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IT'S SO PATHETICALLY BAD THAT IT'S HYSTERICALLY FUNNY
New York Post ^ | 11/05/03 | ADAM BUCKMAN

Posted on 11/05/2003 12:29:13 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:17:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

November 5, 2003 -- IT WAS one of the funniest tapes I had ever received from a TV network.

It was a special promo reel sent over early last month for "The Reagans," a miniseries about Ronald and Nancy Reagan - the very same miniseries that became so embroiled in controversy that CBS finally dumped it yesterday.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 11/05/2003 12:29:13 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
Can't wait to watch it flop on Showtime, assuming it even airs. Amazing that CBS found sponsors for it. Maybe they gave them a discount.
2 posted on 11/05/2003 12:34:26 AM PST by Bonaparte
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To: Bonaparte
Amazing that CBS found sponsors for it. Maybe they gave them a discount.

Free???

3 posted on 11/05/2003 1:05:16 AM PST by stevem
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To: kattracks
Has anyone heard how "K Street", the Clooney?Carvell?Matlin show is doing?
I keep hoping to hear it has been cancelled due to low ratings.
4 posted on 11/05/2003 1:05:30 AM PST by T60H
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To: Bonaparte
Can't wait to watch it flop on Showtime, assuming it even airs. Amazing that CBS found sponsors for it. Maybe they gave them a discount.

Showtime is pay cable, a direct competitor to HBO but in far, far fewer homes. There won't be any advertisers. But if it airs, it WILL be reviewed, and get just the sort of overwhelming "worst. miniseries. EVER." revulsion that Buckman predicts above.

5 posted on 11/05/2003 1:13:58 AM PST by Timesink
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To: T60H
Has anyone heard how "K Street", the Clooney?Carvell?Matlin show is doing? I keep hoping to hear it has been cancelled due to low ratings.

Badly. It did all right the first week and then ratings collapsed. Since it's on HBO, it's not going to be cancelled, but whenever the final episode airs (if it hasn't already; I never watched it after the first episode myself) it's not going to be renewed.

6 posted on 11/05/2003 1:15:49 AM PST by Timesink
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To: Timesink
Sorry, I was referring to the sponsors CBS had already lined up for itself (Hallmark and Chevrolet?) before the lateral pass to Showtime.

I suspect it will be re-worked by much more skillful propagandists by air time, but maybe I'm wrong and CBS is even dumber than I think.

7 posted on 11/05/2003 1:22:59 AM PST by Bonaparte
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I thought this was going to be about the new matrix movie
8 posted on 11/05/2003 1:39:43 AM PST by KneelBeforeZod (If God hadn't meant for them to be sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep.)
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To: Bonaparte
Too little too late. Their motivation has finally been revealed. They could honor Reagan at this point, and most Americans would still want to boycott their sponsers.
9 posted on 11/05/2003 1:55:32 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Win one for the Gipper! Boycott See-BS sponsers!)
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To: Timesink
Seiskel and Eibert [sic and sic] will love it. But so what? Too little too late!
10 posted on 11/05/2003 1:58:49 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Win one for the Gipper! Boycott See-BS sponsers!)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
I think Siskel is dead, but being a rat, it probably wouldn't stop him from reviewing it and then voting for Hillary in 2004...
11 posted on 11/05/2003 2:14:11 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Siskel is dead. He was replaced by leftist Richard Roeper, who is a good movie reviewer, but he writes articles that sound lile Al Franken.
12 posted on 11/05/2003 3:07:28 AM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space for rent)
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To: kattracks
CBS is owned by ViaCom; so is Showtime. Our outrage was mis-aimed.

CBS dumps it? No matter. Showtime runs it, and it flops? No biggie. Michael Moore will buy the rights, and play it at every awards show in Hollywood. The Left will make sure of it.

13 posted on 11/05/2003 3:08:38 AM PST by Old Sarge (Serving You... on Operation Noble Eagle!)
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To: kattracks
After seeing a few photos of James Brolin in Reagan make-up the past couple of days, I have to admit I almost wish it could have aired. You can tell by looking at Brolin that they spent about $29.95 on the entire project. Of course, an actor of Brolin's credentials and talen don't come cheap. (/sarcasm) BTW, has he done anything since the Marcus Welby series?
14 posted on 11/05/2003 3:55:23 AM PST by aardvark1
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To: Timesink
"There won't be any advertisers."

I think that explains the Showtime shift. I am assuming this was only switched because the pressure was working on advertisers. I'm guessing especially threatening to boycott Hallmark during the holiday season.

I can only guess that having large numbers of Christians not buying Christmas cards from you is NOT part of Hallmark's business plan.
15 posted on 11/05/2003 3:56:28 AM PST by jocon307 (The Simpsons, possibly the greatest TV show of all time.)
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To: stevem
If that is the case then the sponsor by default would be CBS......Hmm Equal time?
16 posted on 11/05/2003 4:16:08 AM PST by Shanty Shaker (I)
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To: kattracks
Bill O'Reilly saw the same preview and his description of it was "cartoonish".
18 posted on 11/05/2003 4:46:24 AM PST by randita
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To: kattracks
"The Reagans" has become the TV industries "Gigli".
19 posted on 11/05/2003 4:49:01 AM PST by duckman
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20 posted on 11/05/2003 4:55:42 AM PST by autoresponder (--------> http://0access.web1000.com/seeBS.gif - http://0access.web1000.com/1-4-my-baby.gif)
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