Dime and Nickle: TV’s TOP 15 FIYAH of the WEEK


For the Week beginning Monday, July 8 through Sunday, July 14, 2012. Most Program links below include full episodes.

T   L   Program / Network / Principals

1    2    Necessary Roughness / USA / Callie Thorne, Marc Blucas, Mehcad Brooks, Scott Cohen

2    –    White Collar / USA / Tim Dekay, Matt Bomer, Willie Garson, Tiffani Thiessen, Sharif Atkins, Marsha Thomason, Hilarie Burton, Mekhi Phiffer

3   3    Common Law / USA / Michael Ealy, Warren Kole, Sonya Walger, Jack McGee

4   -     Unsung / TVOne / Con Funk Shun

5   9    Melissa Harris-Perry / MSNBC / Melissa Harris-Perry

6   6    The Exes / TV Land / Donald Faison, Wayne Knight, Kristen Johnston, David Alan Basche, Kelly Stables

7    -    The Newsroom / HBO / Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston, John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn

8   8    Around the World in 80 Plates / BRAVO / Curtis Stone, Cat Cora

9    –    Eureka / SyFy / Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Colin Ferguson, Joe Morton, Erica Cerra, Neil Grayston

10 10 Food Network Star / FOOD / Alton Brown, Bobby Flay, Giada de Laurentiis, Bob Tuschman, Susie Fogelson

11  12  HGTV Design Star / HGTV / Genevieve Gorder, Vern Yip, David Bromstad

12    -  Rizzoli & Isle/ TNT / Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Lorraine Bracco, Lee Thompson Young, Bruce McGill, Jordan Bridges

13   5  So You Think You Can Dance / FOX / Cat Deeley, Mary Murphy, Nigel Lythgoe

14   –   Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse / TBS / Michael Jai White, Tasha Smith, Kent Faulcon, Kiki Haynes, Jason Olive, Crystle Stewart

15   7  Duets / FOX / Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, Robin Thicke, Quddus

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Producer Reginald Hudlin Says DJANGO UNCHAINED is Not Another Slave Movie


EBONY: When I first saw the trailer, my first thoughts were, ‘Oh wow. Tarantino and Hudlin are ballsy. What they’re effectively doing is giving the Inglorious Basterds treatment to pre-civil war.’ That’s what you’re doing, right?

Reginald Hudlin: Yes! It’s like when he first started talking about Inglorious Basterds to me, years before the movie got made, Quentin said, ‘World War II was the war about racism, right?’ Because the Nazis said, ‘we’re the master race.’ So, you know, these are the things that he cares about and he thinks about … these are the things that he knows and are passionate about, and certainly the kind of movies that I always wanted to make, being a person who grew up on Blaxploitation, which was all about black folk kicking ass and taking names. I’m like, Yes, I’m down with that program. Let’s do that. READ MORE

Radius Of A Square is the very definition of wide-mind dreaming


‘Stunning’ is inadequate. ‘Brilliant’ is understatement. If the photograph is indeed a reflection of the mind of the photographer then Radius Of A Square blog is the very definition of wide-minded dreaming.  The unnamed and unidentified blogger/archivist of ROAS is a conjurer of adjectives. Who is this Svengali?! He/she moves you with masterful, deliberate care. The direction is Zen in inception. I dig the mathematics-geometry inspired  blog title ‘Radius of a Square’. It engages the abstract reasoning of the observer with a casual yet stealth-like power. Soon I will discover just what one may absorb and ponder from this digital portal of Nirvana. My future is promising. A panoply of stimuli  for the mind and senses resides comfortably at this web address called ROAS. You’d be well-advised to visit long and often. EXPERIENCE MORE