Guys, vote for Free Agents. Now.
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I literally watch nothing on NBC. I even watch 30 Rock in re-runs on other channels.
Okay, you know what? I didn’t absolutely love this show. Compared to the other stuff on NBC, it’s kind of sub-par. BUT that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it. It doesn’t mean I didn’t think it was finding itself and would get better. It doesn’t mean it wasn’t growing on me at a rapid rate. I felt the same way about the Paul Reiser show, which they only gave two or three episodes. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t really bad or anything…it just had to get on its feet (Perfect Couples, however, I thought was pretty bad and deserved the chopping block). The first few episodes of Community weren’t great either, but it got better, and now it’s mega popular. What if they’d axed it after four episodes?
NBC keeps doing this thing where they throw a bunch of shows on TV and then cancel some of them if people don’t watch right from the start. I’m not sure what they’re trying to do with that. They did it last year also. They delay the start of one of the their popular shows for whatever reason and fill in the hole with something that they don’t necessarily feel will matter if nobody watches. They’re expendable gap-filling shows. There’s no nurturing, no promoting, just throwing it out there and seeing what sticks.
This is wrong.
What really burns me though, really, really burns me, is that Free Agents got cut and Whitney didn’t. Whitney is much, much, much worse. Horrendously worse. It uses a live audience with obvious forced laughter to tell you when you need to laugh, and does that annoying pause thing after each line is delivered to give the audience a place to laugh. It’s stupid, and it’s unoriginal, and relies far too much on innuendo in place of actual intelligent original comedy writing. The same could be said about Free Agents (and yeah, maybe I’ve said it), but IT WAS GETTING BETTER AND IT WASN’T EVEN GIVEN A CHANCE.
And why, NBC, why did you insist upon promoting Whitney constantly, to the point that I saw ads for it during every show I watched on any network affiliated with you, but neglected to give the slightest bit of push for Free Agents? I never once saw an ad for it on TV, even when watching your other shows. It was like you set it up to fail, knowing that you wouldn’t have room for it.
Oh well, at least Up All Night, which is by far the best of their new shows, is still around.
