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Success Guru Tony Robbins’ New NBC Series Proves One Of The Least Successful Things Ever!!
I am – Hercules!! NBC has yanked the six-episode reality series “Breakthrough With Tony Robbins” after only two episodes. The network will replace it with repeats of “Minute To Win It.” Last week its premiere was soundly clobbered by, among other things, repeats of "Wipeout" and "NCIS":
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It apparently went down from there.
I’m guessing Americans decided if they wanted to wanted to see more of Robbins after more than two decades of creepy nightly informercials, they could just DVR his pitches at 2 a.m.:
Find all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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lt's like grabbing a bunch of bananas.
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Aug. 4, 2010, 6:56 p.m. CST
This is the least successful talkback ever
by CHRISTIAN_BALE_TRASHED_MY_LIGHTS
DAMN YOU MICHAEL BA - um - TONY ROBBINS!
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"You're like Tony Robbins if he was a big, scary Frankenstein-looking... You're exactly like Tony Robbins."
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I can never tell.
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I saw that on flipping the channels, thought maybe the local NBC affil was desperate for cash, didn't know it was an actual show.
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Too bad one of the midget millionaires is dead as is Mike Levey of Amazing Discoveries! Is Tom Vu still alive? OH SHIT I'M GIVING ZUCKER IDEARS
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successful talkback for the least successful series featuring a success guru of all time.
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in what has got to be the least successful follow-up to the least successful talkback for the least successful series featuring a success guru of all time.
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what has got to be the least successful follow-up to the least successful comment in the least successful talkback for the least successful series featuring a success guru of all time.
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perverse glee though? The Leno thing was totally EARNED, but this one feels just a little (don't misunderstand me here).. a LITTLE easy and cheap. You know I love ya, Herc.
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With the occasional oasis every 500 miles.
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Aug. 5, 2010, midnight CST
"You're going to be exposed to some great tools"
by SierraTangoFoxtrotUniform
I leave the context to you, dear readers. Use it with reckless abandon and intense discrimination.
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He's sometimes full of shit but mostly communicates some decent philosphical concepts.
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creepy
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Anthony Robbins failed to find a home at NBC. Oh bother.
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If you can believe it.
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Aug. 5, 2010, 2:11 a.m. CST
People don't want motivation or inspiration, we want Snooki
by JoeSixPack
It's just a fact. Whatever idiot greenlit this show should be fired.
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Snookie actually has fans
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Aug. 5, 2010, 6:40 a.m. CST
The only thing I'd watch on NBC is the live executions of
by BetterCallSaul
NBC executives culminating in the burning of Jeff Zucker.
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So why watch a show with him? 'Nuff said!
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Robbins should play Lurch in the next Addams Family remake. You Rang?!?...
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Seriously minus football, this network isn't even on my radar. ABC has Wipeout for the wife with college football. CBS has football, IMYM and Big Bang plus I may give Shatner's show a try. Fox has Bones, football and the animation Sunday block. I watch more FX with Sons and their movies then I do NBC. This channel is fucking worthless even before the Jay Leno debacle which drew me even further away. I remember this being my childhood teenage years channel from Alf to Cosby to Night Court to Cheers to Seinfeld to West Wing to Heroes. Now, its utter trash.
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didn't NBC try this 10-12 years ago with Susan Powter and "Stop the Insanity" with her series from daytime to primetime, that lasted all of one episode. Motivational Speakers = Boring Television
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Who's the biggest?
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I don't think anyone thought this would be sucessful, I just don't see how this warranted an article at all...
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Into Creating New Series...Jay Leno used to say that network executives would comment that his face is too scary for prime time. What's their excuse for Robbins? To echo what paulloch stated, even a sitcom built around a motivational speaker, the one with Jason Alexander, failed terribly.
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There was a reality series with Tony Robbins? Never heard of it until NOW. That MIGHT'VE been part of the problem.
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well, will we?
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Anyone can program quality TV nowadays.
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Freak Shows and Geek Shows. But people still have this morbid curiosity to see them. That's where MTV comes in.
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You LOSE, Robbins<BR><BR>[Cue wacky "loser" horn riff]
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I tune in every week and i love the show but it's basically just 30 mins of youtube videos with tosh's commentary. So i guess my point is..where the fuck is the Tosh.0 talkback Herc?
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The first time I saw an ad for this show was last night, so I would say NBC might have goofed in that regard.
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Aug. 5, 2010, 3:20 p.m. CST
Tony Robbins=Just another snake oil salesman
by HarryKnowlesNonExistentInceptionReview
The guy's a two-bit bunko artist, plain and simple. It's just that America has no shortage of suckers, is all. I'm glad his show is canned, but equally pissed that we'll have to endure more of that stupid gameshow hosted by that Food Network- Time Traveller From 1997 Guy Who Is Actually Named "Guy".
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It's called Twitter.
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You and Jamie Oliver can kiss my ass.
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...True Blood(dominates Sunday Night), Mad Men, The Closer(1.5), Entourage, Jersey Shore, and Rizzoli and Isles (1.4)? Your list has no focus. Choose a genre, a day, an outlet, or a time and stick with it, instead of lumping a bunch of disparate programs together and trying to make us believe you have some rhyme or reason for doing it when there is none. Except that you have a deadline.
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Is anything on networks that's "reality" good? No. The cable channel stuff is much better. A few exceptions, maybe "Hell's Kitchen" (still waiting for someone to plant a meat cleaver in Ramsey's skull before the off-screen bodyguard can stop 'em.
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yeah, Tony's show will come out on 5 1/4" floppy disk (even with all the extras.) he shoulda stuck to playing Lurch and pitching empowerment to insomniacs.
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Nothing wrong with it. Its bar/house party games. Big deal. Not everything has to be "Mad Men." Sometimes people want something that can be just on in the background.
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Check out Stiller's "Tony Bobbins" from the old and underappreciated "Ben Stiller Show" in the 90s. Absolutely hilarious. "Isn't it all worth it if I can make just one person happy? Even if that one person is me?"
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In the Family Guy episode, "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", Peter goes to a Robbins book signing event. Peter introduces himself and Robbins bellows "Tony Robbins Hungry!", proceeding to swallow Peter whole in a manner resembling a snake.
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Anytime im in amerika the infomercials crack me up thinking that people actually buy into all self help shite, I mean seriously who the fuck buys this shit?
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but you know he has a footlong wiener,millions, and hot "wives"!
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the fact that his show aired TWICE before being "yanked" sort of indicates that we do NOT 'lap up this guy'.<p> also you are an idiot.
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Let me know, and I'm sure I can find some stupid shit that your people buy into as well.
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I love that fucking headline. I hate that missing-link motherfucker with the white wall of teeth - he is one creepy douchebag and total scam artist. He can't fail enough for me.
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When idiots like you call my country "Amerika". You're not that sharp, are you?
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Yeah, that "Guy" is an annoying douchebag....almost as annoying as that other douchebag on Extreme Home makeovers.
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