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1/17/06 at 5:53am

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For Tom "Ed" Cavanaugh fans, he returns in "Love Monkey" tonight on CBS in the 10 p.m. EST slot.

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1/17/06 at 9:14am

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1/17/06 at 1:19pm

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Matt Roush from TV guide said it was really good.

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1/18/06 at 12:08am

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I thought it was very good as well.

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1/18/06 at 7:22am

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I watched the first half of it.

I think it has potential, but the first episode felt really contrived, and was the blatant creation of someone who said, "let's cross Jerry McGuire with High Fidelity."

Still, it has potential, and at I loved the reference to Ride the Lightning.

Boy has Jason Priestly let himself go.

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1/18/06 at 7:41am

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Boy has Jason Priestly let himself go.

Didn't he almost die from a car race in which he sustain severe injuries to his head and back?

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1/18/06 at 7:44am

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That was a while ago (the race car crash), he's recovered, and was on "Tru Calling" last season (an abbreviated run, as it was).

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1/18/06 at 8:23am

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It was a good show, not great, or at ED level.

It does have potential though. I like the cast and the premise.

I'll keep watching, set a Tivo Season Pass for it.

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1/18/06 at 9:18am

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Not bad... I'll tune in again. I think it needs a bit of work for it to pull off the whole "insidery" aspect, and certainly needs better pop music allusions if they intend this character to come off as truly musically literate.

For ex., the obligatory Dylan reference turns out to be a quote from "Like a Rolling Stone" - a bit obvious for someone with presumably more esoteric tastes. And the kid he's hoping to sign? Ugh, but this earnest John Maher wannabe seems so much like the bland and safe corporate crap our hero earlier railed against (and I certainly don't get the impression that the kid'd be a PIL or Pistols fan).

Minor criticisms, to be sure. But room for improvement if the musical aspect is to remain so pronounced.

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1/18/06 at 10:23am

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I agree the music pats of it seemed really forced - and I'm pretty sure that *was* John Mayer played over the kid lipsyncing. If not it was an awfully good immitation.

I just really liked that Ride the Lightning reference

I think the show just felt too sterile, and the writing was nowhere near Ed's quality. Hopefully it gets better, it has a lot of potential.

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1/18/06 at 10:51am

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BTW, as far as the music references go, did anyone pick up on the fact it was directed by Tamra Davis, who is married to one of the Beastie Boys?

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1/18/06 at 12:27pm

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I like Tom Cavanaugh but didn't think this role was as great a fit for him as Ed was. I wasn't big on his buddies in this episode. I always like Judy Greer though. Overall, I was a little disappointed but might give it a couple weeks to get better.

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1/18/06 at 3:17pm

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I like Tom Cavanaugh but didn't think this role was as great a fit for him as Ed was. I wasn't big on his buddies in this episode. I always like Judy Greer though. Overall, I was a little disappointed but might give it a couple weeks to get better.

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1/18/06 at 5:43pm

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I was disappointed that Kitty didn't flash Tom.

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1/18/06 at 7:42pm

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My wife and I sat down and watched this and thought it had some pretty good potential.

She did turn to me and say "Do guys actual talk like this to each other ?? "

I have a core group of guy friends that I hang with and I can honestly say in 15-20 years of being friends we may have talked about our wives/feelings/getting married and all the crap for about half the time these 4 Nancys did.

I hope they concentrate alot more on the music, Missy (from mind of a married man) and his relationship with his sister.

I am looking forward to next week to see if its going to be something that makes me want to keep coming back.

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1/18/06 at 8:37pm

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Anyone else recognize Gabby (Milena Govich) as Candy the call girl on "Rescue Me"?

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1/19/06 at 7:43am

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Besides Jerry Maguire and High FIdelity, seems like they are also going for a "dudes just talking to dudes" Entourage vibe. Network television being as limited as it is, it won't be as fun, but I'll probably watch again.

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1/19/06 at 9:23am

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Anyone else recognize Gabby (Milena Govich) as Candy the call girl on "Rescue Me"?

Yes.

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1/19/06 at 9:52am

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It has potential (like Kitchen Confidential did) but it's not quite there yet.
What bugged me was Tom Cavanaugh hairline.

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1/19/06 at 1:29pm

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Totally meh. The part where they act like the arbiters of cool in regards to music kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I mean, if you like the artists he rags on, he sort of seems like a dick.

