IT'S SO PATHETICALLY BAD THAT IT'S HYSTERICALLY FUNNY

New York Post ^ | 11/05/03 | ADAM BUCKMAN

[kattracks]

November 5, 2003 -- IT WAS one of the funniest tapes I had ever received from a TV network.

It was a special promo reel sent over early last month for "The Reagans," a miniseries about Ronald and Nancy Reagan - the very same miniseries that became so embroiled in controversy that CBS finally dumped it yesterday.

[Bonaparte]

Can't wait to watch it flop on Showtime, assuming it even airs. Amazing that CBS found sponsors for it. Maybe they gave them a discount.

[stevem]

Amazing that CBS found sponsors for it. Maybe they gave them a discount.

Free???

[T60H]

Has anyone heard how "K Street", the Clooney?Carvell?Matlin show is doing?
I keep hoping to hear it has been cancelled due to low ratings.

[Timesink]

Can't wait to watch it flop on Showtime, assuming it even airs. Amazing that CBS found sponsors for it. Maybe they gave them a discount.

Showtime is pay cable, a direct competitor to HBO but in far, far fewer homes. There won't be any advertisers. But if it airs, it WILL be reviewed, and get just the sort of overwhelming "worst. miniseries. EVER." revulsion that Buckman predicts above.

[Timesink]

Has anyone heard how "K Street", the Clooney?Carvell?Matlin show is doing? I keep hoping to hear it has been cancelled due to low ratings.

Badly. It did all right the first week and then ratings collapsed. Since it's on HBO, it's not going to be cancelled, but whenever the final episode airs (if it hasn't already; I never watched it after the first episode myself) it's not going to be renewed.

[Bonaparte]

Sorry, I was referring to the sponsors CBS had already lined up for itself (Hallmark and Chevrolet?) before the lateral pass to Showtime.

I suspect it will be re-worked by much more skillful propagandists by air time, but maybe I'm wrong and CBS is even dumber than I think.

[KneelBeforeZod]

I thought this was going to be about the new matrix movie

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Too little too late. Their motivation has finally been revealed. They could honor Reagan at this point, and most Americans would still want to boycott their sponsers.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Seiskel and Eibert [sic and sic] will love it. But so what? Too little too late!

[Caipirabob]

I think Siskel is dead, but being a rat, it probably wouldn't stop him from reviewing it and then voting for Hillary in 2004...

[KC_Conspirator]

Siskel is dead. He was replaced by leftist Richard Roeper, who is a good movie reviewer, but he writes articles that sound lile Al Franken.

[Old Sarge]

CBS is owned by ViaCom; so is Showtime. Our outrage was mis-aimed.

CBS dumps it? No matter. Showtime runs it, and it flops? No biggie. Michael Moore will buy the rights, and play it at every awards show in Hollywood. The Left will make sure of it.

[aardvark1]

After seeing a few photos of James Brolin in Reagan make-up the past couple of days, I have to admit I almost wish it could have aired. You can tell by looking at Brolin that they spent about $29.95 on the entire project. Of course, an actor of Brolin's credentials and talen don't come cheap. (/sarcasm) BTW, has he done anything since the Marcus Welby series?

[jocon307]

"There won't be any advertisers."

I think that explains the Showtime shift. I am assuming this was only switched because the pressure was working on advertisers. I'm guessing especially threatening to boycott Hallmark during the holiday season.

I can only guess that having large numbers of Christians not buying Christmas cards from you is NOT part of Hallmark's business plan.

[Shanty Shaker]

If that is the case then the sponsor by default would be CBS......Hmm Equal time?

[randita]

Bill O'Reilly saw the same preview and his description of it was "cartoonish".

[duckman]

"The Reagans" has become the TV industries "Gigli".

[autoresponder]