"Eve" Premieres and the Girlfriends and the UPN Premieres... The verdict please

AKA2D '91 · #1 04-29-2003, 08:24 AM

The Opposite Sex (UPN)
Singer Eve (Barbershop) stars in a romantic comedy about a clothing designer that looks at relationships from both male and female perspectives.

Hotel (UPN)
Aaron Spelling updates his 1980s series, set in a trendy Miami hotel. Stars Michael Jai White (Wonderland), Christina Vidal (Taina)

For other shows:
http://entertainment.msn.com/news/ar...px?news=119340

CrimsonTide4 · #2 04-29-2003, 08:31 AM

Mr. Ed? again? Umm no thanks
The Courtship of Eddie's Father? No thanks one mo gin.

They gonna cancel SOUL FOOD but bring back bull mierda. Pretty soon, I guess I can expect to see LASSIE and LEAVE IT TO BEAVER's GREAT GRANDKIDS, huh??

Steeltrap · #3 04-29-2003, 11:55 AM

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Mr. Ed? again? Umm no thanks
The Courtship of Eddie's Father? No thanks one mo gin.

They gonna cancel SOUL FOOD but bring back bull mierda. Pretty soon, I guess I can expect to see LASSIE and LEAVE IT TO BEAVER's GREAT GRANDKIDS, huh??

Hey, I liked the Courtship of Eddie's Father back in the day, when I was a little girl.

IMO, this is just a reflection of movies. Why do people make Terminator 8, 9, 10?

Gyrl7 · #4 04-29-2003, 05:30 PM

I will either be in the bed sleep or at the Likka Stoe!

CrimsonTide4 · #5 06-29-2003, 11:46 PM

(6/26/06, 10 a.m. ET) -- The Opposite Sex, a new fall sitcom starring the rapper Eve, has been renamed Eve. UPN switched the show's title to increase awareness for the series. Despite the title change, Eve's character is still going to be named Shelly, notes AP.

Eve is about a single woman dealing with love, life, and career.

The program is Eve's first starring role in television series. She'll also be a guest voice on MTV's animated series Spider-Man, which debuts in July.

Eve's previous acting credits include a cameo in XXX, and a role in the comedy Barbershop.

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The Show will be called EVE, but her name is SHELLY?!!!!?!?!?!?!

Ummmmm yeah. I give it 8 episodes.

CountryGurl · #6 06-30-2003, 12:24 AM

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The Show will be called EVE, but her name is SHELLY?!!!!?!?!?!?! Ummmmm yeah. I give it 8 episodes.

Who knows maybe the show will do well..."The Cosby Show" did well and Cosby's character was named Hethcliff Huxtible (sp?)

RedefinedDiva · #7 06-30-2003, 01:41 AM

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Who knows maybe the show will do well..."The Cosby Show" did well and Cosby's character was named Hethcliff Huxtible (sp?)

Eve ain't no Cosby! LOL!

I doubt any of those shows will make it. TV is getting cornier by the day. I think that the Cosby Show should come back to TV. I mean, maybe the show can be about Rudy and the life of being a young woman. Occasionally, it can drop in on life at Sandra, Alvin& the twins, Vanessa and why she can't keep a man, Denise, Martin, Olivia, & the new baby, Theo and his life as a teacher, and Clif, Clair, and the Grandma & Grandpa Huxtable can occasional show up to visit.

Man, I just want TV to be like it used to be....

lovelyivy84 · #8 06-30-2003, 02:28 AM

The show is called The Opposite Sex, no?

Regardless of what they call it it is going to suuuuuuck. I saw the promos on UPN and Eve can not act a'taaaaaaall

Oooh I smell terrible television. I bet this show will be so bad that they'll base a drinking game on it.

Conskeeted7 · #9 06-30-2003, 10:19 AM

Eve is not a good actress. I'm disappointed to see that someone would give her a show over other actresses that have proven themselves and would do great at it. Her role in Barbershop was not worthy of an entire series based around her character.

I'd much rather see Vivaca Fox, Queen Latifaa, Holly Robinson, or Nia Long in prime time.

enlightenment06 · #10 06-30-2003, 10:35 AM

SOUL FOOD GOT CANCELLED???

Dag, where have I been?

Anyway, I think the shows on UPN are pretty wack in general. Can we get some quality programming? Anyone remember that show "Under One Roof" with James Earl Jones and Joe Morton? It only ran for a few episodes but it was REALLY good. Then it got cancelled. Man, I wish I owned a network so I could put some quality programming on TV. We shouldn't have to depend on the "other man" to provide quality for the "brotha man". That's why I'm STILL mad at Bob Johnson over BET. And it's even worse now because they have the resources to put on better programming now that it's owned by Viacom (I've heard that in the past BET didn't have original shows because they didn't have the resources). Dagnabbit, I need to get rich so we can have BPN: the Black Pride Network!!! The only music videos we'll show will be on "Video Music Box" (remember that from back in the day? it used to come on channel 5 in NYC before it became FOX). And of course, my favorite Kappa, Tavis Smiley would get his own hour-long news program. AND I'd bring back Cosby!!! Now THAT'S wassup!!!

CountryGurl · #11 07-01-2003, 03:42 PM

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Originally posted by RedefinedDiva
Eve ain't no Cosby! LOL!

I doubt any of those shows will make it. TV is getting cornier by the day. I think that the Cosby Show should come back to TV. I mean, maybe the show can be about Rudy and the life of being a young woman. Occasionally, it can drop in on life at Sandra, Alvin& the twins, Vanessa and why she can't keep a man, Denise, Martin, Olivia, & the new baby, Theo and his life as a teacher, and Clif, Clair, and the Grandma & Grandpa Huxtable can occasional show up to visit.

