I’ve been wanting to watch this series all flippen year. I love Aaron Sorkin. Sports Night was one of the best series on TV. West Wing before it started sucking big hairy ass the last few years (when Sorkin left) was one of the best series.
So I wanted to watch Studio 60. It is just starting to air now here. The bittersweet thing is it was canceled in the US - but I figured I would watch it anyway.
Judd Hirsch just had his Network “I’m mad as hell moment”:
Ah, It’s not going to be a very good show tonight. I think you should change the channel. Right, right now. No, I know that it seems that this is supposed to be funny, but tomorrow, tomorrow you’re going to find out it wasn’t and ah, by that time I will have been fired. No this, this is not, this is not a sketch.
This show, used to be cutting edge political and social satire. But it has gotten lobotomized by a candy-assed broadcast network hell bent on doing nothing that might- challenge their audience. We’re about to do a sketch you’ve seen already about 500 hundred times. Yeah, nobody is going to confuse George Bush with George Plimpton, no we get it. We’re ALL being lobotomized, by this countries most influential industry, that’s just thrown in the towel to do any endeavor to anything that doesn’t include the courting of twelve year-old boys. Not even smart twelve-year olds! The stupid ones! The idiots! Of which there are plenty thanks to no small measure to this network, so, why don’t you just. . . change the channel. Turn off your TVs do it right now, go ahead.
There’s always been a struggle between art and commerce, but now I’m telling you, art is getting its ass kicked. And its making us mean and its making us bitchy, It’s making us cheap punks! THAT’S NOT who we are. People are having contests to see how much they can be like Donald Trump? We’re eating worms for money. Who wants to screw my sister! Guys are getting killed in a war that’s got theme music and a logo?!
That remote in your hand is a crack pipe. Pornography! It’s not even good pornography, just this side of snuff films, and friends that is what is next, because that’s all that’s left. . . And the TWO things that make them scared gutless are the FCC and re-psycho religious cult that gets horny at the very mention of a boycott. . .
I am so fucking pissed that this show was cancelled.
So.
Not.
Fair.
