My advice: Don't watch any show on NBC unless it is confirmed it will get at least one full season.
Journeyman, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Black Donnellys...
Pulling the plug on good shows before they can possibly attract an audience is becoming a habit at NBC.
Latest victim of the NBC execs: My Own Worst Enemy, starring Christian Slater. Canned after only 9 (!) episodes, and the last episode ended with a cliff-hanger. They really care about their audience.
Ceph wrote:My advice: Don't watch any show on NBC unless it is confirmed it will get at least one full season.
Journeyman, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Black Donnellys...
Pulling the plug on good shows before they can possibly attract an audience is becoming a habit at NBC.
Latest victim of the NBC execs: My Own Worst Enemy, starring Christian Slater. Canned after only 9 (!) episodes, and the last episode ended with a cliff-hanger. They really care about their audience.
Heroes is in its 3rd season right now. The big reason is probably because NBC marketed the hell out of it, which is something that media conglomerate rarely does. I did not see NBC even try to market My Own Worst Enemy.
MMM, soylent green. I should watch that in 2023 so it will be "pastistic".
That's a term I invented for something that once was futuristic, but now the date that took place in the fictional work is in the past.
If more 2D people would go to the 2D Gaming Forum, there would be more people to talk about 2D games with other 2D fans on the tootie gaming forum. It's 2Dlicious. For real yall
MadScientist wrote:Was My Own Worst Enemy actually good then? I never bothered checking it out as the trailers were pretty bad.
The premise was a bit silly, but it was better than most of the crap on tv nowadays, and the episodes were well made and entertaining. Christian Slater was pretty cool in this.
Actually, NBC stands for "National Broadcasting Company". I recall seeing lots of hype for the comedy show called "Chicken Soup" and upon it's big debut, it bombed big time.
Another cool show that got axed because of the 9/11 incident, The Job, starring Dennis Leary. That was a crazy and hilarous short-lived comedy series. The episode titled "The Foot" even turns on the sole female cop character. Plus the two characters of "Rice and Beans" are mentioned on the show as well -- is regarded as an inside joke of sorts. If you're of Hispanic origin...you'd definitely get the joke pronto. ^_~
Ceph you could try to stop watching shows that suck. Come on dude it's like you gravitate toward horrendous tv.
Jouneyman had a plot involving time travel. Time travel... Didn't you watch those stupid episodes of voyager involving time travel? It's a recipe for sucking ass.
My Own Worst Enemy wasn't the worst crap out there but the writing was horrendous and it starred Christian Slater... There's a reason why his movie career imploded.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was just a really hard to place show. Was it just a preachy drama that tried to be funny or just a horrible comedy? We'll never know now.
Finally the Black Donnelleys was just boring. You can't keep an audience if you keep boring them to death.
null1024 wrote:Say, is 30 Rock actually any good? My friends keep telling me to see it, but...
It's not bad. It's watchable, which is more than I can say about most TV shows. If it didn't come on right after The Office I probably wouldn't watch it, though.
I don't remember Tracy Morgan ever being that funny on SNL, but his character in 30 Rock has some great moments.
Neon wrote:They were all bad shows and I saw ads for my own worst enemy constantly, it's not like they didn't try.
You can't blame the network when the creative aspect is sub-par. I'd prefer bad shows to be cancelled than to go on and on for years like Friends
NBC gets a medal for keeping 30 Rock on-air despite its low ratings, actually.
Say, is 30 Rock actually any good? My friends keep telling me to see it, but...
30 Rock is frakkin awesome. The writing is consistently top notch and there's not one horrible character on the show. Really it's like Tiny Fey decided to make a show that is essentially a spoof of her days as a writer working at NBC.
Come on she even managed to make Tracy Morgan, Alec Baldwin, and that blonde chick from Ally McBeal funny. That's no small accomplishment, the entire writing staff at Saturday Night Live couldn't make Tracy Morgan funny.
We have to thank Syd Mead for his cool visual conceptual designs for the Blade Runner film. Ever notice that lots of neon tubing and the old fashioned black & white CRT-based TV monitors presented in tate with a Fresnel lens gives the BR film a cool retro-futuristic aestethics?
I'm surprised that the 1995 film of Strange Days shows a widescreen HD monitor made by Phillps and is supposed to set on New Year's Eve 1999. Impressive background sets indeed. Of course, Strange Days is set in an alternative future/era of "bootlegged" virtual reality -- which hasn't gone anywhere in today's world. ^_~
