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Screw The Critics

posted 18 years ago by SelfProclaimedHuegonot
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I have to do a little ranting. If I hear another "critic" say Stockard Channing wasn't great in "Out of Practice", I'm going to slap the hell out of them with a cricket bat. It was a good show that had good performances. I'm sorry if it didn't hold their attention. Perhaps they should learn their limitations and stick to reviewing "Survivor" or whatever the hell these people watch. I'm sorry if it was too smart for them to wrap their little heads around. I'm sorry there wasn't a "Dr. McDreamy" (Grey's Anatomy is nothing more the Beverly Hills, 90210 with stethoscopes). Screw the critics who said it was a critical failure (always in the top twenty is a failure). Screw them all! Channing is a great actress and she deserves her nomination.

[–] Kotter7579 18 years ago

I think it's interesting that this show had the same, if not a little better ratings, than the show that took it's place in that time slot: New Adventures..christine. OOP seemed to be a much better show than NAOOC. It's too bad it was treated like an old shoe last spring when it switched nights and then had little or no promotion behind it.

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[–] twalex 18 years ago

It seems that for a sitcom to make it these days, it has to be silly or a bunch of overgrown adolecents......I mean it seems those types always make it. OOP definitely didn't fit into that mold. It was superiorly better than that. I think that if a show today doesn't appeal to the lowest commom denominator, it just doesn't make it....and boy does that say a lot about what we have become. I mean just look at how popular all those reality shows are. I mean those shows are junk, but if there wasn't an audience for them, they would be gone. America doesn't want quality programming anymore. I would at least like tp see the eight unaired eposodes of OOP though. I was smart enough to recognize it as a quality show from the very beginnig and so I recorded all of the ones that aired onto Tivo.

As for Stockard Channing, I thought she was great in OOP, as was all the other actors. My favorite eposode was when Lydia had the party and ended up with no date so her son's hired her one. That was hilarious.

[–] Chelios24 18 years ago

I wouldn't even say that. Sure, there's retarded things on TV, but ratings is king. Like others have mentoined, Out of Practice always performed well, much better than rivals and the replacements. This doesn't make any business sense.

[–] SelfProclaimedHuegonot 18 years ago

I agree with you, Chelios24. This makes no business sense at all. CBS had a stellar Monday night line up. Take a look at where the numbers are now according to Nielsen:

"CBS took the lead among households at 9 p.m. with "Two and a Half Men," 10.1/15, and "Old Christine," 8.5/13. The premiere of "Heroes" (8.8/13), however, led among total viewers and was the night's top show among adults 18-49."

This was the second week ratings for OOP:

"Week two of CBS’ Out Of Practice at 9:30 p.m. dipped to third in the overnights (8.9/12) and total viewers (11.74 million), and fourth among adults 18-49 (3.7/ 9), with erosion out of Two and a Half Men of 17 percent in the overnights, 2.71 million viewers and 21 percent among adults 18-49."

Take into account that OOP was going up against Monday Night Football when it was still on ABC. It lost viewers but still beat Christine's numbers ! Why is this show off the air?

[–] peckinpa 17 years ago

Wanna know why CHRISTINE is still on the air and OOP isn't? CHRISTINE has one of the stars of *genuflect* SEINFELD (the "best" tv series of all time, according to TV GUIDE--yeah, sure!). And speaking of the GUIDE, every week there's a feature on each of the half dozen shows the editors favor (like SURVIVOR, CSI, etc.). You know how many PARAGRAPHS they devoted to OOP (aside from the fall preview issue, where they had to provide a write-up)? Zero!!! Also, they don't print letters about series or actors they don't favor. Guess who's letting his subscription to this rag expire in a couple months?

[–] SelfProclaimedHuegonot 17 years ago

Good job!