Matthew Perry has become the boob tube equivalent of "box office poison".
Come to think of it, he is box office poison as well.
Posted on 05/11/2013 11:41:42 AM PDT by Libloather
Today in show business news: NBC is cleaning house while CBS is adding more clutter, including a Robin Williams/Sarah Michelle Gellar show. Yes, you read that right.
More cancellation news from the Peacock as the network gets ready to present its new schedule to advertisers at next week's upfront presentation in New York. Yesterday it was Whitney and 1600 Penn, today it's Matthew Perry's freshman sitcom Go On and Brian Williams's weekly news magazine Rock Center. They are really cleaning house as they do yet another yearly overhaul, hoping that this is the one that works. This leaves The New Normal as the only freshman comedy to survive the 2012-2013 season. Yikes! Not a good year for NBC. But when is it a good year for NBC? I mean they have The Voice and that's a hit, but that's kind of it. Ah well. Better luck next year.
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Matthew Perry has become the boob tube equivalent of "box office poison".
Come to think of it, he is box office poison as well.
And then there are the occasional imports I watch on the psi-phi channel. (And "Face-Off", because that show is just crazy.)
On CBS, it's Big Bang Theory, but I'll watch Hawaii Five-O, if it's new. On ABC, Tim Allen's show is off for the season. Second season wasn't too good, as they replaced the oldest sister, aged the grandson, brought in the absentee father and made him a total weiner, and quoted too many talking points (on both sides, mind you, but it was neither comedy nor entertaining).
I did mean to tape SNL last week for the musical guest, but I forgot to set a timer. Oh, well.
Yeah, I don't know how I started watching it, but I keep watching it for the 2nd tier characters, who were more interesting and likable. I tried watching the show that aired after it, but it was just awful, and didn't last long.
[I also watch NCIS,...]
That used to be one of favorites too but when television went HD, the show NCIS visual quality went ‘soft’, I believe in defference to the aging star.
NCIS Los Angeles didn’t need to.
I suppose it’s a good idea to check out stuff like that once in a while, but I haven’t watched a network show in years, so I’ve never even heard of all of those shows being cancelled, renewed, or whatever.
There’s already too much good stuff on cable channels I don’t have time for. I loved “The Killing” and “Top of the Lake” series, and so far, am tolerating “Rectify”. After two episodes, am hooked on “Maron”. Waiting for the next season of “Dexter” and “Royal Pains” and final season of “Breaking Bad”. “American Restoration” is still good. Hope “Cajan Pawn Stars” will be coming back. “Out There” is tolerable and finally am watching the old “Dilbert” series. Watching “Myrtle Manner” is like sucking on a tooth that has a painful cavity, but you just can’t help yourself.
But the one I’m now REALLY hooked on is “Backyard Oil”! Very interesting and VERY funny!
Given all of that, why in the world would anyone watch network TV, especially their extremely stupid, not-funny laugh tracks they call sitcoms?
They’re going all gay.. Oh wait, they already did..
The gay couple show is nothing more than pushing an agenda. I am so sick of the indoctrination attempts by the gays..
I tried watching this show; but, I just hated the lead girl. Couldn't continue.
Now let's not get carried away... :-)
I only watch “Dateline.”
NBC = Nothing But Cr*p
ABC = Always Broadcasting Cr*p
CBS = Cr*p Broadcasting System
All the actors and actresses are fantastic on that show!
Selleck really comes across great too.
I especially like the way they have the men be real men and the women be real women...and all intelligent —not like the dumbing down of men ( or women) in other shows. I also like the family focus and the concept of marriage and also loyalty and integrity. Its just good all the way around.
Yeah, it was great...I love the combination of realism, yet humanness..the characters aren’t “stereotype cookie-cutters”.
I’m stealing that!!!!!
Honestly, are there any two more plastic, cliched, self-satisfied, talentless copy-reading hacks than Brian Williams and Ashleigh Banfield?
Sat... Well look-ee here!
CBS Anchor states, “We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong Over and Over Again!
I watch NCIS & Law and Order/SVU on the networks, Call the Midwife & Downton Abbey on PBS. Otherwise, I watch oldies on Retro, METV, etc.; a lot of old shows hold up pretty well and a lot of others are clearly superior to anything being made today. (The vocabulary used can be startling compared to today’s dumbed-down scripts.)
Really? I haven’t watched a soap in 20 years. They are all gay now?? With gay romances, male and female? Wow.
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