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Jim Cavaziel is the next cool beat ‘em up guy on any screen.  Yeah, yeah that Steven Seagal fellow back in the day could whoop some tail in his movies.  Then my man Liam Neeson could have drawn in any more males with is work in that movie Taken.  But never expected that Jim Cavaziel could pull off what he does on Person of Interest as well as he does.

What was the last thing I saw him star in?  The Passion of the Christ back in 2004.  Oh yeah there was a lot of swinging fists and gunfire in that film.  But Person of Interest give you a lot.  A whole lot.   Just the opening scene on a New York subway  fantastic.  Guys are gonna love this show.

Cavaziel plays John Reese, a former CIA agent who joins up with a real misunderstood man of money to prevent crimes from taking place in the city.  And he takes no prisoners in his goal to stop a crime.  If you’re not in to a lot of gunfire or car crashes or just a guy who can kick some ass, don’t watch this show.  Cavaziel pulls the switch from The Passion of the Christ to a rough and tumble crime-fighter real well.

This show is totally engaging from start to finish.  There’s not one minute where you’re not sitting on the edge of your seat enjoying Cavaziel’s easy going, easy chatting personality turning in to someone you don’t want to cross.

Person of Interest is a winner for CBS.  Oh and watch your knees.  Cavaziel’s character has a bad habit of putting bullets in the knees of his foes.

Rick Thomas

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So I will have to watch this one again.  And maybe a third time.  Jokes seemed really forced, a bit too planned, almost obvious and you can tell this show called Whitney is all about Whitney Cummings.

Whitney Cummings as 'Whitney' on NBC

The Chelsea Lately castoff stars in this romantic comedy with Chris D’Elia (Alex) and they work extremely well in pulling off a solid comedy pair.  They have fun and are fun together but the lines used by them and the rest of the cast seem planned and too rehearsed.

But.

The lines are damn funny.

And lots of old school slapstick comedy and Whitney Cummings is perfectly awesome.  So is Chris.  Yet there seems to be something not real so far but it is sure worth a long look any I’m looking forward to seeing a lot more of this comedy.  Especially after NBC simply fails with their other two really hyped comedies Up All Night and Free Agents.

Watch some of the video content below and you’ll see how good Whitney is but let’s hope that it’s not all too much Whitney Cummings because some shows that focus a bit too much on one comedienne’s personal content is not longstanding.

But you’re sure to laugh.

Rick Thomas

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Yowzah!  As they used to say back, well back somewhere.  Woohoo as one of my friends writes in her e-mails when something goes well.  Well something went well last night.  Though it took a minute or two getting past the typical white, sexist traditional New York city cop/detective image that was pretty overdone, Prime Suspect is no longer suspect.

Maria Bello gets a winning start in what could be the next hot cop drama on television.  After working her way to the top job in her squad surrounded by a slew of sexist co-worker cops, Bello’s Det. Jane Timoney moves forward quickly to prove she has the foundation to run her squad.

She looked pretty weak at the start of PPrime Suspect and I really don’t like seeing the kind of male chauvinist attitude pervasive throughout the new drama.  But part of that goes away as the hour moves along and Det. Timoney confidence grows.

Female viewers will have to give these guys a bit of a break if they want to stick with this show but sticking around may be worth it.  Attitudes like what takes place in Prime Suspect won’t bring in a lot of women who have been there in real life but the writers do a great job of moving the content forward, making Maria Bello’s Jane Timoney a solid boss in an all male environment.

But that content of a good cop drama is for real.  Maria Bello is  in a great comfort zone in playing the role of a tough female detective.  Prime Suspect, after all of the promotion and hype about the pilot episode, was worth the wait.  And the hour to watch it.

You’re gonna like this one especially if you’re in to well produced cop dramas.  NBC has a winner in Prime Suspect.

Rick Thomas

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You gotta love this content from FOX and their Saturday night show COPS.  This is great reality television no doubt and I write about this because, well I gotta say something good about FOX since Glee is a mess and The X Factor is about to be “X”d like a Jamie Kennedy hidden TV prank.

'COPS' The Boynton Beach, FL Police Department conducts an undercover operation involving a woman who has allegedly hired a hit man to kill her husband

This though is no prank. This Saturday night on a new episode of COPS on FOX, one of the worst elements in the world is featured.  That of a scumbag wife who takes out a hit on her husband but of course the person she thinks is a piece of shit like her turns out to be an undercover cop.

Surprise, surprise!

