Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Network TV: Gaining Back Their Reputation....
...of sucking.
This on Variety.com:
"NBC is giving up on "Andy Barker, P.I."
After a lightly promoted four-seg run, the Peacock has pulled Conan O'Brien's critically adored midseason laffer from its Thursday perch effective immediately. It will be replaced by "Scrubs," which had been set to inherit the 9:30 p.m. timeslot April 19."
How could this show be cancelled already? There's going to have been, what, 6 episodes of it (after they run the final two on Saturday night)? The show is fucking hilarious--as has been discussed in a creepily-timed text message discussion by Pete and I--and it is exec-produced by Conan O'Brien. You would think that being produced by the Tonight Show heir would be enough reason to at least try to build it up a bit and see if it developed a following.
Thursday nights on NBC is the best night of television by far. But it just got taken down a notch. And, this provides a wake up call to those of us who may have been fooled lately: network TV sucks.
This on Variety.com:
"NBC is giving up on "Andy Barker, P.I."
After a lightly promoted four-seg run, the Peacock has pulled Conan O'Brien's critically adored midseason laffer from its Thursday perch effective immediately. It will be replaced by "Scrubs," which had been set to inherit the 9:30 p.m. timeslot April 19."
How could this show be cancelled already? There's going to have been, what, 6 episodes of it (after they run the final two on Saturday night)? The show is fucking hilarious--as has been discussed in a creepily-timed text message discussion by Pete and I--and it is exec-produced by Conan O'Brien. You would think that being produced by the Tonight Show heir would be enough reason to at least try to build it up a bit and see if it developed a following.
Thursday nights on NBC is the best night of television by far. But it just got taken down a notch. And, this provides a wake up call to those of us who may have been fooled lately: network TV sucks.
Labels: Andy Barker P.I., NBC, Thursday nights, Why TV Sucks
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