I take no joy in saying I predicted this in my thread awhile back on placing bets on new series to be cancelled.
I loved West Wing and I think Sorkin is a great writer who can infuse a drama with some good laughs, but this show was missing a real comedy writer.
In a perfect world, Sorkin would have teamed up with Tina Fey of 30 Rock and combined the two shows, or at least made them back-to-back with story tie-in’s.
Sorkin could have done the behind-the-scenes dramedy, and Tina could have written the in-front-of-the-scenes actually funny show instead of trying to infuse some drama into her show.
Sorry to see it cancelled (should that actually be the case) but I am not surprised.
That is good news…and it seems the median income for all viewers is $66,000 per year, so I guess all of us writing in this thread as fans can at least take heart that we are rich.
No, I just never heard of that particular demographic. I was married for 15 years to a woman who worked inthe advertising field (radio, TV and print), and thought I had at least a passing knowledge of all the concepts and terms of the advertising fields. That was the first I heard of it. It would be a bit meta if he did through that in the show to help the network justify letting the show live with lower-than-desired ratings, though,
the thing that really phases me about that FOX news article is how it keeps citing how Heroes gets 10 million more viewers a week than Studio 60, and implies that the show is doomed because it can’t keep the audience watching. Do the networks really assume that 10 million people should be too lazy to change the channel after Heroes, and be expected to watch whatever the hell comes on right after? Heroes and Studio 60 are two completely different shows, and for the most part are trying to reach two completely different audiences (I, for one, enjoy both). The obvious answer to this problem is to CHANGE ITS TIME SLOT. It’s silly having a show about a Friday night show on MONDAY. This is one show that should be on Thursday or Friday. If NBC moved it to Friday at 9, I bet the ratings will improve. 1 Vs 100 followed by Studio 60 followed by L&O:THE ORIGINAL just might be a night NBC could win.
A sketch troupe in LA is doing a “tribute” show to Studio 60. They are taking the bits and pieces of the skethes we’ve seen on the show and fleshing them out to full sketches. Some cases staying in the style that Sorkin uses, sometimes twisting them into actual funny sketches. The show is also doing larger parodies of the show inbetween the sketches.
It was originally supposed to be on Thursdays, at 9 PM. Then ABC moved Grey’s Anatomy to that timeslot, in addition to CSI on CBS, so that would have been a slaughter. That night’s not gotten any better since. And Friday is where shows go to die.
On the traditional broadcast networks, maybe. It hasn’t done any damage to Battlestar Galactica.
(Hmm, I wonder what an episode of BG would be like if Sorkin wrote it? Or if Ron Moore turned in a script for Studio 60?)
I don’t get all the love for this show. It’s as smug and self satisfied as the West Wing ever was, but without the real world gravitas of the West Wing setting, and tries to peddle the asinine conceit that the sausage making process of slapping together a weekly comedy show has great moral elements involved. Sorokin’s trademark patter is near shtick by now, and the characters & situations just aren’t that interesting or compelling, I know there’s a lot of Sorokin love out there looking for a home, but this show is just not all that great.
I’m with you.
I’m the guy who went off on this in the original threads.
“Crazy Christians” was just lazy Sorkin. They treated the sketch as though the TITLE alone was the reason protestors were outside. No one in the world we inhabit… not even Christians would raise an eyebrow at that. No affliates in fly over states would drop the show. No one would give a flying f about that sketch.
But in Sorkin’s world where people in the 12th largest city in the country haven’t heard of Abbot and Costello that sort of national response is perfectly reasonable. So that whole plot rang hollow.
And to top it all off everyone we are supposedto agree with on the show creamed their jeans over how awesome and brillant it was.
I think if they had shown the sketch and had it been just a straight funny sketch without any hint of anything that could have been construed as controversial and it was much ado about nothing, that would have been much better than giving it a lousy title that we are expected to think would cause an uproar and then never see it at all. That whole thing was just insulting.
Come to that, what media outlets are you listening to? Love for this show is few and far-between.