Well, it worked, I’m going to blog about it. Augment the buzz if you will.
Watching the evening news Monday night I caught a bit of a story about NBC’s new show for fall, Studio 60 from West Wing producer Alan Sorkin. Part of building some pre-release hype they have decided to make DVDs of the pilot episode and you can rent them on Netflix. The interweb was all excited a week ago because somehow the pilot in 5 parts had mysteriously appeared on YouTube. It seems that just in time for the Netflix release, they were pulled for copyright infringement. Aaaah, marketing.
Anyway, on to the show. Typical Sorkin stuff; smart, witty and overlapping dialog. But for some reason it just didn’t connect, and maybe this is just me, but it seems like I’ve seen this all before. And maybe I have. Take one part West Wing and one part Sportsnight, stir gently…
It’ll be on Monday’s at 10:00 PM starting in September and as much as I would like to watch, I probably won’t. If anything, maybe I’ll rent the DVD’s next fall, ALA my current watching of “Lost.”
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It’s just you. Studio 60 is excellent TV.
I didn`t say it wasn`t excellent. Judd Hirsch`s soon to be fired producer`s speech was dead on and this show will be a breath of fresh air compared to the usual reality crap and 37 different CSI rip-offs, but I have seen this before.
Sorkin has already done a behind the scenes at a TV show show. Daniel Tripp is a Josh Lyman clone, a smart, funny mid level functionary and just a bit out of touch. Matthew Albie is a Chandler Bing clone, a smart, funny loose cannon. Steven Webber as the boss we love to hate. Amanda Peet as the harried, but beautiful heroine that all the males can chase, but will never catch unless she lets them. DL Hugely for the African American stories, Sarah Paulson for the religious right stories, and I`m not sure about the Tom Jeter character yet, homosexuality?
I`m just not scheduling my Monday nights around this show.
You might as well watch Studio 60. Give it a few episodes before you give up on it. If it is any good it will be canceled soon enough. I thought Sports Night was a riot.