Re: Phoning it in
- From: "rst" <senninha@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Jul 2006 07:23:41 -0700
Steve Curtis wrote:
David Edwards wrote:
....The Top Ten lists are just not funny
anymore and the audience laughter is
tepid at best. How many times do we
have to go to Ruperts every week? I
think this show needs new writers, but if
Letterman doesn't have any enthusiasm
for doing the show anymore why doesn't
he just retire and run Worldwide Pants.
And yet despite all the criticism, the show still manages to currently
be up for five Emmy nominations.
I'm amazed that people STILL buy into the Emmy charade. How naive.
Do you also read Rolling Stone to see if a movie or a band is good?
Emmys mean nothing nowadays. In TV, the bar is so low now that anyone
can win one.
This is an industry. The Emmys are now just another showcase- a venue
to promote TV shows. It's a high-gloss publicity "stunt", to keep the
masses interested.
The fact is-- and I was clued in on this years ago-- Letterman IS
tired, he cannot stand doing the show, but the money is too good for
him to leave.
He wants to be just an EP at WWP, but he does not want the
responsibility. The show gives him an "out"-- a way to excuse himself
from taking on the workload a full time EP position would require.
His tiredness shows. The show is not good, and heading quickly into
"trainwreck" status.
It would be one thing if that show was always bad. But it was probably
the best thing on TV back in the day.
.
- Follow-Ups:
- Re: Phoning it in
- From: Donz5
- Re: Phoning it in
- References:
- Phoning it in
- From: David Edwards
- Re: Phoning it in
- From: Steve Curtis
- Phoning it in
- Prev by Date: Friday Still Shots 7/14/06
- Next by Date: Re: Phoning it in
- Previous by thread: Re: Phoning it in
- Next by thread: Re: Phoning it in
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
