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The Class loses a member
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, The Class  Anyone who watched The Class tonight may have noticed something: Lucy Punch, who played snooty reporter Holly Ellenbogen, was missing from the opening credits. Her bio has disappeared from the show's page on CBS's web site; she's even disappeared from the site's cast photo (right).
This isn't unexpected, since the producers said that a) they were going to concentrate on the romantic storylines on the show and b) it was obvious to everyone that her storyline, which included her gay-but-not-gay husband, wasn't working. She was being shown on the...
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The Class to stream live rehearsals
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, Industry, Web, The Class  Producers over Warner Bros. sent us a press release announcing a pretty cool/unprecedented web extra from the comedy,The Class. Next week, they're going to do two live webcasts of rehearsals.
The first webcast is The Table Read on Monday, January 15th at 11 am (Pacific). You'll get to peek in as the cast gives a first reading (literally around a table) of that week's script. The next live webcast is the following Wednesday a 1 pm (Pacific) when the cast will do a run-thru of the script with all the changes made since...
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People's Choice Awards winners
Filed under: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, Grey's Anatomy, Music and Variety, Heroes, The Class, Awards  CBS put their regular programming on hold last night so they could show the 33rd Annual People's Choice Awards. Hosted by Queen Latifah, the show gives awards based on public internet voting. As that is the case, these awards track with the Nielsen ratings more than most. Case in point, the award for Television Comedy went to Two And A Half Men. Top rated for a couple years now, but it can't seem to...
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Best and Worst of 2006: Joel's list
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, NBC, CBS, News, OpEd, Gilmore Girls, Saturday Night Live, Scrubs, The Simpsons, Grey's Anatomy, The Colbert Report, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, South Park, Last Comic Standing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Class, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Ugly Betty  I'm going to dispense with traditional "Best" and "Worst" lists and just use...
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The Class to continue in a more traditional format
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, Industry, OpEd, The Class One of the problems I've had, and continue to have, with The Class since it premiered this past fall was that the show had just too many characters and too many stories. Sure, the storylines with Lina and Richie were sweet and had the most dramatic impact, and the stories with Kat and Ethan were often very funny. But the Duncan and Nicole storyline seemed right out of the Friends playbook and the Kyle/Holly/GayButNotGay Husband story? Ugh... the less said about it, the better.
But it looks like the show's creators, David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik,...
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CBS orders more episodes of The Class
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Class, Pickups and Renewals Despite mediocre ratings and equally mediocre reviews (including mine), CBS has been happy enough with The Class to order more episodes of the "half-hour comic-sudser," as Variety so adroitly called it.
But the show is not getting the entire "back nine" just yet. According to that Variety article, CBS is hoping the mid-season show Rules of Engagement, starring David Spade and Patrick Warburton, will work well in the Monday comedy block where The Class currently resides.
Another article, on USAToday.com, says that newer episodes of the show will concentrate...
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Why I'm cutting The Class
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Class Because it stinks.
That's what I'd like to say in my post about why I'm not reviewing The Class anymore, but since I get paid to actually render more thoughtful (and longer) opinions than that, I'll give you folks a little more insight.
I had faith in this show when it first started; after all, the comedic pedigree behind it -- James Burrows, David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik -- was stellar. And, while the pilot was a bit of a jumbled mess, the next two episodes had some laugh-out-loud moments. But after that, it crashed and burned, and really...
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The Class: The Class Goes to a Bar
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Class  (S01E07) Maybe the writers of The Class are getting the hint and following what seems to be a pretty obvious suggestion: take out storylines! Let the characters breathe! Get rid of the high-strung socialite and the husband she doesn't realize is gay! This episode managed to do all of that; we don't see Holly and Kyle (and Holly's Paul Lynde sound-alike husband) at all, and Duncan and Nicole get some time to interact without Yonk in the way, and take Lina and Richie along for the ride. And, of course, Kat and Ethan do their goofy stuff, this time in...
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CBS orders more scripts for The Class
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, Industry, The Class, Pickups and Renewals  And then there was one. Now that CBS has picked up Jerichoand Sharkfor full seasons, and canceled Smith, they are left with just one more new show to make a decision on. The Class hasn't made the decision easy. They had a slow start that led to the shuffling of timeslots in the Monday comedy block. While the show has performed better since it started following How I Met Your Mother, it's not quite good enough to get picked up, yet. CBS has ordered four more scripts for the...
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The Class: The Class Goes Trick or Treating
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Class (S01E06) For a fleeting second, I thought The Class was just going to concentrate on two stories this week. For the first act, it looked like all we'd see was Richie, Duncan and Yonk in Atlantic City and Holly's adventures at the petting zoo. Yes, one of the storylines would be a Holly storyline, but I was glad that the writers decided to smarten up and rotate out one storyline per week, leaving more room for silly things like effective jokes and character development.
But then I saw Lina in an FDR costume and Kat being Kat, and I...
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