Studio 60 put on the shelves
NBC replaces the Sorkin drama with the bullcrap Texas football show, Friday Night Lights.
I have no opinion on NBC’s stupid, short sighted move. Hopefully, its third place status is comment enough.
Morons.
NBC replaces the Sorkin drama with the bullcrap Texas football show, Friday Night Lights.
I have no opinion on NBC’s stupid, short sighted move. Hopefully, its third place status is comment enough.
Morons.
October 20th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Have you seen Friday Night Lights? It is pretty great. Football is almost peripheral to the action. Berg borrows heavily from himself (in the movie version) for the tone and cinematography. He seems more willing now to address the issues of race and class that were absent from the movie – but the most important part of the book.
Studio 60 was decent but very, very, very flawed. Definitely Sorkin’s worst. Sports Night understood that the stakes were small. The script for Studio 60 pretends that SNL still has any social impact and has everyone running around like a stolen Hot Pockets joke is the equivalent of DefCon 5. Zinester couldn’t stand it.
October 20th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Don’t you mean DefCon 1?
October 20th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Have you seen Friday Night Lights? is it on TV? Of course, I’ve seen it. But come on…how do you spell hackneyed? no..really…I’m asking.
Anyway, the way the show spends 45 minutes showing how much control the coach doesn’t have, only to end with five minutes of “clear eyes, full heart can’t lose…” gaaagg…it makes a cool movie…like remember the titans…oh my god…wasn’t denzel washington in that?? so that’s three denzel movies on the air this season! “inside man,” “a man apart” and “Remember the titans!”
craazy…oh..wait…was my point…Studio 60 rules!
October 20th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
It’s only for one week – it’s not as if Studio 60 is being taken off altogether (unless, of course, Friday Night Lights somehow manages to beat Studio 60′s rather meager ratings…)
October 20th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
Don’t you mean DefCon 1?
Shut up, you.
October 20th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Also, I’d contend that FNL spends a lot of time demonstrating how little control the coach has over his life (and I suppose his alcohoic fullback) but that the team is the only domain he controls. I don’t think it is hackneyed and appreciate the way so much is done without painful exposition (though, of course, some still is.)
October 20th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
you’re a meager rating! you’re a meager rating.
October 20th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Shut up, you.
Would you like to play a game?
October 20th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
“so that’s three denzel movies on the air this season! “inside man,†“a man apart†and “Remember the titans!†”
If you can’t his new one coming out Deja Vu, and you compare it to the new Taye Diggs show Daybreak… well you could probably up that count to four.
October 20th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Wow… I spelled “count” wrong. That “can’t” in the first line should most definately be “count.” My apologies.
October 20th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
If you are going to misspell ‘count’ that is probably the way to go.
October 20th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
it’s worse than the Mets losing! I love Studio 60, it’s sad that people thought it was going to be a comedy – it’s a behind-the-scenes show for crying out loud, it was never intended as a comedy. Those f’ers better put it back.
October 20th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
hahahahahahahahah
I totally just got that. hahahahhahahahahahaha
October 20th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Would you like to play a game?
How about a nice game of chess?
October 20th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Chugarte will be here all week, folks!
October 20th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
I love chess! And I’m always looking for someone to play with!
October 20th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
Chugarte will be here all week, folks!
In the midnight show I explain the joke.
October 20th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54117