The critics LOATHE this one. Its future looks dim, a boycott probably won't be neccessary.
Posted on 10/17/2004 7:06:05 PM PDT by Jon Alvarez
SEASON PREMIERE
Wednesday, October 20, 9:30PM ET/PT
CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE stars Emmy Award nominee John Goodman in a comedy about a family man who, by default, is the go-to guy for his eccentric extended clan. John (Goodman) and Kate Barnett (Jean Smart) are still very much in love after 20 years of marriage and are looking forward to the next 20. Only one thing interrupts their bliss: John's family. His sex-obsessed father, Art (Ed Asner), and his loopy mother, Marge (Olympia Dukakis), have a penchant for coming over unannounced, ready to stir the pot. The owner of a security company, John has just hired his gleefully oblivious brother, Tommy (Diedrich Bader), who is having trouble wrapping his mind around the concept of office hours. John's sister, Lily (Melinda McGraw), is a therapist who is her own best patient. If all that is not enough, their 12-year-old son, Miles (Spencer Breslin), has the makings of a perfectly nutty third-generation Barnett. As the family patriarch, John, with Kate's help, fights an uphill battle to keep the peace while his oddball family spins around him.
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/center_of_the_universe/
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My feedback to CBS about the show:
Ed Asner, anti-American actor, in a new series? No thanks, I'll be tuning out...Retire this has-been who chooses to bite the hand that feeds him.
Since CBS is boycotted by default this is a no brainer.
The critics LOATHE this one. Its future looks dim, a boycott probably won't be neccessary.
Sounds like a twist on 'Everybody Loves Raymond'.
Sitcom watching is the biggest waste of one's time that I can think of.
This announcement is a forgery.
Our father who Art obsessive. Hollyweird, this is lame.
Ed Asner's new CBS series... It's called "CBS News."
Asner? This communist fossil isn't dead already? CBS picks a winner.
Another day, another boycott
You mean there is no show? It is on the CBS website at
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/center_of_the_universe/
Asner, the top of his field, as communist supporting pri-ks go.
It seems all you have to do these days is swear allegence to the enemies of the United States, and you'll get a top spot like the star of 'the Oval Office', this show or your party's top ticket for the presidency.
Why would someone want to futher the interests of men like Asner, Sheen or Kerry? How sad.
God I hate Asner, I pray this series fails miserably.
He was on Hannity's show one time, saying "Communism really hasn't been tried"
geez...
Hollywood ran out of idea's decades ago.
Wonder how many lines they'll have slamming Bush and Cheney?
Ed Asner? Isn't he dead?
No, I guess I'm confusing it with his career!
Well, to use a term from the 70's, when Asner was too old to play such a part even then........That's just GROSS!
I never watch this kind of garbage but I did give them a piece of my mind.
"CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE" stars Emmy Award nominee John Goodman
I guess the show's title refers to the gravitational pull caused by the the girth of both stars.
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