NBC benching "Community", shuffling other programs

[RollWave35]

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.c...me-time-benching-community-and-prime-suspect/

Basic recap:

- "Community" getting taken off for now, NBC says it's not cancelled.

- "Up All Night" moving from Wednesday to Thursday.

- "Whitney" moving to Wednesday.

- "30 Rock" coming back on Thursdays.

- "Prime Suspect" is also "benched", will be replaced by new show "The Firm" based on the Grisham novel.

- On Wednesdays a new comedy "Are You There, Chelsea", based on the book by the talk show host, Chelsea Handler, will follow "Whitney" at 8:30. NBC will move its new newsmagazine “Rock Center,” to Wednesdays at 9.

Some other shit on there too.

Also worth noting because of the potential of it possibly being one of the worst TV shows of all time (this one is on CBS)....

"A new comedy, "Rob", which stars Ron Schneider as a bachelor who takes the plunge by marrying into a Mexican-American family, will replace “Rules of Engagement” on Thursdays at 8:30."

:tard:

 

[PhDeac]

Wow. So much FAIL at NBC. That is horrible.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

sucks for NBC but other than the office/P&R/30 Rock their line-up is weak

i like up all night but it's not great

 

[DeaconPeach]

I see why I don't watch NBC anymore.

 

[DistrictDeacon]

"A new comedy, "Rob", which stars Ron Schneider as a bachelor who takes the plunge by marrying into a Mexican-American family, will replace “Rules of Engagement” on Thursdays at 8:30."

:tard:

I can't wait for all the (not so) veiled racism.

 

[Fuck Your Couch]

8 is the hardest time slot to put up ratings without a lead in and Community has gone up against The Big Bang Theory, American Idol and The X Factor during its run.

Someone needs to put Whitney out of its misery. I always see the first few minutes of that after The Office and it is painfully bad.

 

[Shooshmoo]

Wow. So much FAIL at NBC. That is horrible.

How can you blame them? The fault lies with moronic Americans who like crap like 2 1/2 Men, Mike & molly, 2 broke girls in a pizza joint, and everything else on CBS, and allow shows like Arrested Development to get canceled. At least NBC tries to have comedies that don't suck, even if some of them ultimately fail.

 

[OldGoldBeard]

"I'll carry you in this giant Snugli. I used it to carry Rob Schneider in the movie 'My Baby is an Ugly Man.'"

 

[94Deac]

Someone needs to put Whitney out of its misery. I always see the first few minutes of that after The Office and it is painfully bad.

That right there. I go through the same thing. She's so fucking smarmy and off-putting, I can't imagine it making it past pilot. Last time I saw a mouth that big, it had a hook in it.

 

[RicoSuave]

That is just wrong.

 

[RicoSuave]

And Troy, Abed, and Shirley from Community is the only thing keeping me from tagging this thread "LOL white people".

 

[PhDeac]

And Troy from Community is the only thing keeping me from tagging this thread "LOL white people".

How about Abed, Shirley, and Chang?

94, would you?

 

[myDeaconmyhand]

That right there. I go through the same thing. She's so fucking smarmy and off-putting, I can't imagine it making it past pilot. Last time I saw a mouth that big, it had a hook in it.

NBC's foray into shitty, formulaic, laugh-track comedy. They just can't reproduce CBS's Golden Goose of idiocy. I'm not sure what's worse, that people watched 2 1/2 Men with Charlie Sheen, or that they still watch it with Ashton Kutcher.

 

[94Deac]

For the curious tagger:

smarm·y
   [smahr-mee] Show IPA
adjective, smarm·i·er, smarm·i·est.
excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating, servile, etc.: the emcee with the smarmy welcome.
Origin: 1905–10; smarm, variant of dial. smalm to smear, make slick (< ?) + -y1
Related forms
smarm·i·ly, adverb

 

[myDeaconmyhand]

I could see "snarky", smarmy works too, I confused it with swarmy. (I'm not the tagger)

 

[WFFaithful]

stupid to "bench" community

 

[RicoSuave]

How about Abed, Shirley, and Chang?

94, would you?

LOL you must have posted this before I corrected it.

As for Chang, I'll bet the actor who plays him was raised in a "whiter" environment than I was. So he doesn't count as a minority.

 

[BostonDeac]

How can you blame them? The fault lies with moronic Americans who like crap like 2 1/2 Men, Mike & molly, 2 broke girls in a pizza joint, and everything else on CBS, and allow shows like Arrested Development to get canceled. At least NBC tries to have comedies that don't suck, even if some of them ultimately fail.

this. We are lucky Community was on NBC otherwise it would not have made it through the first season. Between this, FNL and the other low rated comedies, at least NBC puts out good TV even if the ratings aren't there.

 

[RicoSuave]

I'm using Annie as my avatar as a sign of protest to this grave injustice.

 

[PhDeac]

LOL you must have posted this before I corrected it.

As for Chang, I'll bet the actor who plays him was raised in a "whiter" environment than I was. So he doesn't count as a minority.

What you got, Boog?

Jeong was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of South Korean immigrants Young and D.K. Jeong, who was a professor at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina for 35 years.[3][4] Jeong was raised in Greensboro and attended Walter Hines Page High School, where he took part in the High IQ team, played violin in the orchestra, and was elected to student council. He graduated at 16 and his achievements earned him Greensboro's Youth of the Year award.[3]
He completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1990 and attained his medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995.[2] He then completed his Internal Medicine residency at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans while developing his stand-up comedy.[5]