Posted on 08/20/2014 6:10:01 AM PDT by Night Hides Not
It looks like no Fox pilots from this past season will make it to series after all. Back in May, then-Fox chairman Kevin Reilly didn’t pick up any of the five produced comedy pilots to series, instead upping the order of previously ordered Mulaney from 6 to 16 episodes. At the time, Reilly entered talks with Universal TV for a six-episode order to Matt Hubbard’s Cabot College, executive produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, considered the front-runner of the bunch.
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I read about this one -- its about a woman who leaves a cult and lives in Manhattan. It sounds like the perfectly bad combination of "tiresome" and "done a million times" (single woman in Manhattan), and "awkward" and "obnoxious" (making fun of people who escape from cults). Any bets on how long this bomb lasts?
About as long as this thread...lol.
The FAA frowns on that sort of thing.....
After coming up with hideous revolting drecks like New Girl and The Mindy Project, Fox should give up trying to produce sitcoms altogether.
I’d rather see her Saving the Whales....
Tina Fey...Her only claim to fame is she was a Sarah Palin look alike, who crashed and burned once we heard what she thought about Sarah.
I put her in the same category as:
Jane Fonda
Ed Asner
Susan Serrandon
Etc
And won’t see their work.
Maybe I’m just old and cranky, but I don’t give a blank about any network and their sitcoms. They all seem to push homosexuality, push liberalism in general, attack traditional values, and consist of a half hour of wisecracking characters trading one liners with each other.
yep... the last sitcom I watched was The Office and prior to that, Seinfeld.
For the most part I really dislike the format.
I watched about 10 minutes of “How I met your mother”... and could not believe that people watched that show on a regular basis.
I do very bad in this category on Jeopardy, because I don’t watch a single one.
I can’t remember the last show I watched regularly, maybe it was “Married With Children.”
Tina Fey is a one-trick phony, and she had to disparage the character of Palin to please her liberal masters.
I cannot stand those credit card commercials with Tina Fey. They are so painfully, cringingly “Look at me! Aren’t I adorable? Look at my sparkling personality!” I want to throw something through the TV.
Don’t get me started on commercial spokesman. I have the same reaction when I see Samuel Jackson pitching credit cards or Fred Thompson pitching reverse mortgages.
The pilot didn’t get picked up because although “30 Rock” won lots of Emmys, it never made a dime for NBC because the ratings were so terrible.
“30 Rock” bombed in syndication, too, so no chance to recoup there.
Fox knows this. Tina Fey is demonstrably not a TV star.
When she hosts an awards show, she gets numbers. She should stick to that.
I’m watching 30 Rock now on Netflix streaming. It is hilarious. Fey is one of the very few liberals who can make fun of herself and her liberal belief system.
We have all seen horrible shows that are promoted endlessly yet she cannot get a show on tv. The show must be pretty bad not to get on tv these days.
Fred Thompson actually has the audacity to name-drop Ronald Reagan while pitching those reverse mortgages.
No class.
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