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The Palm Beach Post
December 11, 2007
Boo to ABC! Network Axes 'Big Shots'
By Kevin D. Thompson
Big Shots wasn't a big hit so ABC gave it a big push off the schedule.
And that was a big mistake.
OK, I'll stop using the word "big." In a TV season (if you could call it that) with only a few bright spots, Big Shots was a guilty pleasure treat, a fun dude version of Desperate Housewives I thoroughly enjoyed. The show's stars -- Dylan McDermott, Michael Vartan, Christopher Titus and Joshua Malina -- had great chemistry as four CEOs with messy personal lives. As a middle-aged man who was recently divorced, I was especially interested in Vartan's James Walker, also a recently divorced man learning how to navigate the single life all over again in world in which the rules have changed -- dramatically.
ABC is so down on Big Shots, the network isn't even going to burn off the three episodes it has in the can. I had some hope that despite unimpressive ratings, ABC was going to give Big Shots another shot. After all, that's what the networks have been doing, holding on to marginally performing shows (Life, Chuck, Dirty Sexy Money) just in case a prolonged writers' strike put the brakes on their ability to produce new shows for next season.
ABC should've been big enough (there's that word again, sorry!) to do that with Big Shots.
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In another sign that the writers' strike could go on for a long time, the Television Critics Association (of which I am a proud member!) announced that it's canceling the January Press Tour.
The TCA holds two tours (January and July) in which us TV critics get to interview a bunch of self-serving stars, writers and producers so we can give y'all the inside scoop on what's going down in TV land. But with no scripted shows in production, well, the networks won't have a heck of a lot to present on a TV Tour.
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