such characters as the Love Doctor (a marriage therapist who's in love with his own sexy voice), Ray (a golf commentator with a case of the vaports) and Mrs. Cafeteria Lady (the judgmental woman serving your children their lunch). From What We've Seen: Unless it's truly cutting-edge, does the world really need another sketch comedy show? The cast looks strong enough, but there's only so much of stock characters (see premise above) any one person can take. Stars: Cedric the Entertainer, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Shaun Majumber and Amy Brassette Studio: 20th Century Fox Television Producers: Matt Wickline and John Bowman 2. The Hughleys has been cancelled. The new line up will be: 8:00 -- The Parkers 8:30 -- One on One 9:00 -- Girlfriends 9:30 -- Half and Half Half and Half Premise: Two half-sisters who only have their father in common suddenly find themselves neighbors in the same San Francisco apartment building. One's a free spirit, the other an overachiever. One was raised by a single parent, the other had two. Although they agree on next to nothing, the blood bond takes over. Luckily, there's a third-party friend to help smooth the waters when things get rough. From What We've Seen: It's kind of a recycled premise that two sisters from opposite sides of the tracks end up living in the same apartment building. But this show seems to escape being a cliché and could actually deliver some fun moments. It's planted firmly inside UPN's Monday night lineup, which hopes to capture an even stronger black audience, but "Half and Half" could be a crossover success if the network plays its cards correctly. Stars: Rachel True, Essence Atkins ("Smart Guy"), Telma Hopkins ("Family Matters"), Valarie Pettiford ("One Life to Live") and Theron "Chico" Benymon ("Moesha") Studio: CBS Productions Producers: Yvette Lee Bowser 3. In the fall, Damon and Bernie will both be on at 8:00 on the same night. :mad: :mad: I need them to understand I will watch Bernie over Damon but that is splitting both shows viewerships which sucks. Just as long as they don't tamper with SOUL FOOD I am ALL GOOD. :D |
hmmm...I wonder?
What happened to the show For Your Love...the one with the three couples? I loved that show!
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I know they kept taking it on and off at odd times or showing Sunday Night movies. I guess this is their way of getting rid of it. I don't have time to play hide 'n' seek with my TV shows, except for Soul Food.:D |
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Here's the link: http://www.suntimes.com/output/rosen...tr-phil15.html |
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A grown-up 'Cosby' kid returns to TV in own show
Thu Jul 11, 8:53 AM ET Bill Keveney USA TODAY PASADENA, Calif. -- The littlest girl from The Cosby Show is back in a situation comedy, but things are a lot different. Raven-Symone, who started at age 4 on Cosby's hit show, goes by just Raven now. She's about to be a high school senior and the star of a new show, That's So Raven, which premieres in January on the Disney Channel. The series, presented to reporters Wednesday at the summer TV critics' tour, will feature physical comedy while focusing on Raven Baxter, a teen whose ability to see bits of the future gets her into trouble. Rondell Sheridan (Mars/Venus) and T'Keyah Crystal Keymah (In Living Color) play Raven's parents. Raven, 16, says that as the star there are more lines to learn and more time on set. She has talked to the producers about her character and has advised them on current teen slang. She thinks the show is a cool opportunity. ''I've wanted this for a very long time, a show of my own,'' she says. New shows on the menu Pop culture will be on the menu at Top 5, a new Food Network series that will celebrate and then rate popular foods over the years. Former VH1 personality Bobby Rivers will host the series, which premieres Oct. 7. Describing itself as an American Bandstand of food, Top 5 will mimic musical countdown shows, rating foods according to topic, such as Top 5 Food Fads of the '50s and Top 5 Deep-Fried Treats. In November, Food Network will add two series to its Saturday block. Paula's Home Cooking (Nov. 16) will follow Savannah, Ga., restaurateur Paula Deen. In Barefoot Contessa (Nov. 30), cookbook author Ina Garten will make easy, elegant foods. |
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Bernie Mac will not protest
Bernie Mac will not protest
