TBS picks up 'My Boys' for a third season in 2009
Excellent news today for fans of "My Boys," a series I have obsessively hyped since it debuted as the best show about a fictional sportswriter who never works since "Everybody Loves Raymond."
TBS announced it has picked up the series for a third season of nine episodes debuting early in 2009.
The lead character, P.J. Franklin, is a beat writer covering the Cubs, whose playoff flop should free up her schedule for more beer drinking and poker playing with her male pals.
Maybe TBS could cross-promote by having Frank Caliendo and Chip Caray appear on the show and do their amusing parodies of TV sportscasters.
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We love Jordana Spiro! I got into this series because of your incessant hype. Now I can't wait for this show to come back.
Neil, don't be so bitter over the TV Zone trouncing you in blog posts. Leave the TV news to the fine experts at the TV Zone. You are allowed though to report if Northern Exposure returns to the airwaves.
Glad My Boys is abck, although it noticably slipped last year from its first season. I always wondered why TBS loves to promote its garbage shows like Bill Engvall and Caliendo, but never anything behind this or MLB Baseball.
"Maybe TBS could cross-promote by having Frank Caliendo and Chip Caray appear on the show and do their amusing parodies of TV sportscasters."
Hilarious!
I'd be more interested in this show if it was about a female sportswriter who didn't drink beer and play poker like one of the guys. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it just seems like such an old, tired stereotype: the girl who likes sports who is a total tomboy. Isn't it time to expand a little beyond this one-note portrayal of female sports fans?
I'd be more interested in this show if it was about a female sportswriter who didn't drink beer and play poker like one of the guys. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it just seems like such an old, tired stereotype: the girl who likes sports who is a total tomboy. Isn't it time to expand a little beyond this one-note portrayal of female sports fans?
Many hardcore female fans do fall in that stereotype. Casual female sports fan is one thing but hardcore sports fans are another and PJ was anything other than what she is it wouldn't seem real. At least not to me, a hardcore female sports fan. Besides, we need to take shows for what they are and assume we arent getting ALL of the character. Its a snippet.