Running Studio 60 thread (spoilers)

[Mystery_Meat]

Re: Studio 60 premiere (spoilers)

I could buy Peet as the president of like Bravo or maybe the CW. But not a Big 3. She is smoking hot though.

She's not a president of the Big 3. She's president of NBS, which appears to be a fifth network trying to compete with ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX. Ed Asner's character read part of her resume which mentioned she'd worked at all (or most) of the other four networks.

Ah, I either missed that while flipping between this, Futurama and my NCAA 2007 dynasty with Oregon, or I heard it and it didn't register. In that case, hot young thing being the president makes perfect sense in this context.

 

[HejiraHenry]

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No, it doesn't.

Maybe you were being sarcastic.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Re: Studio 60 premiere (spoilers)

It does if you're a desperate second-tier network trying to do anything to turn your fortunes around and so you cast your lot with a young f'n stud with an impressive resume who happens not to be old enough to run for president in hopes of getting the mega-coveted 18-34 demo to come your way more often. Or at least it's feasable within the framework of TV drama.

 

[HejiraHenry]

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Or at least it's feasable within the framework of TV drama.

So is a talking car, unfavorably referenced at one point ...

 

[Mystery_Meat]

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It's a far sight more feasable than a talking car (and My Mother The Car isn't even the most famous of the talking TV cars; hello, KITT?). heck, we live in a world where a 26-year old can run Pittsburgh. It's not a likely answer in the real world, no, but it's not an epic stretch either.

 

[zeke12]

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Lugnuts --

Let's give them more than one episode before we decide that none of the characters live up to one of the best characters on television in the last 20 or so years, eh?

Arnold Schwarzenegger is governor of California. Everyone needs to remember that before they start pontificating about whether a hot woman running a TV network is "realistic".

 

[shotglass]

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This is a number of people being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, zeke.

This is a phenomenon which pops up quite often at SportsJournalists.com. ;D

(I just watched it again, and I think I like it even more than I did the first time.)

 

[ifilus]

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Don't buy Peet as network president.

Thank you.

It's NOT that she's pretty ... she's too young.

The C.J. Craig actress would have been perfect in that role, just not so hot.

As mentioned earlier: At age 32, Jamie Tarses became the youngest person and the first woman to preside over a network entertainment division as President of ABC Entertainment (1996-1999).

 

[zeke12]

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True enough.

And as someone said, I'd read Sorkin's grocery list.

So I'm not exactly objective.

Ifilus -- I'd hit it.

 

[pallister]

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I so much wanted to post about the kind of things that would be on said grocery list ... but I'll let it go.

Carry on.

 

[Point of Order]

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Oh, I just remembered the other thing that I thought most implausible about the pilot - Matthew Perry back on the scene doing all the stuff he was doing THREE DAYS AFTER BACK SURGERY?

Gimme a break.

 

[zeke12]

Re: Studio 60 premiere (spoilers)

1 case Jose Cuervo Gold.

3 ripe Haas avacados.

8 ball

Aaron's set!