Sean Hayes Blames NBC for Disappointing Rates- Page 3

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 10/26/13 at 8:03pm

Didn't NBC put Parks and Rec on hiatus just to help this show's ratings? Sounds like they're doing all that they can.

[sephyr]

Posted: 10/27/13 at 1:34am

I do like this show, it reminds me of the 90's and I think it's funny. As it goes on it's getting better. I think it should be given a chance to gain its footing.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 10/27/13 at 10:35am

A friend of mine had a conversation with Linda Lavin who is a friend of his. He asked Linda.."How is the show?" Her answer? Well, it's getting better.

Let's hope Linda is right.

[OperaBwayLover]

Posted: 10/27/13 at 1:05pm

I keep forgetting when the show is on. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 9:55pm

And now the show is gone.


NBC yanks 'Sean Saves the World'

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 9:58pm

Good. Now maybe they can order a full season of COMMUNITY.

[Wicked Fanatic]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 1:31am

Megan Hilty can finally return to Broadway. I have an idea. She would be a perfect pick to play Fay Wray in King Kong coming to the Foxwoods.

[Jacobonce]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 8:23am

That's sad. I've watched every episode so far, and I just commented to my boyfriend that this most recent episode was the first time the show made me laugh.

Too little too late, I'm afraid.

[mamaleh]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 9:14am

Hayes was hilarious, often the funniest element of WILL AND GRACE. And I thought he gave a great performance in the PROMISES, PROMISES revival. But overcoming bad writing is nigh onto impossible, no matter one's capabilties. I hope he resurfaces in something worthy of his talents for verbal and physical comedy, whether on TV or on stage.

[bobs3]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 9:27am

Last week's episode was quite funny (it was written by Joe Keenan former head writer of FRASIER) and one was able to see what good actors can do with good writing but by that time the show had lost most of its audience and there was no realistic way to get it back. NBC knew this and by now Sean Hayes must have known also.

As far as, Michael J. Fox, the network is probably holding onto the show as a courtesy to the star but I expect it will be put on "hiatus" which basically means you don't cancel Michael J. Fox. CBS did the same thing with Mary Tyler Moore's return to sitcom in the late 1980s. As one CBS executive put it, "The show is on hiatus. You don't cancel Mary Tyler Moore."

[Jon]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 10:08am

They need to put Thomas Lennon on another show.

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 10:39am

It's a tough life for a clown. Not a literal makeup-and-wig clown, but clown in the vaudeville sense, someone who is always more a performer than an actor, with a talent for verbal and physical and character comedy. Clowns don't slot well into roles that aren't tailor-made for them. Consider Martin Short, who Sean Hayes played/embodied by proxy on SMASH. Absolutely talented, but absolutely a clown first and an actor second, and phenomenal at it. Things Short appears in are either cult classics or immediately forgettable.

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 11:14am

^ And rarely can a clown carry a TV show. Unless, of course, their name is Lucy.

[chanel]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 11:23am

I watched the show once and my problem with it was that it went: "Joke...joke...joke...joke....joke..." and so on. Yes, a sitcom is supposed to have jokes, but here, virtually every single line was written for a laugh, and that tends to weaken any serious interest in the characters or situations, especially when so many of the jokes are strained and lame.

[Famebroadway2]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 12:03pm

I watched this from the beginning and it was painful the first half of the year, but the last couple of weeks it was starting to get better.

I kinda knew it would not be back for season 2, but i am surprised they pulled the plug before the Megan Mullally episode!

[promisespromises2]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 12:14pm

Love the people, but the writing I could not deal with. The jokes weren't funny and I feel like the actors were trying too hard to make them be.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 12:37pm

I gave up on this show several weeks ago and have since removed it from my DVR Schedule. I'm sure I'm not the only person who has stopped watching it as well. It was just a horrible mess and sad to watch such great talent reducing themselves to amateur level to make a horrible series funny.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 3:19pm

They need to put Thomas Lennon on another show.

Agreed. He and Linda Lavin were the only reasons I watched the show.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 3:32pm

I fekt Thomas Lennon's character was in a whole other show than the rest of the cast.

I will say I laughed multiple times every episode. This is much more than I can say for the insulting "New Normal."

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 3:56pm

Even Partners was better than New Normal.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 4:03pm

Yeah, I liked Partners. It reminded me of the Justin Bateman/Alec Mapa "Some of My Best Friends."

[Adam Chris]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 4:32pm

Aw, man! The show was getting better! I think Sean is great and enjoyed Linda Lavin. Even his boss was starting to grow on me. Unfortunately, Megan was terribly miscast as well as his other office buddy - his name escapes me at the moment. I didn't feel they truly would have been friends. I agree with poster that said this show needed another character (his partner, perhaps) to help carry the story. It would have made the show richer and allowed some breathing room before it jumped back to Sean. I love Sean, but like him I'm in smaller doses.

[PrinceCaspian]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 4:53pm

At least this gives Megan Hilty more time to promote her wedding

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 5:29pm

"Yeah, I liked Partners. It reminded me of the Justin Bateman/Alec Mapa "Some of My Best Friends.""

I thought Partners was a very slight but fun old style sitcom. Sean Saves the World was an old style sitcom but I just found nothing about it charming or fun (and I like many of the actors and actresses, like Linda Lavin.) I believe they were on different networks, but did they have different production companies? Because both shows had the same kinda annoying "rhythmic clapping" music between scenes.

Some of My Best Friends -- from what I remember was pretty good too. I looked for it online a while back without much success (this was before people started paying attention to Bateman again--it was based on Kiss Me Guido with Danny Nucci in the Cuban role and apparently and Wiki says that annoying super Republican gay man/Sondheim fanatic Marc Cherry co-created it before Dhousewives.)

I prefer however the early 70s Some of My Best Friends Are movie (which is basically Boys in the Band set in a gay bar -- but adds Rue McClanahan and Fannie Flagg!)

[SidebySidebyLogan]

Posted: 1/29/14 at 6:02pm

It really is too bad. The show was truly terrible in the beginning and my friend and I only kept watching as a courtesy to Hayes, Hilty, and Lavin but around Halloween it started to find it's footing and the past few weeks have actually been really solid. Hayes and Lavin esp. have started getting some decent material from the writers. They still don't know what to do with Hilty (or how to dress her - one scene she looks great, the next she's in a leopard print top with her bra strap showing). After the past three or four episodes, I would really like to see what they would have come up with given a second season. And I never would have believed I'd have said that after the pilot. But I personally like their current tone better than Michael J Fox's show. And I don't see how it's any worse than shows on other networks that don't get acclaim or particularly big ratings but still run. Granted, I don't pay much attention to ratings but did it really do that much worse than The Middle?