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MEN IN TREES and OCTOBER ROAD
It's shocking to me how devastated Ausiello appears to be about the demise of MEN IN TREES, yet he loathes OCTOBER ROAD like bone cancer.
"Truer words have never been spoken," he writes, in reference to Jenny Bicks saying that no show could have survived the multiple re-scheduling that her show was put through for two seasons.
Really, Mr. Ausiello? Jesus. Pretty big, ridiculous words, no? MEN IN TREES was an unremarkable piffle, whose audience was older than a pharaoh. This show was totally expendable. You should know better than that.
This show WAS given plenty of chances; in fact, I think it had been aired, at one time or another, on every single night of the week, save for Tuesday. Ms. Bicks is right in what she says - yet she's wrong, too. It's the chicken and the egg theory. I.E., the reason the show was moved around so much, was BECAUSE it did so poorly in its previous timeslot.
Alas, there's an old expression, a timeless wisdom, really: "you can't shine crap."
OCTOBER ROAD, on the other hand, never really had a chance to shine, during its second season. They put it on after a disastrous lead-in, NOTES FROM THE UNDERBELLY, then pre-empted it a bunch of times, because Natalie Holloway was supposed to be alive and well somewhere, and apparently, the world was dying to see P Diddy in A RAISIN IN THE SUN.
At the end of the day, Mr. Ausiello and his ilk are obviously entitled - and get paid for, no less - their opinions. And that's cool for them.
But I've always said that "those who can't DO, review."
Later...
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May 9, 2008 1:37 AM
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