Access Atlanta > Entertainment > Radio Talk > Archives > 2008 > November > 12
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
11/13; Frank & Wanda to celebrate 10 years at V-103 next week; “MadTV,” “My Own Worst Enemy,” “Lipstick Jungle” cancelled
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
-Frank Ski and Wanda Smith announced their own version of Oprah’s “Favorite Things,” a live party on November 21 featuring their own favorite things. Those 10 items, yet to be announced, will also be awarded to 10 lucky V-103 fans who sign up online. The live party from 6 to 10 a.m. will be at Justin’s.
-Falcons player Jonathan Babineaux will be a weekly correspondent on the Murph Dawg & CJ morning show on 95.5/The Beat.
According to the press release: In his segment titled “In the Know with Babineaux,” Jonathan will give sports analysis, share his thoughts on current events and give his views on what’s hot in music and entertainment news with Murph and CJ on Monday mornings at 7:55AM.
-NBC, which is having a horrendous TV season outside of “Saturday Night Live,” has nixed two relatively new shows, the Brooke Shield vehicle “Lipstick Jungle” and Christian Slater’s spy caper “My Own Worst Enemy.” Both were struggling to draw 5 million viewers a night.
Fox has also decided to retire “MAD tv” after 14 seasons and being overshadowed by “SNL.” But the sketch show is being shopped to cable networks. The show will finish out its run in May, 2009. It averages 2.6 million viewers, less than half that of “SNL.”
The show features an Atlanta gal Erica Ash:
Meanwhile, ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” has struggled in the ratings and is currently straddling the fence in terms of survival.
-And when the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” reunion airs November 25, Lisa Wu Hartwell almost comes to blows with Kim Zolciak. That is unexpected given how diplomatic Lisa was on the show.
Permalink | Comments (38) | Post your comment |
11/12: “Real Housewives of Atlanta” episode #6 recap
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ABOVE: Sheree Whitfield poses with her ex-husband Bob Whitfield at her fashion show intro party.
Let’s call this episode “The One Where the Fashion Show Had No Fashion.”
While poor DeShawn Snow a couple episodes of ago had the Charity Event That Lost Money, this time Sheree Whitfield found herself introducing a fashion line where the fashion samples were so bad, she couldn’t actually hold the fashion show.
Sheree wants to be her own woman by creating her own fashion line She by Sheree. But the money clearly is coming from her ex husband and NFL player Bob Whitfield, something along the lines of $100,000. She has designs made and we see her talking with her “lifestyle consultant” or something like that. How do you get a job like that? She also hires a “body paint” specialist and picks a couple of hottie guys to be at her party where her “She by Sheree” name is emblazoned on them. Poor guys!
The day before the party, she finds fashion samples in plastic on her door. (Good question; why is she only getting her samples the day before?) She is upset by the clothing in plastic instead of garment bags. She is upset that the designer didn’t wait for Sheree and left it at her door. She is then upset by the quality of the designs that don’t look quite like what she had expected. She is upset that the designer doesn’t immediately answer the phone. She finally gets the designer on the phone and lectures her sternly about the crap she got. She decides not to show the samples at the party the next day.
So she has to tell guests she didn’t have the fashion line ready for the party itself. While we see nobody mocking her at the party, NeNe’s gay friend Dwight does so after the fact while getting a pedicure. “What’s a fashion show without fashion?” he says snidely. At least Bob shows up to be supportive (though his comments about her “finally” doing something was faint praise at best). In fact, this is the first time we really see Bob (besides the back of his head in the first episode.)
NeNe had quite an eventful hour, too. First off, her first Twisted Hearts Foundation to help victims of domestic abuse went off without a hitch, a luncheon where women wore big hats. She raised $19,200 and told an emotional story about her own problems with an abusive man.
At the end, we find out her paternity test. Is Curtis her daddy? Sadly, no, he is not. She is emotionally wrought, understandably so.
And Lisa finally had a real storyline or two. She and DeShawn tried to reconcile NeNe and Kim with a sunset barbecue at DeShawn’s place. Naturally, Kim and Sheree bag on the event without even calling. Kim’s excuse: she didn’t feel like going. Sheree’s excuse? Too busy. Kind of rude to not bother telling them in advance and making DeShawn, Lisa and NeNe sit around for a couple of hours waiting in vain. Naturally, NeNe isn’t surprised and says you “reap what you sow.”
In early May, Lisa also finds out her hubby Ed Hartwell gets a job with the Oakland Raiders. She wants him to retire and isn’t pleased to see him have to work so far away from Atlanta. (He ended up getting released in August, never getting to actually play a game.)
Next week in what is already the final episode of season one (and believe me, season two is coming thanks to good ratings): in what is still considered a network crossover promotion, Atlanta “Project Runway” alum Mykael Knight pops by and Kim and NeNe confront each other over past issues.
By the way, ratings for “Real Housewives” last Tuesday during the middle of the presidential election results took a hit. The show just broke 1 million viewers, down from 1.27 million the week before. But considering how many folks were watching CNN and ABC (the most popular networks of the night), that is surprisingly good. But the repeat lost far more viewers at 11 p.m. when Barack Obama’s victory was announced. “Real Housewives” at 11 p.m. drew 388K compared to 667K a week earlier.
Permalink | Comments (320) | Post your comment | Categories: atlanta housewives
