Review Blogs - MOCA ep 4 - The New Guy

If you were feeling a bit off last night, these should help.
Alan Sepinwall
and
Z on TV
and their merry bands of commenters dissect The New Guy to find the sweet candy center.
Enjoy

Interview -- New

InsideTVAOL has a new interview including some things about Chuck

Online -- Live Webcast January 23

The recipients of this year's Stunt Ensemble honors will be announced during the live Webcast by SAG awards committee members JoBeth Williams and Scott Bakula.

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Tidbit -- A Bakula Christmas

CELEBRITY CHRISTMAS - SCOTT BAKULA
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Christmas is music for Scott Bakula. He and his family host a huge musical event in their home on Christmas. Bakula says they invite "like 120 people." He says some of them sing and some of them play instruments. He says music is a big part of his life and that of his family.
from Fox network news
thanks to Paula

Review -- MOCA

This one, as yet unread is from America, the National Catholic Weekly

Online -- Ep 1.02 Let It Go

The second episode is online. I don't know how long it's been up.

Interview -- Boston Herald

Can be found here

Ratings -- a little lower, but higher than... Chuck

Men of a Certain Age
- 4.425 million viewers
- 2.8/5 HH
- 1.3/4 A18-49

It's official, I'm not making anything at all out of Men Of a Certain Age's 19% post-premiere drop, considering that The Closer was down almost 12%. If that's not a series low for The Closer, I'm pretty sure its among the lowest episode since the early days of the show, and I'm pretty sure it's the lowest since we started this blog over 2 years ago.
Men again edged The Closer out in adults 18-49, just like last week.

from TV by the Numbers
thanks to Kay

Ratings -- Last Week's Chart

Last week's Top 25 Cable Shows

Recap -- Men of a Certain Age Ep. 102, Let It Go

TVOverMind's recap of episode 2
thanks to Petra

Reruns -- Men of a Certain Age (just one)

Men of a Certain Age is only on twice this week. Second airing, tuesday 1am ET on TNT - aka, about 45 minutes from now

IT'S MONDAY NIGHT

Episode 2 of Men of a Certain Age airs at 10pm ET on TNT
Get out there and keep those ratings up so we can see Scott on TV (next year too). It's cheaper than plane tickets!!

Recap -- Men of a Certain Age Pilot

I haven't seen a lot of recaps. I think this is the first one.

Interview -- Scott and Christmas

Another Men of a Certain Age interview with a seasonal twist

Video -- Scott Remembers (Something about) Quantum Leap

This was probably press for MOCA. The frustrating part is you can't hear the question

TV -- Interview, Ray Romano

Tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Ray Romano will be plugging his and TNT's new series MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE

Online -- MOCA Pilot on TNT.tv

It's up! Watch here.

TV -- Lopez (Last) Night

For those of you who missed Scott on Lopez Tonight last night catch it here. (kick the kids out of the room first)

Episodes Online

According to TNT's message board,

Full episodes will be posted every Friday

at the website. At this moment, MOCA is airing TBS on the east coast. So if you live on the west coast, and don't get TNT, try midnight on TBS
thanks to Joanne

Audio Interview - IlikeBen.fm

Scott doesn't have a facebook page cause his kids won't help him ;-) (also, he's not on Twitter)

Ratings -- Men of a Certain Age

The ratings can be found here

Review -- Z on TV -- Men of A Certain Age

Let me tell you how much I like TNT's new drama series, "Men of a Certain Age." The cable channel sent me five hours worth of screeners, and I watched all five back-to-back Saturday -- and would have watched another five hours of the series if they had sent them.

Outside of Tony Soprano, middle-aged, existential male angst has rarely been explored with any intelligence or sensitivity on TV. But it is here.

Then, there is the acting. Five minutes into the pilot, I believed totally in this world, these characters and their lives.

