tom cavanaugh-related stories
Posted Apr 10th 2009 9:38PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Cancellations, Reality-Free
On paper,
Trust Me looked like a sure fire hit. I tuned in week after week to watch the show, so I consider myself a loyal viewer, but I have to be honest. The show never took off.
Bob got it right in his early look,
Trust Me had all the elements for something special, but it just never jelled.
TNT has cancelled Trust Me after one season.
The guy in charge of TNT programming, Michael Wright, implied that a drama set in the advertising business was just a little too inaccessible for viewers. And that was the issue; not enough Nielsen numbers.
Continue reading TNT pulls the plug on Trust Me
Posted Mar 4th 2009 3:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
Trust Me is one of those shows that will probably not make it --
the ratings have been careening -- but I'm still watching it. I'm not sure why. It's not a great show, but I do like Tom Cavanagh and Eric McCormack. They're good together, even though the show around them seems to lurch from story to story without much cohesion.
I think the problem is that unlike a legal, medical or cop show, it's hard to dramatize the creative process. How do you show two ad men, an art director (now creative director) and a copywriter, come up with amazing commercials, billboards, ads, etc.?
Continue reading Trust Me gets creative with frozen lasagna
Posted Apr 5th 2006 5:45PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, CBS, Talent, Industry, Programming, OpEd
Sigh. I knew
Sons &
Daughters was going to be an endangered show as soon as I saw the first episode. But I didn't realize the death
knell would come so soon. According to
Tim Goodman of the
San
Francisco Chronicle, Gillian Vigman, who plays Liz Walker on
S&D, has been signed to the
new CBS pilot that stars Tom Cavanagh.
(Indeed,
this article
from
The Hollywood Reporter via AOL seems to confirm this.)
Of course, since the lovely and funny
Vigman plays one of the main characters on
S&D, it would appear this news signals the show's impending
cancellation. Which sucks, of course: the show was just starting to hit its stride creatively. Or this could be one of
those conditional signings, where she takes this job only if
S&D is cancelled. But, either way, things
aren't looking good, are they? Oh, well. Maybe one of the other pilots Fred Goss and Nick Holly are working on will
have a better fate.
[Thanks to reader
otmshank for
breaking the bad news.]
Posted Jan 1st 2006 8:02PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, Cable, Programming, UPN
Now that 2005 is behind us, we can look forward to new and returning favorite shows all this month on television.
What will you be watching?
South
Beach (Wednesdays, UPN) Two hot, New York City working-class bachelors leave the big city behind to
follow one of their girlfriends to South Beach, FL, only to discover that she has a new boyfriend. They get mixed up
with the rich and famous in the club scene. After viewing a sneak preview on UPN's website, it looks like a guilty
pleasure like
The O.C., except with more sex and no high school. Jennifer Lopez is the executive producer and
it co-stars Vanessa Williams as a club owner and mother to one of the main characters.
South Beach premieres
on Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 8 pm.
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