ChrisH
10-26-2006, 01:15 PM
(Ok, I realize this could go in a few different areas (FU, Movies/TV, etc.), but because they talked about it today on the show, I'm putting it in General Discussion...obviously, Mods feel free to move).
Television networks are fucking REDICULOUS these days...I fucking agree wholeheartedly with Jimmy (and Kevin Smith) that it is this MTV/Instant Gratification mentality (I would say generation, but at almost 30 I'm in the same boat) that will not give ANYTHING a chance unless it is an INSTANT hit! That Ray Liotta show could have been awesome (or even decent) and made the network $$ over the course of the season, but to cancel it after two or three episodes?!?
Now, another show has hit the cutting block after TWO airings. Two. Granted, it wasn't on my DVR list, but the new NBC show Twenty Good Years (Lithgow and Tambor) has been axed.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/26/television.nbc.reut/index.html
Also, the best new show (IMO) this year, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, is rumored to be next because it is so expensive (salaries for Whitford and Perry, multi-camera dramedies with big casts and scripts, etc.). I'm glad that network TV is losing to cable...if they had some balls and made some decent shows like they used to (All in the Family, Seinfeld, Cheers, Hill Street Blues, etc.), maybe they wouldn't be getting buttfucked by shitty HBO shows that are more attractive only b/c of sex and violence (the only things keeping the Sopranos even remotely watchable).
Television networks are fucking REDICULOUS these days...I fucking agree wholeheartedly with Jimmy (and Kevin Smith) that it is this MTV/Instant Gratification mentality (I would say generation, but at almost 30 I'm in the same boat) that will not give ANYTHING a chance unless it is an INSTANT hit! That Ray Liotta show could have been awesome (or even decent) and made the network $$ over the course of the season, but to cancel it after two or three episodes?!?
Now, another show has hit the cutting block after TWO airings. Two. Granted, it wasn't on my DVR list, but the new NBC show Twenty Good Years (Lithgow and Tambor) has been axed.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/26/television.nbc.reut/index.html
Also, the best new show (IMO) this year, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, is rumored to be next because it is so expensive (salaries for Whitford and Perry, multi-camera dramedies with big casts and scripts, etc.). I'm glad that network TV is losing to cable...if they had some balls and made some decent shows like they used to (All in the Family, Seinfeld, Cheers, Hill Street Blues, etc.), maybe they wouldn't be getting buttfucked by shitty HBO shows that are more attractive only b/c of sex and violence (the only things keeping the Sopranos even remotely watchable).