Comments on: Mark Evanier Explains It

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:50:28 +0000

They were going to, and host Alan Thicke kept saying “use the judges’ comments as your guide”, but I’m not sure they ever opened up the phone lines, given the rescheduling.

By: Shawn Fumo

Shawn Fumo — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:19:11 +0000

I only caught part of one episode, but did they really decide the winner by telephone? I mean really.. a lot of things could work that way, but not a cooking competition!

By: Lyle

Lyle — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:54:02 +0000

Nah… Reality TV All-Star Bowling for Dollars! ;P

By: M High

M High — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:15:10 +0000

I find it ironic that the NBC empire can produce a *good* cooking competition show, Top Chef on Bravo, but also crank out a pile of shit like their “Cooking with the Stars” at the same time.

Me, I’m just waiting for them to bring back a classic like “Bowling for Dollars”.

Wait….even better…CELEBRITY Bowling for Dollars!

By: Jer

Jer — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:28:37 +0000

Putting something like Will and Grace on makes sense if you think you’re going to catch people flipping by the channels who like Will and Grace. Its pretty iffy.

I tend to agree with Evanier – why pull a show with two episodes left? Bite the bullet, show the episodes and get on with it. The only thing I can think of is that they made some kind of minimum ratings promise to their advertisers and were in a panic because they were going to have to give back some money or something. This kind of stuff cheeses me off, even if I’m not watching the shows, because someday they’re going to do it to something I want to watch and it will royally tick me off.

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:04:36 +0000

Words can’t describe how asinine I think that programming decision was.