You've got to love sites like Defamer and Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily. No spins. Just the truth about show biz, ugly or otherwise.
Just who green-lighted all of these unwatchable shows, anyway?
It goes to show that in at least the last 30 years, virtually nothing has changed in network TV executive suites. In the late 70s, ABC ran an unfunny, unwatchable sitcom called "A New Kind of Family", which starred Eileen Brennan and Telma Hopkins (from Tony Orlando & Dawn), about 2 single mothers with 2 kids each, sharing a household. It didn't last a full season. One of the co-Executive Producers of this crap was Margie Eisner, the first wife of Michael Eisner, who was running Paramount Pictures at the time! With all of his connections & contacts, Mr. Eisner was easily able to get his wife's gawdawful show on the ABC schedule grid, while many others with new ideas of their own, couldn't get past a security guard to save their lives.
Television of late seems to be hell-bent on showing us the same old faces (Kelsey Grammar & Patricia Heaton come to mind immediately), on the same old recycled idea-type of shows, and they're produced by the same old people who haven't had a new idea since the advent of the Commodore 64 calculator, but they drink, play golf, and perhaps sleep with the right people.
Who knows what great new show ideas have been lost because someone wasn't well-connected?
