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BEST DRAMA TV SERIES

American Horror Story
Boardwalk Empire
Boss
Game of Thrones
HOMELAND

BEST COMEDY TV SERIES

New Girl
Enlightened
Episodes
Glee
Modern Family

BEST TV ACTOR, DRAMA

Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Kelsey Grammer, Boss
Jeremy Irons, The Borgias
Damian Lewis, Homeland

BEST TV ACTRESS, DRAMA

Claire Danes, Homeland
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Madeleine Stowe, Revenge
Callie Thorne, Necessary Roughness

 

 

BEST TV ACTOR, COMEDY

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

BEST TV 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

 

 

 

BEST ACTRESS TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES

Romola Garai, The Hour

Diane Lane, Cinema Verite

Elizabeth McGovern, Downton Abbey

Emily Watson, Appropriate Adult

Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce

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

 

This is another good one.  I may have had Mentos once in my entire life.  And at this current age there’s no way on the big guy’s good earth that I would ever let a commercial sway me in any way because eating any candy is a no no according to my Roberston Boulevard doctor.

But a good commercial is a good commercial and there are a few running that will get my attention and you will like.

Check out the Mentos The Spider commercial below.  And for the official record I dig any commercial that has a call to action that does more than ask you to buy the seller’s products.  You won’t see it on this commercial but the one running on the NFL Playoff games on CBS and FOX sell the Spider Swiper App on the back end of the 30 second spot.

Great “creative” as they call it on Madison Avenue, Mad Men or the advertising business for those of you not in the business.  Though the most annoying thing is the girl’s scream which is too real for me as it reminds me of the aftermath of a Saturday night date.

Rick Thomas

 

AMC had no choice.  Give thanks fans to Jon Hamm one of the stars on the TV series Mad Men.  He was the culprit or more simply put the man who gave away the launch of Mad Men as a return series on AMC via a mention on a recent podcast.  And fans have been waiting.  The behind the scenes mess seems to have ended and let the games begin as Mad Men seeks to return to AMC on March 25th.

It will be a two hour premiere on AMC for Mad Men and the cable channel also says one of my favorites that I just grabbed on to will return on April 1st.  That’s the premiere of The Killing on AMC which will give us fans a two hour beginning to its second season as well.

Jon Ham gave the start date for Mad Men its first timetable when he appeared on Doug Love Movies, a podcast that aired this past Friday.  In conversation with Doug Benson, Hamm dropped the date for the show’s fifth season start and said nothing more noting that he may have crossed the line in the giveaway.  Or just a smart PR move, whatever you want to title his comment.

Jon Hamm will get his first shot at direction of content in the series that went in to production on July 5th.

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There are commercials and there are commercials for cable television versus satellite.  This is one real funny commercial that is just airing on pay TV as DirecTV starts a new ad campaign for their service as you will just laugh your backside off at this one.

You gotta love DirecTV just in general.  Cable television has some significant issues as I’ve had both services over the years and the satellite service is supreme compared to cable.  Although I must say it’s been a few months since Time Warner has crashed completely leaving me without my Judge Mathis or The Maury Show episodes.

But this commercial is absolutely classic.

Enjoy.

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Oh I could talk about Work It on ABC TV that I’m watching right now.  So far the first minute of this week’s episode is clearly about to make me wonder, as I always say, who the heck greenlights this crap.

Work It sucks.  Sucks.

OK so I asked the question and now I can move on to real important things.

I dig Paula Deen.  That southern drawl, her love for the food that comes from that region of the country and she just seems like a pretty cool person when I watch her content on NBC’s Today Show.

That’s all in the past.  Because there’s nothing more serious about where Paula Deen’s life is today and how she will have to adjust her whole way of life as Paula Deen is about to admit to the world that she has Type 2 diabetes.

So let’s get back to the high fat, high cholesterol, high in everything not good for the American diet that Paula Dean cooks regularly that has led to the 64 year old chef’s current condition that has the drug-maker of the pill Novartis bring her on as a spokesperson to help combat diabetes.  A Novartis rep says no deal is in place but others say there’s a million dollar contract on the table for her to push the drug.

Hey…maybe there’s a better fix.  How about not selling us the high fat, high cholesterol, high in everything food that she promotes on shows like Today?

How about that?

Diabetes is a direct cause for death.  Period.  Bad diet, too many carbohydrates, too many desserts, not enough exercise and like this writer’s former sedentary lifestyle that pushed him to the very close brink of diabetes.

Yes, my doctor told me several years back that it’s time to keep a close eye on my consumption of all foods or I would be the next person on the list to be called a diabetic.

Cut back the carbs, the sugar, a little bit on the expensive scotch and processed foods led me from 222 pounds to 190 with an anchor as radio music program directors say when a song is dropping off the Pop Tart charts.

Paula Deen, no matter what she does to confirm or deny the diabetes story, should take a few lessons form her son Bobby.  He’s got a new program on Cooking Channel that focuses on southern meals that you can enjoy with less fat and the mess that causes diabetes.

You never see Bobby Deen on the Today Show though, do you?  Only mama Paula Deen feeding viewers more fat crap.

America has simply become obese country.  It’s huge.  Huge.  And the only way television solves this problem is by offering the right content to help combat obesity which is a cause of diabetes.  Not content that kills people.  Which Paula Deen’s content surely does.

Oh and once again Work It really sucks.

Rick Thomas

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OK so I gotta have fun with this one.  I get to write the script for The Maury Show, you know one of those paternity episodes where half the women need to test a lift of guys you can count on both hands to determine who matched the baby’s DNA.

