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Here’s a look at some of the trailers for the new CBS television season.  Will Arnett’s The Miller’s should be one hell of a hit if the trailer is a real look at the show.  This may be one of the best new shows of the season.  You be the judge.

Robin Williams comes to television again from way back when as in Mork & Mindy but this one will be on the bubble.  As much as I really like Robin Williams I’m am sort of lukewarm on his new effort in The Crazy Ones.  Once again you be the judge.

Love Marg Helgenberger from the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation but this one seems to be really stupid.  Called Intelligence it seems not intelligent at all but take a look and let us know what you think.

Another dumb one with Anna Farris and Alison Janney who comes off The West Wing with one that will probably be a loser like Marg’s Intelligence.  This one is really bad.

The new Toni Collette and Dylan McDermott thing called Hostages is more than stupid.  No more needs to be said.  Dylan McDermott should have stayed with American Horror Story.

More to come.  But this is a good taste of some of the new programs coming up on CBS.

Rick Thomas

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There are several winners that look as if they could really bring new sizzle to FOX.  A few others look like duds.  This first one, Sleepy Hollow, looks like a winner.

Pretty good, ya think?  This next one, well I like Christopher Meloni but this one will be on the bubble if the trailer is any example of what the content of this new comedy will be.

Yeah you get my drift?  Not overly engaging.  But has some promise.  This one, Gang Related, is simply stupid.

Pretty awful, right.  Moving right along.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine.  Now every one of us would like to see Andre Braugher get a real hit.  This probably isn’t it.  Men of a Certain Age was fantastic and he was fantastic but clearly not stupid enough to gain a decent audience but this show Brooklyn Nine-Nine featuring Andy Samberg has gained that level of pure stupidity.

Could be fun.  But Andre may need to keep his resume handy because this one is another bubble.  Think The Office in a police precinct but even dumber.

This surely is not The Kennedys.  And Greg Kinnear must need the work to agree to be in this mess.

More to come.  But some good and some really bad.

Rick Thomas

Matthew Perry was about as creatively funny during this interview as he was during his show Go On which just got canceled by NBC.

Matthew Perry from NBC’s ‘Go On’

Meaning he was not…funny that is.  Go On  was pretty awful.  Except for Julie White.  Who pretty much has the best legs on television.  Yes if you get a chance to watch Go On  on Hulu or On Demand you will see the best legs on television especially since Julie White is 51 years of age and had to get stuck on a show that was headed for the canceled bin since the first episode.

If you watch this interview with Matthew Perry during the intermission of an LA Kings game you will see why the show is gone.  The guy seems to be a nice dude but he’s not funny.  And that came across during the show.

Too bad.

Because Go On, as a concept, was relatively smart.  It’s just Matthew Perry couldn’t carry the show and his personality was simply boring.  He needs a strong cast around him and although Julie White’s fine legs were worth the half hour, the rest of the cast just weren’t Friends.

Oh well.  Bye bye, Go On .  But this video is surely funny.

Rick Thomas

This is why I don’t have kids.  Because this 12 year old asshole kid Jeremy Drew is a tried and true snooty little brat as we used to call them back in the day.

Have you ever been to Las Vegas?  Yeah I have many times.  Have you ever watch COPS on FOX?  Yeah I’ve seen a lot of episodes of COPS from Las Vegas and to be a cop and to have to work with the ingrates in Las Vegas surely is no fun.  This city has to be the sewer of places to be someone having to uphold the law.

Now here comes a snotty little 12 year old named Jeremy Drew.

Snot.

I don’t like cops.  In fact I see the need for them when I see the need for them.  I’m in trouble, I call a cop.  Which is why I stay out of trouble.  I don’t have time to deal with the most uneducated people in society known as cops given the legal right to take the most important thing even given to citizens on every country on earth.

The legal right to take a life with a gun and a bullet.

But with that in mind comes the fact that cops take a lot of shit off of some of the worst human beings God ever created.  There are some ultimate bottom-feeders running around that cops have to deal with yet now this cop has to deal with 12 year old Jeremy Drew.  A 12 year old with the never and the chops of a snotty piece of future teenage crap that feels the need to approach a good cop that just wanted to get a cold drink and get back on duty.

