Posted on 10/18/2006 10:04:13 AM PDT by RayChuang88
NBC ripped up its fall schedule shortly after unveiling it to advertisers last spring to protect the network's hefty investment in Aaron Sorkin's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."
It looks as though the fourth-place network has been ripped off to the tune of $3 million an episode.
The most-hyped show of the new TV season has become the biggest disappointment. "Studio 60" is a bust.
The drama about backstage intrigue at a "Saturday Night Live"-esque show from "The West Wing" auteur Sorkin that NBC outbid its rivals to land, is dying like one of those mirthless "SNL" sketches shoe-horned in just before the closing credits.
It's not entirely clear why, though viewers historically have not swarmed to inside showbiz dramas. It's also possible they've found Sorkin's tale of how a big-shot heroic writer deigned to return to network TV a tad smug. The allegedly brilliant work his fictional alter ego churns out seems very ordinary indeed.
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I am so utterly tired of Law and order, all it's spin offs, and the constant reruns my lady insists on watching that I'm burning through reading glasses.
Maybe not a bad trade off.
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The original L&O is getting tired...I expect it will be gone fairly soon. After Jerry Orbach left and subsequently passed away, the show really hasn't been the same. The spinoffs are ok...just not as good as the original.
Shark is a great show. I have been a big James Woods fan for years ever since I saw him in Best Seller.
I just started watching again at the end of last season and the only reason I came back was because of John Stamos. Swooon.
But, I have been enjoying it.
I was annoyed with it last week with the scene where Abby went to the mommy and me class. I'm a big believer in slings and babywearing in general and I felt they made it look like only mothers who worry about trends and using their babies as fashion accessories wore slings. They came across as freaks. I would have thought that a medical show would have studied up on the benefits of slings versus bjorns and would have portrayed that better.
I thought "Medium" was a successful show. What replaced it is crap and won't last.
I will be checking out "Friday Night Lights" because comments on FR.....I am looking forward the return of "24"
The thing that irritates me about Heroes is when they have the Japanese guys on --- with subtitles.
That is okay, except that the subtitles show up in different areas of the screen. And many times they are white letters on white background. And they are only visible for a flash.
By the time my eyes locate the subtitle, assuming I can see it when it is white lettering on a darker color, it has flashed off. So I miss most of the wording between the two Japanese characters.
That is just poor presentation on the producer's/editor's part.
Betty la Fea (Betty, the Ugly One), was actually Columbian, not Mexican. Ugly Betty is a cute show and probably the only network comedy that I watch. Aside from the Law and Order and CSI franchises, it's pretty much cable for me.
I get a little tired of 20 yr olds whose lives full of problems I don't even have at 53, overly sexed and rude teens, and inadequate parents. There is precious little on broadcast tv that is of interest to me anymore or, if I had young children, that we could watch as a family. Where's Alf when you need him?
OTOH, I also pay extra attention when Claire or Niki is on. ;-) LOVED that opening from this week's show with Claire lying on the autopsy table after she woke up..."Oh, s$%t!"
I think ER is better this season than the past few.
They finally got rid of Carter, and I couldn't stand him as the main doctor. I really couldn't stand how they kept having him go to Africa.
The one thing that irritates me with Jericho is this:
The nation has been nuked, so half of the townsfolk are in the bar and too lazy to help the others do anything.
I had a similar problem with Lost. They crashed on the island and were too busy the first season fighting for alpha-male status to even explore the island. Heck, there could have been a thriving city or a 7-11 with a payphone on the other side of the island. But that bunch of nimnuts didn't even bother to search. It got too far-fetched in a hurry. I quit watching it when they found that under ground bunker and had to keep pushing the button every 102 minutes (or whatever it was).
I think Jericho is stupid, but I like Heroes. Heroes has an interesting story that seems to be moving some place, and it is filmed interestingly.
Is it starring Dick Van Dyke? Sounds like it could be funny.
Norton actually SVU is pretty good that Law and order sex crime unit but CI start to bored me even having Lt Pyle as one of main cop from Full Metal jacket
Psych was a riot.
I wasn't going to watch it, but decided to check it out when nothing else was on. It rapidly became one of my 'must watch' programs. I can't wait for it to return, in January, I think.
When the Black guy was talking about the ghostly voice in his wall when he was a kid, and the other guy admitted planting the walkie-talkier, I was rolling on the floor. The Black guy's facial expressions were priceless.
I've never had any trouble.
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