Tuesday, Jul 23, 2002, 2:26 pm EST Bernie Mac Won`t Protest Fox Miami Herald GLENN GARVIN ----------------------------- Angered that the only two major-network TV shows with black casts will compete against one another head to head in the new fall schedule, ABC`s Damon Wayans tried to enlist Fox`s Bernie Mac in a joint public protest to force the networks to juggle their lineups and shift one of the programs to a different time slot. But the protest plan fizzled when Mac refused to go along, he said. "Damon called and told me what he wanted to do. And I told him that I couldn`t support that," Mac told a gathering of television critics here. "I have no problem with Fox. . . . That was a business decision." Wayans last week said he was angry about the scheduling move that pits his sitcom My Wife And Kids directly against The Bernie Mac Show and called it a "`cynical decision." He said he had telephoned Mac to discuss it, but didn`t reveal that he had proposed a protest. The lack of ethnic diversity on prime-time television has been a touchy subject in Hollywood recently, with critics complaining that the industry talks a much better game than it delivers. The lack of Hispanic cast members in the new program CSI: Miami, or Asian actors in two new medical shows set in San Francisco, has prompted sharp rebukes to the networks. But nothing has prompted as much contentious debate as Fox`s decision to shift The Bernie Mac Show to 8 p.m. Wednesday, the time slot where Wayans` program has dominated the ratings for the past two years. The move has been especially controversial because black sitcoms have become the television version of an endangered species: Five have been canceled in the past two years, with Mac and Wayans the only two survivors. But Mac and his producer say that`s just the way it goes in the hardball business of network TV. No one sees any conspiracy, they noted, when white comedians like Jay Leno and Dave Letterman are scheduled against one another. "I don`t think there is any insidious decision to do this," said Larry Wilmore, the black executive producer of The Bernie Mac Show. "I can`t imagine Fox saying" -- he switched to a sinister Dracula voice -- "Hmm, we have to kill this black show on television. Bernie Mac, let`s put it up against it. One of them will fall, certainly." And, Wilmore added, the argument that the two shows shouldn`t be matched against one another presupposes that they only have black viewers. "To just think of our show in the light of being an African-American show kind of marginalizes what The Bernie Mac Show is," he said. "I`ve always thought of it as an American show about American parenting -- an American family, primarily. And the fact that we`re black is really secondary." Fox executives echoed his argument. Research shows that more than half the Bernie Mac audience is white, they said, and that three-quarters of Mac`s black viewers don`t watch Wayans` show. With so little audience duplication, the executives said, both programs should be able to survive in the same time slot. Not that they care if Bernie Mac drives Wayans from the air, added Sandy Grushow, chairman of Fox Television. "We really don`t feel like we`re under any obligation to ensure the success of any of our competitors` shows," Grushow observed drily. "Whether casts are black, white, green, yellow, purple -- we`re in a business here." Mac and Wayans have long been friends. Mac shrugged when asked if the competition will damage their relationship. "I was asked to be here, was asked to put together a show with substance, and now I`m here," said Mac, whose program won several awards during its rookie season last year. "Where I am, I have to play. That just raised the bar for me. I`m not into all the other stuff, as I told Damon. You know, whatever he has to do, he has to do. But it has nothing to do with me . . . . "I think Damon has to worry about Damon. I think Damon needs to worry about My Wife and Kids. And at 8 o`clock, or whatever time we`re coming on, let`s both give good shows, and in between commercials, you flip back to Damon and watch him, and then you make sure you flip back to me." Miami Herald |
7th Heaven
I have missed a couple of seasons of this show but was just watching the season premiere highlights and MY WORD these children have become low key juvenile delinquents. Simon getting money from women. :o
BTW whatever happened to ANY DAY NOW. I stopped watching it a couple of years ago but which way did it go?:confused: Why oh why do they keep adding more law and medical shows?? |
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The only part I found remotely funny was the CAFETERIA LADY. The rest was very ho hum.
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It's something different I must say.....I like it somewhat!
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The show reminded me of a jacked up rendition to the show In Living Colour with the Wayans family. To me it get 2 thumbs down with a head roll with a twist ....Hated IT
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As much as I love Ceddie.....the show is not good. You can see he's trying really hard, with the audience participation and all, but it's just not cutting it. It seems as if he has to be funny for everyone because his supporting actors don't appear to be naturally funny, with the exception of Wendy Racquel Robinson. Now I did laugh at the cafeteria lady and the bicycle getting in your a$$ joke, but other than that, I didn't laugh enough. Cedric spoke about trying to make this similiar to the Flip Wilson days, but I think entertainment has changed. I don't know how tolerant we are today with variety shows. In Living Colour was our last taste of a variety show and in the end it became weak. Now I think we are more comedic sitcoms or stand up comedy type of people. I will watch next week because I want to support him, but as much as I hate to admit it, the show needs alotttttttttttttttttt of work. :( Hopefully he will bring on guest appearances.
