'Studio 60’ Cancellation Iminent- Page 2
'Studio 60’ Cancellation Iminent
#25re: 'Studio 60’ Cancellation Iminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 10:30pmIn the last season, each cast member got $1 million an episode. Matthew Perry DEFINITELY took a pay cut.
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#26re: 'Studio 60’ Cancellation Iminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 10:36pmI found the show, unwatchable; but then, that's exactly how I felt about THE WEST WING, so, I thought it would be a big hit.
#27re: 'studio 60’ cancellation iminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 10:40pm
i don't really care what anybody else thinks about the show or whether or not it worked on the merits or whether it was able to steal viewers from david caruso's hideously awful eye candy bastardization of a great show. i like it. i like the dialogue even when it's hokey and the characters even when they do things that no real person would even consider. what's wrong with a little earnestness? why not take a tv show that seriously? does anyone here think that the folks who actually make shows don't take them that seriously?
fight me!
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
MOXIEINTHECITY
Broadway Star Joined: 5/11/06
#28re: 'studio 60’ cancellation iminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 11:05pmThis doesn't surprise me. It's too confusing too watch. The characters are soulless and they talk so quickly that half the time I can't understand them. Buh bye.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#29re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 11:11pm
The things you do in the White House change the world. The things you do on SNL? Not so much. I can appreciate earnestness in censorship fights- something I vaguely remember Sorkin covering in Sports Night, too- but if someone's going to argue that "your TV is a crack pipe", in no way does a weekly live sketch comedy show strike me as the thoughtful, meaningful solution. I liked it when the show backed off of that angle and looked at other issues instead, or just let the characters yak Sorkinishly. But the show just didn't grab me enough to get me to keep watching.
Updated On: 10/29/06 at 11:11 PM
#30re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 11:23pm
In most jobs people take their work very seriously, and the idea of the show is that Comedy can make you change the way you look at the world. In the idealized notions of fiction this can be very true in any artistic setting. That comedy and television are in fact art, or can be, may be debateable but the show tried to show that both are.
Art is and should be just as essential as politics, in the history of the culture it is often far more essential. The world is changed in people's minds, there is no limitation on where and how that can be done.
This early in a show the Characters have not been allowed to develop fully. (Harriet as the example brought up here could have had quite an essential backstory we will never know)
That said at this point there were some weak moments in this show, and it may not have lived up to those ideals.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#31re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 11:35pmViewers just weren't that into it.
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#32re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 11:41pmIt's not you, it's me.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#33re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 11:42pmI just worry that when everybody tunes in for the next episode there'll be a Post-It note on instead.
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#34re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 11:48pmStudio 60 broke up with me on a Post-It note.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#35re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/29/06 at 11:55pmI like the show. I hope it gets a chance.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#36re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/30/06 at 1:51amWhat it needed was a good shot of Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin...oh, wait...
PEACE.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#37re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/30/06 at 2:15amPenguin, I'm writing my thesis on the intertwined nature of drama and politics, but faux-SNL just isn't going to cut it for me as an example of that. It doesn't hold that weight.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#38re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/30/06 at 8:08amI don't get it. There are so many crappy tv shows on the air. All this reality tv and bad sitcoms. Now a show comes on that actually has potential and gets canned before it has a chance to find its voice and its audience.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#39re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 10/30/06 at 8:14amThe problem is that Studio 60 DID find an audience right off the bat. It's just been losing that audience by the millions every week.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#40re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 11/7/06 at 12:36pmWell, last night's episode didn't help grab any viewers.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#41re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 11/7/06 at 12:49pmdid i miss something last night or did they just completely disregard the entire time/space continuum by putting tom in a car that made it to nevada hours ahead of a plane?
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#42re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:14pm
Tom was enroute to Nevada at least an hour before they decided to fly out there. PLUS - it takes a little time to get the corporate jet ready to roll. PLUS- the jet landed in Vegas and they then had to drive to Pahrump.
The most unrealistic thing is that the W. Hollywood cops shipped him off to Nevada without searching him or changing him out of the shepherd/Jesus costume and leather jecket.
#43re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:16pm
The whole thing was unrealistic. I mean, would three scuzzy looking gay men start verbally attacking Kristen Chenoweth on the street?
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Updated On: 11/7/06 at 01:16 PM
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#44re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:20pmI can't count the times I yelled "OH, LIKE THAT would happen!!"
#45re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:24pmI think this was supposed to be the "we missed the motorcade" episode of The West Wing. It had me until this week. I will miss it.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#46re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:26pmLast night was probably my least favorite episode. I think I don't enjoy it as much when they leave the studio. The gang of gay hooligans did make me giggle, though.
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#47re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:28pmI loved how The Gays were so outraged they SMASHED HER CD! So THERE!
#48re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:31pm
i could do a much better job as a story editor for this show. as someone who has worked for a sketch weekly, this show is complete BS most of the time. i know they have some consultants who are trying to make the environs more realistic, but is anybody listening to them?
i can't stand to watch this show -- BUT i love matthew perry's performance and those are words i never imagined i'd ever say.
Mind is Mantra.
#49re: 'studio 60’ cancellation imminent
Posted: 11/7/06 at 1:40pm
All of this desire for realism from people who believe that green women can fly, puppets can sing and dance, and french students sing before engaging in an insurrection. 
It's a heightened reality--not a documentary.
Updated On: 11/7/06 at 01:40 PM
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