Posted on 10/05/2018 11:14:07 PM PDT by OddLane
Last week marked the return of two sitcoms, Murphy Brown and Last Man Standing.
Both shows have had their own interesting journeys. Murphy Brown was on the air for ten years and was seen by many as a landmark for how women were represented on television. Reboots are all the rage these days in Hollywood, but as Candice Bergen has repeatedly pointed out, her show wouldn’t have been revived if it weren’t for the election of President Donald Trump and part of her goal is to “restore respect for the press.”
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Murphy Brown is “ the show about idiots” anyway.
“Murphy Brown” lives in a bubble. She would consider herself brave going up against the establishment not understanding that she and her friends are the establishment.
The humor of Murphy Brown are all cheap shots with no thought or insight. I will say this for the current Murphy Brown, she accurately represent what passes for the “news media” today. They are no longer passive reporters on events but active players with agenda’s of their own.
Nope, CBS can and is willing to lose money on a couple shows if it helps with leftist indoctrination and “resistance” The same with NBC and their Will and Hate reboot.
Actually, I think the limiting factor to cancelling the show....is that they have to go and reboot another 1970s or 1980s show out of thin air. They can’t invent anything these days.
I loved what happened to Candace in Legally Blonde.
So, Candace Bergen sees it as her ‘mission’? She believes the resurrection, the salvation, of the media falls to her?
Huh...never noticed the grain wagon hooked up to her to haul around that ego.
Damn, woman! You are an actress. Shut up and learn your lines. You are a trained chimp. Your views make not one whit of difference in my life.
I watched the second last man standing episode last evening. Ut was funny, pro conservative, and pro family, without being obnoxious.
When I was little, I perceived ventriloquist dummies as demons, and I could not bear watching them. It is tempting to draw conclusions about Candace based on her father’s association with ventriloquist dummies.
It is probably too late, but I would love to have seen a sequel to “Galaxy Quest”. Tim is long in the tooth, and Alan Rickman has sadly passed away. So, well, that’s show bizz.
Hey FRiend there are two options, FOX and OAN, One America News, channel 347 on Dish network.
Wouldn’t that be funny, if a story line went that Murphy Brown was haunted by a spookily animated Charlie McCarthy dummy, that drove her insane? Horror, oooh the horror!
The focus of the satire on the original Murphy Brown was the TV news business, even if the characters had a liberal slant. That made the show enjoyable.
But Murphy Brown was also set in the age of the big three networks and CNN, and any satire now would have to reflect their struggle for survival in the face of Internet competitors. Which this reboot does not, and in playing strictly as anti-Trump propaganda, already has limited its limited audience even further.
Watched part of Tim Allen last night and it is really very good. Better than the old one.
Galaxy Quest is underappreciated.
Edgar Bergen was so popular, he had a radio show.
“When I was little, I perceived ventriloquist dummies as demons...”
Then you should see the horror film “Magic” from 1978. Will send you over the edge, guaranteed!
;^)
I'm surprised they haven't ran this through already. Give liberals a fake TV president for the Trump years like they did with The West Wing during the Bush years.
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