Bakula is the character that is going to get critics calling this series "Sex and the City" for baby boomer men. But that's not really an apt description -- too simplistic and glib. Bakula's Terry just seems to enjoy women -- and to talk unselfconsciously about the physical ways he enjoys them. In the fifth episode, when he starts to show more depth and soul, Bakula makes you believe in that part of Terry's character, too.

I wasn't going to do this, but I am getting so wound up remembering how much I enjoyed watching the show

read more of Z on TV's review of MOCA

Picture - Scott signing

Scott signing DVDs for SAG Fundraiser Auction
non-facebook picture thanks to Paula

Live Buzz

Current Tweets on MOCA

Video -- MOCA, On the Set from Tonight's Upcoming ET.

ET is going to air part of this video tonight. Considering it's 5 minutes long, either they love Ray Romano a whole lot, or they are going to edit it.

LIVE Radio - 3 to 4pm

Daune Robinson Tune in for Men of a Certain Age Hour on Mix 106.5 (@mixcleveland) from 3p-4p. Interview Day Video @ site above.

I'm going to the dentist at 3:15. Arrrgghh.

Q&A -- TV Chick

This was included in the transcript TNT wrote up earlier, but thetvchick was nice enough to let me know it was up, so click and read. My page is not ad supported, but hers is, so do her a favor. :-)

Review -- Sepinwall -- Men of A Certain Age: It's Not as Much of a Downer as You Might Expect

I've been waiting for Sepinwall's review and now it's up

...I'm sure it's tempting to look at the cast of "Men of a Certain Age"... and say Romano has no business acting in a drama opposite Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula...

Reminder -- as if you needed one

Scott's new series, Men of a Certain Age premiere's tonight at 10pm ET on TNT. If you are in a different timezone, please check your listings.

Audio Interview - SciFiTVZone

Here is a new audio interview with Scott
thanks to Ed Gross

Review -- MOCA

What makes this show so great is how realistically written it is. Instead of soap opera drama or insane plot twists, it takes situations that many people can relate to. There aren’t many people who can relate to a doctor who has an unhealthy, on again then off again relationship with a man who has an evil twin, but they can understand a man who despises his job, but knows he must keep it to care for his family

Collider's review
thanks to Mera

ALERT -- TV -- ET behind the scenes of MOCA, Monday

Entertainment Tonight is syndicated, so check local listings for time and channel

TV -- Interview

An interview from KCRA in Sacramento
thanks to Laurence

Interview -- Men of A Certain Age from TWOP

It's not a review, it's an interview and it's from Television without Pity so I'm going to read one more.... :-)

Interview -- Men of A Certain Age Q&A

Red’s Celebrity Interviews: Scott Bakula

I was sad during our last week because I knew we wouldn’t be together when it first aired... We did a lot of improv, which was fun. The show gives an insight into Ray... he’s quick but he has this vulnerability. I think his fans will be delighted because that vulnerability will be very appealing particularly to women. What’s most unusual about the show is that men are talking about their feelings with other men. I think there’s something very open and honest about that.

Interview -- The Informant (New Stuff!)

"They didn't prep me and say: this guy is bipolar," he says. "Literally, when I read the script first, every 10 pages I would stop and flip back 10 pages earlier and say: 'Well, that's weird - that doesn't match up. He said his parents died when he was three and now, on this page, he said they died when he was seven.' I'd be thinking: 'These are mistakes in the script' but, at the same time, be thinking: 'No, these guys are way too smart to be sending out scripts with mistakes like this'.

New Scott Interview on The Informant

TwitReview -- Sepinwall

@sepinwall

Have now watched still-to-be-scheduled 4th episode of "Men of a Certain Age." I think I really really like this show. #screener

Happy Dance

Print -- Scott in TV Guide

The issue you want is next week. I'm not sure when it comes on newsstands and not all stores have TV Guide anymore, but you want the one that says Simpson's Turn 20 on the cover.

TV -- The Answer Is You Airdates

Scott will be appearing in a PBS program called The Answer is You. Here are the airdates.
Thanks to Barbara on the SBFF