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Because Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara biopic jones couldn't possibly be satisfied by directing just a single film, he's doing two, The Argentine and Guerilla, with Benicio del Toro as the title character whose image you've long admired on the T-shirt racks of Urban Outfitters. [Variety]
Friday Night Lights easily outperforms the "ratings troubled" Studio 60 during its (alleged) one-week tryout in Studio's Monday night timeslot (with an episode titled "GIT'ER DONE," no less—is there no end to Aaron Sorkin's pain?). Draw whatever dire conclusions you wish about the fate of 60 based on this result, but know that at least NBC's online schedulers are still optimistic about the series' prospects of returning next week. [THR]
Wondering where your hilarious collection of Daily Show and Colbert Report YouTube clips have disappeared to? Ask Viacom, the company that isn't particularly interested in your enthusiasm for sharing your favorite moments from its shows. [Variety]
· The National Labor Relations Board issues a complaint against the Writers Guild for telling TV writer-producers not to cooperate with NBC Universal TV Studios' demands to produce webisodes until the studio agrees to start paying residuals. The Guild insists it's done nothing wrong, while NBC Uni is pleased by the NLRB's initial support of their desire to squeeze free work from their writing staffs. [THR]
Lindsay Lohan gets another chance to impress a new crew and co-stars with her professionalism, joining Keira Knightley in The Best Time of Our Lives, the story of Dylan Thomas' relationship with his wacky, gun-and-grenade-wielding friends. [Variety]
Trade Round-Up: Viewers Prefer Texas High School Football To Overly Serious Sketch Comedy
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12:24 PM on Tue Oct 31 2006
By Mark
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Friday Night Lights is like 90210, but with poor people, unlike Studio 60, which is like the Office, but with non-humorous rich people. Man, I hope that made sense.
Oof. Was the episode really called "GIT'ER DONE"? For the first time since "Studio 60" aired, I feel sympathy for Sorkin.
...and, concurrently, disdain for middle America.
Hey. Maybe that was his problem.
Score one for the viewing public, since "Friday Night Lights" is actually a much better show. And yes, it makes a stronger case for a weekly high-school football game being hugely important to a small Texas town than "Studio 60" does for a weekly late-night comedy show having any importance to the nations's culture. Plus the young actors (and even the older married couple) are really hot and having sex all the time, and they make me feel all funny inside in a way that TV producers and Christian comediennes never do.
They played about 50 commercials for FNL (rough approximation) during Heroes with some sexy people sexin' it up. Has there been anything like that (sexy people or sex) on Studio 60? Sorry Sorkin. Sex and football and rednecks sell. Although I ended up turning off FNL within the first 15 minutes... it was kinda boring and people seemed less sexy in segments longer than 5 or 6 seconds.
Oh yeah TedSez, Coach McSplosive did get horny last night. I forgot.
"Friday Night Lights is like 90210, but with poor people, unlike Studio 60, which is like the Office, but with non-humorous rich people. Man, I hope that made sense. "
What really matters, BoHan, is that all four are shows I don't watch.
I don't watch either. All I know for sure is that I want to f*ck Coach (Kyle Chandler) ever since he was on that horrible show Early Edition.
THAT's where he's from! The magic newspaper show! Costarring--if I'm not mistaken--Fisher Stevens, who (watch me make this apply, now) used to be married to (or at least date) Michelle Pfeiffer, who's married to David E. Kelley, who used to be Aaron Sorkin.
Ta-da!
I'm not surprised at all theat Friday Night Lights outperformed Studio 60. FNL is a very good show and it deserves an audience. I still think, howeve, that Studio 60 will at least make it through the new year.
I miss The White Shadow.
Okay, I've had too much Halloween candy. Shutting up now.
Caruso was scheduled to be a rerun from last season and he was to be preceded by reruns from CBS's comedy block. So, the Texas football show did better against something that has aired at least twice and had little lead-in, while Sorkin has only gone against new episodes, plus all the hype about the "Heroes" phenom really only reached saturation last week.
Of course, this all begs the question; How did "Brian" do?
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