Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

[Angel]

The episode tonight was the best of the series IMHO.

It's to bad episodic television is not given a chance to develop and succeed now a days.

I have to agree.

 

[Joe Mama's Sista]

Me too!

 

[Covert Rain]

I am just a magnet to all of the show that get canceled. I should just start watching the shows I hate.

 

[nashman]

This is a great show not sure why its not getting picked up!

 

[O]

Another very solid episode last night.

 

[O]

Tonights episode was outstanding!

There were moments that made me feel very , I wanna say, uncomfortable as Aaron Sorkin did many times with the West Wing.

It amazes me that NBC can even think about not bringing back shows like Studio 60 and the Black Donellys but will put out trash like "real wedding crashers" and "can I remember the lyrics to a song".

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip deserves to live!
It's what television should be.

 

[nashman]

I agree

 

[Capital Card]

Tonights episode was outstanding!

There were moments that made me feel very , I wanna say, uncomfortable as Aaron Sorkin did many times with the West Wing.

It amazes me that NBC can even think about not bringing back shows like Studio 60 and the Black Donellys but will put out trash like "real wedding crashers" and "can I remember the lyrics to a song".

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip deserves to live!
It's what television should be.

I think 60 is the only show I've watched on NBC for the last couple of years. Since they came back from hiatus, the writing has been very good.

With only one show to go, I'm guessing Jordan doesn't survive her issues, but signs over custody of the baby to Sorkin.

 

[Angel]

It is lame of me but I hope that everyone's issue is resolved with a happy ending. It was easy to learn to like these characters, flaws and all, it would be nice to see eveyone go out on an up, but of course that is not the flavor of the show.

Listed as the "Series Finale", Studio rides into the sunset tonight I for one will miss it.

 

[Cheesebeef]

wow - this was a great episode until the last twenty minutes when Sorkin went completely soft and wrote the happy happy happy joy joy ending. that was ridiculous.

 

[O]

wow - this was a great episode until the last twenty minutes when Sorkin went completely soft and wrote the happy happy happy joy joy ending. that was ridiculous.

The fory minutes preceding that twenty, I assume we are including commercial time, I had tingles go down my spine two or three times.
Aaron Sorkin can do that as he did a few times with the West Wing.


As someone who is writing for television Cheese, how do you feel about the trend in Hollywood to ignore true drama which requires actuall writing for cheaper, which does not require an imagination, reality shows.

Everytine the commercial for "The Singing Bee" ran I was personally offended.
I am so sick of it.

 

[Cheesebeef]

As someone who is writing for television Cheese, how do you feel about the trend in Hollywood to ignore true drama which requires actuall writing for cheaper, which does not require an imagination, reality shows.

it disgusts me to my very core.

 

[Covert Rain]

To the final episode. I mean, this show really kept getting better and better as it went along. I still believe had this show been given time to grow it would have succeeded. Last few episodes have been great.

I especially want to give kudos to ES and the writing staff for writing that episode in a way that not only provides some closure but allowed the characters go out on positive outlook to the future.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I especially want to give kudos to ES and the writing staff for writing that episode in a way that not only provides some closure but allowed the characters go out on positive outlook to the future.

'cause that's what always happens in real life in the industry... or outside of it.

I've got a question - this entire block of four episodes - it was ONE night, right? Wasn't it the same night Matt Perry's character decided to stop doing drugs... and then he was completely fine for hours on end afterward? No come down, all of sudden he was very lucid... and then they just flat dropped the woman he was flirting back and forth with.

it was a well-written show, but the "God bless us everyone wins" ending was a total copout IMO. I expect better from Sorkin.

 

[O]

I would imagine that if the show had in fact been picked up for another season we would have seen a much different ending.

 

[Espo]

I would imagine that if the show had in fact been picked up for another season we would have seen a much different ending.

I agree. I wouldn't be shocked if they re-wrote or re-shot the ending once they found out they weren't being picked back up. It disgusts me that television plays to the lowest common denominator of America. Any tv show that is considered "smart" will not last because it won't have huge ratings to begin with. Some of the best television shows of all time had terrible first season numbers. If NBC had the people that are running the network now back in the early '90's then we never would have seen Seinfeld become one of the great television shows. Reality tv is mindless and I can't find it entertaining at all. It's sad that a brilliant writer like Aaron Sorkin and a brilliant show like Studio 60 have no place on network television anymore.

 

[Covert Rain]

I would imagine that if the show had in fact been picked up for another season we would have seen a much different ending.

I completely agree. I guarantee there would have been a crud load of PO fans of the show if they played it like a normal season finale and left everybody hanging. Especially because they knew the show probably wasn't coming back.

 

[nashman]

One of the best shows on TV and I told my wife after the first few episodes it won't last. Unfortunately smart tv with solid writing doesn't seem to last nowadays. It sucks because this was one of the better shows on tv! Very solid show IMHO!

 

[RON_IN_OC]

I think this show would do great on FX...Heck, NBC could even just put it on Bravo or USA and let it grow into something.

 

[Chaplin]

So thanks to the pandemic, I finally binged this show and loved it.

The ending felt tacked on because of the cancellation, but the other 98% of the series was brilliant. Probably going to binge The Newsroom again next.

 

[GatorAZ]

I remember being blown away by the pilot then it kinda tanked.