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2007-11-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

AFP sez the latest casualty of the war is...

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-11-09 12:18|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Quagmire!

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-09 12:28|| 2007-11-09 12:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Veteran television producer Steven Bochco, whose 2005 television series "Over There" about a platoon of soldiers fighting in Iraq ended after just one season, said it was hard to engage audiences in a "hugely unpopular war."

"TV is fully saturated with this war and I don't know if you can do a serious drama about this war and locate any angle that would overcome the negativity about it," he told the New York daily Newsday.

Bullshit. I watched it. He had a track record of shows I liked, "Hill Street Blues", "NYPD Blue", I was hoping it would be great. But it wasn't. I stopped watching it was a lefty cliched piece of shit.

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-09 12:49|| 2007-11-09 12:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Hollywood will make up their profit shortfall from overseas sales to Iran, Pakistan, Syria, et al.

Posted by danking70 2007-11-09 14:05|| 2007-11-09 14:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Wanna make one people will watch?

Just show ALL of the things they do - and get it in the right ratio - 99% good 1% bad.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-11-09 17:36|| 2007-11-09 17:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I watched one episode of "Over There". It blew dead bears.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-11-09 17:41|| 2007-11-09 17:41|| Front Page Top

#6 That was a ... memorable ... image, Deacon.

Posted by lotp 2007-11-09 18:40|| 2007-11-09 18:40|| Front Page Top

#7 (and from what I've read, a fitting one as well)

Posted by lotp 2007-11-09 18:41|| 2007-11-09 18:41|| Front Page Top

#8 The Unit is doing very well. But then it isn't the usual leftist swill shoved down unwilling American throats.

Posted by ed 2007-11-09 19:19|| 2007-11-09 19:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Blaming the audience is the first defense of the hack entertainer.

Posted by Mark E.">Mark E. 2007-11-09 19:31|| 2007-11-09 19:31|| Front Page Top

#10 These should put a few more miles of bad road on Redford's face...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lions_for_lambs/

Ouch...

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-09 20:46|| 2007-11-09 20:46|| Front Page Top

#11 heh heh....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-09 21:00|| 2007-11-09 21:00|| Front Page Top

#12 My thought exactly, ed, about The Unit.

And, lest we forget the brew-ha-ha over Jack Bauer at 24. Obviously realizing that it's fictional drama, it does cover a LOT of the so-called "torture" issues. And, it's got a HUGE following.

Posted by BA 2007-11-09 21:52|| 2007-11-09 21:52|| Front Page Top

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