The T.O. Show is making it’s fourth NFL stop in Buffalo this season, and VH1 is bringing it to your home starting July 20. Until then, they’re unleashing a campaign featuring the well-built wide receiver naked on a football field. It caught my eye as I was driving down La Cienega Blvd. here in L.A. this past weekend, and now word comes that the ad is showing up in magazines.
The show looks fantastic. It picks up Owens as he’s cut from Dallas and follows him through a stint in L.A. and on to Buffalo. If the trailer is any indication, there will be explosions, laughs, tears and a good amount of skin. Check out the trailer after the jump.
Hat tip to Rod 2.0
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Saw the trailer. All I can say is Wow. It looks promising. Finally a reality show with reality and emotion, not to mention a big name star. Though it’s called “The T.O. Show” I like the fact that VH1 focuses on the relationships of his best friends, and family. Because of that it’ll reach people on a more personal level.
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
what is the male version of a “butter face”?
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Where on La Cienega?
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Jay, I think it was right around Pico going north. On the west side of the street.
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I watched 2 minutes of this trailer and all I saw was completely staged and utterly phony crap. I want my two minutes back.
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
The staged and phony crap doesn’t get really good until 3:32 seconds in with the cat fights and the father-son tears and the grandmother with health issues. Great reality TV!
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Great reality tv. If ever there was an oxymoron…
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Looks lame and as “real” as most reality shows. Wonder if TO wears out his welcome after Season 1 like he does in the NFL.
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
These situations look as staged as anything on those dopey Real Housewives shows or the even more egregious Work Out on Bravo. “Ooh TO you need to move to LA…oh and we’ll just happen to come along with you and have our very own dramatic, crazy and conveniently taped adventures so we can become famous too!” Spare moi!
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Well I can’t wait. It looks great. I have no problem with “scripted” reality shows - if it’s entertaining, it’s entertaining.
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
“Ooh TO you need to move to LA…oh and we’ll just happen to come along with you and have our very own dramatic, crazy and conveniently taped adventures so we can become famous too!”
Yeah, and isn’t it amazing that cameras just happened to be there to record the moments when he was released by Dallas and the phone conversations when he called his employees…I mean, friends?
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Jesus his ex fiance is GORGEOUS!!!!!! How in the world…well I do remember that quote from Perfect Stranger where Halle Berry asks why Bruce Willis would cheat on his pretty wife and the woman in the scene said “Show me a beautiful woman and I’ll show you a man who is tired of fucking her”. Its so true. But damn…she is breathtaking!! I would play for the other team for a chance with that girl!! Dayum!! T.O. does nothing for me in the face but his body is AMAZING. He better work things out with that girl. I think I will watch this. I love the fact that his two best friends are female.
on Jul 14th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Right w/ya Ron. His ex is f’in way hot and way too hot for him. Love his body though
on Jul 14th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Um…guys, if you don’t want to watch it because it is lame you can always tune in to Andy Rooney on 60 minutes. Reality TV is the best! (in moderation) TO RULES!
on Jul 15th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Richard Jefferson cancels his wedding at the last minute and doesn’t even tell his friends. A few years ago there were strong rumors that he was going to come out at least as bisexual and that he was in a relationship with a man for many years. Do you think this had anything to do with the wedding being cancelled and are there any new rumors out there?
on Jul 19th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
T.O. Has the best body in sports. Period.
on Aug 4th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I love this bit of news…TO’s “reality” show was the 798th rated cable TV show last week, tied with a 5am airing of Fresh Prince of Bel Air on Nick at Nite.
on Aug 4th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Whew honey that is one fine piece of man!
on Aug 4th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
798th? That’s pretty good considering all of the shows on the air, movies, and internet competition. GO TEAM T.O.!!!
on Aug 4th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
LOL! Not really Jay…it’s 798 out of something like 900 programs.
on Aug 5th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
UPDATE:
John Ourand of SportsBusiness Journal has reported via Twitter that the second episode of The T.O. Show tied for 862nd in the weekly cable ratings, placing it just behind a 3:30 a.m. showing of Brandy and Mr. Whiskers on The Disney Channel. Yikes…pretty bad when you are tied with a show called Brandy and Mr. Whiskers; something mind you I have never even heard of. Anywho…I must admit though the second episode was very touching to me with the scenes he had with his grandmother who was suffering with Alzheimer’s. But overall the show is a hot mess. I think I’m still gonna watch because I kind of like train wrecks, but apparently I’m only one of a few who is watching. Oh well…Friends and Seinfeld was consistently in the top 5 of Nielsen ratings for years and I thought both shows were absolute bores! So Nielsen ratings don’t mean crap to me.
Owens has offered up a self-serving explanation for the situation, also via Twitter: “those ratings r misleading, it’s based on a special box tht calculates those ratings n which every household doesn’t have.” Uhhhh…ok T.O. if thats how ya want to spin it.
on Aug 5th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I cannot stand this T.O. character because he is so vainglorious, he acts like he is God. Will see how this publicity whore performs for the Buffalo Bills this fall.