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“Viva Laughlin” sings no more.
Less than five days after its premiere, CBS has yanked its low-rated and reviled musical drama “Viva Laughlin.”
A repeat of “CSI” will fill “Viva’s 8 p.m. timeslot this Sunday. Starting Nov. 4, a new, 12th edition of “The Amazing Race” will inherit the slot.
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FIVE-TIME EMMY AWARD-WINNING "THE AMAZING RACE" RETURNS FOR ITS 12TH EDITION
ON SUNDAY, NOV. 4, 8:00-9:00 PM
"The Amazing Race 12" Spans 50,000 Miles Including First Time Visits to Ireland , Lithuania and Croatia
THE AMAZING RACE, winner of five consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality Competition Series, returns for its 12th edition on the CBS Television Network, Sunday, Nov. 4 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT).
"If there ever was a season that I consider one of the best, it's this one," said Bertram van Munster," executive producer, director and co-creator of THE AMAZING RACE. "It's insanely funny, fast-paced and dramatic all at once. Teams are in hot pursuit of one another at every location and its reality television at its nail-biting best."
This season, teams will travel approximately 50,000 miles, covering five new countries including Ireland , Lithuania and Croatia .
In its 11 previous editions, broadcast in several time periods, THE AMAZING RACE has averaged more than 10 million viewers and a 4.1/10 in adults 18-49.
Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman and Hayma Screech Washington are the executive producers for Bruckheimer Television and Earthview Inc. in association with ABC Television Studio and Amazing Race Productions. THE AMAZING RACE was created by Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri. Phil Keoghan hosts.
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ON SUNDAY, NOV. 4, 8:00-9:00 PM
"The Amazing Race 12" Spans 50,000 Miles Including First Time Visits to Ireland , Lithuania and Croatia
THE AMAZING RACE, winner of five consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality Competition Series, returns for its 12th edition on the CBS Television Network, Sunday, Nov. 4 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT).
"If there ever was a season that I consider one of the best, it's this one," said Bertram van Munster," executive producer, director and co-creator of THE AMAZING RACE. "It's insanely funny, fast-paced and dramatic all at once. Teams are in hot pursuit of one another at every location and its reality television at its nail-biting best."
This season, teams will travel approximately 50,000 miles, covering five new countries including Ireland , Lithuania and Croatia .
In its 11 previous editions, broadcast in several time periods, THE AMAZING RACE has averaged more than 10 million viewers and a 4.1/10 in adults 18-49.
Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman and Hayma Screech Washington are the executive producers for Bruckheimer Television and Earthview Inc. in association with ABC Television Studio and Amazing Race Productions. THE AMAZING RACE was created by Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri. Phil Keoghan hosts.
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...is awesome.
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Can anyone name a weekly television musical (not a variety show a la Hee Haw or such) but a scripted musical that has actually succeeded? I just can't think of one offhand...
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Do they cancel shows because advertisers don't buy air time for them? I suppose that would make sense.
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Just wondering
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Wow, what are the last few shows that got pulled after the premiere? And I just checked the CBS website and it looks like they have erased nearly all trace of this show. I found a link to the pilot on CBS' "innertube" but that was it. "Viva Laughlin" is now contraband, apparently!
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CBS is the new FOX!the_patriot, the only show I can think of is Fame.
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I think this is the first casualty of the fall season (Anchorwoman doesn't count). which is surprising because don't they need to stockpile product?
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they should make 60 minutes a musical
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I don't care if the show did suck and got awful reviews, it is just disrepectful to the cast and crew to cancel a show after TWO episodes. It's impossible for a show to build an audience that fast, and I hate that that is how TV is being done these days.
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Oct 22, 2007 9:23:39 PM CDT
With Amazing Race back now, 1 more shitty new CBS show must go t
by nalapou
JERICHO!!
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Why was it allowed on the air if it is so bad that it must be cancelled so quickly?
That's a sign that the executives have no idea of what makes a good series.
