Wednesday, March 6, 2013
SEE, THERE'S A SHOW WITHIN THE SHOW WITHIN THE SHOW: Up All Night was a pleasant enough diversion during its first season, but retooling after retooling kept changing the show, and not for the better. TV Guide chronicles all the retoolings, and indicates some of the borderline-insane concepts that were bandied about for the show's most recent retooling, all of which would seem to violate Kenneth's list of "no-no words" for TV shows. (I'll be interested to see if they devote this level of rethink to Smash, because there's an interesting show centered on Tom that I think could be found.)
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Smash would need a third season to get a re-tool, and I don't see that happening. I don't think even getting back to early Season 1 numbers would make it worthwhile to NBC, given how expensive it is.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way Smash continues in its current form, but given the high level of executive support it has and how disastrous the schedule has been this Spring, I could see them trying a radical retooling that trims much of the cast (Messing/Davenport/Huston are probably the pricey folks) and refocuses the show less on "making a musical" than "these wacky characters in NYC."
ReplyDeleteTV Guide needs to distinguish between "exasperated" and "exacerbated", this kind of editing is excerable.
ReplyDeleteExactamundo.
ReplyDeleteWell that explains a lot. I went away after season one wore me out, and I tuned in this season and didn't recognize the show.
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