Daily Archives: January 11, 2010

TV One, how do I love thee, let me count the ways …
First, they brought back reruns of some of my favorite sitcoms like “Living Single” and “Sanford and Son.” Then you created “Unsung” and showed me the stories behind the music of Donny Hathaway, Phyllis Hyman, Klymaxx and others. After that, you premiered “Life After” to tell me all about the lives of folks like BBD and Darryl “Chill” Mitchell after they blow-up-chuated and experienced some of the most trying times in their lives.
And now, now they’ve created a sitcom! *tearing up* I don’t know what to say. This is just awesome. For so long, we’ve been waiting for someone to step up and create a smart sitcom based around black characters to show the other networks how it should be done, because it seems they’ve forgotten.
 The new sitcom, starring Tatyana M. Ali and Phil Morris executive produced by Martin Lawrence, “LOVE THAT GIRL!” It’s scheduled to air Jan. 19.
The show stars Ali as a young divorcee who returns home to southern California to work in her dad’s (Morris) real estate business.
When her unemployed brother unexpectedly moves in with her starts to wreak havoc on her newly single life. Yes, Ali has come a long way from singing in the opening credits of Eddie Murphy’s “Raw.” LoL!
This sounds like it could be a decent show, but I hope the name doesn’t stop it dead in it’s tracks. It just sounds crazy. But, the show does has four episodes.
According to Lynn McReynolds of McReynolds Elek, the public relations firm that handles TV One’s media relations, there are only four episodes because the producers did the show to shop it to different networks not specifically to TV One.
” TV One is open to the idea of producing more shows with the producers, but, of course, a number of variables will factor into that decision,” McReynolds said in an e-mail.
One of those variables is if the show tests well with the audience. So ya’ll know what that means. If you like the show, watch it and be vocal about it.
The good news that McReynolds shared is TV One has always planned to do scripted programming at some point.
“It’s extremely expensive, compared to unscripted programming, so networks generally need to be of a certain size and maturity level before it makes sense.”
While TV One is growing fast, it still has less viewers than channels like Lifetime and that wasteland BET (stop watching that crap).
Thankfully, TV One has new series coming up this year with LisaRaye and Omarosa’s reality shows “The Real McCoy” and “Ultimate Merger,” respectively.
We can also look forward to 12 new episodes of “Unsung” and another season of “Life After.”
Annnnnnnnd, come the end of the month, we can see two episodes a night of “A Different World.” I don’t know about ya’ll, but my TV is going to LIVE on TV One.
It’s like TV Land and good reality TV dipped in chocolate.
*squeals like a girl*
I can’t wait!