Cheers & Jeers: Cheers to ‘Gotham’ Renewal; Jeers to ‘The Bachelor’
Cheers & Jeers is a safe place to shout about TV’s recent hits, misses and ever-lovin’ messes! Share your opinions in the comments below.
Cheers to Ariana Grande’s double shot on SNL
As host and musical guest, the teeny pop star was a Venti-sized joy, serving up screamingly funny impressions, some killer comic timing and shockingly solid live vocals. She’s the new Timberlake!
Brava, Grande!
Cheers to Gotham’s early renewal
Fox picked up the second-year pre-Batman drama—which has been killin’ it like a villain lately—for a third season in the same week that leading man Ben McKenzie welcomed his first child with costar Morena Baccarin. The late Thomas and Martha Wayne would be so proud.
McKenzie (center) and company have reason to celebrate.
Cheers to Underground for breaking out!
Not only is the top-notch slavery drama starring Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Aldis Hodge a riveting look at the Underground Railroad, it also plowed down every record in WGN’s books by garnering the net its best ratings in 18 years.
Hodge and Smollett-Bell showed how it’s done.
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Jeers to Gary Sinise for bumming us out. Again.
After nine seasons of the dark and dreary CSI: NY, the man behind Lt. Dan is back for more morose material as the lead of Criminal Minds’ grisly Beyond Borders spin-off. We get it, you’re a serious actor. Now how about a nice family drama?!
Hey gang, want to scare people away from ever traveling?
Jeers to The Bachelor’s white-washing
As much as we love JoJo Fletcher and wish her luck finding someone even better than Ben Higgins, it’s about time ABC rose to the occasion and went with a more diverse selection than a half-Persian southerner for the next Bachelorette.
The Bachelor’s vision in white. As usual.
Jeers to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for “Foster-ing” a phony romance.
Now that we know Yolanda and David Foster are kaput, their lovey-dovey act during this week’s NYC trip seems as fake as half the casts’ body parts.
Yolanda and David hit a sour note.
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Oh, and I'm so glad to see Cheers & Jeers back again! Even though I seldom agree with all of them, I still enjoy reading them. It would be nice to see it return as a weekly column like it used to be on the TVG site.
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Thanks! And you're in luck...we'll be posting a new C&J every other Friday. 🙂
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Thank you!
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Me too! A blast from the past!!
I'm SO glad they got Disqus here!
And good to see you too Don!
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You too! And did you know that Ask Matt has been expanded to 2 days a week here? Now, if we could only get EW's recaps on here.....
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Hundley Fan just contacted a few of us and told us about this site and that it used Disqus...and that you were here.
So, hello!!
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Hi to you too. I remember telling people that Matt Roush (Ask Matt) and several others had moved here at the beginning of last year, but I don't think everyone saw it.
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A bunch of the old gang is elsewhere and I believe you were invited there, also.
I'd be glad to see you there but I know where to find you now. I wasn't into posting on EW...especially NOW.
But this is my cup of tea.
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Let me just say they discuss too many shows I'm not interested in...and leave it at that. Disqus contacted me about starting my own channel, but I'm not interested in that either.
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Love, love Gotham and am very glad it was renewed!
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Me too! It's been one of my favorites for the past couple of seasons. I've also been enjoying Agent Carter which I'm pretty sure will be cancelled. 🙁
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I was sorry to see the ratings drop on Agent Carter too. I'm hoping corporate synergy will still find a way to save it though. I'd also be OK with them maybe rebranding the series and focusing on other eras in the early days of SHIELD, with Agent Carter still playing a role, of course. I still really want to see Hank Pym and Howard Stark fighting over Pym's tech, as they alluded to in Ant-Man.
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I didn't know you were such a comic book nerd. 😉 I have no prior knowledge of these characters. I like Agent Carter and Legends of Tomorrow, but I just couldn't get into Agents of Shield. I don't know how I grew up with Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and the Flash but missed the rest of them.
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I know, I seem too cool to be this big of a nerd. 🙂 I think a lot of people miss the Marvel characters growing up because, back in the day, the stories were much more mature. There's a lot of gray and nuance, as opposed to the DC characters that were presented to us as kids in a good v. evil/black & white kind of way. My mother was a big fan of the Marvel stuff when I was growing up though. She loved the Fantastic 4, Spider-Man, and Incredible Hulk, so I had quite the role model.
You're not alone with drifting from AoS. Lots of people were extremely disappointed with it. I stuck with it only because I love Ming-Na and Clark Gregg so very much. But for them, I think I would have stopped watching too. I'm glad I kept watching though. I loved the tie-in to Cap 2.
I still don't know what to think about LoT. I find Vandal Savage annoying. But, I otherwise like the concept and characters. I'm just not sure I'll be able to stick with the show if they're chasing Savage for several seasons.
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Isn't Savage supposed to be annoying? Most villains are.
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I don't know about annoying. I tend to think of a good villain as being more frustrating...in the way he stymies or thwarts the hero...than annoying. The problem with Savage for me is that I don't understand or even really care about his obsession with Shiera, and it's kind of the catalyst for everything.
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I don't understand it either. She's not even that attractive. There must be something about her we don't know about to have all these men fawning over her.
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Thank you for this column.
I'm new here today, but I was a long-time participant on TV Guide, and I'm thrilled to see this site and some things from the old days of TVG.
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Welcome, Pinkie! Glad you have joined us over here. 🙂
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How do we know if the Fosters were or weren't getting along during their weekend in New York last year? Not all relationships go from good to bad and stay there. It could have been a week where they were on good terms, or maybe they're just the type that always keep their disagreements private and put on a good face in public.
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Well butter my bread and call me a biscuit, good journalism still exists! Who knew? Excited to see the Cheers and Jeers back in action. Was forced to leave TVGuide after they switched to Facebook comments. I much prefer disqus. Looking forward to seeing Cheers and Jeers here!
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Great news for Ben McKenzie and Gotham. It's always a pleasure to watch him explore and develop a character and has been since 2003. Congratulations to him and Morena Baccarin on the birth of their daughter and all the best to the cast and crew for Gotham's green light for S3.
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I wouldn't go so far as to dub Arianna, "the next Timberlake," but I will say that my expectations for her hosting SNL were extremely low, and she wound up surprising me by being fairly delightful.
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Me too. After listening to her insufferable brother brag about her on Big Brother (at a time I didn't even know who she was) and that vile doughnut licking episode, I really tried not to like her, but every time I see her, I'm surprised by how good she actually is.
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I couldn't agree more with the Jeer on Gary Sinise and the Criminal Minds spin-off.
I've never missed an episode of CM and I like Gary Sinise well enough, but that first episode was so lackluster, I'm not sure I want to watch again.
I'd love for old Gary to have a knee-slapping big hee-haw once in a while.
A little more personality would be a big help.
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Hah! I felt the same way watching him for so many seasons on CSI:NY. I like him well enough, but happy moments for his character were few and far between.
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The leading lady on CMBB should be finishing her second season on Forever.
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Thomas and Martha Wayne would NOT be proud of Ben McKenzie having an out-of-wedlock child with a woman who is married to another man.
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She's now divorced (with how her assests will have to be divided with him and what spousal support would be assigned in the short term) and was already separated at the time she took the role on Gotham in 2014. Careful before you cast stones based on tabloid misinfo due to someone selling a story that people are too quick to accept. Personal lives should be private and some do want that separation from the professional.
Congrats to Ben and Morena on their daughter and congrats to all involved on Gotham's S3.
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I'm so glad that JOJO is going to be the next Bachelorette ,she is so beautiful and sweet