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JamesG. · 12-03-2021, 08:16 PM

Aaron Sorkin told Vanity Fair that he wasn't completely satisfied with "The Newsroom".

"I was never able to get it quite right. I always felt like I had a pebble in my shoe. I felt like I could write a good scene. I could put a couple of good scenes together."

Sorkin compared the situation to a football team that can put together two good quarters of play, but not a full game's worth.

Jay H. · 12-03-2021, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by JamesG.

Aaron Sorkin told Vanity Fair that he wasn't completely satisfied with "The Newsroom".

"I was never able to get it quite right. I always felt like I had a pebble in my shoe. I felt like I could write a good scene. I could put a couple of good scenes together."

Sorkin compared the situation to a football team that can put together two good quarters of play, but not a full game's worth.

He's absolutely right. My wife and I watched every episode - mainly for the performances, which were superb - and the show just didn't quite know what it wanted to say or do. It's not bad, but it should have been so much more.

WonkaBedknobs83 · 12-07-2021, 07:28 AM

Gary Coleman grew to resent his "Arnold" character from Diff'rent Strokes once he got older but the writers still wrote for him the same way they did when the show was new. He even gave up his catchphrase. But when they persuaded him to stay for one more year (the sole ABC season) by finally letting him grow up and giving him more age-appropriate interests, it was too late.

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How could I forget Tina Louise, she has badmouthed Gilligan's Island for years. I know part of it was, her agent told her the show was going to be centered around her.

She showed how much she hated the show when she sat at the Dallas table at the CBS 75th Anniversary special even though her character, J.R.'s secretary Julie, lasted five episodes before

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cbs777 · 12-07-2021, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by WonkaBedknobs83

Gary Coleman grew to resent his "Arnold" character from Diff'rent Strokes once he got older but the writers still wrote for him the same way they did when the show was new. He even gave up his catchphrase. But when they persuaded him to stay for one more year (the sole ABC season) by finally letting him grow up and giving him more age-appropriate interests, it was too late.

She showed how much she hated the show when she sat at the Dallas table at the CBS 75th Anniversary special even though her character, J.R.'s secretary Julie, lasted five episodes before

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Wow! I never knew that, thanks for the info!

WonkaBedknobs83 · 12-08-2021, 11:02 PM

You're welcome. On that same note, some people used Jo's absence from the half-Disney/half-Columbia Facts of Life Reunion, which Disney must own since it wasn't on the big Shout! Factory complete* DVD box set, as evidence of Nancy McKeon trying to distance herself from the role, but in fact she could not get out of her Lifetime TV cop show The Division, which IIRC featured a pre-Mad Men Jon Hamm, to do it. It was former writer Andy Borowitz who attacked the show and his former co-writers. This from the guy who turned Natalie's mother into a bigot in the season 5 episode "Crossing the Line"! For years I thought that was a Paul Haggis episode; he could be irreverent about his time there without crossing the line into outright nastiness to the people who helped give him his start.

*Except the season 6 finale and the penultimate episode of season 7 which loses Tootie's rendition of "Ease on Down the Road," which was cleared when Sanford and Son and Diff'rent Strokes used it.

JamesG. · 12-09-2021, 01:28 PM

Rooney Mara did a guest spot on "Law & Order: SVU" in 2006 before she was famous. In 2011, while out promoting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, she bashed the role during an interview with Allure.

"It was so awful. So stupid. Me and my boyfriend—although I don't look old enough to have a boyfriend—went and beat up these fat people, and at the end of the show you find out that I used to be obese and I hate fat people.

It's ridiculous. Who would beat someone up because they're fat? People are obsessed with that show. I don't get it."

She told The Huffington Post a few days after the story blew up that her "SVU" comments were taken out of context.

"First of all, the 'SVU' thing -- that's just not true. That was my first job. It couldn't have been more exciting for me. It's an experience I hold very dear to my heart. People take things out of context, and that's just not the case.

I didn't love the experience, but I would never take it back because I feel like I learned something from it and it brought me to my next job. It's hard to have to talk about yourself all the time and things are out of context, and whatever that quote was, I don't know, but it's certainly not what I meant.

If anything, I didn't mean that the storyline was ridiculous; I meant that humanity is ridiculous. I know that 'Law & Order' makes their episodes out of real things that are happening in the city, so to me, by 'ridiculous' I meant that humanity is ridiculous. People are awful to one another; and to me, I find it ridiculous."

