Aaron Sorkin, I Hope You Watch Best Week Ever

I don't watch a ton of reality television because I can't stand watching people embarrassing themselves and I can't watch every show or read every magazine, but I do make sure I know what's going on, and a great way to do this is to watch the two best weekly recaps show on TV right now, Best Week Ever on VH1 and The Soup on E!. Now, hopefully you already watch one or both of these, if not, you really need to because they are consistently funny and catch you up on the ridiculousness that has happened in the world of entertainment that week.

I was watching Best Week Ever this weekend and they were talking about Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. They made the exact same observation I did before about the show, so Aaron Sorkin & NBC, you need to pay attention. They talked about how showing the development of the skits on the show is one thing but actually putting them on is another, since they're not that good. If you've watched the show, you know this is true, the skits are not Saturday Night Live or MadTV caliber, even if the ideas behind them aren't all that bad.

Studio 60 has not lived up to it's hype, which is actually odd. Many times shows will not connect with viewers but rarely is it because the quality that was guaranteed to be there is not. Many times we will wonder why in the world are people not watching this show. There's no mystery here this time. This show was billed as excellent and it isn't. In fact, the show is a disappointment given the hype that preceded it. The show has potential but you can't keep showing the skits. They're just not good. And as Best Week Ever pointed out, they show the skits on the show and then they're at an after party patting each other on the back like the skits we just saw were good. But they weren't.

On a side note, why in the world is Christine Lahti getting so much air time on a new show that should be introducing us to the show's main characters?