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I like FX.  Great drama.  Solid shows.  From the recently canceled Rescue Me, to the severely twisted American Horror Story and finally the always solid and exciting Sons of Anarchy, FX is the place to be on cable for guys.  So male, so cool.

Still not getting anything having to do with Russell Brand.  Just don’t get it.  I really don’t but FX must know something I don’t know but this one, whatever it is, has failure written all over it as the network has given Russell Brand a six episode order for a late night show that….well not sure why they would green-light this show except for the over-rated RussellBrand.

Russell Brand and Katy Perry

“I’m so excited I’m on the point of climax,” Russell Brand said in a statement.

Dang, he really gets excited, doesn’t he.

The show will be a cross between Russell Brand’s commentary on pop culture, politics and current topics that will enhance his image and there will be interactive features from a studio audience which sounds like a show that has zero focus.

I don’t get it I really don’t get Russell Brand.  I consider him Mr. Katy Perry and find him sincerely not funny.  But somebody at FX must like the guy because he’s got six episodes coming to the network.  Though it is only six episodes.

I don’t know.  I’m way more than pessimistic on this show.

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Here we go Los Angeles.  Another high profile divorce is underway.  Now one of professional sports most well know personalities and the mental and physical leader of Los Angeles area sports is back on television and it’s not about the Christmas day NBA game on national TV.  Kobe and Vanessa Bryant have called it quits in the marriage business and will now lead the way to TV’s most talked about divorce proceedings.

Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant just can’t get a break.  But the only break he got was from his wife Vanessa who he met when she was 17 years old and he wasn’t much older which of course is part of the reason why divorce was inevitable.  But she sat beside him when he acted like Herman Cain and couldn’t keep his penis wrapped in Colorado.  That got him a sex assault charge. And yes there was Vanessa.

Then at this past year’s NBS All Star Game in Los Angeles Kobe Bryant got served paternity papers by an Italian woman claiming that he’s her baby’s daddy.  That rumor floated all over the internet and sources at the game confirmed the looseness of his penis again as he allegedly paid off the woman and shipped her back to Italy.

Now come this.  Guess Vanessa has had her fill of not being the only woman in her marriage to Kobe Bryant who has seen him naked.  And the couple have called it quits.

So Los Angeles television get ready for more Kobe Bryant drama.  And we’re not talking about drama on the basketball court but his off the court issues that pretty much have ruined his chances of ever getting a major endorsement for the rest of his career.

And no pre-nuptial agreement was in place prior to this divorce as well.  Which means Kobe Bryant is going to have to give up half of his worth to Vanessa Bryant who in mimicking Richard Pryor “the b%$#h didn’t tell one joke and she gets half.”

“The Bryants have resolved all issues incident to their divorce privately with the assistance of counsel and a judgment dissolving their marital status will be entered in 2012.  We ask that in the interest of our young children and in light of the upcoming holiday season the public respect our privacy during this most difficult time.”

Yeah, they’ll get privacy from the public but the media…oh my!

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It was one of those things that happen to all of us.  A live microphone that you think is off when it’s really on and you say something stupid.  Barbra Walters didn’t say anything stupid like I did back in 1978 on one of my radio gigs.  Had a really bad deejay break and scream out ‘that really f@#%*#g sucked!” and the microphone was still live.

Career at 16 WQIQ Quick as we used to call it was over.

Barbara Walters from ABC News

Well Barbra Walters is suffering from a similar word association jumble when she leaned over to President Barack Obama and told him she’s getting out of the TV business and retiring from broadcasting.

According to TMZ.com, Barbra was in the middle of an interview with POTUS when she leaned over and said to the President “I need one more interview with you because I’m retiring next year.”

MSNBC's Al Sharpton with President Barack Obama

An ABC spokesperson says Ms. Walters always talks about retiring from the network and has been doing that every year since the Clinton administration.  But you can bet she never spoke of her intentions to Mr. Clinton or the second George W. Bush, yet ‘Barry’ gets the scoop.

So who’s going to referee those crazy women on The View?

Now we’re talking about smart move by a network.  And this one happens to be NBC which after the Jay Leno debacle might have thought to be conservative in the talent additions to a show like America’s Got Talent.

Now to be honest I’ve only watched this show maybe 6 or 7 times since it’s been on television.  Not a real big fan of shows that are reality based singing and dancing type of TV content.  Bores me to no end but to be honest I prefer watching the comments of those who judge such shows.  Like when Simon Cowell dogs some contestant who really can sing but thinks that they actually can…you know most of them on American Idol or The X Factor.

I call it Hollywood bullshit.  It’s when talent that has no talent thinks that they have talent because their parents told them the have talent and they really suck.  Yeah, like most of Hollywood.

