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The worst goes first

September 26, 2008 /

Say adieu to “Do Not Disturb,” Fox’s Jerry-O’Connell-starring sitcom. If The Gospel According to Michael Ausiello can be trusted, then the series has already bitten the dust, thereby making it the first casualty of the 2008 fall season…and the least surprising.

Still, you have to give the show’s producers credit for having tried to amuse the critics, sending out a missive that was, ironically, funnier than the series itself.

According to a piece on Variety.com, certain TV writers received a letter from the producers, saying, “We here at ‘Do Not Disturb’ agree that by airing the ‘Work Sex’ episode — before airing the actual pilot — we created much confusion and we deserve all the criticism, the bad puns (i.e. ‘an early checkout from the fall season,’ ‘Do Not Make in the First Place,’ etc.) and, yes, even the accusation that it very well could be the final nail in the multicamera sitcom’s coffin.” Attached to the letter was a DVD which contained an ostensibly funnier episode of the show.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the critics who received the letter / DVD combo…which is a shame, as I’m skeptical that such a thing as a consistently-funny episode of “Do Not Disturb” exists, and I would’ve liked to have been proven wrong.

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A Double Dose of Kitchen Nightmares

September 26, 2008 /

I’m guessing that FOX is doubling up on “Kitchen Nightmares” episodes because the baseball playoffs are coming up. Whatever the reason, we were treated to two separate episodes of Gordon Ramsay fixing restaurants on the verge of going out of business.

The first one was Trobiano’s Italian restaurant in Great Neck, NY, which is owned by Anthony Trobiano and his girlfriend Tiffany and her parents. Anthony is very cocky and won’t admit any fault with his own cooking, and basically that’s the biggest problem. So Ramsay shows up and samples the food–eggplant “tower,” chicken wrapped shrimp, and salmon with spaghetti bolognese. He comes to the conclusion that the food is “crap.”

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Win This: “Chuck” Buy More T-Shirt Giveaway

September 25, 2008 /

With the season premiere of “Chuck” just around the corner, NBC.com has launched Inside Buy More, an interactive social networking game for fans of the hit show. When new recruits enter the ranks they can either join as part of the Nerd Herd of the green-shirted sales. New hires can create an authentic employee badge and profile, participate in training activities tied to the show, get the latest inside news, and engage with other staff using a full range of social networking tools.

In conjunction with the new site, Premium Hollywood is giving away cool Buy More t-shirts to five lucky winners. If you want to enter to win, please email your full name and mailing address (with the name of the item in the subject line) to: premiumhollywood@gmail.com. And when you’re done, be sure to check out the Buy More recruitment video below:

TV, TV Comedies

Old Show, New Season: “Lipstick Jungle”

September 24, 2008 /

I can’t really tell you that I was a huge fan of the first season of “Lipstick Jungle,” neither when it aired nor after it was released on DVD; I liked it well enough, but while I enjoyed the three female leads individually, I had some serious issues with the premise that they’d actually be friends. Still, when it was announced back in June that Mary Tyler Moore would be appearing in the show’s second season, playing the mother of Brooke Shields’ character, Wendy, I didn’t hesitate in deciding that I’d be interested in checking out the season premiere.

If you watched the first season of “Lipstick Jungle,” then two of the three primary storylines of the Season 2 premiere will not surprise you…well, not in general, anyway.

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Greetings to the New Show: “Knight Rider”

September 24, 2008 /

Well, I might as well start off this entry with the bit I wrote about the return of “Knight Rider” to series television in my Fall TV Preview:

After the incredibly disappointing TV movie earlier this year, which played like a two-hour-long car commercial with a really bad script, there is absolutely no rational reason for my including this within my top 10, but, dammit, sometimes nostalgia wins out over common sense. It is almost certainly telling that the powers that be couldn’t manage to get us a copy of the first episode prior to a network conference call to promote the series, and I will be the first to bail out if the premiere is as bad as the movie was, but – God help me – I can still remember how much enjoyment I got out of the original series, and I cannot for the life of me shake that off.

Well, NBC finally managed to produce an advance screener of the first episode, and…well, it’s not as bad as the movie, but it’s still a far cry from “great,” that’s for damned sure.

It’s one thing to turn on the television set and turn off your mind, but based on its premiere episode, it looks like “Knight Rider” is shaping up to be about as scientifically plausible as…uh…wow, I’m trying to think of a sufficiently ridiculous example, and I just can’t come up with one that I’m comfortable with. Suffice it to say that your average automotive engineer would probably find this the most hysterical hour of television to emerge in the past few decades.

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