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I wasn't impressed with the show at all. :( I love Ced, and I think he is funny, but I can't see his show lasting too long. Hopefully, it will improve. I didn't care for any of the skits, and truthfully, I almost fell asleep because I was not laughing. :o
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Did I miss something?
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I thought it was AIGHT. I'm with CT4 because I loved the "Cafeteria Lady" skit ("I'm like a bicycle wit the seat off, I'll get in yo azz, okay?")
Umm. What was up with the "Que hora es" skit? I'm studying Spanish and I was like :confused: I liked the "Bring Your Kids to Work" skit. I don't know, maybe it doesn't take much for me to laugh. :D Hopefully things will get better next week |
Ced's Show
The cafeteria lady was funny b/c I knew someone just like her in school. The Que Hora Es skit was funny b/c if you heard the intro, he said that it was for "people who had three weeks of Spanish in the 4th grade." I had two years of Spanish in high school, and that's pretty much all we learned. Que Hora Es means what time is it. The bring your kids to work skit was funny, too.
Other than that, I was not laughing much. Hubby, however was ROTFLHAO. Secretly, I think that he was laughing way too hard b/c Ceddy's his frat and all and they gots to support one another. I see this show lasting no more than 5-6 episodes unless major changes are made like better cast members, special guest appearances, funnier characters. |
Cedric Kyles as headliner
Maybe it was because I'd had a Stoli Razberi gimlet :rolleyes:, but I actually found the show somewhat amusing. I liked the cafeteria lady, although the big-man-in-drag scenario is played out (think Nutty Professor w/Eddie Murphy).
So was Que Hora Es. As a sidebar, some of his writers and producers date back to In Living Color days, e.g. Matthew Wickline. |
I love some Ceddie also, but his first show was mostly...BORING...or BUM (as my daughter would put it) and not characteristic of him at all. Now the cafateria lady scene and the scene with Wendy Rachel Robinson as the news anchor who brought her kids to the set was really funny. Other than that, I could have watched a rerun of Law and Order. But who knows? Maybe...just MAYBE... he'll have a better show next week. If not, then we can FORGET about this show staying on and I can go back to watching my reruns. :D :D :D
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The Parkers
The PArkers = HOT ISHTTY AZZZZZZZ GARBAGE!!!!
Come da hell on. #1 -- Sex #2 -- Pregnancy #3 -- He works @ 7/11 #4 -- How you gonna propose to MISS PARKER and not NIKKI. DAS, DAS!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: |
One on One/Girlfriends
Looks like we are 2 for 2 on DA Episodes. :mad: I cannot believe how this episode went. Can we just say BOOOOOOOO Unbelievable.
Oh and someone tell Tracee Ross to take off that silver top. :eek: ~~~~~~ TERoss, strapless dresses should not smoosh your breastses. :eek: #1 the dress was not cute #2 smooshed breastses :eek: I did like Lynn's flat ironed hair though. I liked this episode for the most part. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1/2 & 1/2 -- so far (1st commercial) DeeDee #1 = annoying DeeDee #2 = spoiled Mona = tacky azzzzz boots Phyllis shoulda cold cocked DeeDee #1 for her comment about her attire. Also HOW DArE them scallywags bust up in ol girl's apt.:mad: Oh and 1/2 is also more than a 1/2 of HOT MESS. Mona WHINES too much. Essence is annoying. I have not liked her since The Smart Guy. |
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So she is prego with Stanley's baby and says they can name the baby Stanlisha (pardon me as I puke) So then the PROFESSOR gets convicted and he PROPOSES To Miss Parker. He literally says Miss Parker WILL you marry me? :mad: :rolleyes: OH and he was fired as professor from SMC and THE OOOONLIEST job he could get was at a 7/11 where he is asst. manager.:rolleyes: :confused: |
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She was "36" when the show started because Kim was 18 and she had an 18 year jump on Kim, but if it was four years ago, she should be 40-41ish. So this is the second "uplanned" pregnancy she's had to face huh?:o And you have the educational background to be a "professor:rolleyes: " at a junior college, but you're at 7-11? Hmmmmm. And please, please do not tell me they are still in community college. Don't tell me that. And I've always wondered, before she quit selling "Lady Egyptian" cosmetics, was that the only job she had??? That's like selling Mary Kay and I know you cannot afford to get your hair done weekly, have a nice wardrobe like hers, and rent a nice apartment while still going to school on that salary. The writers for this sitcom need to be put in the street and ran over by a loaded charter bus. I was thinking of tuning in next week, but nah:p . Thanks CT4 for the info. |
GLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORY!!!
