Originally posted by TravisYanan: Wow! That's terrible. What crap. I've never watched the show, so didn't know that was even an option... still, given the history of the show's "winners"... perhaps it's just leaping ahead to the inevitable?
If I remember correctly, one of the earlier Bachelorette runs also had a "none of the above" finale. In real reality, a coupling can't be forced if one of the prospective partners just isn't interested.
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I just wish they would stay away from all the Robin stuff... she's not the mother... and it starts getting creepy that he is telling his kids so much about their (s)exploits....
Creepier than an unseen documentary crew spending years omnisciently chronicling the personal lives and oddball minituiae of a branch office for an obscure paper company?
They're just framing gimmicks, and should not be taken remotely seriously. Obviously no such dad ever existed, and no such documentary crew ever existed.
Robin isn't the mother to be met, no. Query--does Ted ever explicitly refer to the kids' mother as his wife?
I mean, if you're going to get all persnickety, don't you think any wife and mother would have objected by now to her husband talking to their kids about his sex life for what must have been weeks by now? Seriously, where IS this woman?
The show is just not worth that kind of analysis, IMO. A good chuckle, yes. Serious analysis, no.
BBT will not air new episodes till 2008. Right when it was building momentum. Why not air the remaining 4 episodes now? Bad choice
What 4 episodes? The strike ended production immediately. Everything that's been produced has aired, and production will not resume until the strike is over.
BBT will not air new episodes till 2008. Right when it was building momentum. Why not air the remaining 4 episodes now? Bad choice
What 4 episodes? The strike ended production immediately. Everything that's been produced has aired, and production will not resume until the strike is over.
You're right. I made a confusion with 30 Rock. That was the sitcom with 4 episodes left
BBT will not air new episodes till 2008. Right when it was building momentum. Why not air the remaining 4 episodes now? Bad choice
What 4 episodes? The strike ended production immediately. Everything that's been produced has aired, and production will not resume until the strike is over.
Stupid move on Chuck Lorre's part. They were in table draft on the next episode ("The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization") and had at least one completed script after that in casting. This from a show that wasn't exactly ahead of schedule -- to put it mildly. Meanwhile, "Dirty Sexy Money" has the key grips and the foley guys writing the rest of the season.
The funny thing is, while Lorre is all "United we stand," Bill Prady's taking the less magnanimous stance. 'Screw the strike, what about my show?!' seemed to be the underlying message. I gotta respect the writers who don't shower us with Halle Berry "This strike is so much bigger than me" bullcrap and admit that, hell, yeah, they don't want their babies to get thrown out with the bathwater if pencils are down for the rest of the season.
I would've expected "Big Bang" to repeat a lot better than that. Maybe it really does share a sizeable amount of audience with "Chuck." Really doesn't bode well for CBS keeping the show on in reruns beyond January.
Speaking of Lorre's vanity cards, if I had a show and I had vanity cards, all of the ones from November 5th on would be blank.
-- "Better Off Ted," Wednesdays at some time or another at some point or another in the near future. Because we can't all live in mansions and not ever work like the people on "Modern Family."
Stupid move on Chuck Lorre's part. They were in table draft on the next episode ("The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization") and had at least one completed script after that in casting. This from a show that wasn't exactly ahead of schedule -- to put it mildly. Meanwhile, "Dirty Sexy Money" has the key grips and the foley guys writing the rest of the season.
You mean they weren't already?
Actually, I know people of some intelligence who like DSM, but I seriously think they like the IDEA of it far more than the reality.
If Ron Moore can say the strike is more important than finishing Battlestar Galactica, it would be pretty funny for Chuck Lorre to say the strike is less important than padding out BBT's first season.
Originally posted by tv avenger: Can I say what an absolute waste of F#$%&*@ time it was for abc to give us the Bachelor, when in the end he didnt even choose either one of the final girls. A truly wasted opportunity for abc, when they could have given that time slot to a new (Pushing Daisies) or older (Men in Trees) show that is truly more deserving of a stronger lead-in than that crap. Shame on abc!!!!!!
Wow! That's terrible. What crap. I've never watched the show, so didn't know that was even an option... still, given the history of the show's "winners"... perhaps it's just leaping ahead to the inevitable?
I dunno... maybe I'm looking at it from a different perspective (and no, I don't watch the show...) I agree w/ Travis's last statement - when was the last time a Bachelor/Bachelorette coupling actually lasted? (Ryan/Trista... years ago... and this was the only one).
I actually think the guy had cojones to actually admit he didn't love any of them up front... rather than act out a forced "proposal" only to break up with them as soon as the show airs. I don't think its necessarily ABC's (or the show's) fault. Do the "rules" of the show state that he is required to pick someone in the end?
Don't know if it was mentioned before but i've red reports of NBC aproaching a deal a Hasselhoff to reprise its role as Michael Knight in Knight Rider. It seems another NBC diaster is on its way
The funny thing is, while Lorre is all "United we stand," Bill Prady's taking the less magnanimous stance. 'Screw the strike, what about my show?!' seemed to be the underlying message.
Message of what? Where do you get this stuff? Prady is leading location picket teams and is on the line every day. He's extremely pro-strike and pro-guild.
And if you really think it would have been smarter to keep a live-audience sitcom in production without writers to continually polish and punch-up the script, you've probably never tried it.
PS: Next week's Two and a Half Men is the last original.
Originally posted by Riff Rafferty: I would've expected "Big Bang" to repeat a lot better than that.
It repeated very well. How much higher did you expect it to repeat vs. when it originally aired?
It's not a question of how much higher I expected it to repeat vs. when it originally aired. It's a question of how much higher I expected it to repeat vs. the new episode of "How I Met Your Mother." Who watches that, anyway?
-- "Better Off Ted," Wednesdays at some time or another at some point or another in the near future. Because we can't all live in mansions and not ever work like the people on "Modern Family."
I thought they hired some soap actor to play Knight Rider. Either way, I agree that this show won't work. Fastlane was a fantastic car show and FOX cancelled it the first chance they had. Maybe NBC will be a little more patient with it, but I doubt it.
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Originally posted by robert: Don't know if it was mentioned before but i've red reports of NBC aproaching a deal a Hasselhoff to reprise its role as Michael Knight in Knight Rider. It seems another NBC diaster is on its way
Originally posted by robert: Don't know if it was mentioned before but i've red reports of NBC aproaching a deal a Hasselhoff to reprise its role as Michael Knight in Knight Rider. It seems another NBC diaster is on its way
I'm guessing they are scrapping any plans to make this a series with this move? Got to be a movie of the week if they are dipping into the Hoff bucket....