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Oct 22, 2007 9:42:14 PM CDT
If you plaster Hugh Jackman's name all over something...
by www.revyou.tv
...he should appear in it for more than 5 minutes! This show got yanked because it didn't have enough Jackman, plain and simple. Plus a tough guy singing? You can bend reality, but you have to do it right. UGLY BETTY does it perfectly, PUSHING DAISIES goes a bit too far (IMHO, but a lot of peeps luvs that show) and VIVA LAUGHLIN just broke reality in half and spit on it.
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Flight of the Conchords.
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Last year it was "Emily's Reasons Why Not" that got canned after it's first episode.
Shows canceled after one episode(worldwide+Reality)
http://tinyurl.com/yad78d
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When they overdubbed the actors with the original versions of the songs they were supposed to be singing, was that a last minute panicky change? Or did they always intend for their flashy t.v. star-powered musical to look like the sort of rock videos my friends and I used to make in 7th grade?
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Mixboi, that list is great. I remember that show "The Will". That show was fuckin hilarious. Those people were just absolute hick disasters. I remember being upset when they cancelled it after one episode. I always thought that it was because they had accidentally let the word "fuck" slip through in the initial broadcast though.
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Many people don't realize this, but Viva Laughlin is Polish for "Three train pile up where grandchildren watch their grandparents die in a horrible chemical explosion." It's that kind of train wreck folks.
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Jackman didn't appear at the TV Critics Association summer press tour to promote the show, nor was on via satellite from Aussie, where he wound up being as located at that time. He knew then, I suspect, this was an all-time turkey and distanced himself from it.
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Moonves at CBS, stat!
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The last few seasons have really declined in qualtiy. The All-Stars was just terrible. But I like the show and hope it can regain its lost form.
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I don't frequent many of the talkbacks for CBS shows, so I don't know if this topic has been covered already. Am I the only one who's found "innertube" to suck old man balls.There's no way to easily navagate to the different blocks in the shows. It locks up all the time. It just freezes on black.Has anybody else had problems with it?
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I had the douche-chills the entire time.
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And yeah, it was probably the result of the shittiness of "Viva Laughlin." I watched it, and the show alternated between inept and jaw-droppingly over the top. Wow. What in THE HELL were CBS and Jackman thinking?
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Could have been something watchable if they had gone all out on the musical numbers. Who thought that actors kind of singing along with actual songs did anything besides make them look crazy. If they had just turned everything in a musical i think this show would have worked. Jackman should fucking know musicals, and just singing along with a song is horrible, i can do that in my car and be more entertained. I do think though if they had made this a straight out gay as hell musical it would have been watchable because at least then it would have been crazy. It was trying to hard to maintain that CSI coolness too it that every show thats not a sitcom has to have. They went for style (missed the mark) rather then flashy. And I show about a casino needs to be loud and obnoxiousness, and probably only a miniseries.
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It was quirky fun. And it was good to see Ethan Rom in a pool sipping cocktails with fat chicks. CAN'T DB WOODSIDE GET SOME LOVE?!?! GOOD GOD!
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It was the mediocre but overrated heist show that got canned after 3 episodes last year because it didn't find an audience like the even more mediocre and overrated Walton's Nuclear Holocaust show. I would have thought they'd pull the Jericho rabbit out of the hat, but I guess they're going to hold onto it for the next turd to drop, perhaps Moonlight. But hey, they found a way to incorporate air-to-ground missiles into a vampire show, so maybe it deserves to continue!!
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Name a show that was canceled without ever having aired in it's regularly scheduled time slot:
Viva Laughlin was scheduled to be in the Sunday, 8:00 time slot. CBS buried the show and rigged the ratings to justify it by airing the debut on the wrong night, then showing the second episode with a fifteen minute delay so that anyone planning to watch a competitors show at 9:00 chose to skip it.
Does anyone here remember "Turn On" the Laugh-In spin-off that ABC canceled halfway through it's only 20 minute broadcast? Although the series actually aired one full episode, there were a couple of skittish or prudish affiliates who pulled the show, creating the urban legend that the show was so bad ABC pulled it off the air halfway through it's first episode. -
This makes COP ROCK look like a runaway hit.
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I need something to prop up the front corner of my couch. It's a little wobbly. Madchen, fire your agent already!
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The Monkees. It was at least a top 10 show, and may have been #1 or #2 in it's debut season.
