May 14, 2007

The Death of Studio 60

"Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," possibly the most underachieving series in the history of television, was officially canceled on Friday. It could've been so good, but just collapsed under the weight of everything it was trying to accomplish.

"Studio 60" will be replaced in its timeslot on NBC by a show called "Journeyman," which is about "a man who travels back in time to fix the lives of people in trouble." "Journeyman" is also known by its alternate title, "The Exact Same Fucking Thing as 'Quantum Leap.'"

Posted by Stephen Silver at May 14, 2007 04:51 PM
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Makes you wonder how The West Wing made it beyond its first season. Why haven't networks learned that it takes an Aaron Sorkin dramedy at least a season to really find its voice and command an audience? How many more Sports Nights need to die at the hands of dimwitted TV executives?

Posted by: jabbett at May 14, 2007 11:00 PM

I thought the same thing. NBC doesn't have alot of good stuff coming in for the Fall. I'm glad 30 Rock made the cut though.

Posted by: A at May 15, 2007 11:30 AM

I really liked Quantum Leap, and I'm a big Kevin McKidd fan from Topsy-Turvy. I think I'm going to have to watch that one.
As for Studio 60, well, I watched it. It wasn't always great, but there were a couple of good episodes in there. It was really hard to get past the fact that it was a drama about being on the set of a comedy. Also, the characters were so inconsistently written that I felt at times like they threw a new guy into the script room and gave him a brief synopsis of everything on the show so far and told him to run with it. It was a good movie bringing Mark McKinney in, but they didn't really give him enough to work with. Slings & Arrows was a better behind-the-scenes-of-show-biz show anyway. I'll. watch the last 2 episodes and feel no pain in erasing them from the DVR.

Posted by: Marti at May 17, 2007 04:09 PM
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