The Good Guys

bradley whitford is great as the old-school, drunken, lecherous cop who only still has a job because he saved the governors son 25 years ago. colin hanks is the by-the-book young detective who gets stuck as his partner in the "petty crimes" division. sounds like the set-up to a bad buddy cop movie don't it? well it would be the set-up to a bad buddy cop one hour tv comedy if it weren't done so well.

the show is just fun. it doesn't take itself to seriously and it plays into some of the classic cliches often with a wink and a tongue in cheek. and, again, bradley whitford and his Magnum P.I. mustache are great. and hanks handles the straight guy role very well also.

now, unfortunately the ratings for the pilot were pretty weak. Now, it is summer, so maybe fox will give it a little more time to grow then they would if this was the fall tv season, but regardless lets hope it sticks around for a while.

you can head over to The Good Guys section of the fox website to get info about airings and even watch full episodes.

Last Comic Standing is back. by the time you read this you will have missed the premier episode, but don't worry about it. just start with episode two next week (don't worry, you wont  be lost)...

it is only 30 minutes into the show and already i have laughed out loud many multiple times. if you enjoy comedy at all this is a must watch show.

right now we have the audition episodes which are fun. once we get to the top-ones-living-in-the-house-eliminations-each-week part of the show we will have to see how it is since some seasons they pick really good ones and it is great and other seasons the finalists aren't the best of the bunch and it is a little less funny (still funny though).

now 45 minutes into the show and its taken me 15 minutes to write this cause i was too busy watching the show and laughing it up...

basically it is a dumbell with springs on each end so that when you hold it up and shake it the weights on both ends go back and forth, which according to their website, "Utilizes New Workout Technology Called
Dynamic Inertia , which Increases Muscle Activity by More Than 300% Compared to Traditional Weights" and it will of course give you, "Scientifically Proven Results."

i was gonna make a few jokes and throw in a bunch of sexual innuendos, but you know what... the best thing to do is just let you watch the video on their website as that pretty much says it all.

well, Minute To Win It has proven itself to be one of the exceptions to the rule (think: Grand Slam - that awesome show that aired on GSN where trivia show winners went head to head).

the show has been on for about 4 weeks or so now and i have to say that i am really enjoying it. it is total fun, and lets just hope NBC doesn't do anything stupid like expand it to more than two days a week (which might already be pushing it - when will networks learn). so, what did they get right with this one?

well there are a few key things i think that make the show work. and the main one for me is pacing. this isn't something that most people think about, but it is a big deal. first off: we want to see people play the game. and second: we want to see them going for the big money.Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was boring till they got  to at least the $32,000 question. the first three rounds of Deal Or No Deal are totally tedious (you know they aren't gonna take the deal). The Moment Of Truth (say what you will about the show/premise itself) often took one full hour on just one contestant without even getting to the highest money offered questions.

Also, sure its nice that they have family and friends there to support them, but i don't care to see the host talk to them for 10 minutes and tell us the contestants life story for another 10. i know they do it so that we as the audience can know them better and therefore have more of an investment into whether they win or lose, but Minute To Win It goes from one challenge to the next with minimal time wasted in between and i still totally feel like the contestants personality and story are told to us without it feeling piled on and dragged out.

that pacing, along with the challenges which are great, the good show design (the circle game play area, the colors, the great challenge blueprints with the british ladies voice describing the challenge and the rules of said challenge) and a good host in mr. Diners, Drive-ins and Dives himself, guy fieri makes for a fun hour of viewing on sunday nights - and now wednesdays also - on NBC.

SIDE NOTE: the show has only been on the air for about a month or so and last nights episode was a repeat. what is up with that? to break out a repeat less than two months into a shows premier is just wrong. i guess the expanding to wednesdays maybe caught them off guard and they didn't have enough episodes in the can, but really?

check a few of them out here

and unfortunately they cut away to her comments/interviews all the frickin' time so there is no escaping it... its funny given that chef ramsay is yelling for about 60% of every show, but that doesn't bother me in the least...

on another note: that lamb/venison confusion and sabrina not telling them cause they were being bitches to her was pretty funny stuff.

have you seen this new campaign that tgi friday's has got going. the "fan woody" campaign? the commercial has this guy woody (tgi friday's #1 fan) and his two friends sitting around a table at a tgi friday's telling us about a new burger and then telling us that they all get a free one if he gets 500 000 fans on his "fan woody" facebook page by september 30th.

ya i get it. they are trying to build internet buzz and facebook recognition, etc... but come on. does woody have to be such a dud? and does the commercial have to be so not funny? now, i will say that that is the only ad i have seen. there may be more in the campaign and those may be funnier - or should i say funny. and maybe woody isn't so uninteresting in those. but, based on that one commercial...

if i wasn't so lazy i would create a "not fan woody" facebook page and try and get people to sign up for that. actually, i would creat a "not fan woodie" page, because we all know the expression: "any publicity is good publicity, as long as they spell your name right."

the sharks loved him - even though three of them said no right away and daymond dash made an offer that miller didn't accept. shark kevin seemed quite interested and they eventually negotiate a deal. but miller even got kevin to come down from what kevin had said was his FINAL offer (obviously it wasn't). but you could tell that kevin really wanted this deal and thought he could turn it into something big with some other costomizable fitness product company he is already in business with.

did anyone else catch this? what did you think?

Shark Tank

this is a a really good show. these investors are investing (or not investing) their own money. this isn't some reality competition game - this is "reality" (as much as anything on tv can be of course).

the show doesn't have a lot of needless extras like a host or gimmicks. the entrepreneurs come in, they make their pitch, they answer questions from the sharks and they listen to offers (or not, depending on the idea - the guy who wanted to surgically implant blue tooth receivers into people's ears didn't get any offers).

also, while there are some ideas (like the blue tooth guy) that are a little "out there" this isn't like American Idol or American Inventor where you get good and then a nice amount of "bad" for us to laugh at.

it is such a simple premise. there are no rounds or tickets to hollywood or audience voting - just people with ideas/companies/products and sharks with money to invest. the show moves at a good pace, yet there is enough time spent with each entrepreneur as well.

the stakes are high and real and i was completely engaged.

GRADE: B+

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