JamesG. · 01-21-2022, 10:47 PM

"Santa Barbara's" A Martinez revealed during a Facebook Q&A in 2019 that he hated one particular plot from the soap.

“Pretty much the only thing I hated — in fact I was ashamed that I did it — is when Eden came back [from the “dead”] disguised as another person to try to lead Cruz into the next stage of his life. She wore glasses and a [red] wig and we were supposed to pretend that Cruz would not know who she is when he danced with her. I was ashamed that I played that. I’ll never get over it. That was one of the weakest things I ever did as an actor.”

Samus Aran · 01-21-2022, 10:54 PM

Sophia Bush and Chicago PD is another one, but entirely for behind the scenes harassment and abuse.

Did Patrick Dempsey hate the end of his time on Grey's Anatomy or did he just feel like he was there too long?

JamesG. · 01-28-2022, 09:14 AM

Rob Lowe told GQ in 2015 that he left "Brothers & Sisters" because he felt that they ran out of things for him to do.

"I left Brothers & Sisters when they ran out of storytelling runway. I mean, there are so many family dinners you can do. I eventually had to go to them and say, 'Look, I don't do spatula work. I don't do scenes with oven mitts. If you're looking for that, you've got the wrong guy. I'm not doing scenes about casseroles. It's not happening.'"

JDub1 · 01-28-2022, 12:34 PM

Angus T Jones who played Jake on Two & A Half Men called the show "filth" and told people not to watch the show.

JamesOttoSweetHeart · 01-28-2022, 02:39 PM

^^^ I remember that. I could be wrong, but I believe that A.J. made room for the Lord in his life and so his entire frame of mind where that show was concerned completely changed.

God bless you and him always!!!

Holly

P.S. For the record, I've never watched the show before.

JamesG. · 04-08-2022, 06:37 AM

Roy Scheider hated the new direction of "SeaQuest DSV" going into Season 2. He told the Orlando Sentinel that it was "childish trash."

JamesG. · 04-09-2022, 05:56 AM

Laurie Holden mentioned that she did not like how 'Andrea' was written out of "The Walking Dead".

"I think the departure from book Andrea to the screen was a mistake. I think the whole stuff that they wrote about Andrea and the Governor was complete and utter nonsense. I did the best that I could to tell that narrative, and to justify it where Andrea kept her heart. I love Scott Gimple for giving me a gorgeous death with redemption so that you understood, and she wasn't a victim -- she died on her own terms.

But I think that there was so much beautiful narrative that was lost and that she should have been there a long time, and been the leader that Robert Kirkman created in the comic book."

Though she loved her experience on "The Sopranos", Lorraine Bracco said that she didn't like how 'Dr. Melfi' “abruptly” discarded 'Tony Soprano'.

“I just felt that David Chase wanted me to get rid of Tony [Soprano]. I would have liked for it to have been more meaningful. I mean, I think she cared for Tony. Even though he was a screw up and maybe he was never going to really straighten out… I think she really cared for him.

You don’t spend seven years with someone and discard them. I felt bad about that. It was rough and abrupt.”

JamesG. · 06-16-2022, 12:13 PM

David E. Kelley did not like his 2013-14 CBS sitcom "The Crazy Ones".

He told THR, "It was terrible. Robin Williams was great, but the show itself was not very good."

JamesG. · 06-21-2022, 12:51 PM

"Orange is the New Black" creator Jenji Kohan revealed in a New Yorker interview that she wasn't that pleased with the show's 5th Season (the prison riot season).

She described some of the plots as "fan fiction" -- a product of losing some of the show's original writers as they moved up in the ranks and hiring on new blood. "We had lost a bunch of the original writers. It was just a new dynamic -- people were attached to the characters as viewers, not as creators."

50strat54 · 06-22-2022, 03:51 PM

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Actually, his only problem with Community was Dan Harmon, the show's creator. The two were constantly butting heads. Dan then made a joke at Chevy's expense during one of the season's wrap party, and that was the last straw. Harmon was fired for one season; when he came back, Chevy left the show.

Chevy apparently said racist stuff to Donald Glover.

It's well known that Chevy is a major jerk and a lot of people dislike him. Howard Stern went to war with Chevy and eventually Chevy had to give up and went on the show and tried to make amends with Howard because he was tired of being harassed in public.

