Commercials On The Tony's

I'm so not watching that show. Mostly because they're shoving in down my throat.

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They probably have high hopes for the show plus there might have been unsold air time

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sorry

Updated On: 6/10/07 at 11:33 PM

That show looks good but i will never watch CBS with fear of seeing another one of those commercials.

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omg that was soooo annoying....i think the only thing worse was 2 years ago when the commercial kept singing "Somewhere" and then Hugh Jackman sang it hahaha

Good God, I know. I think I saw 3 commercials for that show during one commercial break.

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I think we ended up watching the entire pilot.

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Sex, Greed, Sin, Murder.
I could probably recite that entire commercial, unfortunately.

It was quite annoying and I kind of wanted to break the tv screen everytime it came on.

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I love the way the ad says "HUGH JACKMAN! LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE!".

Yeah, 'cos we've NEVER seen Hugh Jackman gaying it up in a shiny suit and singing songs before, have we? :P

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I liked the Hairspray commerical for the movie.

They did show a commerical for Lion King and Spamalot. .

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Hugh did have a good year at the domestic box office on the overall for 2006 ( $ 570 million). If you care to count the international receipts, also from the same site, his movies grossed a total of over $ 1 billion in 2006

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=hughjackman.htm

I think people don't realize that VIVA LAUGHLIN is not Hugh's TV series. His role is only a cameo, albeit recurring. But it is his first venture as a TV producer, hence his major interest in the show. I think this is part of his production company's deal with CBS to produce some shows for TV. I think you can't blame CBS for using his popularity to publicize this new series

I have seen the BLACKPOOL series from the UK, which was a hit across the pond. It is not a conventional musical, rather it is a murder mystery drama involving a fairly dysfunctional family. The musical numbers ( only a few) provide comic relief and spice up the scenes. It actually involved sing-a-alongs, not lipsynching, choosing pop songs that are most suitable to the scene ( some are downright comical, believe it or not )... I do not know if they will adopt the same serial drama format of the UK version ( it was only a 6-part series), or if they will choose a slightly different one. But it seems they have added new characters ( Hugh's role of a wealthy but sleazy casino-hotel operator, included) in the US TV version.

Chances are real good it wont be anywhere near as fun as the BLACKPOOL series, which had the good sense (just like QUEER AS FOLK) to know when to end instead of dragging out long after we really cared about the characters.

BLACKPOOL still shows up occasionally on BBC World TV. As noted, lots of fun and very well executed.

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