I know I promised people a nice treatment on the Constitutional questions implicated by the DC Congressional voting rights act (as well as some sad amendments, where it stands on approval, and the curious alternative options for representation [the word of the day is "retrocession"]), and I’ll get to that if I have time tonight, but I wanted to post this from The Smoking Gun first.
Apparently, in 1994, the pilot of a new TV show called Friends was put forth to an NBC focus group, to see if it has legs for production. The report gave the show a 41/100 (which, to be fair, doesn’t tell us too much; it could be that they always give the shows a bad raw score), and provided the following comments:
Overall reactions to this pilot were not very favorable. Interest in the show was very narrow. […] Most viewers felt the show was not very entertaining, clever, or original. […] Stated viewing intentions for a series based on this pilot were not encouraging.
They add some critical feedback from each character, as well as a list of “recommendations” for improvement. (My favorite: “Use Chandler’s dreams as a running bit on the show.” Can anyone who actually watched Friends tell me if they did this?)
I think somewhere in that list should have to add an in-your-face-talking-dog to the show.
Read the whole report here.
no, chandler’s dreams were not a running bit on the show. i don’t think it would have worked at all. glad they didn’t follow that advice!
Comment by hiddenpaw — 27 March 2009 @ 7:26 am |