But now NBC has made a huge move.  As much as people dog Howard Stern’s radio show as too harsh and vile, he’s the best choice for joining America’s Got Talent as the new judge replacing Piers Morgan.  The latter decided to take his full concentration from AGT and go full time with CNN which could be a fatal career mistake. But that’s Piers.

The radio guy who we all like to hate is coming to NBC in full force.  Howard Stern is not only the new judge on America’s Got Talent but the show will move production to New York city where Howard Stern resides and does his radio show on Sirius/XM Radio.

Now that’s power!

“Feelings are going to be hurt,” said Howard Stern in an interview of his integration in America’s Got Talent.  Good.  That’s why Stern is a perfect choice for judging this or any show.  He will be totally real and not hold back his feelings which is what this show needs.  Yeah this show needs a jolt because it’s gotten pretty stale and Howard Stern will bring an interesting mix to America’s Got Talent.

Piers Morgan (right) and 'America's Got Talent' winner Kevin Skinner

Of course the Parents Television Council dogged the move.  Tim Winter, President of the PTC called Stern a “performer who is synonymous with shock, profanity and obscenity” and called the move to hire Howard Stern “an act of desperation for a flailing network.”

Hmmm OK!  So it is an act of desperation but it’s a good act, ya think?

And you gotta love this line from Howard Stern to the mothers and fathers of the children who will perform on America’s Got Talent.  “I’m going to tell your kiddie he has no talent,” Stern said on his radio show.

Oh, I just might have to start watching America’s Got Talent.

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Here we go!  The Golden Globes nominations air tonight on NBC with the unpredictable Ricky Gervais as host.  Here’s the list of those TV shows and talent up for awards.

GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS with Host Ricky Gervais

BEST TV SERIES, DRAMA
“American Horror Story”

Connie Britton as 'Vivien Harmon' and Dylan McDermott as 'Ben Harmon' in AMERICAN HORROR STORY

“Boardwalk Empire”
“Boss”
“Game of Thrones”
“Homeland”

BEST COMEDY SERIES
“New Girl”
“Enlightened”
“Episodes”
“Glee”
“Modern Family”

Zooey Deschanel as 'Jess' in FOX's 'New Girl'

BEST ACTOR, DRAMA
Steve Buscemi, “Boardwalk Empire”
Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad”
Kelsey Grammer, “Boss”
Jeremy Irons, “The Borgias”
Damian Lewis, “Homeland”

BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
Claire Danes, “Homeland”
Mireille Enos, “The Killing”
Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife”

Madeleine Stowe, “Revenge”
Callie Thorne, “Necessary Roughness”

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY
Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
David Duchovny, “Californication”
Johnny Galecki, “The Big Bang Theory”
Thomas Jane, “Hung”
Matt LeBlanc, “Episodes”

Tina Fey from NBC's "30 Rock" and Amy Poehler -

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY
Tina Fey, “30 Rock”

Amy Poehler, “Parks and Recreation”
Laura Dern, “Enlightened”
Zooey Deschanel, “New Girl”
Laura Linney, “The Big C”

BEST TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES
“Mildred Pierce”
“Too Big Too Fail”
“Cinema Verite”
“Downton Abbey”
“The Hour”

BEST ACTOR, TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES
William Hurt, “Too Big Too Fail”
Hugh Bonneville, “Downton Abbey”
Idris Elba, “Luther”
Bill Nighy, “Page Eight”
Dominic West, “Appropriate Adult”

Idris Elba is 'Luther'

SUPPORTING ACTOR, TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES
Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones”
Paul Giamatti, “To Big To Fail”
Guy Pearce, “Mildred Pierce”
Tim Robbins, “Cinema Verite”
Eric Stonestreet, “Modern Family”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES
Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story”
Kelly Macdonald, “Boardwalk Empire”
Maggie Smith, “Downton Abbey”

Sofia Vergara, “Modern Family”
Evan Rachel Wood, “Mildred Pierce”

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And so far there are no takers.  The most reviled woman and mother in not only America but probably the world is basically broke and needs some cash.  Quick.  And there’s a big problem out in TV land for anyone interested in getting that first sit down with the woman who pulled an O.J. Simpson and got off with murdering her own kid.

Casey Anthony

The Hollywood Reporter is saying that a Hollywood producer is shopping the first interview with Casey Anthony for $750,000 to any network that’s interested in chatting with her.  Problem for Casey and this producer is no network is interested in sitting down with her for many reasons.  The first is every network is concerned about the backlash of paying her to tell her story.  The other is the potential loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars should they try to get advertisers placed in the show.

