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Farewell, D.L. Hughley

studio%252060%2520one.jpgWhen it was announced that NBC would be airing a new show from Aaron Sorkin we were filled with much joy.

We loved his 'Sports Night' (a behind the scenes look at a sports highlight show) and his 'West Wing' (a behind the scenes look at high powered politics). Now he was about to pen 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip' about the behind the scenes look of a sketch comedy show. Sports, politics, sketch comedy, we were starting to wonder if Mr. Sorkin was reading our diary.

Then the show started, and, well, it was awful. We found ourselves rolling our eyes at the dialogue, and not caring about the characters or stories. It soon became a chore to watch, and then we did what would have been unthinkable back in September, we canceled our TiVo series subscrption.

Yesterday came the news that the show is being canceled. We think we speak for a lot of people when we ask that everyone just pretend that the show never happened.

We're just chalking this up to an idea that never worked, and are definitely looking forward to future Sorkin projects.

In the meantime we can't recommend NBC's 30 Rock enough. Tina Fey is comic gold, and Alec Baldwin makes us feel special in places we haven't used in years. We're also optimistic about Andy Barker PI, however, we've been wrong before.

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By David in on February 22, 2007 1:23 PM

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  • Emmy

    Americans were too stupid for this show. They chased away the smartest show on television.

  • mike

    Nice that you put a brotha's name on this post, bash the show he was on, then you mention that 30 rock show and give credit to Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, when we all know the only reason to watch that show is Tracy Morgan. Thanks though, oh and in February too, you do know this is Black History month right? Thanks again.

  • FrankY



    Thank you for seeing this for what it was, a failed attempt by a man with a successful track record (although many of the things I didn't like about this were the same things I didn't like about Sports Night...)

    I couldn't stand the numerous columns telling me how great this was going to be, how I needed to give it more of a chance, and how people just didn't understand how "smart" it was. All seemingly based on the single fact that Aaron Sorkin had created the show.

    I hope to god that we don't see an avalanche of columns and blog postings commenting on how "Americans were too stupid for this show" over the next few days or how we "chased away the smartest show on television".

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