I, for one, enjoyed Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Thought it was well written, paced well, great dialog. Plus, I was a huge fan of SNL back in the day and I thought the “tear down the 4th wall” approach was cool.
Dead and gone....
The original SNL was some of the best cutting edge television of its time. Now it’s not even close to funny or even midly entertaining.
NBC also had a show some years ago — Eerie, Indiana — weird, quirky, kinda sci-fi. Might have found an audience if NBC wasn’t so hell bent on killing it.
I still like Law & Order and its clones, but they are running out of ideas. Spent some time yesterday watching a marathon of old L&O shows on TNT. Most of them were from the Lenny Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) era. Those were some of the best. After he passed on (he left the show while he was terminally ill), L&O has really gone downhill. I’m gonna guess the original series will fade into oblivion and the other two will be gone shortly thereafter.