Jerry O’Connell returns to TV tonight at 10p on WGN and Carter makes a good case for it to become your newest addiction.
Harley Carter has it all, a hit show where he plays a detective and a beautiful wife. Then it all comes crashing down on him when he walks in on his wife sleeping with someone else. When that guy shows up at his wrap party, he completely loses it.
Harley says goodbye to Hollywood and hello to his small hometown in Canada. He tries to be low key, but everyone knows the hometown celebrity. Good thing he has his two friends to help him out. Sam Shaw (Sydney Poitier Heartsong) is a detective now and she makes the mistake of bringing Harley along with her to a crime scene. He wants to see if everything he learned on the show works in real life too.
Their first case together hits close to home for them. Harley’s home actually because Koji (Denis Akiyama), one of his housekeepers and the man that helped to raise him after his mother was murdered, is now accused of murder. Now Harley and Sam along with their friend, Dave (Kristian Bruun), and Koji’s wife Dot (Brenda Kamino) are going to try to solve this case before Koji is locked up for a murder he did not commit.
Koji is a nice old man and Dot is someone you do not mess with. Her guns are like her third arm and everyone is rightfully afraid of her. But they love their Harley.
What about Harley and Sam, there is some will they or won’t they love tension between them. Thankfully, they have Dave to keep them from getting into trouble. At least in that aspect. Over the next 10 weeks, Dave and Harley will get in a lot of trouble and Sam will have to rescue them time and time again.
Yet these three childhood detectives are just as good at solving crimes now as when they were teens. Except now, they get to investigate cooler cases like a radio DJ who goes missing during a broadcast or someone finds a long-dead body on a snowmobile during their summer camping trip.
Solving cases should be enough for Harley to deal with, but his show wants him back. Will he go back to investigating fake cases or continue looking into reals ones? I cannot tell you that. What I can tell you is that you will enjoy watching this police procedural that is also about friendship. Even though they are solving crimes, it is a feel-good buddy show that will leave you smiling.
What makes it works is the chemistry between the actors, you can tell that really like each other and they play well off of one another. That is the biggest key to the success of a show. Well that, and good writing and interesting storylines. Something this show is full of. Therefore, be prepared to spend your Tuesday nights with Carter, I promise they will not let you down.
It is no secret that Rebecca Romijn and her husband Jerry O’Connell really love animals, so it makes sense that Hallmark Channel made her their Spokesperson of Adoption Ever After.
She and the network have joined together to get the word out about adopting pets from shelters. So many animals need a home, and you do not have to pay hundreds of dollars by buying one from a pet store. You can go to your local shelter and bring home your furbaby. One by one, you will be helping to cut down on the numbers of pet homelessness.
Romijn will join Happy the Dog and Happy the Cat, as they will promote the program with off-air elements, grassroots efforts, social media outreach and strategic corporate partnerships.
My sweet and lovable cat, who is the best thing that ever happened to me, was rescued from the LA Shelter the day before she was going to be put down. Therefore, I know how important it is to adopt don’t shop. Thus, I love that Hallmark Channel is doing this and that they made Romijn their Ambassador. I cannot think of a better person.
Think I am excited about all of this, not as excited as the actress. She wrote, “So thrilled about this I could cry. Thank you @hallmarkchannel.” If she does cry, good thing she has a lot of dogs and cats to lick off her tears. Another reason to bring one home today.
Back in 2010, Jerry O’Connell had his pen!s bitten off by killer fish in Piranha 3D. Eight years later, he is finally getting his revenge on fishes. He showed them what it is like to have your head is someone else’s mouth. It does not look like fun, does it. Unlike what they did to him, he left their head on!
The other night when O’Connell was on Shark After Dark during Discovery’s Shark Week, he did things to a fish that I am only assuming he has done with his wife. Things that will make a person swear off of eating seafood forever. At least it did me.
I mean Frenching a raw fish’s head has to taste grosser than doing that other sexual thing you do with your mouth on a hot sweaty day. And I have not sworn off of doing that thing yet.
Anyways, here is a O’Connell story for you. Eight years ago, I went to a press screening of Piranha 3D, and then went watch a taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live from the green room with a friend. O’Connell was a guest on the show and he shook hands with everyone that was in that room before he did his interview. My friend and I could not stop laughing at him because it is hard to look in the eyes of the person who just his hot dog nibbled off of him. And yet that was not the most awkward meeting I had with a celebrity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGeBniQv8uU
When I think of a man’s man, I think of Jerry O’Connell. I am not alone because Bravo is thinking the same thing. So much so, they gave him his own late night talk show called Real Men Watch Bravo that will debut in the fall sometime.
The fat kid from Stand By Me will be joined by a panel of male celebrities, comics and tastemakers, and each episode they will talk about all things Bravo and pop culture from the male perspective.
The Real Housewives are not only watched by housewives, but their househusbands are watching the shows too. O’Connell and his panelists will make it OK to be a Bravoholic with a dick, therefore making the world a better place.
That and it is about time he had a talk show because he is such a natural at it!
Yesterday, while you, me and millions of other people tuned in to see Sheldon get married to Amy on The Big Bang Theory, neither Jim Parsons nor his TV brother Jerry O’Connell were watching it. What were Sheldon and Georgie Cooper doing that was so important that they would miss their own/brother’s wedding?
Parsons is on the other side of the country starring in The Boys in the Band with Matt Bomer, Zachary Quinto and Andrew Rannells for the next couple of months; and O’Connell went to see his little TV brother in the Broadway play that is being produced by Ryan Murphy.
When O’Connell got out of the show, he wrote, “OVERWHELMED by my baby brother @therealjimparsons in @boysbandbway. Go see this play this summer. Wow. Wow. Just wow. I LOVE YOU. 5 points.”
Who knew that by playing brothers, you actually become like brothers? Look how gosh darn precious they are together? Maybe the producers will bring him back on TBBT more often? Sheldon can use a lot more brotherly advice, now that Young Sheldon revealed that Shamy will have kids in the future. What did you think of that reveal?