In addition most major news networks say they’ll stick with their policy of not paying for interviews which quite frankly is decided on a case by case basis.  But paying Casey Anthony would be the last thing any network that wants to maintain any image with the viewing public would do.

ABC, CBS and NBC have already said no way.  Interest on the cable side has faded as well according to the Reporter.  “The backlash would not be worth it,” said one unidentified cable executive.

Read the full story at the link to the Hollywood Reporter below.

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Wow!  You gotta like the people at ABC News.  They know when they make a mistake that keeping it rolling as if it’s going to find a way to fit in to their programming schedule is the way to correct is not the right long term strategy for an important program like This Week.

The Sunday morning news magazine made the perfect decision a few years ago by giving former President Bill Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos the host seat.  With political momentum at an all time high then it was a good move and Steph was fantastic.  Making the move to take him to Good Morning America may be good for the first half hour of that show but watching George Stephanopolous integrate him in cooking segments on GMA is like me getting an invitation to a Ku Klux Klan meeting.

Oh yeah, I’m African American.

Once Christine Ammanpour get Steph’s seat at This Week many knew at that time it was a huge mistake.  Even some staffers at ABC News were dismayed at the choice.  Christine Ammanpour is a great journalist.  But even greater when she’s doing report from Pakistan, Iraq or any Mideast country where turmoil is the word of the day.

She was awful as host of This Week.  Would rather watch George Stephanopolous do cooking segments on Good Morning America.

After a year her hosting gig is over at This Week.  Christine Ammanpour is headed back to where she belongs over at CNN.  And George Stephanopoulos is going back to where he fits best at hosting that important news and political based show.  But still keep his duties at GMA.  Expect though that his integration will be in the first half to first hour of that program.

Cooking segments…are you kidding me, ABC News?

Yeah these guys admit when the make a mistake.  Most networks have been pretty quick in pulling the plug on content and decisions that just don’t work.  Ask Jay Leno.

Here we go again.  Being a blogger that actually puts his name or his blog’s name on his comments on other web-sites comments sections is not a problem for me.  But for those cowards in blogger world who make racist and bigoted statements that stay anonymous, well I’ve always considered them male, overweight and unable to get a date with a female so they use blogging as their personal satisfaction.

Nawal Aoude from TLC's 'All-American Muslim'

Today was one of those days where I just had to close my mind to what I was reading about the TLC television show All-American Muslim.  The TV show that focuses on a Muslim family in Michigan has now gained a ton of popularity for exactly what it did now want to promote.  The fact that Lowes, the national retail giant that spends millions of dollars in advertising every year, has pulled its marketing schedule from All-American Muslim.

Why?

Because of pressure from a group called Florida Family Association branded All-American Muslim as “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.”

Huh?

Well anyway it worked.  Lowes hardware pulled its ads.  And for me, hello Home Depot.

Step in Russell Simmons to fan the flames against the Florida Family Association.  He’s buying up all of the ad time where Lowes dropped out to advertise his pre-paid Visa card program.  First off Russell must have some serious cash because the people who watch TLC don’t need a pre-paid Visa card.  He’d do better keeping his ad dollars placed on Maury or Jerry Springer.  Maybe Jersey Shore.  But not on TLC.

Bottom line, Lowes caved in and this could really hurt the image of Lowes, right?

Maybe not.  The outrage has been quite limited and quiet.  Do people in America really despise Muslims that much in America?  I guess the ignorant answer to that question is yes.  Clearly since there’s been no more backlash than a hip hop mogul in support of  the show and their freedom of speech in America, we have a clear indication that America has some bias issues in need of repair.

And there’s no one except Russell Simmons to start the pressure rising on Lowes.

“This can’t happen in America,” said Simmons.  Oh I’m not sure Russell knows what country he’s living in these days.  “They cant get away with that.  It’s ridiculous,” he continued.

Simmons says he will go to extreme tasks to work against Lowes pulling their ads.  It will be to no avail.  Americans can sometimes be ignorant and biased but in today’s environment that calls for attacking Muslims early and often, this one will go by the board pretty quickly or Russell Simmons will run out of money buying unused ads in All-American Muslim.

Rick Thomas

First Demi Moore dumps Ashton Kutcher.  That cougar relationship is over.  Now comes another break-up of an older woman who grabbed the sippy cup from a younger guy who then chased her in to la la land and now he’s headed back.

Oh that’s an awful line.  But you gotta love it!

54 year old cougar Katie Couric is starting a new career with ABC Television with a new daytime show and soon will be looking for a new boyfriend as her five year relationship with 37 year old Brooks Perlin is over.  In an interview with the New York Post prior to the split Couric told the newspaper “it’s good enough for Demi” which you gotta say it really is because both women are man-less as of this writing.

