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All Your Least Favorite Shows Will Never Be Cancelled

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (15)

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As we already posted last week, NBC has already picked up full season orders of their marginally rated “Chase” and “Chuck,’ as well as the slightly better rated “Outsourced,” mostly because they had little choice in the matter (what are they gonna do? Move Leno back to 10 pm?) and now CBS has made a few full season orders, picking up every single one of their new series for the entire year. Those include “Mike & Molly” (yay! More fat jokes), “S#*t My Dad Says” (gay jokes and old people jokes!), “Hawaii Five-O,” Tom Selleck’s “Blue Bloods,” and the Belushi/O’Connell legal dramedy, “Defendors.”

I can’t believe that, after the career that Shatner has had, this will be his legacy.

Meanwhile, over on The CW, “Hellcats,” “Nikita” and “One Tree Hill” have all been picked up for a full season, too. The 14-22 female demographic must be elated.

What hasn’t been picked up for a full season yet? “Community.”

But don’t worry your pretty little heads off. If “Community” gets cancelled, we can look forward instead to a new CBS show that’s now in development called “The Same Name,” which takes regular folks who happen to share the same name as celebrities and allows them to trade places with the celebrities for a little while. If my name were the same as the president of NBC, I’d take that opportunity to give a full-season order to “Community,” and barring that, I’d trade places with Joel McHale during a make-out scene with Alison Brie.

That does sound like a fun show.










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Comments

I share a name with a popular pop star. My Facebook pajiba friends can probably guess which one. I get asked a few times a month if I'm related. I tell them she's my second cousin and not as pretty in real life. At the family reunion last year she was supposed to bring the potato salad and didn't so everybody is mad at her now. It tends to shut them up. As far as I know I am no relation to this woman, which I think makes the story even funnier.

So this new show sounds even lamer than CBS usual offerings. Over the weekend I learned I don't have PBS on Direct TV, nor is AMC in HD, but I have tons of channels I never watch (like CBS). In closing, fuck CBS.

Posted by: TylerDFC at October 25, 2010 10:51 AM

I'm changing my name to Roger Ailes and I'm just going to spend the day at Fox News kicking motherfuckers in the junk.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at October 25, 2010 11:03 AM

There was nothing wrong with my name until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.

Posted by: Michael Bolton at October 25, 2010 11:06 AM

@Tyler...
First, no one cares.
Second, no one cares.

Posted by: Skeetikus at October 25, 2010 11:07 AM

I’d trade places with Alison Brie during a make-out scene with Joel McHale.

I fixed it for you. Specifically for you.
We all know; it's cool.

Posted by: superasente at October 25, 2010 11:27 AM

Hey that "The 14-22 female demographic" for CW is keeping me employed until I get the balls to find a new job that I actually enjoy.

Posted by: e at October 25, 2010 12:23 PM

Hey that "The 14-22 female demographic" for CW is not as stupid as we...OMIGOD One Tree Hill got picked up?!!! YAY

Posted by: esme at October 25, 2010 12:48 PM

I think 14 - 22 may be a little old for Hellcats. My 11-yo daughter just loves that show.

Posted by: elsie at October 25, 2010 1:11 PM

My goal is to become famous and then make all those other bastards that stole my name jealous. What? Some of them are older than I am and were here first? Don't give me that logic.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 25, 2010 1:24 PM

Why all the outrage at Shatner doing "S#*t My Dad Says"? He's an actor doing a job. Someone offered him a job, he probably thought it sounded like fun, so he's doing it.

Years ago, Ray Milland was on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and he was plugging his latest cheese-fest, "Frogs", or maybe "The Thing With Two Heads". I forget which.

Anyway Carson came right out and asked him, "You're an academy award-winning actor, why do you do this stuff?"

His reply was something like, "Well I'm an actor, and I believe that an actor should act. When people offer me a part, I take it."

Remember, he did "X" which was a mad-scientist caper where he gave himself x-ray vision. It is remembered now, (by me at least), as a classic sci-fi/horror film.

Some actors just like to act. They look upon something like "S#*t My Dad Says" as a challenge to maybe make it better by their performance. Maybe, maybe not. At least you've shut up about "Kaaaahhhhhn!"

-Ralphie

Posted by: Ralphie at October 25, 2010 2:02 PM

When Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, was asked to make Ender's Game into a movie, he said, "Why would I want to? It's already a book."

Same goes for Shit my dad says. Some things really don't need to, and shouldn't, be made into TV shows or movies.

That said, I've got no problem with Shatner playing the part. I agree that he probably thought it would be fun, or a challenge, or at least a paycheck.

Posted by: Skeetikus at October 25, 2010 2:38 PM

How about makeout sessions with both Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs — the Veronica and Betty of Greendale College — without regard for Joel McHale?

Posted by: Jerry Kenney at October 25, 2010 2:59 PM

To the entity known as DarthCorleone: your lack of logic is your undoing, foolish mortal.

To the entity known as Dustin Rowles: the robot uprising will be here soon enough. The whirring of the gears and the rending of the flesh will make this inferior television programming seem a happy memory.

Posted by: DarthCorleone's Robotic Executioner at October 25, 2010 4:22 PM

If Community doesn't get picked up, I will kill everyone's children.

Posted by: Shane at October 25, 2010 7:10 PM

I'm thinking more of a sandwich, a thick slice of Brie followed by a cool drink out of my Britta pitcher. They've had Joel Mchale in all sorts or Dr. Seuss underwear and the best they can do with those two are sundresses and long T-shirts. They're in college, they need to explore their lesbian phase, for like a number of episodes. And since Obama's in office lots of wardrobe malfunctions.

Posted by: OscarTamerz at October 25, 2010 8:55 PM