The final nails in the coffin

[spatch]

NBC announced today it's cancelling Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. I'm guessing the last few episodes will run at the end of this month.

It was a very flawed show, indeed, but it had its good moments.

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[littlegirltoast.livejournal.com]

Whoah what hang on are you serious? One of the three possibilities must be real, but which? (1) I'm very much mistaken and Slashdot is a laugh hoot riot on the first of April; (2) You maybe only saw the one episode of that show where whatserface was supposed to have PMS; or (3) having watched all six episodes, you genuinely did not think [i]The IT Crowd[/i] was funny.

I can't imagine that 3 is actually the case. It baffles me! I am the world's least appreciative audience for nerd humour. I am a tough sell. I thought that show was legitimately hilarious. What's going on here?

[spatch]

Watched all 6. Liked the concept just fine, thought the surreal basement setting was good, but the jokes were terrible and the situations awful (what was that bit about the shit on one's head? seriously?)

The one funny moment I did enjoy was the by-the-numbers programmer encountering the office on fire, so to save himself he immediately sits down and fires off an email for help to the Facilities dept. That was geniunely funny. The over-crazy boss was funny at times, too. But overall, I felt as if it tried too hard and accomplished too little. It's a major feat to get a mainstream audience to like the arrogant IT guy who routinely signs "Did you try turning it off and on?" as the first answer to every question. I don't think they pulled that one off very well. Other IT folks may, but then again, they're the ones who probably still think the CD tray-cupholder story is a good one.

[littlegirltoast.livejournal.com]

Hm. I did forget about the head-pudding. Still I thought it took a bit of charm to sell "That bit on the floor there..." "The hard disk?" "Correct!" as being better than the usual cupholder type joke show. At least, they convinced me. At least, I remember liking Richard Ayoade's character a right some lot.

I don't know, I feel confused, I have to sit down.