George, I, having little or no faith in H'Wood or humanity, give it a full season. (Here's hoping I'm proven wrong.)
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM, George Arterberry < brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I give this five weeks tops. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* brent wodehouse <brent_wodeho...@thefence.us> > *To:* scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > *Sent:* Wed, August 4, 2010 12:00:45 AM > *Subject:* [scifinoir2] FX orders ‘Star Trek’ spoof pilot, renews ‘Louie’ > > > > > http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/08/fx-renews-louie-orders-sci-fi-comedy-pilot.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+live_feed+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Live+Feed%29 > > [ > > http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/08/fx-renews-louie-orders-sci-fi-comedy-pilot.html > ]FX orders ‘Star Trek’ spoof pilot, renews ‘Louie’ > > by [ http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/author/jhibberd/ ]James Hibberd > | > > August 3, 2010 > > FX has ordered a comedy pilot from the makers of "Reno 911" whose logline > makes it sound like an unofficial "Star Trek" parody. > > Set a thousand years in the future, "Alabama" follows the crew of the > space ship USS Alabama as they continue a seven-year mission to maintain > interplanetary peace. > > "The show will follow the heart-pounding action as our crew visits hostile > planets, meets alien life-forms, and tries to have sex with each other in > their tiny, metal bunk beds," FX said. > > "Alabama" is created by and stars "Reno 911" veterans Thomas Lennon and > Ben Garant and, just like the former Comedy Central series, will be > part-scripted and part-improvised. Garant and Lennon are executive > producers along with Peter Principato and Paul Young. > > In addition, FX has renewed the Louis C.K. comedy "Louie" for a 13-episode > second season. > > The pickup comes about five weeks into the show's run, with the comedy > performing fairly modestly -- averaging about 1 million viewers per week. > > The announcements were made at the Television Critics Association's press > tour, where FX had the longest presentation in the network's history, > scheduling nearly a full day of panels. > > FX's entertainment president John Landgraf said he hopes to expand the > network's burgeoning lineup to a dozen shows, including 6-8 comedies. > > After that, Landgraf said, the network will reach a saturation point, > unable to expand further due to the marketing costs associated with > promoting so many shows. > > FX has already hit its goal to get on the comedy map, with veteran "It's > Always Sunny in Philadelphia" steadily improving in the ratings and > freshman animated series "Archer" becoming a surprise breakout. Along with > "Louie" and "The League," the network has four functioning half-hour > comedies. > > Critics noted FX's paucity of Emmy nominations, and Landgraf noted that TV > Academy favorite "Damages," which is shifting to DirecTV, is set in the > upper echelons of elite Manhattan society compared to the network's array > of blue collar protagonists. > > "Emmys live in their own separate universe," he said. "Of the shows that > qualified for an Emmy, 'Rescue Me,' 'Justified,' 'Sons of Anarcy' and > 'Damages' … all accured as much acclaim universal acclaim based on their > Metacritic scores ... We the tendency to do the literature of the common > man and common woman … I don't think there's a lesson in personal grooming > to be taken from 'Sons' ... Does that effect the Emmys? I don't know." > > Landgraf also said that, for actors, in recent years it has become more > prestigious to land a cable show. > > "It's become a status symbol for an actor to have a cable show," Landgraf > said. "A lot of being a movie star is being in a latex costume in front of > a green screen wearing guide-wires and learning to do karate." > > Wrapping up the session, Landgraf noted, "I haven't said anything > Tweet-worthy," then announced: "Peter Rice told me I could deny that Steve > McPherson is becoming a judge on 'American Idol.'" > > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