The Post also says the couple had been going through some tough times recently in their five year union which in this writer’s opinion should have led to a ring on finger by now.  Which is one of the reasons why my relationships only last around five months.  Anything longer, well that’s like a marriage.

Follow my lead here Brooks.  Ashton did.  I tell ya these kids never listen to their elders.

By Katie probably could care less as she’s working on the fall 2012 launch of her daytime show which quite frankly we’re all looking forward to watching since the Jeremy Kyle crap and the Bill Cunningham toilet in daytime TV is revolting.

OK back to the cougar gal.

The couple hooked up at a cancer fundraising event back in 2006 and have been an item ever since.  Since leaving the CBS Evening News after that career fatality she’s been on a mission to get her brand re-started which she has easily done.  She was the hottest target for all networks and cable news channels after leaving CBS in May.

About being a cougar…”just obnoxious,” she told People Magazine.   But on her relationship that just went bye bye with Brooks Perlin, “it’s complicated.”

Time to get that Match.com profile back up!

Rick Thomas

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Kris Humphries is a genius.  Yeah he runs around with that dumb look on his face on the Kardashian’s reality traffic accident but really he’s not as dumb as he looks.  He acted dumb though, marrying his way in to his own possible trade to another team outside of Los Angeles, but at least he got smart and got the hell away from reality TV.

Not good for a long term career in Los Angeles sports.  Ask Lamar Odom.  Kris Humphries married Kim Kardashian in a 72 day event that’s ending in divorce and may be the reason he may stay or be traded from the Los Angeles Clippers.

Khloe Kardashian Odom and Lamar Odom from 'Khloe and Lamar on E!

Doing reality TV and maintaining a career in pro sports is impossible.  Impossible.  Look at the losers who tried and died.  Terrell Owens got caught up in the reality TV drama and can’t find an NFL team that wants to keep him for more than a year.  Chad Ochocinco ended up in New England after being tossed out of Cincinnati and the NFL’s Bengals and pretty much has become a nothing wide receiver for one the best team’s in football.  Yesterday’s play against the Washington Redskins showed his limited value with that team as he only caught one pass for 15 yards.

Yeah Chad Ochocinco, catching one pass for 15 yards.  That’s all folks!

Then there’s Ron Artest, who has tried everything from music to television to comedy.  And with failures written all over his entertainment resume he’s done the smart thing in Los Angeles by getting his brand involved in community activities that pretty much have helped to solidify his position on the Los Angeles Lakers.

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries - Khloe Kardashian's 27th Birthday Celebration at Chateau Nightclub in Las Vegas

Smart move by a guy that is considered certifiably crazy by his opposing players in the NBA.  But a smart move.

Athletes in professional sports make a lot of money.  Lamar Odom makes a lot of money in the NBA.  The last thing he needs is a part time job.  One making himself and his brand a part of a reality show.  That’s what my old boss used to call a “career-ender.”

The Los Angeles Lakers are America’s team.  Partly because they win championships.  Partly because they don’t take any crap from their players.  Your job, when you’re getting  paid millions and millions of dollars, is to be thinking about winning championships 24/7/365.

Period.

And when the Lakers got kicked out of the running for the NBA Championship last year the writing was on the wall.  There would be changes.  And those changes would start with anyone who does not have their eyes on the prize of an NBA World Championship.

Lamar Odom had his eyes on his part time gig doing reality TV and that’s why his new address is in Dallas, Texas.

“I am curious as to how I am the cause for any trade,” Tweeted Lamar’s wife Khloe Kardashian.  Don’t take all of the credit Khloe.  The whole reality television genre is the cause for the decline of many pro athletes.  The smart ones, like Michael Vick, get real smart and tend to focus on their on field careers rather than their off field activities.  And even Michael Vick, who has had a sub-par season with the Philadelphia Eagles, may have suffered from his short term reality show on BET.

Kris Humphries, you might be a really smart dude.  Getting yourself out of this reality TV mess is a real good thing.  Hollywood should be left for Jack Nicholson at the Lakers games and Billy Crystal at the Clippers games.  It might be a real good idea to stay away from anything connected to reality TV if you’re a professional athlete.  A short term ego gain of being on TV is nothing more than a long term loss of making millions of dollars a year.

“I can survive anywhere,” Khloe Kardashian kept Tweeting.  “As long as I’m with Lam, I’m good.”

I don’t think Khloe’s ever been to Dallas, Texas.  Yeah Dallas, Texas.  I’ve been to Dallas, I’ve seen Dallas and Dallas is no Los Angeles.

Rick Thomas