“Rizzoli & Isles”: Looking For Buddy, Got Chum

When I first heard that TNT was putting together a small screen drama with two female leads I was hopeful, even though I wondered if another investigative cop show wasn’t a bit of a platitude.  Billed as a one-two punch crime solving sisterhood, I considered the potential and tuned in.  I have watched the recently [...]

“Hot in Cleveland” Is On Fire

TVLand announced that it has picked up its original, situation comedy, Hot in Cleveland starring Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, Valerie Bertinelli, and yes, Betty White, for another 20 episode season.  Not since the Cuyahoga River caught fire or since LeBron James clicked his ruby Nikes for Miami, has the city of Cleveland been any hotter. [...]

ABM-a-thon: A Web Series Alternative to Financial Regulation

The biggest obstacle for the web series is obvious…money.  Budget becomes a four letter word of limitation.  Production teams are forced to redirect their creative side from scripts, sets, and location, to the grim task of spinning the corporate short-straw into sponsorship fools’ gold.  As a result, web series creators are faced with the reluctant [...]

Episode 6 – The “Schmootz on” Eréndira Ibarra

Last week I was lucky enough to engage in conversation with the lovely Eréndira Ibarra who portrays Mariana, half of the smoldering same-sex super-couple of Julia and Mariana on the telenovela, Las Aparicio.  Take a look: embedded by Embedded Video As you will hear, Erendira is extremely gracious to this uni-lingual, English-only, American blogger.  We [...]

What You Should Be Watching: Las Aparicio

I have to preface this review with a muchas gracias to one of my international readers who turned me on to the Mexican telenovela, Las Aparicio.  The sexy soap opera chronicles the lives and loves of three generations of extremely strong, successful, and at times flawed, women who share a family tradition of all giving [...]

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