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Posted May 5th 2008 12:02PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Boston Legal, How I Met Your Mother, Cancellations, Pickups and Renewals, Reaper, Moonlight, WGA Strike, Eli Stone, Reality-Free
The reverberations caused by the
writers' strike continue to affect how the networks are doing business. Case in point: according to
The Hollywood Reporter's James Hibberd, the networks may be
more generous with renewals than they have in the past, due to the fact that even hit shows have been returning to diminished ratings. My guess is that, after a three-month break, most people realized they didn't give two craps about things like Meredith and McDreamy's latest breakup. But it may just be that the weather's nice outside.
Anyway, Hibberd goes on to mention the current status of some of the most prominent "bubble" shows. The good news:
Reaper,
Old Christine, and
HIMYM and
Moonlight have shifted over towards the "likely to certain" end of the spectrum, and
Boston Legal will likely survive for another year. The bad news:
Shark,
Men In Trees (which is
already gone, according to reports)
, Cashmere Mafia, and
October Road are likely gone. And there's still no real feel for what's going to happen with
Eli Stone or
Women's Murder Club.
Posted Apr 15th 2008 11:01AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, 24, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, The Office, TV Squad Lists, Lipstick Jungle, Reality-Free
Last week's episode of The Office now ranks high on my list of Awkward TV Moments. It got me thinking about other all-time great awkward TV moments. Sure, we've all seen the episode where a disheveled Mary Richards shows up at the awards banquet wearing one fuzzy pink slipper. And the one where Frasier and Roz nearly do it on a cruise ship. But let's take a look at a few recent awkward TV moments.
1. Jan heaves a Dundee at Michael's flat-screen TV. Okay, we'll start with last week's episode of
The Office, in which Michael coerces Jim and Pam into attending a couples-only dinner party at his and Jan's condo. The entire episode is one long awkward moment, from Dwight showing up with his former babysitter as his date to Pam realizing she'll be held hostage for three hours, thanks to Jan's poor culinary planning. But the topper is when Michael and Jan's love spat escalates into a huge fight, ending with her heaving one of his treasured Dundee awards at his new (and tiny) flat-screen TV. The cops show up after the neighbors report a disturbance, and Michael ends up going home with Dwight.
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