"The Cheetah Girls One World" and More TiVo-Worthy TV for August 22

FRIDAY AUGUST 22The Cheetah Girls One World Disney Channel 8 pm ETPremiere The third Disney Channel Original Movie starring the Cheetah Girls finds the talented singers played by Adrienne Bailon Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams in India prepping for a Bollywood musical JackMyers junior critic Maya Motavalli a huge fan of the Cheetah franchise has this to sayThis is a wonderful movie for young girls with a wellwritten story and music that kicks butt when compared to the others The story finds Chanel Dorinda and Aqua traveling to India to star in a directoramp8217s first Bollywood film where they learn that only one of them can be the star of the movie I donamp8217t think I have ever seen an American movie about Bollywood or India Bollywood is such an influential part of the movie business that it was nice to see a movie that exposes it to kidsIamp8217ve seen the amp8220friends have to compete against each other and it doesnamp8217t end wellamp8221 story before but it really didnamp8217t matter to me here because everything else about quotOne Worldquot was so different I really enjoyed seeing a lot of characters who were of Indian heritage Too many Disney Channel movies are filled with plain white American teenagers This was a refreshing changeThe music in Disney Channel movies is always great with crazy beats and meaningful lyrics and the music in quotOne Worldquot is no exception Songs like the upbeat opener quotCheetah Lovequot and the insane dance off quotDance Me If You Canquot make the movie even more fun to watch Slower more meaningful songs like quotWhat Ifquot and quotNo Place Like Usquot also added a lot to itMy only real problem with One World is that Raven Symone isnamp8217t in it Sheamp8217s one of my favorite actresses and I missed seeing her on screen Also I was really disappointed to see Adrienne Bailon Chanel as the star of every single song I wanted to see the actual Cheetah Girls group not the Adrienne Band But overall the movie is great and the music is miles better than in the two previous quotCheetah Girlsquot movies Letamp8217s hope future Disney Channel movies will show as much diversity as this oneGone Country CMT 8 pm ETJohn Rich tells the aspiring country singers to head into Nashville for a photo shoot during which they must perfect their inner country star look Then they are sent to meet with professional country music songwriters and begin writing their own songs So far so good until an emotional gathering around a bonfire leads to latenight conflicts among the competitorsMonk USA Network 9 pm ETMonk develops a crush on a model accused of murder and is determined to prove her innocence even though she confessed to the crime Tony Shalhoub stars Joanna Pacula is the guest starPsych USA Network 10 pm ETVick and her sister a commander in the Coast Guard clash while investigating a death on an offshore oil rig James Roday and Dule Hill star Jane Lynch is the guest starGemini Division nbccom scificom geminidivisioncomSeries Premiere NBC this week is launching Gemini Division a new online drama series on nbccom scificom geminidivisioncom and several mobile and VOD platforms including Comcast Time Warner Cable Verizon FiOS and DISH Network It is also be available via Electronic SellThrough on Amazon Unbox and Microsoftamp8217s Xbox LIVE and Zune Rosario Dawson Justin Hartley Smallville and Kevin Alejando star in the story of a New York police department vice cop named Anna Diaz Dawson who is drawn into a secret war between artificial life forms known as SIMs and a covert agency charged with hunting them down while she is investigating the murder of her fiancamp233Father Knows Best HuluSeason One of the idyllic mid50s family sitcom against which all others were inevitably compared at least until The Cobsy Show came along is now available on Hulu Robert Young Jane Wyatt Elinor Donahue Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin staramp160amp160amp160

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