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The network seriously buried that fact in all marketing and promo materials. I don't know if it would have helped but could it have hurt it? I saw the show twice and while it was a game try - more than Herc gave it credit for - the network could clearly not emulate the wonderful tone of the original BBC production.
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before ABC in their shitty wisdom canceled it. I hope the Amazing Race takes it up a notch, too. It's getting about as complacent as SURVIVOR.
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DUH.
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The mystery turns out to be no at all.
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cancelled before it even started. The immortal cop premise looked instriguing. Too Moonlightish even though he's a private eye vampire? I would have liked to have seen one episode before passing judgment.
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I remember seeing ads for it during the Summer (or was it as far back as Spring?) and thought it was worth a look. I just figured it was demoted to mid-season replacement. I have to think if it was cancelled it had less to do with quality and more to do with a possible lawsuit for being too similar to something (but what, I do not know).
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I think this is the only one that really qualifies, since Conchords and Monkees aren't musical theater. But again, it's kind of an exception considering Fame was at a performing arts school, so naturally they'd be running around singing. Unlike cops or casino workers. Who EVER thinks this format will work?
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The magic 8-ball never lies!
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Wasn't that something like Highlander?
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Why in the hell would you base a show in Laughlin. It's not even Vegas "Lite". There's nothing in Laughlin for chrissakes!
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Ah, well, back to X-Men!
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Why that pile of crap got awards, i'll never know. If you're gonna copy a british show, copy a good one, like "life on mars"
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I was willing to give Viva a chance UNTIL THEY STARTED BREAKING OUT INTO FUCKING SONG!!! Which was all of about two minutes in! What a fucking ABORTION of an idea! FUCK DREAMGIRLS!
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starring Pat Buchannan and Tony Blankley as casino heavies fighting for control of the city all while trying desperately to get Eleanor Clift in the sack. Featuring speacial guest star John Mclaughlin as the mafioso don who is masterminding a crime syndicate hell-bent on destroying all of them. Hey, it sounds better than the new Flash Gordon.
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asked if anyone could name a weekly TV musical. "That succeeded", which eliminates Cop Rock. And the Monkees, Partridge Family and Archies don't count because the songs didn't advance the plots. The musical episodes of Xena, Buffy and Scrubs don't count because they weren't the basis of the series. And musical variety shows like Where the Action Is, Hullaballoo, Shindig, Ed Sullivan Show, Hollywood Palace, New Wave Theatre, Midnight Special, In Concert, The Kenny Everett Video Show, etc. don't count because they don't have plots. The Simpsons and Family guy have done MANY musical episodes, but no always. And Fame only marginally counts because for them the songs were schoolwork. Well, I've never seen it or anything, but isn't there supposed to be some sort of HIGH SCHOOL based MUSICAL show on the Disney channel? What was that called...? Hannah Montana or something...?
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Days ago, The Patriot...
asked if anyone could name a weekly TV musical. "That succeeded".
Which eliminates Cop Rock and Viva Laughlin.
And the Monkees, Partridge Family and Archies don't count because the
songs didn't advance the plots.
The musical episodes of Xena, Buffy and Scrubs don't count because they weren't the basis of the series.
And musical variety shows like Where the Action Is, Hullaballoo,
Shindig, Ed Sullivan Show, Hollywood Palace, New Wave Theatre,
Midnight Special, In Concert, The Kenny Everett Video Show, etc.
don't count because they don't have plots.
The whole "Dawson's Anatomy of Arcadia" genre of shows that
incoporate current or recent songs don't count because the on screen
characters don't sing.
Ally McBeal and Nikki don't count, having a big production number at
the start or a night club performance at the end of every episode doesn't make it a musical.
Same with Cold Case, which uses music from a historical era to set
the time of the flashbacks.
The Simpsons and Family Guy have done MANY musical episodes, but not
always or regularly.
And Fame only marginally counts because for them the songs were
schoolwork.Well, I've never seen it or anything, but isn't there supposed to be
some sort of HIGH SCHOOL based MUSICAL show on the Disney channel?
What was that called...? Hannah Montana or something...?
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