TvCritics-related stories
Posted Sep 23rd 2008 3:04PM by Kelly Woo
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Reality-Free

Honesty in Hollywood is a rare commodity, so when producers confess their television show is not very good, you've got to give credit where credit's due.
According to
Variety, the team responsible for Fox's poorly-reviewed new comedy
Do Not Disturb sent a letter to select TV critics (uh, where's mine guys?) acknowledging the poor quality of the premiere episode.
But they try to defend themselves by giving those critics a DVD of the second episode, which they claim is the actual pilot and should have aired first.
Continue reading Do Not Disturb creators sorry for perpetrating bad television
Posted Sep 27th 2007 3:40PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Programming
ABC is not showing the retooled and reshot Cavemen to TV critics.
Now, this could be a strategy, a la CBS and Kid Nation, to not show the pilot of a show that has been savaged by critics and the industry, to create buzz, or it could be a matter of not showing it to critics because it's just bad, like when movie studios don't let movie critics screen a bad film before it opens on a Friday.
Continue reading ABC won't show Cavemen to TV critics
Posted Jul 26th 2006 11:41AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities