ah hahaha (fox=sux)

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The Fox network has greenlit a half-hour comedy that's pure "BS."

oh man

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pilot about a thirtysomething man who lives with his parents.   

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Sounds thrilling, I hope no UK channels waste any money buying it.

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Wauuw, now I understand why they try to kill Futurama. With a string of quality shows like this waiting in the background, it must be so frustrating to have a cartoon taking up valuable airtime. I mean who wouldn't like a show with this character: "hulky independent adventurer who doesn't back away from a good fight and has a face that doesn't lie." 

[Spock]Captain, the sarcasm levels are of the scale[/Spock]

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Haha damn you Teral, I was just about to make fun of that. "has a face that doesn't lie", oh man that's gonna be the best show ever.

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I have a foot that doesn't steal.

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I like the show titled "BS"
they really hand the zingers to critics on a silver platter nowadays, don't they?

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Marc has made comments about it, but it really is a real FOX special:

 

Glutton Bowl: The World's Greatest Eating Competition
120 min.
A field of 40 contestants competes. Qualifying rounds in speed and quantity include bowls of mayonnaise, beef tongue and sticks of butter, with a surprise “delicacy” in the finals. Sanctioned by the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Host: Mark Thompson.

this airs thursday at 9:30
the following thursday at 9:30 we get Futurama (repeat) put your head on my shoulder

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Everyone makes fun of that, but come on--bowls of mayonnaise! That actually sounds great.

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^He was on drugs when he said that.

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Originally posted by Tweek:
Sounds thrilling, I hope no UK channels waste any money buying it.

I agree, FOX are such retards to support this kind of shit. I hate the genre of programs based on public lives, over in England there are always mountains of gardening programs such as "Ground Force" and loads of DIY programs like "Changing Rooms", so much shit that it's unbelievable. What makes it worse is that they keep on going, "Changing Rooms" has about 6 seasons, will some people never tire of watching different peoples rooms being painted and watching it 100s of times? Also once one of these types of programs begins, everyone else jumps on the band wagon. Futurama is such a quality program, I can't belive the public life genre is pushing it off the air. MONEY is all they care about and making programs about the public is dirt cheap  FOX and all the other channels that do this.

Other crap like "Who Wants to be a Millionare" gets so lame after 50 shows and the novelty wheres off once someone actaully gets a million, yet it's still on after years of being shown many times a week 

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hey hey, otis.  the american version of "Changing Rooms" is called "Trading Spaces" on TLC and it's a great show. Sometimes people cry when they realize that their former best friends destroyed their room.  heh, that's entertainment.

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Originally posted by VelourFog:
Marc has made comments about it, but it really is a real FOX special

Me and my super insider knowledge, hu ? Actually it's just a rather good TV industry newsletter 

anyway: FOX (affiliate) shows porn by accident: http://www.gazette.com/stories/0216loc9.php?section=1  (just 3 seconds, and possibly scrambled, but looks like that's enough for some states there  )

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Originally posted by [-mArc-]:
 Me and my super insider knowledge, hu ? Actually it's just a rather good TV industry newsletter   

anyway: FOX (affiliate) shows porn by accident: http://www.gazette.com/stories/0216loc9.php?section=1  (just 3 seconds, and possibly scrambled, but looks like that's enough for some states there   )

hooray for fox!  stupidity has reached a new level! 

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Wait a second, this is about TV shows!

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Is this a first, a mod moving a thread that a different mod made?

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well it was about fox being stupid.  so soooooooorrrrrrrrrrry 

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I saw an ad for "Glutton Bowl". It made me want to    .

Whoever cancelled Futurama and greenlit THAT deserves no less than death by porcupine enema.

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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
Is this a first, a mod moving a thread that a different mod made?

Wouldn't be surprised, one way or another

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Should be called Sickening Bowl. I love to eat, but I won't touch any of the shit they were advertising on that

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With gold like glutton bowl and BS, why would Fox need excellently written and hilariously funny shows like... oh... FUTURAMA!

