Posted on 10/29/2006 6:05:52 AM PST by edpc
Here we go: despite receiving an order for three more episodes on Friday, the Aaron Sorkin NBC drama “Studio 60 on Sunset Strip” is about to be put out of its misery.
Cast members are already confiding in friends that the end is near. It’s likely NBC will pull the plug shortly I am told by insiders.
Last week, Studio 60 had 7.7 million viewers. Compare that with competing "CSI: Miami," with 17.5 million. That gap cannot be closed.
But ‘Studio 60’ has trouble internally at NBC, forget its intramural rivals. According to ratings stats, the “Saturday Night Live” behind the scenes soap opera loses almost half the viewers delivered to it a few minutes earlier by another new show, “Heroes,” which has become a surprise cult hit.
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except for when she went on The 700 Club... you know that show with that "racist biggot." and she admitted that she would never do that again...
That was an incredible story. Captain Riley was an amazing man.
The only people who care about backstage show biz are people who live in backstage show biz. It's like writing a show about interoffice politics at a stock broker.
The cast is great and I enjoyed the show from the insider point of view but turned it off when the Christian and red state bashing began. Every show had to have someone go off about Christians and right wingers. Besides, NBC was stupid to put it against CSI: Miami. Everyone said this was going to be the hit of the season. Guess not. Nothing will beat CSI, thank goodness.
But, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Steven Weber.
Exactly my thoughts. Hadn't watched "Shark" until this week when there was nothing else worth watching. Sebastian Stark is the legal version of Gregory House, between his berating of the underlings to the finding the oddball answer to the knottiest problem.
Now that "ER" has calmed down after the end of year shootings, it's getting boring and preachy... again!
I'd be surprised if it is. It's awful.
I like Shark. Hope they don't cancel that one. The other new one I watch is Justice on FOX. I can take it or leave it. I dig the legal/cop shows.
Smith was actually a rip off. Andre Braugher of Homicide, had a series on FX this spring called Thief. Same plot. He was a family guy, who secretly was a master criminal. He would get together with his crew, pretend to be on business trips and pull off heists.
House is the best show on tv, because of Hugh Laurie. Put somebody else in there, and it could really suck.
You may be unaware of it, but on college campuses today there are parties geared around airings of Walker Texas Ranger. Students try to top each other coining slogans for the show, and websites share info on the star. Chuck Norris is very much in vogue among the young.
The very lack of sophistication in the storylines plays a large part in the show's appeal. Today's jaded young -- at least those who are into Walker Texas Ranger -- are more than a little sick of the navel gazing in Hollywood. A flat out, simple good guy like Walker, with an overabundance of masculine virtue, strikes a chord with them.
That's a good thing.
I've seen it. It ain't bad. It surely isn't for a lot of tastes, though.
Well, the Whole Nine Yards did pretty well, and I thought it was a terrific, fun movie. Though the sequel did suck.
I hereby volunteer to hold and comfort Ms Peet, and make her feel better about life in general.
Mark
Was the the show with Ray Liotta and Virginia Madsen? Did they cancel the show?
Mark
Man it's really pathetic how many people on FR feel the need to lie about this show. It never bashed Christians; and Danny's coke addiction was never portrayed as anything other than his own personal weakness; and I'm not sure how you'd call someone that uses another person's drug problem to corner him into having to take the job you want him to take compassionate, the female TV exec is a mean woman whose primary tool for outsmarting people is no one expects her to be that cold blooded. It's a good show, it's Sports Night for sketch comedy, and just like Sports Night got scuttled by the network not being smart enough to handle the show (who the hell starts two shows with the same core concept in the same season?!).
You missed the punchline of that bit, it turned out the guy they thought they stole the routine from actually stole the routine from an old sketch of theirs.
And actually in the real world people do notice and those who notice care. Because those who notice are usually the writers in question who if they find out somebody stole their material will sue the crap out of the shows/ networks/ people involved. Especially in this post Calvin and Hobbes world where copyright holders have to actively defend their property or risk it becoming defacto public domain. Which was vaguely explained in the show, all that scrambling was to avoid being sued.
I've always thought she was gorgeous, with just enough of a "goofy" streak (or at least many of her characters did - maybe she's just good at "goofy") to make her even more apealing to me.
Mark
Well, it does show that he's capable of acting...
Mark
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