A long time ago, I learned that TV producers rarely (if ever) had me in mind when making new shows. Much as in a singles bar, I just am not in anybody's target demographic. The original Murphy Brown was hit or miss for me; I wasn't very political at the time, so most of the topical jokes fell flat. But when the show was good, it was great. The Harry "I'm the change guy" Shearer episode still makes me laugh out loud.
The premiere of the new series wasn't very funny... but it was very comfortable. That said, I don't know who the producers have in mind with this series. As I recall, Murphy Brown was extremely popular with liberal women... so is The View... so why dump on it? I was reminded of the Lou Grant series, which was a dramatic series based on a sitcom character. I think the new Murphy Brown would be better as a one hour drama (or dramedy... if you must), still able to include humor, but allowing for more mature or sophisticated subject matter. But had they done that, it would have been targeted towards me... and that just won't happen. On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 9:17 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > That's pretty much it. It felt like nothing so much as being trapped in a > room with someone with whom I agree politically, but all of whose > references are from the late 60s. > > --Dave Sikula > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 6:36:51 PM UTC-7, Tom Wolper wrote: >> >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 6:49 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> For me, the level of hilarity peaked when it was revealed Avery was >>> working for the Wolf Network. >>> >>> Oh, my sides. >>> >> >> My take is that maybe they will find their stride but the first episode >> just wasn't very good. They really didn't capture the change in the >> television news business since the original run. Their political humor is >> just ad hominem attacks and lacks anything fresh. Trump deserves the >> attacks but a sitcom has to find a new angle or something to differentiate >> themselves from the Daily Show and Colbert. Either the characters are past >> their prime or the actors no longer have the juice to portray them. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
