Do You have Any Interest in Seeing MJ Fox and His Misfiring Brain on TV?

@hawkeye10,

hawkeye10 wrote:

Staffing issues.

time to update your resto thread?

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Hawkeye seems to be in a bad mood lately for some reason he had yet to share with us.

Probably had to wait an extra 2.12404 seconds while a blind man crossed the park path in front of him.

Joe(completely oblivious to others)Nation

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@Linkat,

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He's been on the Good HouseWife.

Of which with my limited TV viewing I've not watched.

It's called "The Good Wife"

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@Miller,

I haven't seen neither.

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The Michael J. Fox Show Looks Great

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There is, obviously, a huge amount of interest in Michael J. Fox’s return to weekly TV after more than a decade away. In case you need a reminder, Fox, whose breakout role was Alex P. Keaton on NBC’s 1980s sitcom Family Ties, stepped away from his starring role on Spin City in 1998 after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Fox decided he wanted to spend more time with his family. He made a few appearances on shows like Boston Legal and The Good Wife, but only recently did he decide to resume his acting career full-time. The result is The Michael J. Fox Show. The actor plays Mike Burnaby, who, after years of staying home with his family while dealing with the effects of Parkinson’s disease, decides to return to his old job on TV. (He was a beloved New York news anchor.)*

The autobiographical spin is a smart move by Fox, who clearly has a refreshing and humorous take on his own experience. In the opening of the trailer, a police officer recognizes him and asks for his autograph because his “uncle’s got Alzheimer’s.” Meanwhile Mike’s daughter, Eva (played by Juliette Goglia), attempts to use his illness in order to garner sympathy from her teacher for a class project. (She fails.) The amiable Fox, who has surely received more than his share of saccharine compassion in the years since announcing his illness, seems determined to shed the notion that he needs to be pitied—and The Michael J. Fox Show could go a long way toward humanizing those who suffer from life-changing diseases.

The promising cast includes Betsy Brandt (Marie on Breaking Bad) and Wendell Pierce (Bunk on The Wire and Antoine Batiste on Treme). The struggling NBC may have a hit on its hands.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/05/13/the_michael_j_fox_show_trailer_watch_the_actor_return_to_tv_video.html

this is business not a charity event, and we will know soon if NBC screwed up. my guess is on yes.

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@hawkeye10,

we generally dont want to be around victims nor do we want to laugh at them....who exactly thought that this show made business sense?

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@hawkeye10,

the answer is no....7.3 million week one and 5.9 week two. the lousy reviews could not have helped. this is a major ratings bust, the network was hoping for at least double the opening week numbers, and getting worse week two is a strong inducation that this show will be gone soon.

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@hawkeye10,

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he answer is no....7.3 million week one and 5.9 week two. the lousy reviews could not have helped. this is a major ratings bust

An you are happy about this show failing WHY?..........

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@BillRM,

I would have preferred the show had been well done and gotten poor ratings, because then we would know the problem is Fox. I think that we want to pay homage to our beloved victims but that we dont want them too close, that we have no desire to have them in our home. but even the best reviews of this show that I have seen have it safe and bland, so I dont know if the problem is the victim or if it is suckage.

the network is going to lose big here which will discourage the practice of building shows around those who have debilitating diseases. if they were trying to do victim worship it failed. losing money is a deal killer.

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@hawkeye10,

Fox have one hell of a lot of talent with or without his disease so I see nothing wrong with trying to showcase his abilities by using his disease as a framework.

We as a society gain nothing by being like the Germans in the 1930s/40s and respecting only people in perfect health and shunning those who are not even if they have a great deal to offer us.

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@BillRM,

Hawkee seems to give advice about everything , even absent any personal knowledge or experience.
As I recall, The Original "Seinfeld Chronicles" was a total loser for most of the first season until Larry David nd Jerry tweked the formula and created the "Show about nothing"

A gimmick always helps
Maybe Michael J can have hilarious "tics" that are constantly misinterpreted and laughs follow

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@BillRM,

I suspect that the people who green lit this show had a case of the warm squishies too, but capitalism tends not to respect our personal emotional investment. the network made a poor business decision, they spent too much per show, committed to buying too many shows, and since the public does not want them they will lose a bunch of money. what is debatable is whether doing this show at all made any business sense. you will recall that when I first heard about it my response was"who the **** is going to want to watch that?", and it turns out that few people do. but as farmerdude points out I am not a network programing expert, so there is a chance that I am wrong.

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@hawkeye10,

hawkeye10 wrote:

....what the heck happened to his moral compass?

Whatever happened to yours? Rolling Eyes

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@wmwcjr,

the evaluation of whether there is a market for something has nothing to do with the morality or lack thereof one doing the evaluation. the standard way to find out is to hire market researchers and to run a pilot to see if people tune in. the network did neither, they bought before anything had been made. dumb, dumb, dumb.

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My conscience started troubling me this afternoon because I had made the following cheap shot earlier in the day:

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@hawkeye10,

hawkeye10 wrote:

....what the heck happened to his moral compass?

Whatever happened to yours?

I really appreciate those who gave me a "thumbs up," but I believe that what I should have done was to express my own disagreement in my own words instead of making a cheap shot and then running off. I've had my own disagreements with hawkeye, but this shouldn't be the way I express them. So, I apologize for making the cheap shot; and I also apologize to everyone else, including those who gave me "thumbs up," for making a fool and a jerk out of myself. Again, I'm not saying hawkeye's position is right; and I don't believe in setting rules for everyone else. That's none of my business. But I have to have the courage to publicly address my own guilty conscience and admit when I believe I've been wrong according to my own standards.

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@wmwcjr,

i seriously doubt that you know what my position is so let me tell you: you dont set out to make people uncomfortable unless you have a good reason, and "the wife is sick of me shuffling around the house all day every day" is NOT a good reason. and you dont get out of you wrong by constantly saying "but, but, but i dont want people to feel sorry for me!". and for damn sure you dont executive produce an alleged comedy THAT IS NOT FUNNY!

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@wmwcjr,

Nut'n wrong with that! But, you still got a thumb's up from me, BECAUSE you're right.

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@cicerone imposter,

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LOSER: "The Michael J. Fox Show" (NBC)

This is one of fall TV's biggest surprises: We expected a wave of nostalgia and hype to carry Michael J. Fox's primetime return to big ratings. But "Fox's" debut got doubled up by "The Crazy Ones" (7.5 million total viewers vs. 15.5 million), and it sunk below 4 million viewers in Week 3. An NBC executive even called the show's ratings "disappointing"… probably because the network has already committed to producing 22 episodes of "Fox," no matter how low the ratings sink.

http://tv.yahoo.com/photos/fall-tv-winners-losers-1381437996-slideshow/the-michael-j-fox-show-photo-1381442339925.html

STUPID

Somebody at the network does not understand current victim culture, nearly everyone will claim to love victims, but that does not mean that we want to spend time with them.....especially when all they produce is crap.

OOPS!

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@hawkeye10,

I think the same is going to happen to the new Robin WIlliams venue. It is almost unwatchable.

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@farmerman,

Mrs F watched the new "Ironsides" and since I never even liked the old Ironsides as a kid , she was elected. She was not impressed at this attempt at nostalgia.

Looks like we get the TV we deserve, "reality shows: and stupid talent fests hosted by divas.

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