You know I gotta be straight with you.  Will do this before I get to Khloe Kardashian Odom and the story that’s buzzing all around the internet about whether she’s the daughter of famed attorney Robert Kardashian.

Condom makers are in big business these days.  Because in certain parts of the country, people are just sleeping with every Tom, Dick and Hakeem if you have questions about the paternity of your own children.  I saw this woman on Maury who claimed that all three of her children were her husband’s and it turned out that none of them were.

How the heck…..?

Anyway in the words of Maury “This is Kris.  Kris is going all over television and the internet telling everyone that Robert Kardashian, the lawyer most known for getting O.J. Simpson off for a murder he committed, that he is the father of  reality show star Khloe Kardashian Odom.”

Remember this is Maury speaking.  You know I don’t call these reality people stars.  OK back to Maury.

“Kris is here today to find out if her daughter Khloe is the daughter of Robert Kardashian.  Now the dead man’s ex-wife and widow claimed on his deathbed that he was not the father of her kid Khloe.  This has the whole family up in arms.  But today we’re going to find out if Robert Kardashian is or is not the biological father of Khloe Kardashian.”

What a reality mess.  Or should we say a real mess.

“I never heard such crap in my life,” said Kris Jenner on Good Morning America.  “I gave birth.  I know who the dad was.”

Yeah they say that all the time on The Maury Show.

Here’s the thing and why Maury must be involved.  Because both sides in this reality controversy are sticking to their stories.

Now this is true life Hollywood.

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Melrose Place star Heather Locklear has been hospitalized at Las Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks outside Los Angeles after the actress took a dangerous dose of prescription drugs and alcohol.  Her sister called the police earlier today and told  them to get help to her home in Westlake Village and medics took her to the hospital to be be treated.

As of this writing there is no word on her condition.  And this is not the first time she’s been in this status as several years ago Heather Locklear’s doctor called authorities in 2008 to report that the actress took prescription drugs in an apparent suicide attempt.  First responders went to her residence and found her to be OK and her publicist said she did not need medical assistance.  But Heather Locklear did check herself in to a medical facility for psychological reasons later that year.  Once again the publicist spoke saying that she was suffering from anxiety and depression.

Locklear recently broke off her engagement with Jack Wagner.  And the photo courtesy TMZ.com shows her at the Los Angeles Lakers game getting her drink on with a friend.

What a mess.

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If you haven’t watched Castle on Monday nights on ABC Television you are missing one of TV’s top quality programs.  Castle is one of the most engaging crime drama concepts with a great cast and some incredible writing.  For those of you who haven’t watched, well you should.  Nathan Fillion stars as Richard Castle, a writer who immerses himself in the New York City Police Department after a serial killer does his work based on his novels.

Fillion is so solid in the role of Castle that the show, while a crime drama, is really fun to watch and the sexual tension between him and his detective partner Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) is superb.

I just got in to the show this past season as a regular watcher.  Castle is simply fantastic.

Nathan Fillion has found a great full time role in Castle.  And those of you who watched him in his biggest role in the TV series Firefly or his short time on One Life to Live will like his blast from the past interview with Parade Magazine.

It’s a short story but getting to know the show as a new watcher is a pleasure.  Top quality television is Castle.

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We don’t use words like perspective a lot.  But we have to put this one really in perspective.

This little girl is simply the coolest little kid ever!

We have to show you the ‘Little Girls Versus the Lion’ because most kids would turn and run for their Mommy’s lap but no not this kid.  She just stands there and stares down this 950 pound monster of a lion that wants to get at her like she’s a Big Mac and a bag of fries.

This is so funny.  But her parents have to make sure they don’t take her to one of those outdoor animal parks where the residents on four and two legs run free.  This big cat is behind one heck of a glass enclosure and is de-clawed.  My fat cat has all of his claws and is one terrifying, unstable SOB that has ripped off part of my skin with one grab.

But this is a fun watch.  Yeah that big lion would have a great meal.

 

Damn, 130 pounds of weed?  OK so he does have a prescription for marijuana in California but Snoop Dogg has a bit of problem because he was in the Lone Star State of Texas when he got jammed up for possession of the substance this past weekend.

Fo shizzle he was taken in to custody while trying to cross the Mexican border with the substance.  Now so that I don’t have a caravan of Cadillac Escalades headed for my office on Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown once again Snoop Dogg has a prescription for the green stuff.

He has a prescription.  Please Snoop, I’m just doing this story because you have a new show that’s coming to ABC and we have to do this story.  If you were Charlie Sheen, I’d still do the story.  Just do a search for Charlie Sheen on RealTVCritics.com and you’ll see.  And he never led a caravan of dark tinted Escalades to my office to discuss my editorial content.

Yes Snoop is free.  Didn’t have to go doggy-style in a Mexican prison because he got caught with the weed on the American side of the border.

Good for him.  Mexican prisons are no joke.  Ask that former Survivor producer who killed his wife and got extradited back to that country.

Spot and Rover went through Snoop’s luggage in Sierra Blanca and found the dope.  Making this somewhere around the fourth, fifth or maybe it’s time to stop counting the number of times Snoop Dogg got busted for drugs.  And he must have a good lawyer because the actor-rapper got released on bond shortly after his arrest.

So Snoop won’t have his gizzle in the hizzle this week to smoke and the fizzle shizzle won’t be available because the weed is now in the custody of your local sheriff’s department.

Fo shizzle.

And do you know that there’s a thing called the “shizzolator” that will translate any words or phrases in to Snoop’s lingo?

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