Originally posted by robert: Time to cancel Cavemen, Carpoolers, Cane (clerly the C letter does not bring luck) and Reaper
It is a real shame more people are not watching Reaper. I'm sure that Sam beating the devil with a baseball bat last night on Reaper was funnier than anything Cavemen or Carpoolers churned out.
Originally posted by AL: The purpose of the TCA tour is not to gloat about your ratings, it is to promote upcoming shows. And if there is nothing to promote due to the strike then why bother to show up? My guess is that all the networks will eventually make this same announcement.
So, NBC will go dark at midseason? They don't have a pile of reality offerings to promote at midseason?
If I was Marc, I'd be biased against NBC for this too. If the TCA gets cancelled, think of all the free food, promotional goodies, and alcohol Marc is being deprived of.
It is a real shame more people are not watching Reaper. I'm sure that Sam beating the devil with a baseball bat last night on Reaper was funnier than anything Cavemen or Carpoolers churned out.
Please remember, when Strother Martin says that line, he's having the hero of the movie beaten up for refusing to act like a slave.
Pisher, I heard that line from a Guns&Roses song. I think it fits because it is apparent that the AMPTP does not fully graps the situation at hand. A lot of people are going to be out of work and the economy is going to a hell in a hand basket if they don't wake up.
Man, you need to rent yourself the DVD for Cool Hand Luke, which is where Guns & Roses got that line from. As it happens, the script is online--here's the scene--Luke just got brought back to the workcamp, after trying to escape.
Behind Luke are Godfrey, Paul, Bosses Six and Seven and the Captain. Kean and Shorty flank the gang. The guns are held levelled at the men. One guard uncuffs Luke's hands; others produce a sledge hammer, ballpeen hammer and a set of leg irons from the Captain's car. Two guards kneel before Luke and begin hammering on the irons. Silence except for the HAMMERING AND CLINKING. Luke is silhouetted, a tall, straight figure on the low horizon. The Captain looks directly ahead.
CAPTAIN (to Luke) You gonna get used to wearing them chains after a while, Luke. But don't you never stop listenin' to them clinkin'. That's gonna remind you of what I been sayin'.
LUKE Yeah, they sure do make a lot of cold, hard, noise, Captain.
The Captain feeds his fury staring, then reaches out his hand and Boss Paul lays the blackjack in it. As the chain guards finish and stand up, trembling with rage, the Captain takes a convulsive step forward and brings the sap down behind Luke's ear. As Luke tumbles down the littered embankment toward the men:
CAPTAIN Don't you never talk that way to me! You hear? You hear? Never!
His rage subsides and his voice becomes calm, reasonable.
CAPTAIN (to the men) What we got here is a failure to communicate. Some men you can't reach, that is they just don't listen when you talk reasonable so you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it, well he gets it, and I don't like it any better than you men.
So really, Wenart, you chose just the right catchphrase to summarize this battle--better than you knew.
Nothing's being picked up during the strike either.
Just because there's no point announcing the cancellation of Cavemen (to name one example) doesn't mean the decision to cancel it hasn't been made. It's a dead show walking, and we all know it.
