According to Fock’s News, the cancellation of NBC’s non-hit dramedy “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” is coming shortly.
The show, created by the self-esteemable Aaron Sorkin, is a drama about the tragedy of creating a comedy sketch program, much like “Saturday Night Live”. In the episodes I’ve watched, the writing is over the top pretentious and moralistic, such as last week’s segment about finding a “real” black comedian who doesn’t think like a black man is supposed to think according to white stereotypes. Much of the world view and dramatizations of Christian-style characters seems formulated by Jasons, Jennifers and Jareds, those Ivy League graduates from Scarsdale, Glencoe, IL and Great Neck, NY who think Topeka is the capital of Iowa.
Filmed in constant motion, in tight hallways,up the stairs and into jammed control rooms, the claustrophobia and rat-tat-tat dialogue was suspensefully dull. Actor Matthew Perry, however, distinguished himself in his earnestness and believability.
One of the the themes of this show has been the low quality of network TV at fictional NBS. Now that NBC is expected to cancel “Studio 60” look for more reality junk and drunken bimbos who race to eat worms out of glass jars.
Here in Van Nuys 
Why are morals not allowed in a DRAMA about a sketch comedy show? Characters without a developed since of what they think is right are one dimensional and boring. Studio 60 manages a group of characters from different backgrounds with unique and rarely overlapping agendas that argue, much like the show they inhabit, for a better brighter tomorrow for television.
“Such a moralistic tone and hyperactive style was 100% appropriate on a show about everyday workings of the White House.”
Why? Both are creative, adaptive environments, and frankly more people actually witness the results of sketch comedy show like SNL.
“On a show about doing a sketch comedy program, it’s downright ludicrous. Yes, comedians do sometimes take comedy seriously, but not to the level portrayed here. And sorry, the politics of network television does not add up to the interest of the politics of leading the free world.”
Done some comedy writing have you scott?
This show is about the culture of the “free world.” How network TV manufactures culture affects this country from top to bottom. With characters written like Matt Albie, Danny Tripp and Jordan McDeere it’s easily believable that such a thing would matter deeply to them. They take their job seriously and stress constantly about the quality of their work. Studio 60 looks at nature of TV. In the spring the characters in the show will battle the FCC. Sorkin will take on the main censoring agent in the United States. No other show would think of doing such a thing. Keep this show alive folks. It will only get better.
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Such a moralistic tone and hyperactive style was 100% appropriate on a show about everyday workings of the White House.
On a show about doing a sketch comedy program, it’s downright ludicrous. Yes, comedians do sometimes take comedy seriously, but not to the level portrayed here. And sorry, the politics of network television does not add up to the interest of the politics of leading the free world.
Sorry.
But Tina Fey’s 30 Rock is a lot better. It’s in the Seinfeld ballpark a bit.
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Hear-hear on the writing being pretentious on that show. Aaron Sorkin really feels he has to teach us, not simply entertain us. His moralistic tone has always turned me right off. The show is watchable, but surprisingly distant. Oh, and almost never funny.
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