Yeah, it's not fair to judge the first show as a final product, but if they're charging full price, they gotta be prepared to take the hit.
Quick observations: 1) Despite my not being a blonde mother from Connecticut, I am not in this show's demographic. 2) "Jimmy Slow Jams the News" sucked. 3) Fallon doesn't seem to have a spontaneous bone in his body. The advantage that guys like Dave, Conan, Craig, and even Jay have is that, once they get to the desk, they can make it seem like they're talking off the cuff -- even as they're working off of talking points. Fallon feels locked onto the prompter and the blue cards like he's in a tunnel. (Though he's gotten better at reading prompter.) 4) Graphics are good -- except for his backdrop. 5) "Lick It for Ten" -- and a lof of the rest -- feels like something a desperate host would have cooked up during a writer's strike; not something that they've had months to prepare for. 6) Lorne must have compromising photos of De Niro; he sure didn't seem to want to be there. 7) Generally, the show feels to be neither fish nor fowl. It seems to want to honor the classic traditions with the stage right side of the set -- desk, announcer, backdrop -- while the stage left side -- non- traditional band, two-story set -- wants to break new ground. I feel like if it's going to be as newfangled as they seem to want to make it, they should lose the traditional trappings and make it feel like the 21st century equivalent of Dave's "Late Night" -- that the kids snuck into the studio and turned the cameras on. 8) I expect the show will improve -- it'd have to -- but so far, I can smell the flop sweat. --Dake Sikula --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