There's also a disconnect between CBGB's (the temple) and the syrupy, "no balls" shit that the John Mayer-ish nancy-boy was singing. You're pretty much doomed to fail when you set up a scenario that it's the best music in the world and yet it so obviously isn't. Maybe if they talked about how awesome the music was but didn't actually let the audience listen to it?

Also, will Tom Cavanaugh's next pilot be about a guy who gets dumped by his girl and gets fired from his job? I mean, I was half-expecting him to open his record company out of a bowling alley. Bowling alley record label.

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1/20/06 at 6:57am

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Tom Cavanaugh's role in Love Monkey is very similar to Ed, I'll admit. I'm not too surprised by this though. As far as I'm aware, Tom Cavanaugh hasn't made any movies or sitcoms since Ed. Given this, I didn't expect a network to take a chance on a role change for him.

I mean, his character in Love Monkey even had a baseball bat in his office - just like Ed!

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1/20/06 at 7:52am

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I have a core group of guy friends that I hang with and I can honestly say in 15-20 years of being friends we may have talked about our wives/feelings/getting married and all the crap for about half the time these 4 Nancys did.

Amen to that! I just got back from a weekend fishing trip with 3 friends and my wife asked me what we talk about up there.

I said, "honey, we just take pot shots at each other's sexual preferences, physical attributes, and try to come up with the most disgusting comments known to man."

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1/20/06 at 8:00am

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I enjoyed the Pilot except for the best friend role 'Bran' played by Judy Greer. The Full of Wisdome friend with Sage like advice can get very old very quick. I'm not sure if her character is even necessary. I realize they may be setting up the best friend that is eventually 'the one' scenario but you don't need to hit us over the head with it in the pilot. I still liked the vibe to the show and hope it gets a chance to grow.

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1/24/06 at 5:28am

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I said, "honey, we just take pot shots at each other's sexual preferences, physical attributes, and try to come up with the most disgusting comments known to man."

Glad to see I am not the only one. In this womanized world we live in I thought I might be the strange one.

I will be watching it tonight and I hope the male friends dont were the skirts and panties in this episode.

Ohh except for the gay baseball player, he can wear what he wants.

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1/24/06 at 7:10am

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Dang it, missed the pilot. Tivo is now set for the season.

To those who, dare I say, "read", the book this show was based on was really entertaining (although my wife hated it). Rather than working in the music biz, he was a writer for a tabloid-y newspaper.

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I said, "honey, we just take pot shots at each other's sexual preferences, physical attributes, and try to come up with the most disgusting comments known to man."

I recently completed a weekend in Vegas with the boyz, and yep, that pretty much sums it up.

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1/24/06 at 8:06pm

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This was a good episode, it had a good vibe throughout, and I hope they can sustain the momentum started from this episode.

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1/24/06 at 9:39pm

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Caught this one by default, since as much as I lub Mariska, I don't watch her in repeat.

I really enjoyed Love Monkey. It has a vibe beginning and once they tweak the man friends stuff and do something about Bran (why is she there, exactly?) it'll be huge, at least on my must see list.

I am a huge pop/rock music trivia buff and that was a neat angle to the show. I was pleased, however that Tom and Milovawhatever didn't shout out to High Fidelity more specifically when she challenged him with a "top 5". It remained "inside". And the fact that she named my favorite song in her top 5 made it a nice moment indeed. The Cure "Just Like Heaven" is the perfect pop song, IMHO.

Nice finish. I read on IMDB that the boy that plays Wayne won a slot as a Partridge Family reality show finalist. He looks just the heck like John Meyer and sounds like him, too.

Already set it up in two weeks on my PVR.

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1/24/06 at 10:33pm

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I like this show because of his character's musical stance (which completely matches my own). The love/relationship aspect of it is decent, but it's the music industry side that really gets my juices flowing.

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1/25/06 at 4:43am

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Is this show filmed in New York City all the way through (I know they filmed "Ed" in upstate New York, due to it being in "Stuckeyville)?

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1/25/06 at 4:57am

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I’m not sure if our local network screwed up or what, but last week the pilot of Love Monkey aired and this week it was episode 3. At the end of the pilot Ed, or whatever his new name is, was without a job and just gave up his new talent find. In episode 3 he’s working at an independent label, has already taken back his new pop star from his old job, and is working with a Britney Spears clone named Chloe.

What happened to episode 2?

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