Press release for the Everybody Loves Raymond fans.

“EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND”…AND TV LAND IS NO EXCEPTION!

Series Joins The Network On Thursday, March 18

New York, NY, January 25, 2010 – TV Land welcomes the hilarious Barone family to the network when the Emmy Award-winning sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond” premieres on Thursday, March 18 with a four-day primetime event. The series then joins the schedule for a primetime block each weeknight starting at 9PM ET/PT. Viewers will fall in love all over again with the antics of Ray Barone’s entire family, from his over-bearing mother Marie and his wise-cracking father, Frank, to his wife Debra’s no-nonsense impatience with him and the incessant sibling rivalry between Ray and younger brother Robert.

“We’re excited to begin airing ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ so that we can infuse our schedule with a fan favorite, giving us a great lead-in audience for our newest original series “First Love, Second Chance,” states Jaclyn Cohen, senior vice president of programming and acquisitions for TV Land. “Our acquisitions of beloved television staples are critical to TV Land’s success as they transition viewers into our new original content. We are sure that our viewers will love this “Raymond and “First Love” pairing as both shows have the common thread of showing relationships in all their glory — the good AND the bad.”

The winner of 15 Emmy® Awards, “Everybody Loves Raymond” ran in primetime on CBS for eight seasons. The premise was born out of Ray Romano’s own life experiences of raising his children along with his wife, all while his parents and brother lived close by. In “Everybody Loves Raymond,” Romano plays Ray Barone, father of three and a sports writer for a local newspaper. Patricia Heaton plays his wife, Debra, who endures her husband’s overbearing parents played brilliantly by Doris Roberts and the late Peter Boyle. As in real life, Ray’s brother Robert, played by Brad Garrett, is a policeman who lives with his parents. Guest stars for the series run included hilarious appearances by Kevin James, Fred Willard, Georgia Engel and Chris Elliott.

How much police shows have changed. Remember Chips? It was a television series on from 1977 to 1983. It starred Erik Estrada as Officer Ponch and Larry Wilcox as Officer Baker, both motorcycle cops. What always got me was that they never had that windblown look that some people get riding a motorcycle. They always wore helmets, something not all people do today. There were never any accidents, or at least no mention of a motorcycle accident attorney, that I recall. I liked the show more than I didn’t. Did you watch Chips?

Universal Home Entertainment is offering movie fans the chance to win one of 2,010 Blu-rays on its just launched Facebook page. There will be 25 prize packages (includes 4 films) given away each day in January, so this is the perfect chance to add to your Blu-ray collection or start a new one.

To enter, all you need to do is become a fan and then enter at the following link (must be 18 or older and a US resident): http://www.facebook.com/UniversalStudiosEntertainment

Fans can enter each day and the prize packages will change weekly.

• When driving a car it is normal to look not at the road but at the person sitting beside you or in the back seat for the entire journey.
• In the event of a car chase, there will be two men carrying a large pane of glass through the streets. Later, you will drive through it.
• It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.
• Even when driving down a perfectly straight road it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
• Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames.

These are things you may want to keep in mind when you purchase car insurance.

You know how on television they often show a woman going outside when it’s chilly and she shivers and puts her arms around herself? You know what comes next right? A hug. It never seems to fail that when the woman shivers the next thing you see is a man appearing behind her and hugging her. Just saying.

How is it that on tv and in the movies they don’t show money situations like they happen in real life. Take a taxi ride. If you and I took a taxi ride we’d need to go into our purse or wallet and get the right amount of money out and give it to the driver. (After calculating the tip in our head.) On television when you see someone taking a cab they either don’t show them paying for it at all or they show the person just opening their wallet and handing over a bill without looking at it. No change back either. it would make much more sense to me if they one of those portable POS systems and we saw people using their debit and credit cards. What do you think?