How come they never made a second series?
Its awesome, just got the dvd!!!
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Yeah... the ratings were bad. I wish they'd given it more of a shot. I can't get into most of the sitcoms today, but this is one I really liked. I think something must have gone horribly wrong in the promotion. I can't understand why it wasn't a success.. maybe it just needed more time for the audience to find it. I don't know, but it was a great show. Very funny and a pleasure to watch.
shareYeah, I think with more time it could have picked up an audience. Oh well....
shareThis is one of my favorite shows of all time, but I think it was just put on the wrong network, in the wrong timeslot. A snarky, satirical behind-the-scenes look at a TV show doesn't quite work with Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as a lead-in. This would have been a better fit on a cable network.
shareIt was making fun of 90210 through a 'Primary Colors' warm-hearted but obviously transparent spoof. Liking both 90210 and Primary Colors, I was instantly in love with this series!
Yet, apparently the largest audience for the then-WB had not grown up originally watching 90210 while ironically the people who had were not likely to watch the WB, myself and friends being the demographic oddities.
Plus, I think the lack of series advertising also did in the show. I've heard people who would have liked it honestly and gennuinely assume that it was about "gross" as in icky stuff just from the title without understanding anything else about it because the network did not promote it further. This is a series which should have been on for a couple of seasons.
The show is definitely one of the best shows, if not the best that the WB ever had. The problem was that they were in a hard position because they couldn't market it as a satire of 90210 because Shannen Doherty was on Charmed at that time and was pissed enough that the show was even on.
The network let it run for 17 episodes wih is almost a full season for a new series. To fully cover their bases, the WB even said that it was trying it out in a new time slot to try to boost ratings. THe ratings with didn't improve, even when they had big guest stars like Kristin Davis and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
I think the most surprising is that this was the most acclaimed of any comedy series WB ever produced and that didn't count for anything. Furthermore, why haven't all of the actors gone on to be more successful than they are currently.
It was definently the most original--a cross between 90210 and 'primary colors' style spoofing.
Having grown up on the high school years of 90210, I was now able to revisit it, and laugh at the spoof without feeling disappointed the actors playing the characters I loved were well, human.
My favirote still had to be the Luke Perryish "Quentin King/Stone Anders" just because he's trying to be nice, but comes across as a jerk some times. He's not at all actually an airhead though.