Lucky I’m not a cop.  I would have shot this little SOB Jeremy Drew in the head because 12 year olds should be playing sports instead of screwing around with guys that face danger every day from those aforementioned bottom-feeders who at some times take the lives of cops.

Yeah…and I don’t like cops.

Rick Thomas

There’s a time and a place for 12 year olds and it certainly isn’t filming cops.  Not at all.  Let’s hope this kid gets smart, that his parents get smart and he gets some really good advice before one cop that has limited time for a snotty kid doesn’t decide that it’s easier to run a kid over on his police motorbike because people like Jeremy Drew thinks he’s a wise-ass and pushes the record button.

See, that’s the problem with people today.  No class.  And the parents of Jeremy Drew and Jeremy Drew him 12 year old self have no sense of class.

Rick Thomas

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Baby Baby Don’t Cry right?

Nope.

Lived in Los Angeles for 8 years and never been to Wolfgang Puck’s Spago.  The original was on Sunset in Hollywood but the new one that has been completely re-done in Beverly Hills.  Now there are a few things I can’s share here about why I was there but just saying Baby, Baby Don’t Cry is enough for me.  Yet eating one of the best meals I have ever had was experienced by me at Spago.

Gotta give Wolfgang Puck a lot of credit.  The meal was fantastic.

Claudette Robinson from “Smokey Robinson and the Miracles” with Wolfgang Puck and Rick Thomas from RealTVCritics.com and MediaRich Marketing

Now being with Claudette Robinson was enough.  She’s the ex of Smokey Robinson and she’s experiencing a great period of her life as Motown The Musical is blowing up on Broadway and Claudette Robinson is a treasure trove of that period that every music lover will never forget.

But meeting Wolfgang Puck topped of the evening.  Rarely, and I do mean rarely, would you expect the owner of a restaurant at the level of Spago to walk up to every table and I do mean every table and shake the hands along with chatting with his patrons.

It was a great experience.  And truly professional of Wolfgang Puck to do what he probably does every night when he’s in Los Angeles.

Here’s my proof.  Great night.  Thanks Wolfgang Puck.  The meal was amazing

Rick Thomas

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OK so I watch a lot of Judge Judy.  Every day.  Two new episodes five days a week.  And for me I always record both shows on my DVR and watch them as I am now, at 8PM Pacific time in the Los Angeles area know as Koreatown.  On my couch, stretched out, kinda ticked off at least today that the Indiana Pacers lost to the Atlanta Hawks and in full need of entertainment.

Now with a DVR I have the ability to speed past the commercials.  Yes I just pissed off a lot of people in the television business with that “speed past the commercials” line but that’s not the point of this post.

The point is these flipping Tena Twist commercials that continually run over and over during Judge Judy.

Just for the record, the Tena Twist is an underwear and pad for men and women of an older age who happen to be unable to hold their personal excretions and use such a device.

My future.  But do I have to see this crap on my television set while watching my second favorite judge show?  Yes Judge Judy is my second favorite judge show.  Love me some Judy but I’ve seen Judge Judy, I’ve watched Judge Judy and Judge Judy is no Judge Mathis.

But really do I need to watch this two, three, four or more times in an hour?  Really?  It’s like watching my mother dancing to this song and I love my mother but I don’t want to see my mother dancing on TV for some freaking underwear which when you twist it no liquid comes out.

I don’t want to see that.  I don’t.  Call me cruel but I want to see my mother on holidays, not on a damn commercial dancing for some flipping underwear pad.

The second video is so much better for this product.  I mean who the hell is the advertising agency that came up with this creative?  Really what meeting must there have been when creatively someone says “let’s have a bunch of women that look like our mothers and have them dance around all happy that they are not pissing on themselves.”

Oh yeah, that’s the creative session I’d like to sit in and participate.

Check out the second commercial below.  It is so much better.  And a bit classier.

The first one simply stinks.  Oh God, I’m watching my mother dance for an underwear pad.  I’m headed for a bridge.

Rick Thomas

Well this is a mess.

Was Chicago Blackhawk defensman on the really on the defense and of more importance was his being sexist to a female reporter in a post game interview in the NHL team’s locker room?

