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pushingjate wrote:

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f2goat wrote:

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Stoked Up wrote:

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The show would be funnier if Amy's character wasn't so much like Michael Scott -- blissfully naive about what's going on around her/him. It just felt like a bad copy of The Office. The scene where she falls into the pit was really lame. I'm hoping for better but The Office isn't what it used to be either.

Comedic characters often need to lack self-awareness in order to be funny. Archie Bunker, Diane Chambers (Cheers), everyone on Friends, Kramer - the comedy is based on their HUGE blind spot about themselves. To me, what separates Amy's character from Michael Scott is her ambition.

And watching Rashida Jones makes it worth sticking with for at least a few more eps.

I'm surprised NBC does so poorly, because The Office and 30 Rock are absolutely brilliant.

Cancelling Studio 60 will do that to you. On a whole though, I think people are getting sick of network TV because they're cancelling shows too quickly, and they say it's cause they're not drawing enough ratings, but the system they use to determine that is not reliable. Some shows are potentially getting fucked over because of it.


Tonight's episode was awesome though, much better than the premiere.

Studio 60 was canceled because it was losing viewers from the start, and in the end they barley had any. The seconf half hour of the premiere lost around a million viewers from the first half hour. And lets face it, Studio 60 wasn't as good as expected.

Networks will give shows a chance if their ratings are improving over the season or at least consistent. Cheers and Seinfeld had relatively low ratings in their first couple of seasons, but they didn't lose viewers and actually improved as the seasons passed and because of that NBC gave them a chance.