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!

Re: hmmm...I wonder?
 

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

Re: hmmm...I wonder?
 

I read that "For Your Love" has been cancelled.

Here's the link:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/rosen...tr-phil15.html

Clawd. . .
 

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.

Re: Clawd. . .
 

Will pass comment on Raven Symone. But I'm looking forward to the Barefoot Contessa show on Food Network. I love fancy food emporiums. If I had a lick of money sense, I'd open my own food emporium.

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
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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??

Re: 7th Heaven
 

It got canceled after last season.

The only part I found remotely funny was the CAFETERIA LADY. The rest was very ho hum.

It's something different I must say.....I like it somewhat!

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

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.

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

Did I miss something?

When did the show air?

:confused: