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pastrami-on-wry Needs Help
Number of posts : 3289 Registration date : 2008-03-05
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:47 am | |
| - i95 wrote:
- pastrami-on-wry wrote:
- I'm also a huge "West Wing" fan and a lover of Aaron Sorkin's writing in general.
Sure. It figures that YOU'D like him. I thought his big thing was 'shrooms. | |
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Independent George Internets Tool
Number of posts : 2200 Registration date : 2008-03-06
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:54 am | |
| - laststandchili wrote:
- Did any of you ever figure out what Studio 60... was about?
There was some good stuff there, but it seemed very muddled and confused about itself.
Could the fact that it was cancelled, and 30 Rock is winning awards be proof of the absence of god? In my opinion, S60 was the perfect show for HBO. With all the hype it received, NBC made it out to be some kind of savior show for the network, and they just didn't have time to let the show and characters develop. The early episodes were weak on plot and strong on character development, but networks no longer have time to let shows "get their feet." Great shows like Seinfeld and Cheers would have never become blockbuster hits today because they didn't deliver ratings from Day One. I thought that the last five or six episodes on S60 were some of the best written television of that season. Unfortunately, by that time, no one was watching the damn thing. | |
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pastrami-on-wry Needs Help
Number of posts : 3289 Registration date : 2008-03-05
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:55 am | |
| - laststandchili wrote:
- Did any of you ever figure out what Studio 60... was about?
There was some good stuff there, but it seemed very muddled and confused about itself.
Could the fact that it was cancelled, and 30 Rock is winning awards be proof of the absence of god? 1) Studio 60 featured some great writing and many fine performances but it's downfall was, as you so well point out, is lack of a cohesive approach. 2) Are you saying that you don't think much of 30 Rock? If so, there we difffer. Tina Fey is a fine, quirky comedy writer. Alec Baldwin's character's explanation that he came up the hard way working himself through school by "working the day shift at the graveyard and the graveyard shift at the Days Inn" from last week's episode is, to me, one good example.
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pastrami-on-wry Needs Help
Number of posts : 3289 Registration date : 2008-03-05
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:01 pm | |
| - Independent George wrote:
- I thought that the last five or six episodes on S60 were some of the best written television of that season. Unfortunately, by that time, no one was watching the damn thing.
At the end of each of the last few episodes of Studio 60 the members of the POW family would look at each other and say "and they're gonna cancel this". | |
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Independent George Internets Tool
Number of posts : 2200 Registration date : 2008-03-06
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:02 pm | |
| Studio execs....Kings of all Fucktards. | |
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clothier Needs Help
Number of posts : 3526 Registration date : 2008-03-05
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:28 pm | |
| i'm thinking of starting a new network, and I'm not going to "develop" and new shows. I'm just going to put on the shows from the other networks that "never found their auidence". | |
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i95 Needs Help
Number of posts : 4315 Registration date : 2008-03-07
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:02 pm | |
| Well, you're just going to have to wrestle away the Kenny Rogers vehicle "MacShayne" from the Hallmark Channel then. | |
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Independent George Internets Tool
Number of posts : 2200 Registration date : 2008-03-06
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:13 pm | |
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laststandchili Underachiever
Number of posts : 1101 Location : Centralia, PA Registration date : 2008-05-07
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:49 pm | |
| - pastrami-on-wry wrote:
- laststandchili wrote:
- Did any of you ever figure out what Studio 60... was about?
There was some good stuff there, but it seemed very muddled and confused about itself.
Could the fact that it was cancelled, and 30 Rock is winning awards be proof of the absence of god? 1) Studio 60 featured some great writing and many fine performances but it's downfall was, as you so well point out, is lack of a cohesive approach.
2) Are you saying that you don't think much of 30 Rock? If so, there we difffer. Tina Fey is a fine, quirky comedy writer. Alec Baldwin's character's expalantion that he came up the hard way working himself through school by "working the day shift at the graveyard and the graveyard shift at the Days Inn" from last week's episode is, to me, one good example. I haven't followed SNL for many many years, so I'm really not that familiar with her work there, but she definitely doesn't interest me to much on 30 Rock. Neither do most of the other characters. Baldwin is the only reason I sit through 30 Rock at all, that, and theres nothing else on after The Office, well PBR and UFC sometimes, or Poker. Last night I opted for a Soprano's rerun On Demand though, mostly cause I just don't dig Oprah. Isn't there already a cable channel thats been running short lived but outstanding shows? | |
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pastrami-on-wry Needs Help
Number of posts : 3289 Registration date : 2008-03-05
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:04 pm | |
| - Independent George wrote:
- Two words....
Square Pegs Three other words...... Freaks and Geeks | |
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Agent 13 Needs Help
Number of posts : 4130 Location : Inside mailbox at bus station Registration date : 2008-03-04
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:09 pm | |
| My two words...
Internets Porn | |
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Independent George Internets Tool
Number of posts : 2200 Registration date : 2008-03-06
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:50 pm | |
| A13 - Me thinks that you are the only one who gets to watch that for which you yearn.
There really has to be an idea here somewhere - an Internet, YouTube-type site that only features canceled-in-their-prime programming. It would be like "Nick at Night" before that became the "All Will Smith" channel. How much could the royalties be on these otherwise "crappy" TV shows?
All we need is some of that easy-to-find start-up capital. In this market, someone's sure to take a chance on this goofy scheme. | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:40 am | |
| You guys forgot the "The Tick" and "Greg the Bunny" |
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clothier Needs Help
Number of posts : 3526 Registration date : 2008-03-05
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:57 am | |
| maybe we could hit up Mrs McCain for the start up funds.
she seems to be pretty flush with the cash these days. | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:57 am | |
| I see her as more of a "Dallas" fan. Or maybe "Mannix" |
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Agent 13 Needs Help
Number of posts : 4130 Location : Inside mailbox at bus station Registration date : 2008-03-04
| Subject: Re: Excited Voters Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:02 am | |
| - Angry Liberal wrote:
- I see her as more of a "Dallas" fan. Or maybe "Mannix"
Mannix? I think that was a little deep for her. She seems more like a TJ Hooker type to me. | |
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