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Small-screen fare is big on romance


Valentine’s Day. The day Hollywood’s D-listers, starring in soppy happily-ever-afters, are the most popular.

Well, that and Christmas – Santa knows Americans love to churn out holiday flick after holiday flick. Slap-bang in the middle of that nation’s Black History Month, is the day love is celebrated the world over.

Some are lucky enough to have the real thing up close and personal and others will just have to make do with living vicariously through Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman or Vivica A Fox in Bootycall. I’ll bring the popcorn.

This week, Top TV brings all things lovey-dovey to your small screen.

The original Black Entertainment Television sitcom, Let’s Stay Together, makes a comeback on the channel. The second season promises to improve on what was already a programme with a lot of potential.

Even a very grown up Kyla Pratt – whom you may remember as the kid from One On One – shows up as a girl who is unlucky in love.

This new season premieres on BET (Channel 190) on Valentine’s Day at 10.30pm.

The cast of Let’s Stay Together deal with everyday dramas but always find their way back to love. This idea is at the core of My Girl 2, which airs on Top Movies (Channel 100) tomorrow at 7pm.

Never mind giving The Temptations some sunshine (see what I did there?), this film is always a great trip down memory lane. But that’s not what you’ll be seeing this week.

Taking its cue from the first My Girl, which starred a bespectacled Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky, the second instalment of this franchise stars Chlumsky, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd.

It’s a coming-of-age tale about a teenage girl trying to get to know her mother better.

Teens in trouble is the starting point of Love Me Or Leave Me, which airs on BET (Channel 190) on Friday at 12am.

Having given birth to twins as a teenager, Cynthia flees her home and leaves the kids to be brought up by her mother. Two decades pass and one twin has made something of herself and the other hasn’t, when Cynthia comes back into the picture and wants in in their lives.

Will she get what she wants or have to atone for her mistakes?

Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler) has made his fair share of mistakes. He’s a wedding singer, for one. But he, too, deserves to ride off into the sunset in a Cadillac with a “Just Married” sign on the rear.

In The Wedding Singer, on Top Movies (Channel 100) tonight at 7pm, Robbie sings 80s hits at weddings while Julia (Drew Barrymore) waitresses.

They both find people they want to spend the rest of their lives with but doubts start creeping in long before they say “I do”.

This film has all the good things rom-coms are made of, which should make a lonely V-Day bearable. Enjoy.

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