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He tries to get executives to believe him--only they know it.
While "Gunsmoke" and "Bonanza" were still running, they were both nearing their ends and it had been years since a new Western had really caught on; I think that this trend did a lot to hold "Nichols" back, and was the main reason that NBC executives doubted that it would ever find a large audience But to me, a good Western, unlike a show set in contemporary times, is somewhat timeless, as are other "period" shows; changing fashions and the like do nothing to make them look any more "dated" than they were supposed to be, and I think that watching this show, 10 years after it was produced, is really what brought this point home to me.
Since the 80's were over, I guess the executives were experimenting in meth (the drug of choice during the 90's) because there is no other reason to explain this travesty.
While it's true that sequels are usually, bar a few notable exceptions, a mistake and exist merely to provide studio executives with an opportunity to cash in on the success of a previous film by offering us either a thinly disguised retread of the original story or a plot line so far removed from the intentions of the original that the resulting film makes no sense.
Kurt Russell (as Steven Post) works as a mail-boy for struggling TV station UBC (that's United Broadcasting Corporation); he is going nowhere at work, offering ridiculous projects like "Abraham Lincoln's Doctor's Dog" to studio executives - because Lincoln, doctors, and dogs are popular.
This phrase indicates that a TV show has passed its prime and the executives in charge decided to invigorate the show by fundamentally changing the formula.
Surely all those development executives, at the UK Film Council, could have noticed this at the script stage.
Being "just" a small-town girl AND blonde a couple of evil executives at a building firm decides she's the perfect scapegoat for their cunning plan.
There's a group of Fox TV executives sitting around a boardroom table wondering what new show to commission.
An advice to the executives at Disney, ABC , ABC Family and the producers: Under any circumstances please do not hire the composer or music supervisor to do any of your future films.
Vance was a long-worded and superior detective genius, and his character being assigned to William Powell probably meant the executives at Warner Brothers were aware of the possibility that in less-engaging hands this detective might alienate viewers.
later he was played by Basil Rathbone, Warren William, and Paul Lukas before being consigned to "B" picture status.The other question as always with Warner Brothers executives is why they chose Vance as a character; their penchant was to choose men who operated outside the law, with no apparent discrimination between a vicious murderer and a champion of individual rights against all comers.
It was played to executives at a few networks before Showcase decided to sign them up for a tv series.
Charlton Heston (in a great shape) plays a cop investigating the murder of one of Soylent's most eminent executives and he stumbles upon scandals and dark secrets...
The premise of the show is unique and fresh ( I guess the executives at ABC are not used too that, as it was not another reality show).
After CITIZEN KANE in 1941, Hollywood executives turned their cob-webbed backs on the great Orson Welles.
I think sometimes that the network executives think they are the 'gods' of the entertainment world.
I hope the sci-fi channels executives get word of these comments, and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers.
The picture celebrates Hollywood glamour and punctures it all at once, as it gets a lot of comic mileage out of pompous and ego-maniacal actors and duplicitous studio executives.
I have just finished watching the Complete Series DVD collection of "Freaks and Geeks," one of the best high school television series on televisions that, thanks to idiotic network executives who continue to make the decisions that make network television more and more unbearable to watch, have truly missed out on a gem.
If you're into romance, enjoy the passionate and romantic intimacy shared between the Janitor and an executives assistant.
Money hungry record executives?
And this movie: It was mostly about the BoSox executives, owner, general manager.
I have read that Hitchcock wanted a different ending, but that it was shot down my the movie executives.
I know...I know...these are descriptions that are an instant turn off to many cold hearted movie executives who are only looking for a return on their investment.
Sure, they take some license with certain characters (not all account executives are back-stabbing clothes-horses).
This movie might have made a few more dollars and gotten some better reviews had they spent more time utilizing focus groups and marketing executives, but thankfully for those who are lucky enough to see this film and intelligent enough to enjoy it, they did not.
One scene featured some notorious television executives storming into the set demanding safe yet unoriginal concepts.
Anyone with some knowledge of the TV industry (or any area of the media) know that executives everywhere are prone to dumbing down products that could have been amazing.
Could too many executives have slightly spoilt the broth?
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