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TV ROUND UP: ‘GIRLFRIENDS’ CANCELED / “FAT CHANCE” WINNER ON IDOL / COSBY SHOW KIDS ON OPRAH

Thursday, February 14, 2008

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Rumors have been all over the net this past week about the CW series Girlfriends being canceled. We were waiting for some legit news to hit the net and here it is, an official statement from MARA BROCK AKIL creator of the series.

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Mara Brock Akil, Creator/ Executive Producer of Girlfriends releases statement.

“Although it’s always difficult to say goodbye, I choose to focus my energy on the history that Girlfriends has made, the human stories that we told, the beautifully complex images that we projected and the blessings 172 episodes bestowed on us, both personally and professionally. I am immensely thankful to the amazingly talented cast, writers, directors, staff and crew for their endless dedication and hard work for eight seasons, to the network that always wanted us and the studio that always supported us, but mostly to the audience, especially African-American women, who took the time to tune into us every Monday night at nine to have a dialogue with us and who have been our partner in this journey. I am currently in talks with the studio and network on putting together a retrospective show which will honor and celebrate this landmark series, so please stay tuned.”

Hopefully they do a final episode or that would be messed up.

“FAT CHANCE” WINNER ON IDOL

One show that will probably always return is American Idol. After weeks of funny auditions airing, the final 24 were picked on the last episodes. One of the finalist include former “Fat Chance” winner and plus size model JoAnne Borgella.

Watch her her audition above and see if she has a chance at becoming the next Idol…

HUXTABLE KIDS ON OPRAH

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( Photos: Oprah.com )

Oprah went all out for her Cosby Kids reunion that aired on Tuesday. With the set built as the classic Huxtable house, the now grown-kids Raven-Symone, Keisha Knight Pulliam, Tempestt Bledsoe, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and Sabrina Le Beauf stopped by to reminisce about being on the show.

Too bad Denise (Lisa Bonet) wasn’t there, but Bill did chime in via satellite. Watch a clip of the episode here or read up on it at Oprah.com

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76.

Nikki8783

Thursday, February 14, 2008 /

They did the same damn thing to ‘Half & Half!’ We can’t have a damn thing good on TV…even if ‘Girlfriends’ sucked after Toni left.

77.

kiyaz

Thursday, February 14, 2008 /

NO DON’T CANCEL MY SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

78.

Bertrand

Thursday, February 14, 2008 /

The character that I’m going to be playing in theater today. is the one and only Sid Vicious ( Cindy Vicious ) of the iconic dirty , punk rock band “ THE DEVILS REJECTS “ . The setting is in a dirty, dark, and very dramatic small bedroom. There’s food all over the floor, furniture’s, and even smeared all over Sid’s cloths. We can see that the room is recovering from a post – party trauma, some of the furniture is damaged like that living room table that looks more like a side walk now. Bottles of beer and cigarettes litter the trashed hotel room. It’s mid – day , but the blinds in the small room block out any light from the outside , making it look like it’s mid-night , so it looks like it’s 2 o’clock but it’s really 3 P.M . The mood of the play is very dizzy , dark , and it takes short time until the setting allows you to take everything in ( the character the mood ) .
My character Sid Vicious ( Cindy vicious ) is a white male from southern Scotland , he is quite tall at a about 6”2 ( he’s very lanky , and looks quite taller , because of his weight ) . Sid is at a very unhealthy size at only 115 pounds, making him under his healthy weight (at 165 pounds). And he’s not naturally skinny. His depression, partying, drinking, and wild life style is taking a great toll on him. You can see by his state of condition for example (most of his bones are protruding out of his body, he’s breaking out allover, and he has numerous scars and bruises all over his body). He’s a wild character so naturally he needs a wild hair style, he was born with pitch black hair, but over years he had red Mohawks, blue comb over, and even the U.K flag printed all over his head when he shaved it off .He’s only 23 years old, so he is still a lad, but his out of control life style, makes him look 15 years his senior. His walk is affected by his mood, state of mind, and physical strength, when he’s at peace he’s jumping around or kicking rocks. When he’s thinking you can always see him swaying or spinning around .He’s always sitting with one of his legs on a other making him look sleepy. When he’s standing up one leg is always crossed in front of the other, adding to his heroin chic look. He moves in a very weird, dramatic and funny way, also adding to his bad boy image. He always seems to be biting his nails , licking his lips , scratching his arms , and whipping is face with a dirty handkerchief he’s always caring . He shudders, twitches, and even raises his voices when he gets nervous. One of his master gestures is hitting himself, and waving his arms to describe things. Sid was never a smart or very educationally talented kid when he was growing up. He dropped out of high school in the 10th grade to put full effort in his rock band .In school he was known as the bad- boy, out of control rocker, and school flirt. But over the years the innocent school ticking time bomb turned into the international rock star, with a dirty reputation. In the end he will always be known as the tragic superstar, the bad – boy with the golden heart, or Cindy Vicious a product of broken start.
Sid Vicious state of mind is at total panic right now , he’s depressed and he’s pretty much lost right now. At this point he’s trying to find out where his hearts at , he wants to know what happened to his life that every time he turns he finds lies , death , and sorrow ,his motivation is a better life and answers to all his problems . He wants to understand the situation he is now, to understand why his best friend Johnny, no his brother had to take away the only thing that he truly loved away from him, forever. At this point he doesn’t know what do , he wants to forget about it , but he can’t , he wants to forgive him but he cant , he wants to bring her back , but he can’t .Everyone around him wants to help , but he wont let them in , the world feels pity over their fallen star , but they can’t do nothing but watch and pray . But he sees them as a bunch of groupies that just want to take her place, he can’t look at his friends cause he keeps on seeing Johnny, he‘s paranoid. At the start of the story, he feels like it was his fault, it was his fault that he didn’t see the warnings. He blames himself for what happened, but in the end he realizes that he had nothing to do with it he was going to get him, he was going to make sure that his brother would be behind bars for the rest of his miserable life. But he still holds something in his heart, there’s still guilt for not doing nothing when he heard her scream, he still blames himself even though he knows he was paralyzed. He finally finds out what he needs to do, even though he didn’t get all his answers. He comes out a better man.

