According to an article in the New York Times, NBC will be announcing a new schedule sometime this week that will more than likely include a new time slot for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Studio 60 was recently picked up for a full season, and Kevin Reilly, the president of NBC Entertainment noted that while they've committed to the show for the rest of the season, it would "not necessarily stay on Monday."
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MSNBC commentator Linda Holmes has an excellent article about the problems with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and it's not for any of the reasons that you might think.
Holmes' take is that the show doesn't take its comedy seriously enough, and that the whole point of the series (putting on a weekly comedy show) is hardly even a blip on the radar. She believes the focus on issues should take a backseat to, you know, writers and performers trying to create ways to be funny.
Despite my love of this show, I can't say that I disagree.
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TVGuide.com reports that Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip has received a full season order. Take that, Fox News.
Finally. Now, people need to discover this show, as it's one of the best on television.
Terry Mattingly of kitsapsun.com caught up with former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson recently and asked for her thoughts on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Jackson, the blonde, female, singing, born-again Christian comedian was intrigued by a character on Studio 60. Her attention was drawn to Harriet (played by Sarah Paulson), a blonde, female, singing comedian who is a born-again Christian.
Surprised at the similarities, she was then intrigued by the fuss over Studio 60's fictional sketch Crazy Christians. From the article:
That was the name Jackson assigned to a sketch she was asked to perform, leading her to plead for relief from executive director Lorne Michaels. He heard her out and assigned another actress to do the part. The sketch bombed in dress rehearsal and vanished.
"It was a legitimate sketch that was making fun of what they called extreme Christians," said Jackson. "You know, there are Christians out there that make life rather embarrassing for other Christians. ...Now I can make fun of people who have a Jesus toaster and Jesus salt and pepper shakers and Jesus napkin holders. That's fair. But this time they wanted me to kneel down in a comedy show and pretend to pray - to get a laugh. I just couldn't do it. I told Lorne that I thought I'd start crying or shaking. Prayer is real. I think prayer is talking to God."
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NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Saturday Night Live alum James Belushi says he is a fan of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a TV drama set behind the scenes of an "SNL-type show."
The According to Jim star wrote for and performed in the fabled NBC sketch comedy show from 1983 to 1985. He is also the brother of late SNL legend, John Belushi.
"I like Studio 60," Belushi told UPI, amid reports the critically-acclaimed show is about to be canceled.
"It's pretty real. The pressure is real; time clicking away while you're trying to get scenes on the air. The drama between the men and the women, that's just soap opera. Saturday Night Live is all about the show. I think (the people behind Studio 60 are) doing a great job."
Belushi admitted watching the Studio 60 brings back lots of memories.
"That was a tough time, Saturday Night Live, a lot of pressure," he recalled. "It's like sending a doctor to a war zone. You come out very well-prepared. ... Everything has been easy since -- even divorce."
Ray Richmond of the Hollywood Reporter spoke with Studio 60 creator Aaron Sorkin recently, and the buzz is that NBC is merely days away from making a full season committment to the excellent yet struggling series.
"Hopefully soon people will start paying attention to the show instead of who's making it," Sorkin said. "I really look at it as just the cost of doing business. I knew the reaction to the show was going to be a little bit noisier than I'd prefer. But hopefully, we're finally settling in and the audience is seeing the amazing cast and acknowledges the great, committed group of people who are behind this show."
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An NBC rep has refuted Fox News' weekend column stating that Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was in imminent danger of being cancelled, saying "it is profitable at this point" and reminding everyone that they just recently ordered three more scripts of the Aaron Sorkin series.
Studio 60 is scheduled to air next Monday
in its usual 10 p.m. slot, although a boffo performance by Friday
Night Lights in the slot last night -- where it was placed for a trial
run -- could potentially change things. But a more likely scenario would
be a time-period change for Studio 60 -- not a retirement -- a source
said.
I can't say I'm shocked by this news. The Fox News article had a bit of an agenda behind it, don't you think?
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Us Weekly recently interviewed Nate Corddry about his previous gig on The Daily Show and his current job on the teetering on the brink of cancellation Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Highlight:
Us: Studio 60 has a great cast. How is it working with Matthew Perry?
NC: I’ve actually never met him. I’m not allowed. When I do scenes with Matthew they bring in an animatronic Matthew Perry for me to do them with. He’s very life-like.
I'm not sure if I buy this as a legitimate news story considering the source, but Fox News is reporting that despite the recent order of more scripts for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the show will be cancelled any day now.
After mentioning the 7.7 million viewers for last week's show, the article then goes on to become some sort of "told you so!" piece where the author says that he was right in predicting that no one would care "whether a bunch of over caffeinated, well off yuppies, some with expensive drug habits, put on a weekly comedy sketch show from Los Angeles."
So if Fox News averages less than 7.7 million viewers in prime time (which they do) does that mean no one cares about the news? I guess so, according to the Fox News article.
Four more new series --
ABC's Help Me Help You, The Nine and Men in Trees and
NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip -- have received orders
for additional scripts.
The ABC shows have been picked up for four more scripts, while Studio 60 -- a high-profile underperformer -- has been given an order for three.
In a stark contrast this year, aside from the two shows that already have been canceled -- CBS' Smith and NBC's Kidnapped -- virtually every other freshman show on the Big Four has received an order for additional scripts, including all the new Fox series: Vanished, Standoff, Justice, 'Till Death and Happy Hour, NBC's Friday Night Lights and Studio 60, ABC's The Nine and Help Me, with NBC's 30 Rock also close to an extra scripts pickup.
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