Epitaph for "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"

[spatch]

"Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" was a TV show created by Aaron Sorkin.
Aaron Sorkin is famous for creating a TV show about the White House.
He also created a TV show about a sports news show called "Sports Night."

While Sports Night was a show about a sports show, it was not about any actual sports. The emphasis was solely on the sports show itself.

Aaron Sorkin believed he could use the same formula for Studio 60, which was a show about a comedy show. However, he learned the hard way that while you can make a show about a sports show without featuring the sports, you cannot make a show about a comedy show without featuring any comedy.


EDIT: While Studio 60 will be returning at the end of May to finish out its season committment, the chance for renewal falls somewhere between a skinny cowboy and Mother Theresa -- that is, slim to none.

Resquiat in something, at least.





that was a guess; I can't decline Latin worth a tinker's damn

Comments

[samethreechords.livejournal.com]

There was absolutely no reason to watch Studio 60 when I had my Sports Night DVDs *right there*. Fact is, it just never lived up to its own first ten minutes. I lost interest after about five episodes.

BUT, I think it was useful in at least showing that Matthew Perry had talent beyond being Chandler.

it just ran out of bullshit.

[spatch]

When your show's first ten minutes involves Judd Hirsch stopping a skit on live television to deliver a Howard Beale rant about the state of television, I don't know how you could even begin to top that.

Re: it just ran out of bullshit.

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seriously. That was the high point of the show.