The month of June is upon us and now that Memorial Weekend is past we can dig our heels in for summer television. Plenty of shows are returning with new seasons in the coming weeks and we’ve gathered the ones you should be tuning into and even discuss the marketing behind their new seasons. As usual, beware of spoilers!
20. America’s Got Talent (Season 7)
NBC, Mondays at 8/7c
Summer started early for NBC and America’s Got Talent as we’re already three weeks into the auditions. While there’s a healthy amount of dance groups, comedians, magicians, singers, musicians, stuntmen and bizarre acts all vying to be Las Vegas’ next million dollar attraction, the main reason to watch this show is Howard Stern. Whatever impulsive reaction middle America had towards the Sirius Xm Radio personality at the first announcement of him becoming a judge, they should know by...
20. America’s Got Talent (Season 7)
NBC, Mondays at 8/7c
Summer started early for NBC and America’s Got Talent as we’re already three weeks into the auditions. While there’s a healthy amount of dance groups, comedians, magicians, singers, musicians, stuntmen and bizarre acts all vying to be Las Vegas’ next million dollar attraction, the main reason to watch this show is Howard Stern. Whatever impulsive reaction middle America had towards the Sirius Xm Radio personality at the first announcement of him becoming a judge, they should know by...
- 5/31/2012
- by Ernie Estrella
- BuzzFocus.com
USA Network has a proven track record for packaging shows that sell characters. They have figured out that successful shows depend on characters that audiences will be attracted to, fascinating with and who draw them in to their stories each week. The latest offering is the new cop-buddy drama Common Law starring Michael Ealy and Warren Cole, where they portray bantering partners Travis Marks and Wes Mitchell. After an incident where Wes pulls his gun on Travis after Travis fails to apologize, they have been ordered to participate in “couple’s counselling.” The thought is that it is through counselling that they will learn to be better professional partners that have each other’s backs and not so busy fighting with each other that they are failing to protect and to serve the community around them. In a recent press conference call, co-star Michael Ealy candidly talked about the new show and his character Travis.
- 5/11/2012
- by theTVaddict
- The TV Addict
Like every David O. Russell film before it, The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo, is an aggravatingly uneven and impressively ambitious experience. Telling the real-life underdog story of welterweight boxer “Irish” Micky Ward (Wahlberg), Russell’s determined to make a boxing film we haven’t seen before. Something more along the lines of Jim Sheridan‘s The Boxer, in which the boxing serves as a plot device for bigger conflicts, bigger themes.
Don’t be mistaken, there’s a lot of fighting in this picture. In fact, there’s fighting between everyone in Micky’s mile-long family, from his mother (Leo) to his father (Jack McGee) to his crack-addicted brother Dicky (Bale). The family bonds are as strong as they are poisonous. Dicky once knocked Sugar Ray Leonard down – in 1978. He reminds the people of Lowell, Mass. (he’s nicknamed ‘The Pride of Lowell...
Don’t be mistaken, there’s a lot of fighting in this picture. In fact, there’s fighting between everyone in Micky’s mile-long family, from his mother (Leo) to his father (Jack McGee) to his crack-addicted brother Dicky (Bale). The family bonds are as strong as they are poisonous. Dicky once knocked Sugar Ray Leonard down – in 1978. He reminds the people of Lowell, Mass. (he’s nicknamed ‘The Pride of Lowell...
- 12/15/2010
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
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