corianderstem
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Virtually every show with Metascores in the red get canceled in their first season though.
Huh, I didn't know that.
This sounds delightfully promising.
Virtually every show with Metascores in the red get canceled in their first season though.
I found Almost Live! again on the tv (mid 90s sketch comedy show, airs after SNL in the Seattle area), andJoel McDreamyJoel McHale was starring in a few sketches. It was really weird seeing him circa 1996, because tonally/physically he's playing the polar opposite from today's confident/vain persona. He was skinny, was losing hair up top and made up for it with longer blonde hair. And in the sketch he was a hen-pecked fiancee trying to make wedding decisions.
So yeah, Joel McHale and Bill Nye- Almost Live alumns!
god, i had never heard of work it. when you get that many bad reviews - truly scathing ones, then you need to just say never mind, let's not air this crap. according to wikipedia (there's no source though), ign gave out its first zero for the pilot. that's bad. and you're right, they'll waste time and money on shit like that, but then whine about not having money.Highly, moronically stupid.
And it affects all the networks, as you say-on ABC, that show "Work It" you mentioned a while back already got pulled after two episodes. They put all that effort into creating a total ripoff show that nobody approved of to begin with that only wound up lasting two episodes. I hear about complete wastes of time and money like that and I want to tell the networks to shut the hell up the next time they complain about financial struggles.
But in regards to NBC, I'd highly recommend the book "The War For Late Night" by Bill Carter if you can find it, cobl. That pretty much will answer everything you want to know about that channel's executives' mind-numbing idiocy. When my mom found out "Community' was on that channel she said, "They went to NBC with that show?! That's brave." How eerily prophetic she was.
god, i had never heard of work it. when you get that many bad reviews - truly scathing ones, then you need to just say never mind, let's not air this crap. according to wikipedia (there's no source though), ign gave out its first zero for the pilot. that's bad. and you're right, they'll waste time and money on shit like that, but then whine about not having money.
hell, network tv as a whole is largely fucked. daytime tv (yeah i watch a soap, wanna fight about it) is like that too. half the soaps that existed five years ago have been cancelled, including ones that existed before even my parents were born, before tv even existed. i only watch one, but the writing's become so awful and has taken on so many actors from other cancelled soaps that it can no longer afford to keep one of their most popular actors on year-round, because they refused to take a pay cut. it's all so nuts.
hmm, i'm going to have to give that book a read. i never read the late shift, but i saw the movie back in the day. that was interesting then, and my how things have changed since.
We've got tickets, too. Party
oh wow, that's ridiculous. the only soap i've ever really watched is y&r since like, god i think since like 1996 or something. i've sporadically watched others a little that my mom's watched over the years in addition to that one if i've been in the room when they've been on too, but yeah.Ha, to add to the crazy, the cast of "All My Children" DID take a pay cut, because ABC moved the show to California to "cut costs". Meanwhile, a good portion of the cast did not live in California, but rather over on the east coast, in places like New York and such, and had to fly back and forth a lot. And there were still a few that couldn't do that, let alone wouldn't, so they either left the show or came on every great once in a while (which, if you love the character, is irritating, to only see them sporadically).
But even though the cast bent over backwards to make all their concessions to help keep that show financially afloat, they still couldn't do enough, and "All My Children" got replaced with yet another in the endless stream of daytiime talk shows about cooking and "bettering your life" and crap like that, so now in place of "AMC" we have "The Chew", whose ratings aren't that hot, but for some reason, the channel's gonna keep that one going and leave loyal fans of a long-running show annoyed.
I mean, obviously a show can't last forever, that's not the problem. It's the fact that a show isn't ending not because it's simply its time, but because of stupid decisions on the part of the networks to get rid of certain shows and put crap ones on because they're "cheaper" or whatever. If there's a good reason to end a show, fine. But if there's not, it's frustrating.
oh, exactly. the conan/leno fiasco showed leno in a different light for me. i always thought leno seemed like he'd be the nicer guy of the two (the other being letterman, that is). but he knew what he was doing all along with this crap with conan the second he had them create that lame jay leno show.The hilarious part of the whole thing is how NBC heads state, over and over and over again, how they are absolutely, positively determined NOT to repeat the Letterman/Leno issue...only to then turn around and make the exact same mistake, just with Conan/Leno instead.
None of that fiasco thankfully affected my favorite late night hosts, but it still affected a lot of people well beyond Leno and Conan.
The whole thing's just crazy. And yet people who work in TV still can't understand why everyone's turning to internet and DVR and DVDs and such.
Oh she replies to nearly everyone, so nothing special. just said I was a fan from Australia, and asked what I can do to help. She said "Truly don't know. But iTunes and DVD sales couldn't hurt the cause. "
oh wow, that's ridiculous. the only soap i've ever really watched is y&r since like, god i think since like 1996 or something. i've sporadically watched others a little that my mom's watched over the years in addition to that one if i've been in the room when they've been on too, but yeah.
and god, don't get me started on these replacements. cbs replaced their cancelled soaps with game shows, abc replaced theirs with lame talk shows. let's also not forget one is a carbon copy of the view (i'm surprised they didn't be even more obvious and pick a synonym of the word view), the other is a foodie version with a name that freaking rhymes with view. i don't even like the view, but come on. show some originality. but yeah, these lame shows are of course cheaper to produce, even if they pull less viewers i guess.
it just ticks me off when a show like guiding light, which had been on since the days of radio, gets cancelled simply because the network decides it's cheaper to revive an old game show. it's not like it has to stay on forever just because of its history, but to cancel it just because you found something cheaper to put in its place is stupid.
oh, exactly. the conan/leno fiasco showed leno in a different light for me. i always thought leno seemed like he'd be the nicer guy of the two (the other being letterman, that is). but he knew what he was doing all along with this crap with conan the second he had them create that lame jay leno show.
exactly. in my case, i unfortunately have to turn to the internet for some shows, but any show that i really really like, i always end up buying it on dvd. it's not like himym or big bang theory really need my support, but it's nice to be able to watch particular episodes when i want, rather than waiting months for it to air again.