Blogcritics | by Matthew Milam | Wed, Oct 8
Wed, Oct 8
Back when Girlfriends aired on the UPN network in 2000, the show looked as if it wouldn’t get past its first season. Spike Lee already blasted the show and the television critics didn't completely warm up to it at first. What the critics discovered that Spike didn't was that the show was more t...
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source: S2Smagazine.com
MD “The Game” had originally been introduced as a special episode of “Girlfriends” just before UPN and WB formed the CW. In its last season the sitcom had taken a more dramatic turn, so the proposed format makeover would have made sense. ...
Published Thu, May 21
Mowry, Hall, The Game Cancelled at CW! 
source: Singersroom
NY The only thing we can say is “at least they closed the show out with a nice finale”…something that was not done for “Girlfriends” (not over that one either !!!!!). With 'The Game' officially canned, The CW has officially rid itself of every black ...
Published Wed, May 20
4 Black TV Shows We Shouldn't Have to Live Without 
source: Livesteez
NY Created by Mara Brock Akil (the same genius who brought us Girlfriends), this show transports us into the lives of professional football players and all their drama. The language, familiar to that in your own household, keeps audiences in stitches each ...
Published Wed, May 20
Chris Rock Ending “Everyone Hates Chris” 
source: CBS News
CA The show has not been picked up yet, for a 5th season, so Chris is making things easy for the CW bosses, by giving the show a proper send off (Which Girlfriends never got). Funnyman CHRIS ROCK is planning to end the TV show based on his early life ...
Published Fri, Apr 10
Freddy Krueger To Kill Black CW Sitcoms In Their Sleep 
source: Gawker
NY Show creator Mara Brock Akil is expected to pitch the show as an hour-long dramedy. The series, about wives of famous athletes, is a spin-off from the net's more successful series Girlfriends. As THR gently points out, the rest of the net's series are ...
Published Mon, Apr 6
CW’s ‘The Game’ To Return As Hour Long Series ? 
source: Singersroom
NY Sources say if the Game is unable to pull off such a feat the show will likely face cancellation like its predecessors “Girlfriends,” “Cuts” and “All of Us”. Since moving to Fridays, ‘The Game’ has only been able to pull in an average of 1.9 million ...
Published Mon, Apr 6
Out of Africa, one for the ladies 
source: Globe and Mail
1 Ladies consisted of a few small film parts and a regular role on the UPN series Girlfriends. She dutifully read the books and studied with a dialect coach to prepare, but the character didn't register fully until she stepped off the plane in Botswana ...
Published Thu, Mar 26
Jill Scott Aids In Highly Rated 'Ladies' Debut 
source: Singersroom.com RnB News
NY the Frog) as her assistant, 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' is slated to debut stateside on HBO March 29 as a two-hour film. In recent years, Jill Scott has been seen in Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married," and the hit UPN/CW show 'Girlfriends'.
Published Wed, Mar 18
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