Posted on 03/08/2007 3:57:58 AM PST by pookie18
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RUSH: I meant to announce this at the top of the hour, and I had other things to do. It would have been a scoop then, but it's no longer a scoop. But I can tell you that the Fox News Channel has picked up 13 episodes of the 1/2 Hour News Hour. The two pilot episodes succeeded in their mission. Fox is going to pick those up, and they're going to be in production. They're going to start gearing up. These were pilots.
Now they're going to go out and get real production staff, writers and so forth (it takes four to six weeks of putting it all together), and then the 13 week run will commence. So 1/2 Hour News Hour has been picked up for 13 weeks by the Fox News Channel -- and 13 weeks is a goldmine in this business. That's where you get the chance to really strut your stuff, when get enough of a financial commitment there to gin up a great staff of people and so forth.
So they're off and running with that.
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I watched both episodes. Although the first was definitely funny in some places, it was definitely rough at the edges and could have used more polish. It didn't look like Rush and Ann had quite gotten their timing and smoothness down right, sort of like actors at a dress rehearsal who still need to do more work before they go on stage before an audience.
The second episode, OTOH, was silky smooth and rib splittingly funny, so much so that it seemed to be over before it started. Rush and Ann were great, but the actual "news" segment was even better. I especially liked the anchorette who appeared to be constantly in moderate distress, as though she was a bit constipated, hoping to relieve herself, but thus far unable to do it.
It hadn't occured to me before, but maybe that's part of the point.
I think Fox is offering the show as a counter to the that moronic Jon Stewart fake news show for unemployed dope smoking libtards living in their Mom's basements.
Lameness of is part of the genre.
I've gotten a few chuckles seeing Rush and Coulter in the openings. That was enough to justify putting it on my schedule.
I'm also glad someone is at least making an effort to provide a conservative alternative to Stewart.
I especially like the way Ann was parodying the liberal caricature of herself and conservatives in the opening segment. When Rush leaves her in charge to go on a golfing trip, she immediately phones the Pentagon and asks what countries we haven't invaded yet. "Ah, Canada," she nods approvingly after a few seconds. Priceless!
I loved it (except for the canned laughter of course), and I think if the pilots were decent, the show will be great with more funding! In any case, this is sure to aggravate the Dems who still swear John Stewart is non-partisan.
“Um, I heard the first episode sucked. Was the second episode much better?”
I didn’t see the first one but saw the second show for a painful 10 minutes. I found it unfunny. It had a real loud annoying phony laugh track which I resented. I resented it because the laugh track was telling me that I was too stupid to know that I should be laughing.
By the way…This is what made M.A.S.H. great. It had no laugh track, and it was funny. And yes, there were also tragic moments in the episodes.
Way cool!
I didn't cath the very beginning of the
pikot they aired fist, but at the
beginning of the second pilot they
aired they panned the audience
as it was clapping, before bringing
the camera up to the stage center
shot. of the anchor desk.
There very clearly was a audience
clapping.
Me too. They were hilarious episodes!
Read Rush's last sentence of the first paragraph. "These were pilots." While I found only a few funny parts in each episode, the real shows to come may just have better production value, i.e. writing, no laughtrack, etc. I hope.
There is no laugh track. That is a live studio sudience.
It's fairly good but the woman reporter has a high, annoying voice. I like the guy though.
That was a live studio audience. It sounded "loud and annoying" because it was a live studio audience and not a homogenized phony laugh track.
At any rate I am pleased to see that Fox has picked this up. Ridicule of the left in a humor format is just the medicine this nation needs. Leftists despise laughed at. Watch the rage.
Oh..those are laugh tracks all right...and if you listen closely it's the same laugh
I didn’t realize they have an audience. In these cases, the audience is told when to laugh. Notice that they all laugh on cue and unnaturally loud.
They can also add the laugh track later…What ever.
But anyway, I found the whole thing annoying. Ann and Rush were okay. The few minutes I saw after Ann and Rush disappeared were boring. But, I’m glad other folks enjoyed it. I am the one who didn’t…I say off with everyone’s heads!!! : )
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