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Monday, July 14, 2008
7/14: 2 Live Stews new TV One Show “Black Men Revealed”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The 2 Live Stews, already a big brand in sports talk radio and heard locally on 790/The Zone from 1 to 4 p.m., are making a foray outside the zone of football and basketball into relationships and black stereotypes in a TV One show “Black Men Revealed.”
Debuting Sunday July 20 at 10 p.m., the nine weekly episodes of the talk show were taped nine months ago at Fever nightclub off Cheshire Bridge Road. It was so long ago that Ryan Stewart, one of the co-hosts, had trouble remembering the names of the guests.
“I have no idea,“ Stewart said Friday. “Several doctors. A pastor of a megachurch. Several different comedians.”
He said he and his brother Doug got to stretch and hit on issues such as fatherhood and going on the “down low,” meaning ostensibly straight black men secretly sleeping with other black men.
”I’m very pleased how it turned out,” he said.
The radio syndication deal they started a few months ago is now up to 23 stations, he added, and they are launching a charity foundation focused on helping young black males.
-I wrote a couple of stories for today’s print edition about TNT’s “The Closer” (season four) and “Saving Grace” (season two).
Here’s a comparison of Kyra Sedgwick’s character vs. Holly Hunter’s character.. And here are some brief Q&As of each actress.
“The Closer” is basic cable’s most successful TV series ever, averaging more than 7.6 million viewers for each first-run episode last summer. The show provides a mix of lighthearted banter, Sedgwick’s character quirks and traditional criminal procedural action. It works.
“Saving Grace” is a trickier affair. Hunter’s character is less sympathetic and less morally grounded than Sedgwick’s and thus tougher to like. And the show tackles issues of faith through an angel named Earl, issues not as mainstream accessible. Though there are police cases, this is more about the characters and isn’t as easy to follow as “The Closer” if you didn’t know the background of the show. It held only about 60 percent of “The Closer” audience last summer, averaging about 4.5 million viewers. But it got renewed. I personally didn’t like the pilot much and didn’t watch much afterwards. I did give the first episode of season two a chance and it was fairly riveting. Give it a shot. See if it’s your cup of iced tea.
Here’s a brief recap of season one:
