This had to be one of the best shows to come down the line in a long time. No uppity know-it-all black doctors, no stereotyped sassy black sistahs with a fat ass, just a story about life in New Orleans for a guy that has a business foisted on him that he knows nothing about, sharing the building with a funeral home. The problems encountered in the restaurant were exactly what any restaurant owner faces, and the characters were all immaculately done. Too bad.
shareIt was yanked around the schedule. You could never find it, if you wanted to watch it.
Same thing was done to a Jason Bateman comedy on NBC, called It's Your Move. It too was pulled all over the place.
Once they had completely lost their audiences, both shows would be buried on Saturday night.
But the restaurant didn't share a building with the funeral home. For starters, that would make one lose his appetite, but there was an episode where Frank couldn't cater a meal or banquet Virginia Capers was having and she came charging across the road in her wheelchair, the little man who pushed her running behind her, so the funeral home was a good distance away.
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when the decision was made to kill this show.
"Okay fellas... we fired the guy who green-lighted the show. Now, to slam it all over the schedule without advanced warning so that ratings drop."
Sounds like something Shemp, Curley and Joe would concoct...
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If you think that keeping or cancelling a TV show is so easy, why don't you go back to school, major in whatever discipline is needed to be in the TV industry, and then become a TV exec? Or better yet, why not get some counselling? This is only a TV show, after all.
shareThe one network executive I know personally has a degree in Mechanical Engineering... so apparently there is no one path to holding that job.
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Way late to this discussion; I'm not sure how I wound up here to begin with. But anyway, when the show was cancelled, I read that they (the producers, the audience?) just didn't know what to make of the show. It was African-American oriented, but not typical of the genre. It was hysterically funny one episode and very serious the next. I adored the show, and others here did too. There just weren't enough of us.
shareSome executives have pet shows that stay on the air despite abysmal ratings. Quantum Leap and Arrested Development are two such examples.
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