How we got fucked by ABC. Hard.
Yesterday, we got together and recorded the ‘Dogma’ DVD commentary in NYC at our beloved Gizmo. It was the same crew that did the ‘Rats’ commentary (me, Mewes, Mosier, Vincent, Lee, and Affleck), and this time around, the entire commentary was videotaped for inclusion.
I don’t think the stuff’s as funny as the ‘Rats’ commentary. But then, it’s a really different flick. Strong work from all involved.
Today, we’re taping interviews at the store for a documentary J.M.’s putting together as well. Should be cool.
What’s not cool is that airdate ABC gave us. Folks, May 31st pretty much insures the show’s failure, in my book. Essentially, it seems the network doesn’t like the show (odd, as they pursued it rather heavily at the start, and also told us to our faces how much they dug it). They held test screenings for the show in San Diego and Ohio at the start of February and got numbers they didn’t like. Funny thing was, the audiences they recruited for the screenings were for another show, so a very key demographic was missing from the mix: the 18 to 24 year olds. This is comparable to test screening ‘Dogma’ for an audience of 55 to 80 year old priests. It’s inane.
And it’s pretty much over, I guess. Very seldom does a show launched in the summer get picked up. And even though we’ve got great buzz (which started at the Television Critics thing and has built ever since) while their Kyra Sedgewick “laugher” was mostly reviled by the critics who saw it early, THAT show gets to debut during the season – presumably airing in sweeps, if they last – while we’re relegated to the dry gulch that is the summer, when traditionally 25% of the audience is no longer watching.
So let’s all give Disney-owned ABC a big round of applause. I can’t believe we got fucked hard by the mouse twice in the span of a year. Fucking suits, man. I don’t know why I bother…
In other news (on a far better network), Affleck was great on SNL the other night. I was there (though not all week, as I’ve read; I was only there for the live broadcast), and let me tell you: as hard as he worked during the show, he worked harder between skits, being raced hither and yon, dropping trow for costume changes, donning many a wig. Very rarely does a host show up in as many sketches as Ben did. The man deserves some major props.
My apologies to those who went to the Shrine show in L.A., only to discover we weren’t there. NewsAskew posted earlier in the week that I wasn’t going to be in attendance. I believe we’re making it up, however, on March 19th. Come celebrate a show that its own network refuses to believe in. The way shit’s going, it may be your only chance to see the show.
No offense to Regis, but how long do they think that show’s going to be a hit if they keep airing the hell out of it. I guess it doesn’t matter in short-sighted thinking, as the plan is to win this season, with little thought to the next. Which means that ‘Millionaire’ will pretty much be on ABC everytime you turn your television on, over the next few months.
This is why t.v. sucks, folks. And – with the exception of ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Law and Order’, and ‘The X-Files’ – this is why I use my television solely as a means to watch DVD’s, videos, and porn.
I guess it’s time to go back to the day job. On that subject, wait ’til we announce what’s next on the horizon. It’s a humdinger, and a helluva way to close out the Askewniverse flicks. Were it not for this, I’d be a lot bluer about ABC’s dumping of ‘Clerks’.
But then again, I’m not all that surprised. You go bottomless amongst penned up anal rapists like these fucks, sooner or later, you’re going to get cornholed against your will ’til you bleed.
Figuratively speaking, of course.
We give the Kyra Sedgewick show about 4 weeks, maximum. Shame they’re wasting a prime slot on that. Damn shame. We’re happy that the Clerks TCS shows were made, but really sad to hear that the prognosis is really BAD. However, the next announcement sounds interesting, and may have us shutting down our C2 subpage for something greater…Wait and see!