79.

DIVASTYLEZ86

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

OH NO!!!!!! NOT GIRLFRIENDS!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

……:( CRIES AND WEEPS ……JOAN, MAYA, LYNN MY GIRLS NO!

THEY WILL BE TRULY MISSED !

THEY BETTER HAVE A HOT FINAL EPISODE FA REAL!

80.

Im_Kinda_A_Big_Deal

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

Dayum!!!! I still love the show!!!! Getting all the seasons on DVD!!!!!

81.

Im_Kinda_A_Big_Deal

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

I still love the show!!!! Getting all the seasons on DVD!!!!!

82.

TRAILBLAZER

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

Damn! Just when Girlfriends was starting to get good again:( They had expanded their story line and everything. It was all starting to come together again and now off they go…

Maybe the actress who played Toni Childs left becuz she knew this was coming down the pipeline. hmmmmm

I was able to catch the last 10 minutes of the Oprah show wit the Cosby cast. It was interesting but I didnt get a chance to see much so I can’t really comment. All I can say is that the Cosby show is gone but will never be forgotten. Every black girl thought she looked like Rudy when they were little and I must say that I did look like Rudy. I wish they would’ve had a Rudy look alike contest back in the 80’s bc I would have won.LOL.

83.

Chosen

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

Girlfriends was dumb. I didn’t like it. The game is boring Everybody hates Chris needs to go back and do more episodes like like the first season they did on UPN or they gonna get cancelled too.

And Lisa wasnt on Oprah ‘cuz she just had a baby so Oprah said.

84.

Chosen

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

If they don’t work harder on the “real” black shows now we pretty much won’t have a black show that we can relate to ‘cuz they’ll keep cancelling them. The game is boring too. The show they have for blacks or people other than white people is Ugly Betty which I doubt black people are watching that show because its not really a black show. We need another show like the Cosby show but updated for us blacks today. We had UPN that was the channel for blacks why did they take that away from us. I use to watch the parkers. We need to get together and tell them what we want and maybe they will get us something good.

85.

augusta

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

girlfriends had jumped the shark once toni left, im glad its going off the air. i can always watch the (good) old reruns.

86.

Courtney Fields

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

Damn, Why they had to cancel girlfriends that was like the best show on the CW.

87.

Matthew Milam

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

I tried to break the news earlier — but of course, that was suddenly deleted. Go figure.

88.

thickems

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

As far as Girlfriend that is a publicist’s speech. I believe she is pretty upset how the show was cancelled without a finale. The fans would have appreciated it more. The show didn’t feel the same w/out Toni Child-Garrett but I still watched. It is unfortunate how they took the show off the air.

89.

Rhapsody

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

This is some depressing news! I heart girlfriends!!! It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday…*tear*

The Cosby remake show looked like it would have been nice! Wish I could’ve caught it. Everyone looked great!

90.

Aries

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

Well I think it was time for them to let it go. The Storylines were pretty weak. But they still deserve a damn Finale. i mean we atleast deserve to see Joan getting married lol. After all this damn time.

91.

Aries

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

And damn how could I miss the Cosby reunion!! Im upset about that. I would have loved to see the cosby kids all grown up. Dammit!! lol

92.

Milan328

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

I, too, will miss G/F’s!! I LOVED that show. Unfortunately, the so-called ’series finale’ was shown Monday night at 9:30pm.

Good to see the Cosby kids on ‘O’! Great show!!

93.

SweetThang729

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO@ Girlfriends…Mara knows she should’ve worked that out with Jill-Marie a long time ago!!!

Who’s on Idol????

And damn that set brings back memories…I wanna know what the twins look like…the chubby white kid Pete and where’s Bud dammit???!!!

94.

BashyBoo

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

I BOUNCED WHEN TONI BOUNCED SO WHO CARES, BUT I STILL LOVE JOAN!

95.

realistic

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

I hate that this is being made to be something its not. This was going to be girlfriends last season anyway. That was already decided. It wasn’t cancelled because of bad ratings.

96.

Brooke Lynn

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY GIRLFRIENDS…WHYYYYYY????

