Stuck in a motel outside North Bay, Ontario, I couldn't find anything to watch on TV. (We don't have cable or satellite at home, so I've lost the ability to sustain much interest in TV. Even that old standby, the Weather Channel.)
I ended up watching an apparently abandoned pilot for "Nobody's Watching," which the WB commissioned but then WB dissolved.
The circularity of the premise is interesting: it's a faux-reality TV show about two guys from Ohio that the WB hires to make a sitcom. Which, of course, makes it easy to do invisible fourth-wall jokes (during the pilot, the main characters, in front of an apparently real studio audience, who are pretending to be a fake studio audience for the sake of the show's premise, realize that they can say the name of any US state and have a portion of the audience cheer) as well as skewer TV sitcoms in general (at one point, a character observes that as long as a show can make some audience happy, it'll stay on the air, no matter how bad it is. The two main characters yell, in unison, "Coach!").
Maybe it'll get picked up by someone. Although if it stays on YouTube, I'll be more likely to watch it.
Posted by johndanseven at June 21, 2006 06:47 PM