News & Notes...

I just found out that the first season of Girlfriends will be released on DVD on February 27, 2007. The cover art is cute...and I'm glad to see Toni. It's a bit reminiscent of the Sex and the City DVD's, right? (Don't forget, the first season of Martin on DVD is coming out next month. I'm still waiting for word on Living Single and New York Undercover.) I wonder what extras the Girlfriends set will have? - depending, it may be worth the purchase, despite the fact that BET beats the reruns into the ground day after day!

Tahj Mowry, the younger brother of Tia Mowry (remember him from The Smart Guy?) will be a guest-star on his sister's show, The Game, on Monday's special Christmas episode. I can't wait to see how he's grown up from the little guy who used to be Michelle's playmate on Full House.

My newest addiction is reality shows about weddings and babies. Does anyone else watch Who's Wedding Is It Anyway? on The Style Network? It's fabulous! It follows two wedding planners and couples through their nuptials. You get to see all the backstage drama and things that often go wrong and unseen by everyone else. I can literally spend hours in front of my TV on the weekend watching a marathon...and yes, I will re-watch episodes I've already seen, it's just that good, and entertaining. Well...last night I caught a new show on Style called Married Away that focuses on the very popular destination weddings. The Black couple got married in Curacao and it was so beautiful...made me want to call up Delta and get a flight to the Caribbean stat! The bride-to-be and the Black wedding planner was beefing (did anyone recognize the groom? - it was Teddy from MTV's The Shop). And with the other couple in Hawaii (another one of my favorite destinations), the wedding dress was like 3 sizes to small. I guess the bride went on an eating binge between her last fitting and the wedding day, because they basically had to use Crisco and some fishing line to get her in that dress. What a roast! And then the babies...anyone who knows me can tell you that I'm petrified of childbirth, but why can I not even blink when watching Birth Day on Discovery Health? And they show it all...the baby's head popping out, the C-section incision, the doctor reaching into the open stomach to pull out the baby, the blood, fluids, everything. But I love it!