BET Renews ‘The Game’ & ‘Together,’ Picks Up ‘Reed Between The Lines’ To Series

COMMENTS (16)

• Perhaps we could see a revival of the OC on Teen Nick???!!

  Comment by Martin — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 12:01am PDT  Reply to this post

• Very nice!

  Comment by tv lover — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 12:53am PDT  Reply to this post

• Love the Jason character…………..Notice his name billing now appears as guest appearance…………… Not liking what they did to his kid daughter……Nor do I liked how they now portray his ex wife…… He’s also appearing in Burn Notice on USA…………..

  Comment by LadyO — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 6:06am PDT  Reply to this post

• Wanted to add……… Did not like how this past season started out, felt they went over the top….. But it seems to have grown on me….

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 6:09am PDT  Reply to this post

• AWESOME!!!! It’s an outstanding show.

  Comment by Jackie — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 6:12am PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah!! Love the game.

  Comment by Lew — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 6:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• The best thing the CW did for The Game was canceling it.It went from being one of the least watched shows on TV to having more viewers than any show on The CW, Syfy and ABC Family.Hell, The Game brings in more viewers than top notch shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad.Good for them.

  Comment by cindercity — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 7:53am PDT  Reply to this post

• Please don’t put “the Game” in the same sentence as “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men.”

  Comment by Really??? — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 8:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• Dumb-ass flyover hick comment like “How come there’s not a White Entertainment Television, hyuk” in 5…4…3…2…

  Comment by facepalm — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 10:43am PDT  Reply to this post

  • See comment above.

    Comment by Queen B — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 2:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• While I am happy for The Game, I’m disappointed that it has devolved into soapy melodrama. It used to be a clever, exciting, and actually about life in professional football, but now every character has been reduced to a shrieking a-hole, squabbling over nothing.

  The less said about Let’s Stay Together, the better. I appreciate that they’re bringing back black sitcom stars of yesteryear as guest stars, but the quality of the writing is abysmal; like Tyler Perry bad, without the offensive stereotypical behavior (i.e. it’s boring to boot).

  Comment by c4x — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 10:58am PDT  Reply to this post

• Wall of text warning:

  I understand it’s hard for anyone, regardless of race, to get a writing job. But what do you, the few black people on Deadline who would stopped to read a story about The Game, think are the reasons black writers are ostensibly so few and far in between?

  I know plenty of black writers but precious few of them have worked on anything. Conversely, I see plenty of white writers get staffed, get cancelled and get staffed again or get blind commitments or assignments or all of the above based on what I’m sure is good work but work that’s ultimately no more or less impressive than any other person’s.

  Is it as simple as the relationships? Is it the “urban” blight in Hollywood i.e., “this is what black people are interested in and this is not.”? A lot of black writers I meet or read about seem to restrict their material to “urban” takes on various concepts: a black Knight Rider or whatever as opposed to just writing a script they think is interesting. From the other side, and to their credit, some may be writing out of a desire to see stories rooted in their cultural experience they feel is unique. And while I certainly imagine that an epic Elizabethan political thriller written by a black dude would get lots of quizzical looks from across an agency meeting table but what gives?

  I enjoyed The Game on the CW and Girlfriends before that but even those shows didn’t have a lot of black writers and an IMDB search shows a tendency for those writers who were black to write almost exclusively on “black” shows if they continue to work at all. If a Frasier writer can write for Girlfriends why can’t a Girlfriend’s writer write for Parks and Rec or Walking Dead for that matter?

  And before someone mentions him, I appreciate that either Tyler Perry writes every word of every episode of every show he has on the air, which would explain why they come across as the ravings of an syphilitic baboon, or that he just doesn’t actually hire professional writers to work on his shows but come on, “Joey” was better than that nonsense.

  Comment by FunkDubious — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 5:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I love the game good job

  Comment by renee bates — Wednesday April 27, 2011 @ 2:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• i love this show and i love ding bong davis

  Comment by jasminecrigler — Wednesday June 29, 2011 @ 12:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Love The Game, oh and there are white entertainment tv they are called ABC CBS and NBC

  Comment by Skeren — Saturday September 10, 2011 @ 6:03am PDT  Reply to this post

• I love the game so much even though I only saw 2 seasons…I’m feeling d show all d way frm Nigeria!

  Comment by xtacy — Thursday November 17, 2011 @ 8:33am PST  Reply to this post