JLD predictions poll

How many eps before Julia's show gets canceled? I guess 4.

I'd give her a lucky seven.

"PAUL D VALENTI" wrote in message news:...

2 (a clock bug? didn't they do that on MASH once?)

Mickey Mantle's number.

^^^^^^ "Art is often hailed as the grandest expression of human spirit, but we know now ... that the grandest expression of human spirit is whatever it takes for a man or woman to rush back into a burning building to save more people."

Art Vandelay wrote in message ...

George's first born son..

homerr.. [hey.. how 'bout dem Iggles??] [Raiders was robbed!]

I thought George was naming his son "soda" ???

Dwayne Conyers wrote in message ...

Are you thinking of "7-UP"????

The name was 'Seven' in honor of Micky Mantle...

homerr..

Hmmm, that's a toughie. On the one hand, most sitcoms fail by 11 (half a season), and hers hasn't received the glowing reviews to indicate it'll be good enough to be a hit. On the other hand, it's a mid-season replacement, and sometimes it seems like there's less scrutiny. But people are kinda' set in their viewing habits by now for this year. Still, it's not on Fox, which has the shocking tendency to pull shows after only a couple of episodes.

Okay, I give it.... [drumroll] Six episodes.

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 04:23:34 GMT, "John Twernbold" wrote:

John, where could I find some of those reviews?

Thanks,

Sophie

Hmm, I have no idea. I seem to recall some talk about it in the local paper, a little buzz in TV guide, and a couple articles I read online. However, I really didn't make a note of where I was reading this stuff. Try a search engine?

In article "John Twernbold" writes:

Here are some comments found in the San Fransicsco Chronicle, during the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/15/DD152924.DTL

Also, the NYTimes recently wrote about the sitcom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/14/arts/television/14JULI.html

In article , [email] says...

------ The pilot episode carries her helter-skelter from a phone conversation with her younger sister (Lauren Bowles), to a flooded bathroom toilet, to questionable help from a building handyman (Peter Stormare, who was Steve Buscemi's kidnap partner in "Fargo") and a neighboring veterinarian (Don Lake), ------

Slippery Pete is back.

nine - it's not very entertaining but NBC is trying to prove something and will keep it around until may sweeps.

I was going to say that NBC will let it play out its 15 episodes, but then I read that JLD's husband Brad Hall is producing the series.

6 episodes.

Trace

Hmmmm, big wave of support from this newsgroup I see. It seems people want the actors to stay in their little George, Elaine, Kramer bubbles for ever.

Reviews I've seen of the first JLD episode have been one positive, one negative and the majority so - so, with the consensus being that at least it's better than the Richards / Alexander shows.

Remember the first season of Seinfeld, goodness knows how that managed to come back for a second.

"RSoden4363" wrote in message news:[email]...

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Uh? The Stakeout and The Stock Tip in particular are excellent.

They had their moments and the promise is there to see but the acting is wooden, particularly Jerry, and there's a real lack of pace. My point wasn't to decry early Seinfeld but to suggest that in these less patient times, it wouldn't have been nurtured like it was.

I also just wonder why the followers of this newsgroup in particular seem to want these actors' new projects to fail. I thought "build 'em up, then knock 'em down" was a British trait ?

Easy, Champ. You're reading far too much into this thread. The question wasn't: "How much do you want to support JLD?" Instead, it merely asked what kind of success her new sitcom realistically will have. Has *nothing* to do with how much we like her, or even how much we want her show to succeed.

Hell, look at The Tick. This was a fantistic show starring Seinfeld's Patrick Warburton, and it received wonderful reviews and critical praise. Yet it was cancelled after less than a half-dozen episodes due to low ratings. And as much as I like Patrick and as much as I loved The Tick (and as much as I evangelized the show here in a.t.s. and encouraged people to watch), I really didn't expect it would succeed.

See the difference? Man, I think we need a refresher course in Logic 101; this is the second lapse in basic logic we've seen here this week... ;-)

If there was one lesson I learned in all of Seinfeld, it was this: Take great pleasure in the failures of those you care about. ; )

^^^^^^ "Art is often hailed as the grandest expression of human spirit, but we know now ... that the grandest expression of human spirit is whatever it takes for a man or woman to rush back into a burning building to save more people."

This is very Mark Twainian of you.

bjb

Those are excellent shows, but I think you have to take into account that Seinfeld was very different from anything that had ever been on Tv before. If you compare Cheers in it's heyday and early Seinfeld in the context of the late 80's early 90's, Seinfeld would come out the loser in most peoples minds. In fact, the show was extremly close to being not made at all. The pilot was funded by NBC's late night/ variety show division, the next four episodes (all of season 1) were budgeted by pilfering money from some other NBC specials, and season 2 only had 12 episodes. NBC was obviously wary of this show; of course that seems silly when we look back at it, but in the early 90's it didnt look like a real winner. It would of be interesting if the show had been put on the burner for 5 years, or aired on another network. The "Bizzaro Seinfeld".

bjb

two seasons. tops.

DV

I don't even think they'll air it......they'll shelve it for re-tooling!!! hee hee hee!!!

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