Re: How we got fucked by ABC. Hard.

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: : Yesterday, we got together and recorded the 'Dogma' DVD commentary in NYC : : at our beloved Gizmo. It was the same crew that did the 'Rats' commentary : : (me, Mewes, Mosier, Vincent, Lee, and Affleck), and this time around, the : : entire commentary was videotaped for inclusion. : : I don't think the stuff's as funny as the 'Rats' commentary. But then, : : it's a really different flick. Strong work from all involved. : : Today, we're taping interviews at the store for a documentary J.M.'s : : putting together as well. Should be cool. : : What's not cool is that airdate ABC gave us. Folks, May 31st pretty much : : insures the show's failure, in my book. Essentially, it seems the network : I think you shoudl put the toons on another network, or even try releasing them on video or add them to your dvd's as a bonus track.There are enough of us out here who would buy or watch either. : : doesn't like the show (odd, as they pursued it rather heavily at the start, : : and also told us to our faces how much they dug it). They held test : : screenings for the show in San Diego and Ohio at the start of February and : : got numbers they didn't like. Funny thing was, the audiences they : : recruited for the screenings were for another show, so a very key : : demographic was missing from the mix: the 18 to 24 year olds. This is : : comparable to test screening 'Dogma' for an audience of 55 to 80 year old : : priests. It's inane. : : And it's pretty much over, I guess. Very seldomly does a show launched in : : the summer get picked up. And even though we've got great buzz (which : : started at the Television Critics thing and has built ever since) while : : their Kyra Sedgewick "laugher" was mostly reviled by the critics who saw it : : early, THAT show gets to debut during the season - presumably airing in : : sweeps, if they last - while we're relegated to the dry gulch that is the : : summer, when traditionally 25% of the audience is no longer watching. : : So let's all give Disney-owned ABC a big round of applause. I can't : : believe we got fucked hard by the mouse twice in the span of a year. : : Fucking suits, man. I don't know why I bother... : : In other news (on a far better network), Affleck was great on SNL the other : : night. I was there (though not all week, as I've read; I was only there : : for the live broadcast), and let me tell you: as hard as he worked during : : the show, he worked harder between skits, being raced hither and yon, : : dropping trow for costume changes, donning many a wig. Very rarely does a : : host show up in as many sketches as Ben did. The man deserves some major : : props. : : My apologies to those who went to the Shrine show in L.A., only to discover : : we weren't there. NewsAskew posted earlier in the week that I wasn't going : : to be in attendance. I believe we're making it up, however, on March 19th. : : Come celebrate a show that its own network refuses to believe in. The way : : shit's going, it may be your only chance to see the show. : : No offense to Regis, but how long do they think that show's going to be a : : hit if they keep airing the hell out of it. I guess it doesn't matter in : : short-sighted thinking, as the plan is to win this season, with little : : thought to the next. Which means that 'Millionaire' will pretty much be on : : ABC everytime you turn your television on, over the next few months. : : This is why t.v. sucks, folks. And - with the exception of 'The Simpsons', : : 'Law and Order', and 'The X-Files' - this is why I use my television solely : : as a means to watch DVD's, videos, and porn. : : I guess it's time to go back to the day job. On that subject, wait 'til we : : announce what's next on the horizon. It's a humdinger, and a helluva way : : to close out the Askewniverse flicks. Were it not for this, I'd be a lot : : bluer about ABC's dumping of 'Clerks'. : : But then again, I'm not all that surprised. You go bottomless amongst : : penned up anal rapists like these fucks, sooner or later, you're going to : : get cornholed against your will 'til you

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