NBC saves my sanity...
...by cancelling "The Law Firm." I guess it had a dismall 5.1 million viewers in its debut and only two in its second week (some guy in a Minneapolis apartment and another in Richmond who fell asleep with the TV on), finishing a distant third behind WWE Smackdown on UPN and CSI: Wichita on CBS.
Thank you, NBC. I don't care what anyone else says about ya. You're alright in my book.
posted by Your Friendly Neighborhood Clark Bar at 8/23/2005 01:41:00 PM
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Oh don't bullshit. You were secretly in love with that show. Admit it. You're sad right now. ;)
P.S. Tara said hey back.
I seem to remember them saying in the movie version of Private Parts that people who hate Howard Stern listen to him twice as much as people who like him. It's like that.
Lawyers and accountants are two groups who should not have reality shows. I think actuaries fall into that column too.
And teachers too, right? ;o)
It's possible to have a decent reality TV show about the law. Heck, that's all Court TV is these days. The OJ trial was one big two year long Truman Show. NBC had some Law & Order spinoff that followed real cases from start to finish. I thought it was interesting but the show got canned in favor of Law & Order: The Break Room or some crap like that. Not sure how many Law & Order or CSI shows we really need.
I'm digressing. A TV show that's about the actual legal system instead of ripping off the Apprentice might be a good idea. The Law Firm was just mental masturbation.
Yeah, teachers probably wouldn't make good relaity TV fodder. But the real world of lawyers probably wouldn't either. Sure, trial stuff is sometimes compelling, but mostly, from what I understand as an eminent legal scholar, the law is boring tedium to those outside the profession. And one could only really do such a show about civil cases, since criminal cases involve more privacy issues (I could be wrong about that), but civil cases involve fewer TV worthy moments.
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