So here are a few links to what you will see on Saturday night but we like it when these pieces of shit getting busted by really good COPS.  There’s nothing worse than this type of crime.  I can’t stand even a petty thief let alone someone that marries another person then puts a hit on them.

Awful.

But I will be watching.

Rick Thomas

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Well Elliot Stabler is done officially on Law & Order: SVU.  He put in his retirement papers but that’s just the TV thing.  Chris Meloni is long gone from Law & Order: SVU as the brash and rash Elliot Stabler as this long running show on NBC restructures its cast to reflect a new direction as Kelli Giddish joins the team.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - 'Scorched Earth' Kelli Giddish as 'Det. Amanda Rollins'

Not a bad move for Law & Order: SVU. Kelli Giddish has a past with NBC.   And with CBS.  After spending a season on the NBC show Chase and a couple of episodes on the CBS hit show The Good Wife, let’s hope Kelli Giddish has found a home with the  crew at Law & Order: SVU.

She’s totally rough and tumble.  Chase, if you ask any male between the age of 18 to 54 years of age, was a solid show.  A blond running around throwing handcuffs on criminals is always what men view as, well a very good thing.  Most men liked Chase.  One of my friends in the demographic I just mentioned absolutely loved Chase.  I let him know that Kelli Giddish is now on Law & Order: SVU.

He’s very happy.

She served the same role on The Good Wife as a private detective working on the toughest cases and Kelli Giddish seems to fit in perfectly in roles where she maintains an edgy exterior.  Works perfectly for her and her new role as Detective Amanda Rollins puts her in the same groove as her last two past roles on television.

Kelli Giddish is a comer and she will partner with Mariska Hargitay’s Detective Olivia Benson on several more episodes this season.

Rick Thomas

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So it’s no secret that The X Factor got off to a terrible start last night, a start that no one at FOX could be happy with after the massive almost quarter million dollar promotional investment in the show.  Thinking that anything that Simon Cowell touches turns to gold, well there’s no gold left up there in them there hills for The X Factor as they used to say in the old days.

Nicole Sherzinger and Conan O'Brien on 'Conan' on TBS

But at least we can have some fun with The X Factor and judge Nicole Scherzinger.  With her appearance on Conan O’Brien’s talk show on TBS, the host got lost not in Nicole’s conversation but in the positioning of her upper body.  And Conan got busted big time by Nicole and in his usual frat boy humor that got him tossed at NBC over to much less watch TBS, Conan plays it off perfectly for his audience.

Watch the video.  Enjoy.

Rick Thomas

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Oh my!  Last night’s premiere episode of the new FOX reality show The X Factor go rocked last night.  Simon Cowell expected this to be his new boost to glory on the television network that launched him in American Idol. But as  wrote yesterday and as I blogged then as well, it looks like Zooey Deschanel’s New Girl will be the only big winner on FOX this new TV season.

Ratings are in and although The X Factor won it’s time slot the 20,000,000 viewers Simon Cowell wanted to tune in last night only got around half that number.  But no one expected this to be the next American Idol except Simon.  Which you gotta give him credit for his brash and bold prediction.

To be honest, are viewers simply tired of the same old, ongoing relatively boring competition shows?

Yes.

Now with The X Factor premiering soft along with Glee dropping audience as well, bring on that Zooey gal in New Girl.  Freshest thing on TV, freshest thing on FOX.

Paula Abdul, L.A. Reid, Nicole Sherzinger and Simon Cowell from 'TheX Factor'

This show has gone to unbelievable lengths to bring solid support to The X Factor on FOX.  A $5 million dollar prize for the final winner when all is said and done which quite frankly is a lot more that the $1 million from American Idol.  Yes, both are on the same network but FOX was banking on The X Factor to be monstrous.

Not a lot of glee today at FOX.

Rick Thomas

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I have to say this upfront.  There’s no way I can support all of what the lesbian and gay community wants.  I’m a brotha from Philly so as much as I really don’t care who anyone else sleeps with I just want to ensure that I don’t want to wake up next to a penis.

So all lesbians and gays shoot me.  With a gun that is, nothing else.

But as much as I don’t support every facet of what this community wants, I have no issue with people who are part of that group, I’m not like that asshole bitch from Oklahoma who compared being lesbian or gay to terrorism.  No fucking way.  That’s bullshit.  Period.

I used to have four lesbian or gay people working for me at my former company I owned in Philadelphia.  Two were out.  One obviously.  The other came in my office to tell me she was a lesbian.  I really did care.  Just do your job.  And this is for real.  I asked her to get me some videos of her with her cute, younger girlfriend!

