To put that in perspective new episodes of "No Ordinary Family" and "V" were around the five and a half million viewers range. In its own timeslot "The Game" beat out both "Parenthood" and "Detroit 1-8-7" by a large margin.
BET promoted the crap out of last night's premiere with non-stop commercials and a weekend long catch up marathon, so it'll be interesting to see how next week's episode fares.
As for the show itself, it's not my cup of tea but I found it interesting that the format was tweaked making the show a full hour and having it become a dramedy that switched easily between comedy and drama. This is a style that Tyler Perry uses to great success in his many movies and TV shows.
Speaking of Perry, the multi-hyphenate entertainment mogul received 19 NAACP Image Awards nominations. Now he can't possibly win them all because in a few categories he's nominated against himself. His TV shows "House of Payne" and "Meet the Browns are nominated for best comedy series and several of the show's stars are nominated in acting categories.
Perry was also nominated for writing and directing "For Colored Girls," while many of the actresses received acting nominations.
The Image Awards can sometimes feature an eclectic list of nominees and this year is no different, Where else would you see Jaden Smith nominated for best actor against Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman (wow it hurt just typing that).
Other nominees included Inscaped favorite Dule Hill for best actor in a comedy, the awesome Salli Richardson-Whitfield of "Eureka" for best actress in a comedy, the last good thing on "The Office" Craig Robinson and "Glee's" spectacular Amber Riley in the supporting categories.
Of course none of them will win because Tyler Perry's shows win everything. I'm starting to think that there should be categories for best performances in a Tyler Perry show so everyone else can have a fighting chance.
While the television comedy nominations are ridiculous, the drama categories feature big names like Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Jada Pinkett Smith, S. Epatha Merkerson and Alfre Woodard. The work these actors and the rest of the drama nominees do will never be recognized at mainstream award shows so it's nice to see them here.
The last notable nomination to mention is Aaron McGruder in the best television comedy writing category for "The Boondocks" episode "The Fund-Raiser." This is quite simply one of the funniest half hours on TV this year.
If nothing else, The Image Awards are always one of the more entertaining award shows of the season. It airs on FOX March 4 at 8 p.m.
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