Starz Search

I have to say, so far this fall season has really underwhelmed me. Out of the gate, I was sort of into "Two Broke Girls", but 2 episodes in, it just can't seem to shake the 80's format dust off. And by 80's, I don't mean in a cool, retro Ray-Ban hipster way. It just feels...tired, like Ted McGinley might show up or something.

I'm still on the fence about "Up All Night", and I haven't even managed to make myself hit play on the "Pan Am" premiere episode still clogging up my VCR, er, DVR. See? The tv time warp is confusing me.

So, here we are, and I am desperate to love a new show. Enter...Kelsey Grammer? (Insert inappropriate Camille Grammer/Real Housewives of Beverly Hills joke here.)

He's got a brand new drama. Is it good? I don't know. It's premiering on Starz in a few weeks, but the good folks at Starz have already renewed it for a second season. This means one of 2 things: A) this show is the next BIG THING, and we should all subscribe to Starz immediately or B) the marketing folks at Starz want you to THINK it's the next BIG THING, so you subscribe to Starz immediately.

You can watch the Boss trailer and decide if Starz is worth adding to your lineup, or at least worth scamming your cable company to give you a free trial (oh, like you haven't done that?).

Because I am dying for a new show to be hooked on and, let's face it, because I just happen to have a free Starz trial, I'll at least give this political drama a shot, but the jury is out for me. When I watch this trailer, I can't seem to quite get on board because I'm distracted by of all of the following:

A) Kelsey Grammer is trying so desperately to convince us he is a super baddy and not Frasier that it seems like he studied lots of Cruella DeVille cartoons to get into character to prove he is a SERIOUS DRAMATIC ACTOR.

B) A show about a slimy politician hiding a secret? That's never been done before!

C) Is it just me, or does that-girl-from-90210 sport like 5 different pairs of nifty glasses in this trailer? Is Lens Crafters a sponsor? I haven't seen an optical co-star this prominent since the Sally Jesse Raphael show.

Oh well. I've got at least a month left on the Starz free trial, so I'll check it out.

Besides, I must admit, I really want to find out about where to get those cute glasses.

More Lip Schtick

Oh dear.  After the media blitz of last week's "Harry Loves Lisa" premiere, I thought we'd be all tv-plastic-surgery-starred out, no? Now,  I have to admit, I thought Lisa's cheerleadery support of Harry was sort of (gasp) genuine-seeming, but the lips! Oh, the lips!  They make me so sad!  Yet, I was powerless to look away. The Hamlin-Rinnas + TV Land know this, and so they've made La Lips the lip-pin, er, lynchpin of their marketing campaign for the show.

Give 'em credit, they know how to put their best foot forward.  Or best lips forward.

Whatever. 

But now, the latest reality show I will become powerless to resist is premiering on Bravo this Thursday.  Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, Botox fans and others, I present to you:

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills!!!!

No, I can't believe I'm promoting this crap, either.   The only Housewives franchise I have ever watched is New Jersey, but even that could only hold me for one season. How many episodes in a row can a girl take of the "Danielle-is-here...oh-my-gawd-that-whooooo-rah" theme song, ya know?

(Ok, full disclosure, I watched Bethenny Frankel on "Bethenny Getting Married" even though I'd never seen the NY franchise, but I swear she's somewhat normal...at least, normal using the Bravo television barometer.)

Anyhoo, I watched Bravo's preview clip  and these ladies terrify and intrigue me at the same time.  With Camille (Mrs. Kelsey) Grammer on board, no doubt the schadenfreude-tastic thrill of watching the implosion of her marriage to Kelsey will be the rubber neck draw of the series that Ms. Rinna's lips are on "Harry Loves Lisa".  

Plus, it's got TWO Hilton relatives/ex-child stars, some woman named Lisa VanderPump (I couldn't make that up) who not only looks like Jackie Collins but could star in her awesomely trashy movies-of-the-week, a Maloof wife AND one woman with a very surgically altered lip.  And a partridge in a pear tree.  

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the freakiest of them all?