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Two new NBC shows (If you could call them shows)

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chrish

I just saw an ad for two new upcoming NBC shows and in 60 seconds I could tell these shows are going to be so bad that they make TV Land original
programming look like genius well written material, I was so off put by the immediate inanity of the dialog these will be two or three episodes at best as I can't even remember what they are......staged parroted ridiculous one liners that are not funny!
What is f**k is the network of Seinfield and "Must see TV" thinking? That great era seems like prehistoric times, the writers and producers must come the same
school of morons and imbeciles that have given us the Madison Avenue advertising buyers.
 
chrish said:
I just saw an ad for two new upcoming NBC shows.....What is f**k is the network of Seinfield and "Must see TV" thinking
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You must be forgetting the other NBC winners of the over-blown Jerry Years...

Good Morning Miami
Veronicas Closet
The Single Guy
Gimme A Break
Daddio
Inside Schwarz
Suddenly SUsan
Hope And Gloria
 
The only ad I remember is something for
a new Betty White show.
A bunch of old people pulling pranks.
What's that show called again?
 
SanDiegoInExile said:
chrish said:
I just saw an ad for two new upcoming NBC shows.....What is f**k is the network of Seinfield and "Must see TV" thinking
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You must be forgetting the other NBC winners of the over-blown Jerry Years...

Good Morning Miami
Veronicas Closet
The Single Guy
Gimme A Break
Daddio
Inside Schwarz
Suddenly SUsan
Hope And Gloria
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No love for Jessie? Come on now.... :)
 
By the way, of the above listed "winners," "Gimme A Break" is halfway decent - I believe that show, as well as "Suddenly Susan" had enough episodes to qualify for daily syndication.
 
DToTheJ said:
By the way, of the above listed "winners," "Gimme A Break" is halfway decent - I believe that show, as well as "Suddenly Susan" had enough episodes to qualify for daily syndication.
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Like it or not (I didn't), Veronica's Closet ran for 3 seasons, so it couldn't be considered a failure. I believe it was also in daily syndication for a little while (on Lifetime, perhaps?), but not for long, and not widely distributed.

I remember liking Hope and Gloria - good writing and cast, I thought - Cynthia Stevenson, Jessica Lundy, and Enrico Colantoni. Who was that last guy, you ask? A talented character actor who is equally adept at both comedy and drama - he gets a lot of work on episodic TV to this day. If you don't know the name, you probably know the face.
 
Gimme a Break? That was pre-Seinfeld.
 
DToTheJ said:
By the way, of the above listed "winners," "Gimme A Break" is halfway decent - I believe that show, as well as "Suddenly Susan" had enough episodes to qualify for daily syndication.
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But "Gimme a Break" hasn't been seen much in syndication since about the early 90s (at least in central/western Illinois), and I haven't seen the reruns much on cable ever since, unless BET or another channel once carried them (but I didn't start having cable regularly since about 1998).

But if Bounce TV needs an idea for extra programming, "Gimme a Break" would be a great addition to that network. Same with other classic sitcoms with enough shows to qualify for syndication, such as "Diff'rent Strokes," "Jeffersons," "Amen," "Sanford and Son" (maybe throw in the short-lived "Sanford Arms" and "Sanford" too), "Family Matters," "Cosby Show," "Different World," etc.
 
Lkeller said:
Like it or not (I didn't), Veronica's Closet ran for 3 seasons, so it couldn't be considered a failure.
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From what I saw, I got that "inanity" was the point of the thread, not "success."
Wasn't "Mad About You" on at that time too. Sure, it lasted a few seasons, but [especially in hindsight] "inane" is one of the first words that come to mind when I think about Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt doing anything together, much less a sitcom. ;D
 
Well "Gimme A Break" had Jonathan Silverman, the star of "The Single Guy."

Didn't "The Single Guy" and "Suddenly Susan" start after their stars appeared on episodes of "Friends"?
 
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