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January 24, 2006
NBC Deep-Sixes West Wing and Book of Daniel
Speaking of the declining market for moonbattery, The West Wing (h/t: Powerpundit) and The Book of Daniel have both been axed by NBC.
The West Wing — aka The Left Wing — charmed its liberal elite audience by creating a nightmare fantasy world in which the America-bashing moonbat Martin Sheen is the President of the United States. Undoubtedly its stale reruns will continue to plod along on Bravo long after the Democratic Party has joined the Whigs in the dustbin of history.
The Book of Daniel is a sitcom devoted to spitting at Christianity. It features a drug-addicted priest whose son is gay, whose daughter deals drugs, whose lesbian secretary is having sex with his sister-in-law, whose 16-year-old adopted son is having sex with the bishop's daughter, etc. etc. ad nauseam.
No wonder liberals don't like the free market. It doesn't seem to be supporting their bilge.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 24, 2006 9:27 PM
Comments
The Book of Daniel never was aired, right? With content as advertized it makes me wonder what sort of focus groups NBC used to vet the program. Maybe folks from San Francisco?
Posted by: ex-expat at January 24, 2006 10:11 PM
Maybe they could replace "West Wing" with my idea for a new reality series:"Left Wing Nuts" or "Moonbats" which would be a "Big Brother" type reality show featuring 14 people locked in a house for 3 months.
Cast:
TEAM BILL
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Monica Lewinsky
John Murtha
John Kerry
Cindy Sheehan
Michael Moore
TEAM AL
Al Gore
Tipper Gore
John Kerry
Teresa Heinz
John Edwards
Ted Kennedy
and special guest star Osama Bin Laden.
Team BILL vs. Team AL
Anne Coulter would be cast as the House Mother dressed in a black leather suit carrying a bull whip guiding the house guests thru various competitions.
Hillary would be limited to 2 lamp throws per episode.
At the end of each episode 1 guest would be voted off and shipped off to Guantanamo Bay for the duration of the series.
I thought I might pitch this idea to Fox...
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at January 24, 2006 11:00 PM
Did anybody actually see The Book of Daniel? Are you sure it wasn't just an elaborate hoax?
Maybe the show was greenlighted with the expectation that it would be so offensive, it would be yanked after its first episode. Then the network wouldn't have to pay back its investors.
Come to think of it, wasn't that the scheme in The Producers?
"Springtime for Jesus," anybody?
Posted by: phil at January 25, 2006 6:48 AM
NBC aired a 2 hour pilot Friday 10PM Jan. 6th. and 1 episode the following week. Then they pulled it.
http://www.tv.com/book-of-daniel/show/32641/summary.html
Apparently (according to the episode guide) there are a few unaired episodes.
As most people have better things to do on Friday nights, almost no one saw it. Just reading the descriptions of it was enough to know it was no Highway to Heaven or Touched by an Angel.
Would they do a series like this about Jews or Muslims or Buddhists or minorities? No way. Christians however are considered fair game these days.
The entire reason this was done was to piss people off and poke a sharp stick in the eye of 75% of the nation. They dont care they wasted millions producing crap like that.
Whats next? A series based on pedophile priests? Dont laugh, it could happen; especially on one of the gay channels.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at January 25, 2006 8:20 AM
The last word perhaps, but the creator of this media abomination must be a very terribly unhappy person.
Posted by: ex-expat at January 25, 2006 10:03 AM
We've all been told laughter is the best medicine. This crap is so pitiful that it is ALMOST funny.
Posted by: nikko at January 25, 2006 12:03 PM