97.

MAI03

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

This is just ridiculous. Based on the ratings alone and the it being the #1 show in Black household for years should be enough to DESERVE a finalie. Just out of respect to the loyal viewers of Girlfriends for all these years. Friends finale episode was on the Jumbo-tron in Time Square for crying out loud!

Everybody loves Raymond, Friends, Seinfeld all got their proper series finalie. But shows like Family Matters, Moesha, All of Us & now Girlfriends just gets the boot with no care to the fans. Black shows arent respected. The Cosby Show, Fresh Prince and A Different World all got finalies (maybe because they were all NBC shows), but if your on the CW/WB/UPN, your hit.

Fans want to finally see Joan get married and word is that they were in talks to getting Toni Childs for the series finalie. A retrospective show will do nothing but make fans more furious. It’s an insult.

98.

Im the only polar bear up in this bitch

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

Raven was only on the show 4 like a minute, i don’t even consider her part of the cast.

99.

Risa

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

I love Raven. She is one of the few wealthy young people that I can honestly point to and tell my students, there is a role model. She is not naked all the time, she is classy, and can give an interview. I hope she stays the same.

100.

Niki

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

I loved Girlfriends although I admit that it did go downhill after Toni left. I went to the studio tapings twice(Valentine’s Day when Joan and William are dating AND the season 7 premiere when Jona goes to New Orleans and meets Aaron) and it was so fun, I was looking forward to going again! I’m so upset, it was a great experience. The actors are all so great and so sweet. Tracee is gorgeous and funny in person and so is Persia(she’s so so much more beautiful in person). Keisha(Monica) is really skinny and Golden is kinda full of herself, she thinks she’s ALL THAT. I wish they didn’t cancel this show, I really loved it. :(

101.

Niki

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

*Joan

102.

Rashad

Friday, February 15, 2008 /

Excuse my language, but this is BULLSHIT! I’ve been following this show from the beginning and I don’t even watch shows like that except for this one and Charmed and I knew the show was ending but for them to just up and cancel it like that, that’s not even right. Mara needs to get off of her azz and at least try to get the CW to do a 30 min series finale or something so we can find out what happens.

103.

VIOLA1

Saturday, February 16, 2008 /

I AM A TRUE FAN OF GIRLFIRENDS AND HAVE BEEN FROM DAY ON AND CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT IT HAS NOT BEEN THE SAME SENSE JILL JONES (TONI) LEFT/ GOT FIRED WHATEVER ALL I KNOW IS THAT ALL THE GIRLS ON THE SHOW SERVED A PURPOSE AND COULD NEVER BE REPLACED WITH ANOTHER ACTOR SO THE SHOW WAS KIND OF WACK AFTER TONI LEFT AND RUMORS OF THE SHOW BEING CANCELLED STARTED WAY BEFORE THEY CAME BACK FOR THIS LAST SEASON, BUT SOMEHOW I KNEW THIS WOULD BE IT, SAD TO SEE THEM GO BUT THE JUST ISN’T THE SAME, BUT FOR THE FANS WHO REALLY DON’T WANT TO SEE IT GO YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, THEY CANCELLED JERICHO AND THE FANS FLOODED THE PHONES, EMAILS AND FAXES AND THEY BROUGHT THE SHOW BACK SO IF YOU GUYS TRULY ARE FANS AND NOT READY TO SEE IT GO, DO SOMETHING ABOUT.

104.

BIB

Monday, February 18, 2008 /

#75 I’m with you. Girlfriends has not been the same since Tony left. This has been the first yr/season that I only watched a few episodes. And the episodes I did see this season, WEAK!!!

The season that seemed to focus on Lynn and her band and her lover was just irritating. It was as if they were trying to actually promote the actress who plays Lynn (don’t know her name) singing career.

I can’t wait until they start selling more seasons on DVD. There are a couple of seasons that I will definitely buy. The ratings must be down for them to pull the show without closure. Oh well.

105.

BIB

Monday, February 18, 2008 /

#32 I do agree with you that Toni was not praying for a white man. However, I don’t agree with you calling a harmless comment as #28 dumb. It’s not that serious.

I don’t know if you (Stacy H) and Stacy are the same person, but thanks for the clip of the Cosby Kids. I hate that I missed the show.

106.

Magg

Thursday, February 21, 2008 /

sniff snifff bye bye girlfriends!

107.

whywhywhy

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 /

girlfriends has been cancelled. cuz the rating went down!!!!
they’re so stupid. they should of never let Jill Marie Jones go “Toni” cuz of her contract ended. RENEW the shit.lol I knew they show wouldn’t last with out her.she was my fav in girlfriendz.loud outspoken and funny with it. she was the Best. dont get me wrong the rest of the char are wounderful but toni was really good. if they happen to wanna do a final show scene they better have toni up there with her little gurl.

108.

whywhywhy

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 /

i use to watch gurlfriendz alot never miss an epi untill Toni left. i guess am on of the reasonz y the rating with down.lol..damn

109.

briitany

Thursday, March 13, 2008 /

that is so stupid why would they do anything like that and the game is still airing reruns i mean that’s so crazy hopefully new things

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