Man, I just want TV to be like it used to be....

I know that! I was just using an example.

Anyway, I'm with you as far as the Cosby Show Reunion and maybe a Different World reunion too.

OthelloStreet · #12 07-01-2003, 04:18 PM

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I know that! I was just using an example.

Anyway, I'm with you as far as the Cosby Show Reunion and maybe a Different World reunion too.

I would love to see "A Different World" come back in a POSITIVE, UPLIFTING form... but in order for us to have good quality shows, we must have African American writers who have OUR intentions at heart. We must have studios and production firms (EdmondsEntertainment is a perfect example) willing to take a risk and produce these shows. And finally, we must have African American investors willing to invest their money make sure that the shows are quality produced.

Just my opinions...

CountryGurl · #13 07-01-2003, 04:43 PM

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Originally posted by OthelloStreet
I would love to see "A Different World" come back in a POSITIVE, UPLIFTING form... but in order for us to have good quality shows, we must have African American writers who have OUR intentions at heart. We must have studios and production firms (EdmondsEntertainment is a perfect example) willing to take a risk and produce these shows. And finally, we must have African American investors willing to invest their money make sure that the shows are quality produced.

Just my opinions...

I agree with you 100%. In order for African Americans to be seen in a different light (positive), studios and production companies must take risks.

CrimsonTide4 · #14 09-02-2003, 10:02 AM

New 'Whoopi' Takes on Race, Terror and Bush
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By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In her new NBC sitcom, Whoopi Goldberg (news) smokes like a chimney and pokes fun at terror alerts, how President Bush (news - web sites) mispronounces "nuclear" (NUKE-lee-er) and at black people acting white, not to mention white people acting black.

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So far, NBC hasn't blinked. In fact, says the Oscar-winning actress, executives at the General Electric Co.-owned network think she could even be "a little riskier."

"They're fearless about what it is we're trying to do. We haven't heard from anyone saying, 'No you can't do this," she said.

That also goes for some of the more unsavory aspects of the character she plays on "Whoopi" -- Mavis Raye, a tart-tongued, menopausal former singer turned hotelier in New York City who smokes and drinks on the job.

The series pilot opens with a cigarette joke. A hotel guest admonishes Goldberg that "second-hand smoke kills," to which she retorts, "So do I, baby, walk on!"

Goldberg's on-screen puffing already has drawn the ire of anti-tobacco activists. But she is unrepentant about her character's nicotine habit, an extension a real-life vice.

"I think people are smart enough to be able to say to their kids, 'Now you see this is not the greatest behavior Whoopi could be having right now,"' she told Reuters in an interview.

"This is a show about real people. And real people do have these flaws. Is (Mavis) going to have them forever? Maybe not, but she's damn well going to start out with them. ... I mean, she's not shooting dope. She's not killing anybody."

RETURNING TO PRIME TIME

"Whoopi," which debuts on Sept. 9, marks Goldberg's first stab at her own prime-time series since the short-lived 1990 CBS sitcom "Bagdad Cafe," in which she played the proprietor of a diner-motel in the California desert. She also was a regular for five years on "Star Trek: The Next Generation."

An Oscar winner for her turn as a spiritual medium in the 1990 film "Ghost," Goldberg, 47, said her return to the small screen comes at an ideal time.

"I'm a little bit older now, and I like the idea of being in a steady gig," she said. "There's not a lot of offers coming my way, either. You get into that awkward stage of late 40s, and things slow down."

Cigarettes notwithstanding, her new show draws much of its humor from subjects that may strike some viewers as just this side of taboo for prime-time network TV.

The comedy features an interracial couple consisting of Mavis' buttoned-down, decidedly un-hip brother, Courtney (Wren Brown) and his white girlfriend, Rita (Elizabeth Regen), who dresses and acts "like a sister."

"She's introduced me to rap, hip-hop and just a whole world I've never known," Courtney exclaims on the series pilot, to which Mavis dead-pans: "So, she's teaching you to be black."

Goldberg says the Rita character merely reflects one of many cultural mixes that have grown so common in society.

"Lots of parents in the suburbs are raising black children and don't know it," she said.

PERSIAN FLAVOR

The show also co-stars British-born Iranian comic Omid Djalili (news) as Goldberg's sidekick Nasim, a hotel handyman from Iran who immediately takes offense whenever anyone mistakes him for an Arab.

Nasim: "I'm not Arab. I'm Persian! It's so obvious. You can't tell the difference?"

Mavis: "Hell, no, I can't tell the difference. You people all look alike to me."

Later, Mavis confides to Nasim that "your people do scare me .... I mean I see three of four of you guys on an airplane, and I'm off." Nasim replies he feels "exactly the same way about the Portuguese."

Goldberg says such exchanges, aside from hopefully winning laughs, are intended to deconstruct some of the fears that pervade post-9/11 America.

"Omid's character is a guy who has his own fears about being here and about what's going on," she said. "Everybody has their finger pointing, and that's really what we wanted to say, that we've all got fears of something."

Indeed, in episode two, it is Nasim's paranoia about an unattended briefcase in the hotel lobby during an "orange alert" that leads police to blow it up. The briefcase turns out to have been a present from Rita to Courtney.

But Goldberg insists she's not making light of terror alerts. "These are the things that are happening in our lives," she said. "It's part of the world that I live in. It's the world that I can comment on."

As for making fun of Bush at a time when other performers' criticism of the president has caused their patriotism to be called into question, Goldberg is likewise unapologetic.

"We're all patriots. We all want the world to be a better place," she said. "I don't have any problems with it and will continue to have as much fun with our president as every comic has since comedy began."

AKA2D '91 · #15 09-15-2003, 11:55 AM

It's onnnnnn tonight!