so, the writers' strike has me feeling like an episode i saw yesterday of the family guy. that's right, i'm comparing my life to an episode of tv that i watched as a rerun last night. anyhow, tv was out on family guy, and so they were finding other ways to kill time.
my life, we're enduring a writers' strike that has most new television in the bag. sure, there are reality tv and sports, which are two of my favs. but i also enjoy the scripted. i've seen that a few networks are rolling out shows that they had in the can and are bringing out. i won't say they're all bad, but i'm guessing that shows you weren't planning on airing aren't top notch.
this brings us to frank tv. did you know there was such a show? i did. mainly because you're bombarded with ads for this p.o.s. during sports, especially on fox. or on the nba, which is often shown on the same network. ads for this show actually go back pretty far, because i remember them during the baseball playoffs, which also had a few series on tbs. tonight, i decided i would catch an episode.
to be truthful, i admit i had a pretty low opinion of the show coming into it. if you're not familiar with frank caliendo, he's been on madtv and picks during fox's nfl sunday. he does impressions of famous people. in my opinion, very sucky impressions. so, i've been a little curious to know exactly what he'd be doing. would it be all sketches of him impersonating jack nicholson, al pacino, george bush, john madden, etc?
guess what he opened with? jack nicholson. sketch two, trump. three, g.bush.
the show is done in front of an audience, but that sure sounds like a laugh track.
i'm halfway through. not sure i can make it. man, i miss new tv shows.
guess who's up now. pacino. and deniro. frank does both characters. half the time, his deniro slips. a quarter of the time, terrible. final quarter, weak. his pacino is worse.
next commercial break. starts with a commercial for this crap show. so to recap, they opened with a skit. commercial. two skits, commercial. skit. commercial. i wonder if they can fit in another commercial break in the remaining 4 minutes. i hope so. i just saw an ad for tyler perry's house of payne. i won't be giving this a try. but they ended the break with another commercial for this show.
the show ended with a bit for sean connery's voice for men. actually not bad. witty even. and thankfully the show ended.
so, to wrap it up, i thought this should would suck, and it lived down to that expectation. don't watch it. ever.
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I just watch all the Law and Orders and maybe some Animal Planet and HGTV. The only way the writers strike bums me out is the Office not being on, *sigh*.
i watch reruns of the office on tuesday nights on that channel, and every commercial break, and i mean EVERY commercial break this tuesday had an ad for his show. once or twice they bookended the commercial set with ads for his show. and so after the office, i turned off my tv. i even changed the channel before i turned off the tv so the network rating system wouldn't think i was even thinking of watching his show.
Yeah, I saw the extended preview for the show before a movie in the theater last month. It was about 5 minutes long and I laughed a bit here and there. I remember thinking, hey, that was a funny bit, there's no way in hell I'll watch 24 minutes of it though, let alone, every week.
Anyway, I just wrapped up 18.5 hours of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and I picked up FIFA '08 yesterday, so I've got plenty of things to keep me distracted from actual TV watching.
hmmm. yeah i thought the show would suck, and now im glad i didnt see it.
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