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But... if FOX put on quality programming, then it's stupider viewers would be complaining, furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation...

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Me watches Foxes Glutton Bowl and That 80s show,brain can do big think things now.

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Someone probably hit-up FOX for some free food and that was their response.

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Ehhh, screw the stupid viewers! They're just stupid! I think the Glutton Bowl is just a one-episode special, I hope. Man, Fox needs writers BAAAAD!!!!!! But, to quote a video-game magazine editor, Fox has got balls the size of Philadelphia to green-light all this crap.

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I posted something here but on closer inspection, I found that it made little or no sense, so I changed it to this.

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*applauds Ben wildly* 

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Glutton Bowl? Is that like Kenny Rogers' Jackass but with cash prizes?

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Fox should be charged with 'depraved indifference toward human decency'.  If that's not a crime, then it should be.

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Glutton Bowl? Is that like Kenny Rogers' Jackass but with cash prizes?

No, it's more like a Bar Mitzvah smorgasbord with cash prizes. And somewhat more disgusting food.

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I liked BBT's other thread, so allow me to copy and paste:

 

Originally posted by zap2it:
The Fox network has accepted three projects for fall consideration: “The Pitts,” a comedy from 20th Century Fox TV; an untitled comedy from Eric Gilliland and Studios USA; and the dramedy “Septuplets,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“The Pitts,” from Emmy-winning “Simpsons” veteran Mike Scully, follows the Pitt family, an average yet unlucky bunch who face weekly obstacles. Scully also penned the script with his wife, writer Julie Thacker. The live-action comedy has already received a pilot order.

Gilliland (ABC’s “Roseanne”) will write and executive produce his untitled pilot, which follows a liberal son’s return from the Peace Corps to a new conservative stepfather. Gilliland’s most recently executive produced the CBS sitcom “Welcome to New York.”

"Septuplets," from writer-director-producer Kip Koening ("How to Make the Cruelest Month" ), centers on teenage septuplets who live in a family-owned, Santa Monica hotel. No studio is yet attached to the project.

Sounds pretty crappy. One question though, what is "Welcome To New York"? Is that the 9/11 sitcom that I heard about a while back?

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Welcome to New York was a short lived series with Christine Baranski (formerly known as the friend in Cybill).  It also starred Jim Gaffigan although when they cast Christine the focus of the show turned to her.

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Oh right, what was I thinking.

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Madiera Beach, Florida: Man stabs man with a swordfish after heated quarrel.

I'm sure that would make great TV.

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Septuplets sounds a little too much like 7th heaven, doesn't it?

I talked to a friend about Fox's programming, and he thinks that their shows have gone down the crapper because, in honest truth, Fox is trying too hard to cover everything. I admit, Fox has some good news, but then they try to do sports, primetime, and now reality shows. In the mid-to-late 90's, Fox was the shizz. The Simpsons were still in their prime, and millions were tuned on to their sitcoms, especially with Married with Children. Somehow, Fox lost their sense of decency when increasing sports coverage and making their own reality stuff. An obvious example in this is the way football pre-empts Futurama.

Fox was best when they only did news and sitcoms.

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This has nothing to do with FOX, but it's frightening none the less.

When Buildings Collapse
60 min.
Examining cases of building collapses involving shoddy workmanship, cheap materials and compromises of safety standards

Today at 5 on the Discovery Channel.

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Lets take a moment to remember when the very shows Fox airs made fun of them. My favourite is Family Guy mocking the short lived "Just One Fox" on their first episode. Just one gun.

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
This has nothing to do with FOX, but it's frightening none the less.

When Buildings Collapse
60 min.
Examining cases of building collapses involving shoddy workmanship, cheap materials and compromises of safety standards

Today at 5 on the Discovery Channel.

The best part was when the buildings fell down.

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And they said that you should graduate from engineering with a D!

Somehow, the show doesn't look so bad when it's on the Discovery Channel. Maybe it's the "watch and actually learn something" angle.