Tonight at 10p Golden Boy debuts on CBS and you don’t want to miss this police procedural with a twist.
At 34, Walter William Clark Jr. (Theo James) is the youngest man ever to become the NYC Police Commissioner and we will see the path he took to get there in flashbacks. When he was on the beat for 3 years, he was just doing his job and something happened that changed his life. He saved his partner who was shot during a shootout and it was all caught on video. Overnight he has become a local hero and thus has his choice for almost any job on the force. He chooses to be a homicide detective and since he is only 26 that is not going to go over well with the other detectives. His partner Detective Don Owen (Chi McBride) is just years from retiring and he doesn’t want to work with this little cocky brat who he doesn’t think is qualified for the job. Clark thinks he knows it all and Owen will prove to him that he doesn’t. Even though Owen is tough on him, they both learn things from each other while they are working cases. It is their bond that will help get him his future job. Plus we will also learn that Clark’s past is what shaped him into being the man that he is now.
In each episode, we will see Clark answer questions in the future about how got to that position. The future and the past blend perfectly on this show, something show creator Greg Berlanti has perfected with Jack & Bobby and Arrow.
James is convincing as a NYC cop/commissioner and McBride makes any show watchable. I think this is his best work since Boston Public and he was beyond brilliant on that show.
Yesterday Conan O’Brien tested out Tomb Raider and now I get why so many man boys love their videogames. It’s the closest they are going to get to look at a woman like that and have complete control over her. That is until she dies horrifically and it is game over!
I know this video goes long, but it has an awesome payoff when you see how she dies!
Alec Baldwin was a guest on The Late Show yesterday and told David Letterman what it is like to live with his pregnant wife. For three and a half minutes he went off on her pregnancy hormones in a way that after she sees this interview he is going to feel the wrath of them. I hope the CBS host has a spare room for his good friend because the 30 Rock star is going to need it after this.
Remember when you were younger and you played Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em ROBOTS with your friends? Well Syfy’s Robot Combat League that debuts tonight at 10p is the adult version of that board game. Each week 12 teams of two will battle it out in the ring with lifesize robots and the teams with the highest and lowest scores compete at the end of the show with a robot they made. The winner of each show goes on to the finale and compute, I mean compete to win the $100,000 grand prize. But the money is inconsequential when the teams realize they just played their favorite childhood board game with real robots made out of metal and not plastic!
So tune in for a game show that grown child boy wishes they could be a contestant on.
Just over 24 hours after Seth MacFarlane hosted the Oscars, he let us know whether he would do it again. When CrusePhoto asked him on Twitter, “Would you host the #Oscars again if asked?” He Tweeted back, “No way. Lotta fun to have done it, though.”
Do you think the Academy would’ve asked him back? When it comes to the recent hosts he wasn’t as awful as Anne Hathaway and James Franco, but he wasn’t as great as when Billy Crystal was at his best or Hugh Jackman.
It is a tough job and I get why so many people would never do it again. Even the most confident come off as nervous their first time around because imagine the pressure of it all. None of them will ever have that large of an audience again and it is live so that means no do overs!
