Television: Studio 60, Heroes

Comment by Ken

Ken — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:38:59 +0000

:lol: I do hope the ass quotient goes up in Studio 60.

Comment by sweatpantsmom (Guest)

sweatpantsmom (Guest) — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:03:23 +0000

I LOVE this show, but now you've done it. By using the words "intellectual' and 'clever' to describe it, you've almost guranteed it's demise.

Couldn't you have said it was stupid, with lots of ass?

Comment by Crouching Hamster (Guest)

Crouching Hamster (Guest) — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:39:54 +0000

They have to make us want it so, and since it's only television, the way to do that is to make us REALLY care about the characters. But they haven't had time to do that. If we can all hang on a few more episodes (Le Petit Beurre cookies. Ermmmmm. Really! I'm NOT being paid! And they're not mine.), they might be able to pull it off.

Felicity Huffman would have been fanTAStic! She has just the right mixture of anxiety and Anglo _Saxon chutzpah for that character. And she knows how to wear a pencil skirt.

Comment by e (Guest)

e (Guest) — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:42:43 +0000

speaking of "sports night", did anyone else really want felicity huffman to have amanda peet's role? someone who could have actually made a believable studio prez?

Comment by Javi (Guest)

Javi (Guest) — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:25:39 +0000

sorkin based amanda peet's character on jamie tarses, who was wunderkind president of abc when he did "sports night" - but obviously, the character is tremendously idealized... and writers do on occasion do press, but the "fate of the world hangs on this" tone seen in the studio 60 episode was probably a little overwrought - but the overall tenor of studio 60 seems to be that running "SNL" is an event as important as running the white house...

Comment by Timothy Ross (Guest)

Timothy Ross (Guest) — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:21:50 +0000

I really enjoyed Studio 60 and I don't follow the television industry.

The extent of my insider information is that I am pretty sure Captain Kirk wasn't his real name.

Comment by Crouching Hamster (Guest)

Crouching Hamster (Guest) — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:35:00 +0000

Aaron Sorkin has managed to corral the top talent in acting, music (W.G. Snuffy Walden), casting, and well, just about everything and get someone to pay him to feed his writerly narcissistic exhibitionist tendencies. Brilliant!

But I was wondering: do television writers show up at press conferences and give statements? Can a 34 year-old woman (that, in and of itself), who says, "thanks for stopping by, guys" to two suits, and, "I was high" (jokingly) at a press conference, be taken seriously as the president of a network? Or are we to continue to suspend disbelief when her character is in a scene, and accept her as Sorkin's wet dream of a network president?

Javi, weigh in here, if you can.

P.S. - I still miss "Sports Night."

Television: Studio 60, Heroes

Ken — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:06:01 +0000

Thoughts on NBC's two new Monday night shows. (Warning: minor plot spoilers.)