My good friend Alyssa has a post up about VH1's decision to pull Chad Ochocinco's reality show with his wife, Evelyn Lozada, after reports of Ochocinco beating up his wife.
But in comparing Charlie Sheen and Ochocinco, Alyssa makes the wrong conclusion:
Johnson is hardly a money machine like Charlie Sheen, so the decision to drop him isn’t as painful to the network as it would be for the networks of the world to collectively and permanently turn their backs on that particular member of the Estevez clan. But still, it costs money to shoot a show and then shelve it. I’m glad that for now, VH1 isn’t interested in peddling that fantasy, and is willing to take the hit on the show.
I get that Alyssa is trying to make what she probably thinks is a larger point about VH1's willingness to take a financial hit. But she fails to actually interrogate why it will take that hit — race — and in doing so, gives VH1 more credit than it deserves.
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Posted on August 15th, 2012 - Filed under
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A review of the first season finale of VH1's Single Ladies after the jump. You can read all my reviews of the show here.
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Posted on August 9th, 2011 - Filed under
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A review of episode ten* of VH1's Single Ladies after the jump. You can read all my reviews of the show here.
*I was informed that the premiere movie – what I call episode one – is considered a separate entity from the show. So my reviews are numbered incorrectly. Oops. This is technically episode nine. Why VH1 did it this way is beyond me.
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Posted on August 1st, 2011 - Filed under
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Chilli,
Christina,
Common,
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Designing Women,
Eve,
Girlfriends,
Jackie's Back,
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Keisha,
Kelly Rowland,
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A review of episode nine of VH1's Single Ladies after the jump. You can read all my reviews of the show here.
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Posted on July 26th, 2011 - Filed under
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Chilli,
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Kim Porter,
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Omar,
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Take 5,
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A review of episode eight of VH1's Single Ladies after the jump. You can read all my reviews of the show here.
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Posted on July 18th, 2011 - Filed under
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Charity Shea,
Chilli,
Christina,
Common,
D.B. Woodside,
Dee LaDuke,
Designing Women,
Eve,
Girlfriends,
Jackie's Back,
Kassandra Clementi,
Keisha,
Kelsey Grammar,
Kim Porter,
LisaRaye McCoy,
Mara Brock Akil,
Mark Alton Brown,
Omar,
Queen Latifah,
Sex and the City,
Shakim,
showrunner,
Single Ladies,
Stacey Dash,
Stacy A. Littlejohn,
Take 5,
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Tyler Hilton,
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