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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Been here since 9/28/2001?
Was a long time lurker (when I found this site by clicking on "white water" off Drudge). Did not actually sign on for a few years, but after 9/11 I decided to jump in.
When I was very young, the networks had a big cash cow in the tobacco commercials. When tobacco commercials were banned from television, the quality of programming dropped like a rock. That was even in the absence of lots of competition from cable and satellite services with lots of better alternatives.
I'm down to just "ER" on NBC when a new episode is available. I don't bother with the re-runs. My summers are usually totally free of any distraction from TV content from any source.
Lie about the show? I couldn't possibly care enough about the show to lie about it, or to respond to anyone dense enough to mistake a difference of interpretaion as a "lie."
When said "difference of interpretation" has no basis in the scripts or acting it's a lie. Danny's drug problem was never portrayed positively, in fact it was about to screw up both his career and Matt's, and while Jordan might be compassionate when it comes to business time she's the hardest hearted person in the room. Your "interpretation" are just plain wrong, completely the opposite of what's actually portrayed in the show.
I think you missed the point of those parties entirely. They have them to make fun of how lame and unintentionally funny Walker Texas Ranger is. That started when Conan started showing clips on his show, and those alone would get a laugh.
O'Brien did not start the trend. His writers spotted it on campus and brought it to Late Night.
I was wondering if anyone else was going to mention that. Criminey - fast talkers on a 10:00pm show. My wife and I tuned into the show one night a couple of minutes after it had started. Couldn't catch up. Here we're thinking about bedtime, and these hyper-yuppies are sounding like Alvin and the Chipmunks into their 8th latte.
No thanks - click.
The perfect word describing this show is SMUG.
No thanks.
That makes sense, though it would have to have been a pretty obvious steal, the sort of thing they should have been aware of to begin with.
Like I said, I didn't watch the whole show. But still, from what I've seen of Sorkin's other work, there's an awful lot of smug, self-congratulatory moralizing in it.
The thing that made it not obvious was that the comedian they "stole" the routine from was some low rent guy doing the club the circuit. There's tons and tons of comedians out there most of whom never develop a serious national audience, cruise through the Comedy Central Presents listings sometimes, notice how you probably don't recognize the names of any of them, and they're just a small fraction of the working comedians out there. But you can garauntee that if any of them saw one of their routines word for word on SNL without being paid for it they'd sue NBC.
I like Sorkin's writing, even the West Wing when he wasn't being a dick about his politics was good (problem is he was a dick way too often). Most of his characters are smug and self-congradulatory, they also tend to be wrong even within the structure of the show. Actually pretty realistic, most people operate from an assumption of being right, and if there's a throw down on it will climb on their high horse. So far in Studio 60 he's gone more back to his Sports Night days, much less overt politicizing, pulling much more from the insanity of trying to put on a live TV show and the people drawn to that kind of work.
My wife likes "Shark", and I admit I enjoy James Woods's over-the-top character. Though they could lose the daughter and I wouldn't mind.""
The Hollywood crowd just can't seem to drop the obligatory whining-stupid- selfindulgent child, regardless of gender, but most are women/girls.
I like James Woods, also. The daughter needs to start acting like she is as smart as they try to portray her. Most of the children/teenagers on tv today make me want to puke.
No, there is three of us. We watched every episode, though after the first I knew it was doomed for failure.
Those fascinating and zany tee vee people - America can't get enough of them. Please create another sit-com-drama based on their whacky exploits and cutting edge wise cracks!! We also like when they sleep with each other so that over the course of a show all the characters have bedded all the other characters. Can't get enough of that. Haw haw haw...
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