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Brilliantly Canceled
Oct. 21, 2013
The American Version of ‘The IT Crowd’ That Never Made It to TV There’s no formula for good TV. Networks and studios shuffle through hundreds of new projects every year, but when it comes down to it, it’s […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Aug. 5, 2013
Actually, *Pushes Glasses Back Onto Face* the ‘Diner’ TV Pilot Was the […] Barry Levinson’s 1982 film Diner is a classic. Funny, original, and engrossing, it has been credited with influencing a huge swath of what we […]
By Roger Cormier
July 22, 2013
‘Where’s Rodney?’ Was One of the Many Questions Raised By ‘Where’s Rodney?’ “One, Poochie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Poochie’s not on-screen, all the other characters […]
By Roger Cormier
July 15, 2013
The Alternate Reality of ‘Coolio’s Rules,’ Coolio’s Short-Lived Reality […] Somewhere around the mid-2000s, coincidentally the same time when every TV writer was fired and all good ideas were banished from the Earth, […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
July 1, 2013
Talking to Justin Halpern About the Rough Time He Had Turning ‘Shit My Dad […] Two weeks ago, Brilliantly Canceled took us all the way back to that time two years ago when a twitter-based sitcom, $h*! My Dad Says, hit […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
June 24, 2013
‘The Michael Richards Show’: We Can Cross ‘What If Kramer Was a […] “But I could have played Kramer for the rest of my life. That character would fit into every situation. There was a great universality to the […]
By Roger Cormier
June 17, 2013
The Pile of $h*! That Was ‘$h*! My Dad Says’ Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
June 10, 2013
‘My Mother the Car’ Tried Too Hard To Not Be ‘My Mother the Car’ Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
By Roger Cormier
June 3, 2013
No, Sir, I Don’t Like It: The Misfire That Was ‘Ren and Stimpy’s Adult […] Sometimes TV shows drag their funny, interesting, and highly-rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Thank god this happened!” we cry in […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
May 13, 2013
Getting Trapped in Nostalgia in ‘That 80s Show’ As the spiritual spin-off of That 70s Show, Mark Brazil, Terry Turner, and Linda Wallem’s nostalgia goldmine, That 80s Show wants nothing more […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
May 6, 2013
‘Buddies’: Dave Chappelle’s ‘Home Improvement’ Spinoff That Actually Got […]
Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry […]
By Roger Cormier
Apr. 29, 2013
NBC’s ‘Bates Motel’ (Or, ‘Extreme Makeover: Hitchcock Edition’) Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Apr. 22, 2013
Unearthing the Complete and Total Disaster That Was ‘The Chevy Chase Show’ Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
By Roger Cormier
Apr. 15, 2013
The Gross Mess That Was the ‘Garbage Pail Kids’ Cartoon Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Apr. 8, 2013
Right Before the Sainting of Louis C.K., There Was ‘Lucky Louie’ Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
By Roger Cormier
Apr. 1, 2013
Even Clarissa Couldn’t Explain ‘Clarissa Now’ Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Mar. 25, 2013
‘Emily’s Reasons Why Not’: Because Once Was Enough There must be a special type of indignity felt when you are canceled after one episode - only nineteen English language shows throughout the […]
By Roger Cormier
Mar. 18, 2013
‘The Farm’: Why ‘The Office’s Backdoor Pilot Didn’t Work Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in vain. Other times, the powers […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Mar. 11, 2013
‘Cracking Up’: The Show That Made Mike White Crazy It’s a story as old as time and one that sadly continues to be relevant, usually on network television: a well meaning individual has a […]
By Roger Cormier
Mar. 4, 2013
Watching ‘Kelly’s Kids’, the Backdoor ‘Brady Bunch’ Pilot Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Feb. 19, 2013
Time Travel, Bazookas, and Robot Dinosaurs: A Look Back at the Weird, Wild […] Steel Justice’s infamous 1992 pilot is one of the most unbelievable wastes of money in television history. A gross miscalculation of popular […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Feb. 11, 2013
‘The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer’: Historically Awful Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we ponder […]
By Roger Cormier
Feb. 4, 2013
‘The Adventures of Superpup’ TV Pilot Saves World, Scares Children Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Jan. 22, 2013
‘Poochinski’ Proves That Not All Dogs Go To Heaven (Some Just Become Peter […] Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Jan. 14, 2013
‘The Pitts’: The Show Where Lizzy Caplan Married a Volkswagen Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we ponder […]
By Roger Cormier
Jan. 7, 2013
The Short, Beautiful Life of ‘Lookwell’, One of the Funniest Pilots of All […] Normally, Brilliantly Canceled brings you the worst in TV, but with the spirit of giving quickly escaping the earth, only to lay dormant for […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Dec. 17, 2012
‘Woops!’: Or How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Apocalypse Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we ponder […]
By Roger Cormier
Dec. 10, 2012
Mixing Animation and Live Action with Disastrous Results in ‘The Danger […] Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Dec. 3, 2012
‘Partners’: The Post-Mortem Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we ponder […]
By Roger Cormier
Nov. 26, 2012
Reliving the Disastrous ‘Osbournes: Reloaded’ Variety Show Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Nov. 12, 2012
Should NBC Have Given ‘Mockingbird Lane’ a Full Season? Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Nov. 5, 2012
‘Animal Practice’: The Post-Mortem Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we ponder […]
By Roger Cormier
Oct. 29, 2012
The Short, Incredibly Misguided Life of ‘Work It’ Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we ponder […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Oct. 9, 2012
The Not-So-Excellent Adventures of the ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures’ […] Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we ponder […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Sept. 24, 2012
‘Quarterlife’ and the Problem with Whiny Protagonists Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we ponder […]
By Matt Schimkowitz
Aug. 27, 2012
The Disaster That Was the 1997 Comedy Pilot for ‘The Justice League of […] Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, and yet, highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we […]
By Matt Schimkowitz