Yep, reports are that “Watching Ellie” has been cancelled. No new episodes will be filmed and those that have yet to be aired will be shelved until at least next season.
You can blame it on the Seinfeld Curse.
I blame it on the show being a pathetic Stink Bomb. Good riddance.
[Quagmire voice] "Allllllll right! [Quagmire voice]
Goes to show, the writiers are at least as important as the actors(if not moreso).
I agree with Homebrew, this show sucked hard.
:eek:
I actually didn’t find the show half bad.
Presumably others thought differently.
I won’t lose much sleep over this.
I watched the first episode and thought that the critics were insane for strongly recommending it.
Haven’t watched since, but guess it didn’t get any better, huh? And the first week’s ratings were spectacular, so everybody must have tuned in that first week, gagged, and never bothered again.
So something good can be said for the taste of the American viewing public. Two-and-a-half cheers for us!
I am gonna miss that tall, blond English/married/guitarist boyfriend of hers. He was yummy!!!
But the show, not so yummy.
I saw a bit of it, but it did nothing for me. I won’t be losing any sleep over this.
Curb your enthusiasm seems to be immune from this curse. Perhaps it only applies to network tv?
Who didn’t see this coming?
The only hope for them is to be on a show like Spin City or Just Shoot Me, where there is no real lead star and they aren’t the focus.
Perhaps a drama.
Those actors are too closely tied to the characters on Seinfield. That show was essentially Elaine with new friends and maybe a new city.
It’s not really a curse, more of a stigma and it’s common among stars of successful TV shows. Look at what happened to the stars of “Gilligan’s Island” and “Three’s Company”. I think the difference with “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is that when Larry David was on “Seinfeld” it was either just his voice or he was shown from behind.
I managed to get through the first episode of the optimistically titled “Watching Ellie,” and about seven minutes of the second one. I kept looking at that little clock ticking away at the bottom of the screen and thinking, “THAT’S how many minutes of my life I’ll never get back . . .”
I think the “curse” is meant only to apply to the Fab Four. Many of the minor actors have been quite successful (considering their previous stature) since. Wayne Knight is everywhere, Jerry Stiller has a comparable role on another hit sitcom, and the list of Jerry’s one-episode girlfriends contains a large number of actresses that went on to much longer lived roles.
Intersections: Did you notice that “Ellie”'s super was the shady electrician in the Frogger episode?
“You mean holes?”
It was so much like Seinfeld that when Ellie/Elaine was awakened by an earthquake, I thought, “That’s strange, why is there an earthquake in New York?”
Ahh. Peter Stormare, perhaps even better known for stuffing Steve Buscemi in the wood chipper in “Fargo.”
Let’s see…
“After-MASH"?
“Hello, Larry”?
“City of Angels”?
But does anybody talk about a "MASH” curse?
“Providence”
“House Calls”
Both lasted at least 3 seasons. Both star(red) principal players from MAS*H. So far, the Big 4 from Seinfeld still haven’t managed a post-Seinfeld series that’s lasted a whole season.
jayjay
well, actually, I DO remember folks talking about a “MAS*H curse”.
tho’ Alan Alda seems to have done fine in the movies.
It also goes to show that writers are so important that a show’s star shouldn’t relegate the writing duties to her husband.
McLean Stevenson’s post-MASH career was wretched to such a spectacular degree that you really don’t think of him in terms of being a member of any "MASH" curse – you just concentrate on him as being the living, breathing definition of a Bad Career Move. He transcended his old show.