Who watched Thank God You're Here last night? Very funny stuff (the first episode more than the second), but this was immediately moved to DVR for future tapings. The casts are really outstanding. They got a lot of people with very solid improv background. I was really impressed with the guy who hosts, The Soup (whose name I didn't know until yesterday night. It's Joel McHale.

I have to admit I'm reasonably impressed with the shows that are being selected for network TV lately. They've realized that the competition for viewers from cable is fierce. This has wrought both good and bad changes.

The good: they're taking some chances on TV shows that they may not have taken a couple of years ago.

The bad: they tend to pull the plug pretty quickly.

The good: successful shows are given money to succeed.

The bad: too much fucking reality TV. I get it. It's cheap (you don't have to write scripts or pay actors), but enough already.

Labels: Thank God You're Here, TV