raelenemcduffee: "Single Ladies" & "Basketball Wives 3" Get Record Ratings For VH1+Lala Starts Publicity Tour For "Full Court Life"

Thứ Tư, 1 tháng 6, 2011

"Single Ladies" & "Basketball Wives 3" Get Record Ratings For VH1+Lala Starts Publicity Tour For "Full Court Life"

It was a big night for VH1. Their brand new "scripted" series "Single Ladies" debuted with a record breaking 2.8 million viewers. And Season 3 of "Basketball Wives" kicked off with a record 3.5 million viewers.

But just because the show was well-promoted and that many viewed, doesn't mean everyone loved it. Deets, plus Lala making an appearance at Planet Hollywood with Carmelo, Kiyan, and fam, when you read on....

LisaRaye McCoy, Stacey Dash, D.B. Woodside, and Charity Shea have a rcord breaker on their hands with last night's premiere of VH1's "Single Ladies." But whether they'll be able to keep these viewers is a whole other story.

I was sent the screener for "Single Ladies" 2-hour movie and the first episode of the follow up tv series about a week ago. I wanted to turn the movie off by the time the DVD player hit the 7 minute mark. I chose not to write a review at all as it would have been horrificly scathing, and with so few black leads on tv, it was just best people form their own opinion as maybe I simply wasn't their demographic.

However, after seeing everyone on my Twitter and Facebook timeline tearing into this show, I see I'm not alone. The Washington Post summed it up best today by calling it embarrassing and basically an insult to our intelligence:

This is a series for people who found “Sex and the City” too quick-witted and “The Wendy Williams Show” too intellectually stimulating. It’s the TV equivalent of a beach read with no words. Even if “Single Ladies” can be enjoyed in some basic brainless way (and even though it’s safely sequestered on VH1, where standards are aggressively low), there’s something steadfastly embarrassing about it.

I honestly feel like this show wasn't even on BET Blackbuster level. Which was worse: The cringe-worthy acting, the played out sterotypical "successful black woman can't find a man meets the black jezzebel ho-tastic woman" story line, Common--who played the mayor--have umpteen blondes as mistresses, the fact LisaRaye is stealing jewlery on video sets at the age of 44, or the fact the cameo list was painfully Z-list?

I was just waiting on the whole Braxton clan to come on the ATL set and promote their own show. That would have made it better actually. I mean damn.

Anywho, the folks over at the Washington Post pretty much summed up everything I thought about that ish. Check it. Will you be watching the tv series?

In other tv news, Lala Vazquez Anthony is ut pubbing her upcoming show "Lala's Full Court Life". She hit Planet Hollywood in Times Square with her hubby Carmelo Anthony, her son Kiyan, her mom and fam as she dipped her hands in the mold during the handprint ceremony: