Are you talking about Newhart ? I’ve never heard that series described as “terrible” (I personally thought it was hilarious once it got past its first season), though Poston did have a few guest shots on Newhart’s later series Bob, which I recall was mediocre.
Hopefully, it is Bob, which I had never heard of until now, as both of them were great in both The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart, and both would probably make my top 100 TV series of all time list.
Bob was a great series (at least in the first season). And even better if you knew comic books. It was written by the team that wrote for Cheers. The cast was good, but only a couple became big names.
But CBS never gave it a regular time slot, and then jettisoned everything as a condition for renewal. The second season was dire, ditching the entire premise.
And the other “Guy,” Richard Ruccolo, is prett decent, as well. I’ve enjoyed his appearances on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, albeit in only a handful of episodes.
It seems to be doing alright and was renewed for a second season. Hirsch has done several failed TV series over the past 40 years. Why would this be any different?
I never really watched “Monk” and knew Howard more from the show “Boston Common” prior to “2 Guys, A Girl.” I thought of that show as a star vehicle for her. The Monk mention reminds me of another Shalhoub show I did enjoy - “Stark Raving Mad.” I don’t know if it fits (I thought it was good), but it only lasted 1 season. It had a big profile at the time. I think it was after “Friends” and/or replaced Seinfeld. This was before Monk or “How I Met Your Mother.” So it was a show with that guy from “Wings” and an adult Doogie Howser who hadn’t done much other than TV movies in 6 years. Other cast members Eddie McClintock and Heather Paige Kent (now a “Real” “Housewife”) were getting big pushes on TV at the time and guest starred on just about everything in the late 90s and early 2000s and given their own shows multiple times.
Plenty of shows listed here that I thought were good.
I’ll probably receive a lot of hate for this but as much as I love Danny DiVito, I can’t stand It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Same for me, Danny is Genius in everything else but *Sunny *is a god-awful show to me with shocking (to me) success.
Patricia Heaton got nominated for over half-a-dozen Emmys playing Debra Barone, and Kelsey Grammer got nominated for over a dozen playing Frasier Crane; so put 'em together, give a supporting role to Ty Burrell before he earns more than half-a-dozen Emmy nominations, and give another supporting role to Fred Willard in between his third and fourth Emmy nominations, and give the other supporting role to Josh Gad before he goes on to getting plenty of high-profile comedy work in the movies and on Broadway; and so where, in the cast of BACK TO YOU, is the weak link?
If you do not remember the trainwreck that was Twins, consider yourself very lucyk. Mark Linn-Baker, Melanie Griffith, Molly Stanton and Sara Gilbert could not save it.