I whiled away the afternoon at Film Roman/Starz Media, underneath the flight pattern of the Bob Hope Airport ...
The last vestiges of King of the Hill -- the employees in the retake depart -- exit at the end of August. Then KOTH will be history, production-wise, and one of the longer-running prime-time comedies of our era will come to an end (except for repeats.)
The Goode Family, produced right next to King of the Hill, has been cancelled by ABC, but one of Goode's alumni said to me:
"The Goode Family ratings dropped after its first few weeks, but the producers want to find it another home, and say they're going to try. Maybe "Adult Swim", maybe somewhere else. They don't want it to go away ..."
To which I say, good luck, since we need all the animation we can get.
Elsewhere at Film Roman, at least part of The Simpsons crew is feeling a bit better about the work schedules. "We've gotten into a kind of a groove. The work gets intense, and sometimes we just sit here waiting for another department to catch up, but we suck it up and charge along. We want to make the show as good as possible. We're still proud of what we do."
Which is one of the reasons, I think, that The Simpsons is still on after twenty seasons.
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The first floor of the building (aka the Mike Judge floor), once packed with busy employees, is now a ghost town.
The Goode Family was never given a chance by ABC.
It should have been on Fox...
It should have been funny.
Goode luck finding another network/cable channel. We all heard that before.
Maybe the LA Times was right when they said The Goode Family was over rated and the characters are one dimensional.
And doesn't Starz want to rid itself of Film Roman? The only reason they took the studio off the market, was because the offers were so low, compared to what they paid for it and what they thought it was worth.
I don't think a show can be considered overrated if it gets moved to Fridays in the summer and gets canceled after 13 shows.
It's strange that Starz would want to put the studio up for sale considering they've been producing more original works with it lately. They've got El Superbeasto finally with a release date, Dante's Inferno early next year, and there's rumors that they'll make a Dead Space 2.
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