Comments on: Musical Tragedy http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/24/musical-tragedy/ Covering weekly box office grosses in the US and TV ratings. Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:58:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Linda Fuentes http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/24/musical-tragedy/#comment-131042 Linda Fuentes Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:16:16 +0000 http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/24/musical-tragedy/#comment-131042 I heard Viva Laughlin was cancelled - after only two episodes. Why? There are probably many people who haven't even seen it yet. When I saw the first episode I thought the singing was a little weird, but by the end of the show I liked it. I even looked forward to it in the second episode. I thought it was kind of "campy". Does anybody remember what the word camp means? According to Dictionary.com, it means, "something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental." I thought Viva Laughlin was fun. Please bring it back. I heard Viva Laughlin was cancelled - after only two episodes. Why? There are probably many people who haven’t even seen it yet. When I saw the first episode I thought the singing was a little weird, but by the end of the show I liked it. I even looked forward to it in the second episode. I thought it was kind of “campy”. Does anybody remember what the word camp means? According to Dictionary.com, it means, “something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.” I thought Viva Laughlin was fun. Please bring it back.

]]> By: Skot http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/24/musical-tragedy/#comment-129924 Skot Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:31:38 +0000 http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/24/musical-tragedy/#comment-129924 There may be an alternative explanation of the failure of the particular show you are essaying. "Viva Laughlin" is-- er, WAS-- an Americanized version of "Viva Blackpool," a British TV series. Which may place "Laughlin" as just the latest in a long line of badly misinterpreted imports. I think you have a handle on a useful formula concerning musical elements in TV shows: Individual episodes can be extremely successful (I'll add the incredibly good musical episode of "Scrubs" to the above-mentioned "BtVS" episode as positive proof), but scripted, all-singing, all dancing episodic TV is a doomed enterprise. There may be an alternative explanation of the failure of the particular show you are essaying. “Viva Laughlin” is– er, WAS– an Americanized version of “Viva Blackpool,” a British TV series. Which may place “Laughlin” as just the latest in a long line of badly misinterpreted imports.

I think you have a handle on a useful formula concerning musical elements in TV shows: Individual episodes can be extremely successful (I’ll add the incredibly good musical episode of “Scrubs” to the above-mentioned “BtVS” episode as positive proof), but scripted, all-singing, all dancing episodic TV is a doomed enterprise.

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