After tossing it all over the schedules like a grenade with the pin taken out, Fox has finally borrowed the nerve to [effectively] kill-off the Brad Garrett vehicle, “Til Death.” It’s been pulled from the schedules, effective today, and is supposed to return after November’s sweeps. But I don’t recommend holding your breath.
Mr. Garrett is a good Actor. I can’t say I’d stand in line to witness his Hamlet, but he displayed more talent and timing in one scene of ‘Raymond’ than Mr. Romano presented in a season combined, and deserves better reward than a train-wreck like this. The plots were redundant, the neighbors repugnant and the corporate incompetence that made Fox unable to stick a pin in the schedule and stake that as its home was not just inept, it was fatal.
A sit-com is only as good as its writers, but if ten-percent of their gift ever makes it to air, it’s often fatally scarred by the twenty ‘Producers’ all the Nets seem determined to attach to each show. A writer labors for hours to create their best work, then these prosaic drones who couldn’t ‘Produce’ gas after ten-pounds of Bush’s hold two-hundred meetings and ‘produce’ it to bits – And the resultant melange dooms that show to a grave. So the net buys a new one, and does the same thing!
And they can’t figure out why we’re all hooked on Tivo.
The recipe really is risibly simple. Talented cast + Unfettered Writers = Guaranteed Nielsen gold. And how to reach that Nirvana is equally clear: Don’t cancel the shows, can the ‘Producers.’ You’ll save yourselves millions and the percipient talent will hook viewers in droves. And just think how the sponsors will love you for that !
But is there a way to get this message across? If you think you know one, feel free to suggest…
