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30 Rock obviously doesnt fit that description since it was the most critically acclaimed new comedy of the season

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:

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30 Rock obviously doesnt fit that description since it was the most critically acclaimed new comedy of the season

And why doesn't anyone watch it????
30 Rock bleeds what few viewers NBC gets on Thursday Nights.

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:

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30 Rock obviously doesnt fit that description since it was the most critically acclaimed new comedy of the season

And why doesn't anyone watch it????
30 Rock bleeds what few viewers NBC gets on Thursday Nights.

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Originally posted by Buzz:

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:

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30 Rock obviously doesnt fit that description since it was the most critically acclaimed new comedy of the season

And why doesn't anyone watch it????
30 Rock bleeds what few viewers NBC gets on Thursday Nights.

STUDIO SIXTY... WILL BEAT 30 ROCK AGAIN IN THE RATINGS. WATCH IT TONIGHT... SCRIPTS ARE TERRIFC...MOST VIEWERS HAVE COLLEGE DEGREES.... YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO STUDIO SIXTY... MOST PEOPLE THESE DAYS DON'T HAVE THAT ABILITY TO LISTEN.. LET ALONE THINK!!!!!

30 ROCK STINKS
BUZZ

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STUDIO SIXTY... WILL BEAT 30 ROCK AGAIN IN THE RATINGS. WATCH IT TONIGHT... SCRIPTS ARE TERRIFC...MOST VIEWERS HAVE COLLEGE DEGREES.... YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO STUDIO SIXTY... MOST PEOPLE THESE DAYS DON'T HAVE THAT ABILITY TO LISTEN.. LET ALONE THINK!!!!!

30 ROCK STINKS
BUZZ

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:

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STUDIO SIXTY... WILL BEAT 30 ROCK AGAIN IN THE RATINGS. WATCH IT TONIGHT... SCRIPTS ARE TERRIFC...MOST VIEWERS HAVE COLLEGE DEGREES.... YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO STUDIO SIXTY... MOST PEOPLE THESE DAYS DON'T HAVE THAT ABILITY TO LISTEN.. LET ALONE THINK!!!!!

30 ROCK STINKS
BUZZ

Ah, Middle school must be out now.

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Yeah... Friday Night Lights nor 30 Rock had a weekly 14-15 million viewer lead-in (FNL had it that one time, when it did decently).

I use to like Studio 60 and I still watch it, but I definitely wont miss the series. Its just Aaron Sorkin showing his huge ego and writing about himself. And last week's episode... how unrealistic was that. I wonder how many times Lorne Michaels bargained with terrorists to let the brother of a castmate be set free... It needs to end.

Another major problem with the series was that the sketches were barely ever funny. It would have been better if Sorkin had set the series in the behind the scenes of a news channel (such as CNN or MSNBC or even FOX News), that way the series would be all preachy but it might as done as well as The West Wing did when it premiered. I think audiences werent sure what type of show Studio 60 was when it first premiered and as the ratings went down each week, more and more viewers left as Sorkin kept alienating audiences.

Parisite Hilton could create and write a show about an unmaterialistic, selfless, law-abiding, lower-middle-class, chaste woman who's never had a drink in her life and hates being in the spotlight, and it still wouldn't be as far removed from "writing what you know" as Sorkin did with this trainwreck. Forget knowing anything about how sketch comedy shows are made. Has he ever even WATCHED one?

Studio Eighty Sixed is the worst written, least well produced, and most poorly acted show on television.

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OK... Let's take it one more time. Last night )6?14) Sudio Sixty was terrific. It's the only show that takes on this current administration, the war, Herr Rove. The relationship between Matt and Jordan is dramatic as well as entertaining. The recent scripts have improved greatly. The main difficulty with the series was you had to LISTEN...and we live in a world where people generally don't have that ability. You also have to THINK. Sorkin is a genius! Period! Sadly, it's unfortunate the show is not about bingo, opening cases, tossing each other off an island, dancing, singing, and the reast of all this recent cheap TV bullshite.
Last night's show was very good.{/QUOTE}
buzz

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Xwiseguyx's Translated post from Buzz:

Studio 60 is the greatest show in the history of Television. All of you are stupid idiots for not watching. The shows you people watch are stupid.

PS - I can't spell.

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Originally posted by Buzz:
OK... Let's take it one more time. Last night )6?14) Sudio Sixty was terrific. It's the only show that takes on this current administration, the war, Herr Rove. The relationship between Matt and Jordan is dramatic as well as entertaining. The recent scripts have improved greatly. The main difficulty with the series was you had to LISTEN...and we live in a world where people generally don't have that ability. You also have to THINK. Sorkin is a genius! Period! Sadly, it's unfortunate the show is not about bingo, opening cases, tossing each other off an island, dancing, singing, and the reast of all this recent cheap TV bullshite.
Last night's show was very good.{/QUOTE}
buzz

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I have watched every episode of Studio 60, though it was by far one of the biggest disappointments of the season. And, yes, even though the plots remain fairly ludicrous, I have enjoyed these burn-off episodes more than I did the earlier episodes which were so, so painful. But, the show managed to turn-off its initially good audience so much in the first few weeks any improvments just did not matter. People had passed judgement. Harshly. It wasn't that people could not listen. (They managed to listen to West Wing for 7 years.) Its just that when they did listen when this show came on, they could not stand what they were hearing.

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I have watched every episode of Studio 60, though it was by far one of the biggest disappointments of the season. And, yes, even though the plots remain fairly ludicrous, I have enjoyed these burn-off episodes more than I did the earlier episodes which were so, so painful.

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I have watched every episode of Studio 60, though it was by far one of the biggest disappointments of the season. And, yes, even though the plots remain fairly ludicrous, I have enjoyed these burn-off episodes more than I did the earlier episodes which were so, so painful.

For a series that most of you people didn't like... it surely generates a lot of discussion

Count me in the opposite corner. I enjoyed the early episodes and writing/situations that felt a bit more 'real'. Now, we have hostage crisis, pregnancy gone bad, and lawyer/underworld rescue operator plotlines. Nothing could feel less real, less logical, and yes, more like all the other tripe that is on TV. I expect 'comedy' people to be witty/sarcastic/annoying and the early episodes worked for that reason. Last night's episode had a doctor, a nurse, and a military guy being the overtly witty/annoying ones and that did not work at all because it didn't seem at all 'realistic'.

The only good parts of last night's episode were the flashbacks. Maybe Studio 60 should have been on 6 years ago.

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Very Well Put.
Couldn't have said it better.

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I have watched every episode of Studio 60, though it was by far one of the biggest disappointments of the season. And, yes, even though the plots remain fairly ludicrous, I have enjoyed these burn-off episodes more than I did the earlier episodes which were so, so painful. But, the show managed to turn-off its initially good audience so much in the first few weeks any improvments just did not matter. People had passed judgement. Harshly. It wasn't that people could not listen. (They managed to listen to West Wing for 7 years.) Its just that when they did listen when this show came on, they could not stand what they were hearing.