Yeah I was the boss.

She laughed.  And started crying.  What a relief I figured.  For her.  It was a moment.  I liked that moment.  To get that out for her was that gorilla off her shoulders.  For the other guy who was totally, obviously gay…well he could give a damn.  He was a white boy who liked Latino guys.  Used to show me pictures of the ones he was dating.  What’s that joke, he would tell me.  What does a gay guy bring on a second date?  A U-Haul.

Anyway that’s my story of lesbians and gays.  I really don’t give a fuck.

So when I watched this video it brought back memories of almost 10 years ago.  Living in Los Angeles makes you a different person, not like that asshole Congresswoman in Oklahoma.  That Okie from Muskogee.   Or from wherever.

This is so heartbreaking to watch because I was there with the lady who came in my office to tell her story.  But it’s worth time on this blog watching this military guy tell his Dad that he’s gay.  And more to hear Dad’s reaction.  As much as I don’t agree with everything  they want, this brought back some serious memories.  Ten plus years ago.

So here you go as you can watch and see what it’s like to experience that gorilla.  Now rolling down Main Street.  Off the back of this guy.  A gay guy doing something for me that brings me to the Chris Rock philosophy of “I’m not going to war unless the Russians are marching down Flatbush Avenue.”

Check it out.  And God bless this soldier and God bless America.

Rick Thomas

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OK so we like the casting on this show.  Always good to see a familiar face back on CBS in Poppy Montgomery who was an FBI agent in Without A Trace. And of course her co-star Dylan Walsh who finished up a great run on Nip/Tuck on FX.

But there was something that just didn’t catch me here.  And I’m not sure what it is but that’s what I’m finding hard to see if this show has promise or if Unforgettable gets a arrow pointing to the canceled bin.

Poppy Montgomery in the CBS Drama 'Unforgettable'

Poppy Montgomery plays Carrie Wells, an ex-cop who got out of the game in Syracuse, New York to move to the big city.  She works part-time in a home for the elderly and moonlights as a card reading poker player using her unique memory skills as an asset.  And an assist to fighting crime which is the basis for the show.  Her ex-husband is Detective Al Burns played by Walsh who brings her on as a consultant for the NYPD.  And of course she uses those memory skills to solve crimes.

Gotta admit it’s a good concept on paper but the show moved to slow, much to slow for the active cop show viewer.  It was typical detective content but something throughout did not engage me enough to give credibility to the the pilot of Unforgettable.

At least for now.

And the ending was as stupid as ever with Montgomery’s character going after the criminal on her own without the support of anyone with a badge.  Makes for an exciting close but her journey to solve the crime on her own reminded me of a woman to makes the mistake of taking a trip to Aruba with a criminal holding two orders of stay away from a sitting judge.  But most of these shows have something stupid to chat about.

Still there will have to be a second and maybe a third go round with Unforgettable to really see if this show has legs.  But at least there is some standing with Unforgettable.  A little more energy and a bit more reality might be in order for this show to survive.  But no question a C+ effort.

Rick Thomas

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FOX has done it, better than a few new comedies on NBC or CBS.  They’ve grabbed a winner in the new Tuesday night series New Girl which just happens to be the best new comedy on television.  At least for the first two real days of the new TV season.

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

This show is so quirky, so unusually funny that you can’t do anything but laugh at every minute of New Girl starring Zooey Deschanel.  Produced so well with a ton of comedic effort at the start of the pilot episode and then taking you to a great emotional level at minute 24 of the half hour premiere.

This show is so solid that you just can’t beat the connection between Zooey’s character Jess Day and the rest of this awesome cast.  Damon Wayans Jr. (Coach), Jake Johnson (Nick) and Max Greenfield (Schmidt) combine to make an easy, comfortable, almost like these four have been working together for a long while rather than just the first episode.

This crew seem so comfortable together after Jess catches her boyfriend and moves in to an apartment with these three guys that have so many issues that pretty much connect with Zooey’s character.

This show is very special.  Unlike the other new comedies I’ve trashed because they try so hard to be funny and engaging that they get no where near the point of New Girl on FOX.

So far television’s best new comedy entry for the new season.  And very unexpected yet so needed because every comedy I’ve seen so far on TV in the last week have pretty much fallen off the cliff.

Whatever you do you must watch New Girl. It is a must watch comedy on FOX!  A pleasant surprise!

Rick Thomas

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