That is the question.

And then you have Hockey Night in Canada’s Don Cherry, who looks as if he keeps his wife locked in a chastity belt, commenting on women in male sports locker rooms to add to the mess.

And what a mess.

Don Cherry and Ron McClean from the CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada

The Blackhawks were playing the Vancouver Canucks and Team 104o radio sports reporter Karen Thomson was in the Blackhawks locker room for post game player interviews when she got in to this question and answer with the Chicago defenseman.

Duncan Keith’s Post Game Conversation with Karen Thomson of Team 1040

So there you have the conversation.  Was Duncan Keith being sexist or not?  Well you be the judge.

Then along comes old man Don Cherry on the CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada.  He really did not have to add to this mess.  But he felt the need to weigh in on Duncan Keith’s chat with Karen Thomson on the air by saying that women do not belong in males sporting events locker rooms.

Do you  agree or disagree?

Well today is not yesterday.  There was a female sports reporter that got kicked out of the locker room during my real early years covering sports teams in Philadelphia.  She was termed a “jock sniffer” by the players on this unnamed team and banned from doing any post game interviews for her penchant of taking interest in the player’s bodily formations after the game.  And some players back then had no problem walking around the locker room completely unclothed as there were only male sports reporter, well way back then.

Rick Thomas

Fast forward to today.  These women could pretty much care less.  They are there to cover the game, get the post game interviews and post their stories.  Women in sports and in the real world don’t respect such “jock sniffers” as they feel they have an ulterior motive for being in those male locker rooms.

Don’t get me wrong.  There are women all over the players of professional sports teams in America and Canada.  Attend any game and you will surely be amazed (or maybe you won’t) at the number of women who attend the games just to meet some of these players.But not the female sports announcers.  Most and I do mean most are in a different class.  And class is the word.

Next time Don Cherry opens his mouth he should re-shut it.  Quickly.  Watch the video.  The bullcrap start at 2:16 in.

Rick Thomas

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Every year the media in America gets together for the White House Correspondents Dinner 2013 in Washington.  From all walks of life even beyond the press corp that covers the President on a daily basis.  From the entertainment world to the sports world to the political world at the White House Correspondents Dinner featuring the President of the United States Barack Obama and television host and personality Conan O’Brien.

Both were simply fantastic.

The President was simply strong, even more stronger than his past performances at the White House Correspondents Dinner 2013.   Conan  was solid as well.  But you be the judge.  Watch both videos here.

It’s always a good show at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

OK I have to admit.  I’m a huge Julia Stiles fan.  Her work in Dexter was simply fantastic.  Dexter is a monster show on Showtime and the two Bourne films as Nicky Parsons.   The Bourne Supremacy in 2004 and The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007 were the two films where Julia Stiles made her bones in my book.

Now there’s Blue.  An online video content delivery web-site that seems to be launching in the right way.  The right way that may lead to the demise of regular TV.  The promos for Blue are all over On Demand and all I can say now is watch this episode I grabbed off of YouTube and let us know what you think.  This YouTube series will get me at least to watch so I’m going to give it a shot.

This could be the next coming of great content online and well beyond the malaise of network television.  We shall see.

Damn Julia Stiles is hot!

Rick Thomas

“Didn’t we just go through this?,” ask David Letterman on his show after the Tonight Show announcement.

Jay Leno

This has to be the stupidest thing the fourth ranked network known as NBC has experienced.  It just got completely out of control as Jay Leno, current host of the Tonight Show just constantly brutalized NBC network executives with his monologue trashing everything that is NBC.

Jimmy Fallon

Now the end is coming in the Spring of 2014.  Jimmy Fallon has officially been named the new host of the Tonight Show at some point during that time of year.  No date yet but the mess that is NBC has finally come to fruition as change is a coming for late night and there’s more adjustments in the air.

“Late Show with David Letterman”

The Tonight Show is moving back to New York and Mayor Michael Bloomberg is losing it as the show leave Burbank, California and heads back east to suffice Jimmy Fallon.

“Univision, he’s going there,” continues David Letterman.

NBC.  What a mess.