Just as a heads up – Comedy Central is running a marathon (if you can use the word for a show that ran 13 weeks) of the vicious Hollywood satire, Action, this Friday and Saturday. Four episodes will be shown Friday from 3-5 PM EST, and eight more Saturday morning starting at 8:00 AM EST.
For those who don’t know (which is probably most everyone, since the show had lousy ratings), Action starred Jay Mohr as a Hollywood producer out to make his next blockbuster. Mohr has the morals of a slug, which makes him the most admirable person on the show (at least he had some morals). The show was a take-no-prisoners satire on the Hollywood scene – nasty and funny.
The show was made for one of the cable networks, but they declined to pick it up, but Fox was willing to push the broadcast envelope. Alas, it never found an audience. And it’s clear that the producers never expected it to, so they torched everything they could get their hands on with their satire, leaving nothing but smoldering rubble.
Set your VCRs.