If anyone can see just cause why this reality show should not go forward…
April 2nd, 2007 by screenwriterguy
NBC tried filling Mondays at 10 with a magnificent Aaron Sorkin project. When Studio 60 failed to achieve astronomical numbers from the awkward time slot (remember that NBC chickened out from trying that show on Thursdays…), they moved Paul Haggis’s The Black Donnellys into the slot. That crashed. (Pun intended.) Whom should you select to follow Sorkin and Haggis?
Ashton Kutcher, of course.
Starting April 23, NBC is going to air a reality show called The Real Wedding Crashers, in which a team of improv comics ruins people’s weddings. The saving grace is that the bride and groom are in on it. So I guess that means moms and dads who have spent months, and tens of thousands, wake up expecting to see their children’s special day. And instead get Punk’d.
Worst. Idea. Ever.
You know what happens when we as a society let reality television run amuck? That’s right. Running Man. Pretty soon Richard Dawson is sending us into the gauntlet to flee for our lives. Put a stop to it now, people. Mondays at 10 sounds like a perfect time to watch old Buffy episodes on TV. Maybe read a book.
Please bring back Studio 60, NBC. I promise to watch it twice every week, and to memorize all the commercials.
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Apr 3rd 2007 at 7:32 am
Hear hear…
Apr 3rd 2007 at 10:08 am
Yeah, the Real Wedding Crashers show sounds horrible, and really is an indictment of our entire culture, but it’s only a bit worse than Studio 60. The only thing less watchable than a piece of crap is a pretentious piece of crap. I guess I’m trying to say that I’d rather literally stare at a piece of crap for an hour than watch Studio 60.
Apr 3rd 2007 at 1:33 pm
Wow, man. Have fun watching a piece of literal crap, I guess. I’ll be over here, watching television…
Apr 3rd 2007 at 5:01 pm
heard about this show today, and couldn’t believe it — not sure why I was surprised — as a society, we do seem to be hitting the bottom. In the spirit of your post — have you seen the new show called ’till death do us part’ — on court tv, i think? hosted by john waters (which is cool) — but the premise of the show is to take real life cases of murder involving spouses – and then dramatize it. the acting is horrible – the production values, cheesy — which sounds like it would be fun to watch in that ‘after school special’ way — but then when you watch it, and see how they camp it up, it starts to feel totally wrong when you think of how this really happened to someone — the writers aren’t just making this stuff up — the tone of the episodes are clearly intended to mock the dead — and there’s just something not right about that. Have you seen ‘Rome’ on HBO — something to be learned there.