Nobody's Watching

I've just watched the pilot for this show and i must say it is hilarious!!!! It kind of pokes fun at itself, it's the story of 2 guys who love sitcoms but are annoyed that there are no good ones on the TV anymore so they send a tape to a load of producers and get a call from the WB network saying that they are going to let them make a sitcom for them. So as the audience we are watching a sitcom about a sitcom being made. It's very clever and with scenes like the guys going to the set of FRIENDS and being awe struck, to the first time they have an audience watching them all the comedy is done with excellent timing and style. not having a lot of info on this programme i'm unsure of who the lead males are but they are both very funny. The programme has a scrubs feel to it. I loved the pilot of this show and hope that more people get to see it. When it starts i'll be its biggest fan!!!

Apart from being a bit annoying at times, "Nobody's Watching" is a failed TV pilot that seemed to have some promise. After all, originality is something decidedly lacking in most TV shows...and it was original.

The premise is insane. The WB network has seen a video created by two ordinary guys, Derrick and Will. They essentially complain that most sitcoms stink and they can make a better one. And, in a ludicrous twist, some execs see it and decide to give the two friends a show...or, rather, a show about making a show. In other words, they'll have a reality TV show where they can show the process for making the show. Of course, it really is a sitcom and none of it is real in the least.

The show had promise...but sometimes it seemed to try a bit too hard. It also seemed designed for younger audiences and I couldn't imagine older folks watch it...nor, for that matter, most of what's on the WB. If you are curious about this odd show, it's currently on YouTube.

Have to say I just watched all three parts of this show on YouTube and really enjoyed it.

Good chemistry in the cast, a great fresh idea for a show and funny enough to compete with most of the Yes Dear on TV now.

I would love to see something come of it, rather than it being passed up by the networks.

Be great to see more of this sort of thing on the internet too, so we can see what kind of shows they are passing on.

Anyone know if it is truly dead in the water or is there still life in it?

The "President of Television" has a meeting with his board members about what to do next. Someone, very enthusiastically, suggests "A TV show about a single and attractive woman coming to New York to get her magazine running!" Someone interrupts him. "No, no, no, we need to try something different! Something fresh!" The President of TV walks up to this guy and bats him down with a clipboard.

Now, to my knowledge, this show got canceled. Instead, they went for "Twins", because why be daring and funny when you can be unoriginal and successful? I watched the pilot (its on YouTube, go check it out) and compared to the other crap sitcoms give us nowadays (Scrubs aside), this is a masterpiece. Sure the acting isn't rock solid, but its not like any other sitcom (Scrubs, again, aside) offers us that.

So yeah. Once more failure for the American TV Producers. But hey, its not like they needed success. I mean, its not like there's a writer's block or something...

A pilot from the creator of Scrubs and a couple of Family Guy writers promises something hilarious, but instead, Nobody's Watching is a watchable parody of reality shows most notable for Paul Adelstein's soulless executive.

The basic idea is that a couple of schlubs are tasked with creating a sitcom while living in a sitcom studio in front of a live studio audience, while aforementioned executive tries to pit the duo against each other for drama and ratings.

This is a perfectly fine idea for a show, if only it were funnier. But while it is amusing, it never reaches the heights of Scrubs or Family Guy. Just as well that it wasn't picked up, IMO.

I don't know what to make of all these ecstatic reviews! Friends of the producers?