PERMANENTLY PARKED: It seems as though the future of the hit UPN sitcom, “The Parkers” is bleak. As a matter of fact, there is no future for the popular show.
The RU Report has exclusively learned that the physical comedy –starring plus-sized funny-woman Mo’Nique and TV star Countess Vaughan-- will shutter with the taping of the January 23 show after a five-year run. Created by sitcom veterans Ralph Farquhar, Sara V. Finney and Vida Spears, the “Moesha” spin-off centered on the comical exploits of a feisty, fashionably hip mother and her dim-witted daughter, both students at the same college. The show has been a staple on the network’s Monday night line-up and has served as a launching pad for other successful shows, such as “Eve,” “Girlfriends” and “One On One.” According to a production insider, the powers that be at UPN – a Viacom property—didn’t want to continue producing the show because of its cost. After 110 episodes, the show recently went into syndication. Hmmmm. I’ll go on the record and say it: When is comes to shows targeted to the African American demo, as soon as syndication rights roll around – the show goes down the tubes (no pun intended). Meanwhile, some “other” shows can still be on the network, and be seen several times a day in syndication. How clear! We were told to stay tuned for more details. But why wait for someone else to deliver the news on the demise of another show that’s a favorite amongst Black households. Which ones?? Not mine!! What will be interesting is to see what show will fill “The Parkers”’ slot. Even more interesting is what will happen to the cast members. Mo’Nique, a best-selling author and host of the Suzanne De Passe-helmed “Showtime At The Apollo,” seemed to be the only one who diversified her portfolio. Well wishes to them all. |
I hope they do cancel this show.
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Oh well. Another one bites the dust.
I may be among the minority here, but I happened to like The Parkers.... |
This was a forward I received from a listserve.
If you are a fan of The Parkers. . . Well please sign the petition because (as the show wraps up) T. goes to Berkely, Stevie goes to UCLA, Mo'Nique is awaiting acceptance to Weatherly, when she gets proposed to by another man, and the professor gets a new teaching job at Weatherly. Kim is the only one who does not graduate, since she is 60 credits "shy", lol. She goes on to open her own business with Stevie being the business manager. So please sign the petition http://www.petitiononline.com/parkers/petition.html and lets see if we can keep the show on the air!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I won't be signing it, but for those of you who want to keep the show on the air:confused: :o have at it. |
PETITION TO SAVE THE PARKERS
The Parkers has been on the air since August 1999. Since then it has been like a rolling stone gathering moss, getting more popular year by year. Now there is word that the show is going off the air. I am asking all fans of this show to please sign this petition to help save "The Parkers". This show has been a staple in many African American homes since its inception. It proved to be a comedic show that people young and old alike could relate to. And although it does the best in African American homes, I think ALL people got a kick out it. Everyone knows a "Kim" or "Nikki Parker". Fans are shocked, mostly hurt, and some are even mad that their favorite show is going off the air. The Parkers is STILL in its prime, to end it now would be dreadful. I ask you UPN to please give The Parkers another season or two. We fans wont go as far as to boycott you because we were blessed enough to have the show this long. But with shows like Friends lasting 10seasons, I think "The Parkers" deserves, at the least, 1 or 2 more seasons. ************************************************** ** A staple in many African American homes. :confused: I'm sorry that cast and crew will be out of work. I know how it feels to be unemployed, but it is time this show improved or get cancelled. |
I looked at the petition; so far it has 28 signatures. ONe signature is HELGA PATACKY, LMAO. :D
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However, I did succomb and began watching the Friends reruns. :o I'm not going to say The Parkers deserves 10 seasons. I'm not mad to see it go. |
I must say that I do watch this show. However it is due to the fact that I do not have cable. I can say that this show has gone further down the tubes. Kim has just gone from dumb to stupid.
Last night my boyfriend and I were watching the show and Nikki was chasing after the professor (as usual) and my boyfriend said the simple solution to the professor’s problem is a restraining order! |
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I will admit that I watch The Parkers every once in a while, but I will not sign a petition to keep it on!!
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Tonight is the series finale. . . If Nikki leaves Johnny for the Professor, Imma be :mad:
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The reason that the Parkers are going off the air after 5 years is because according to UPN, they only keep shows on the air for 5 years. Once they hit that 5 year mark the show gets cancelled. Now some other station can pick i tup, but UPN won't renew it.
As for the last show, I don't want Nikki to marry the professor. I mean damn you been chasing this man for 5 years, you found someone that wants to be with you, and is in love with you. Let the professor be by his stank self at that new college where he got a job. |
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