On the other hand Howard has gone soft, real soft.

cbs777 · 06-24-2022, 04:36 PM

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Chevy apparently said racist stuff to Donald Glover.

It's well known that Chevy is a major jerk and a lot of people dislike him. Howard Stern went to war with Chevy and eventually Chevy had to give up and went on the show and tried to make amends with Howard because he was tired of being harassed in public.

On the other hand Howard has gone soft, real soft.

Really soft, he has become what he used to fight against, he is really out of touch! I stopped listening years ago, but I'll listen to the old stern any day of the week. I still think the history of Howard Stern was the best produced thing I've ever heard on radio.

BluRayTim · 06-25-2022, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by 50strat54

Chevy apparently said racist stuff to Donald Glover.

It's well known that Chevy is a major jerk and a lot of people dislike him. Howard Stern went to war with Chevy and eventually Chevy had to give up and went on the show and tried to make amends with Howard because he was tired of being harassed in public.

On the other hand Howard has gone soft, real soft.

Not entirely. On or around the 8th of the month in February and August every year since 2013, Denise Richards says a chock full of bad things (too many things to mention) about Heather Locklear to the point of abuse.

On or around these dates every year since 2017, Denise Richards also has been slandering Heather Locklear and Charlie Sheen for the following: having an affair with each other in early February 2005 and taking turns beating up and molesting Ava Sambora as a child. This never happened and never will. Heather’s not that bad but Charlie is, though never with Heather’s daughter.

For what it’s worth, Heather and Charlie never had relations of any kind with each other (and never will), just a solid friendship since 1985.

Howard and everybody on his show openly allow, approve of, condone, defend, enable, encourage and support Denise mentally abusing Heather on his show. That’s why I don’t listen to Howard Stern anymore. Other than that, yes, Howard’s gone completely soft.

Heather and Charlie said they will each sue Denise for half of everything she’s got ($12,000,000) for defamation of character as soon as they can afford an attorney. There’s a private investigator that Heather hired to follow Richie Sambora when she suspected him of cheating.

The PI that I speak of is a woman. She’s the best, most expensive and most reputable PI in the country.

I don’t know this PI’s name. But she has audio and video recordings of Denise admitting that her accusations are lies to ruin them for how she really feels about Heather and Charlie. It will absolutely destroy Denise Richards once and for (HALLELUJAH!!!)!

JamesG. · 08-31-2022, 06:54 AM

Matt LeBlanc had mentioned that there's things he did not like about his "Friends" spin-off "Joey"

He told The Guardian in 2012 that though he has "no regrets" about the show that there were things he wish he could have changed.

"I just think that we were telling stories that emasculated the character. They wrote a guy who became very doubtful of himself in this new place, in Hollywood, no friends, can't meet girls - and that's not who Joey was. He was always, always, always, the consummate optimist. Always.

And that's not who they wrote. That was very frustrating for me."

"Friends" creator David Crane had turned down the job of being the head writer/ showrunner on "Joey" and LeBlanc said, "I guess if I could go back in time... I would have put my foot down and said, 'I'm not doing it without David.' That's the one thing I would do differently."

RobGenX. · 08-31-2022, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by cbs777

Really soft, he has become what he used to fight against, he is really out of touch! I stopped listening years ago, but I'll listen to the old stern any day of the week. I still think the history of Howard Stern was the best produced thing I've ever heard on radio.

I really loved the movie Private Parts, I haven't heard any of his radio stuff but I guess it isn't anything like what was portrayed in the film?

12-08-2021, 11:02 PM	#25
WonkaBedknobs83 Expert Member Member since:Sep 2021 4K collection:10 Blu-ray collection:60	You're welcome. On that same note, some people used Jo's absence from the half-Disney/half-Columbia Facts of Life Reunion, which Disney must own since it wasn't on the big Shout! Factory complete* DVD box set, as evidence of Nancy McKeon trying to distance herself from the role, but in fact she could not get out of her Lifetime TV cop show The Division, which IIRC featured a pre-Mad Men Jon Hamm, to do it. It was former writer Andy Borowitz who attacked the show and his former co-writers. This from the guy who turned Natalie's mother into a bigot in the season 5 episode "Crossing the Line"! For years I thought that was a Paul Haggis episode; he could be irreverent about his time there without crossing the line into outright nastiness to the people who helped give him his start. Except the season 6 finale and the penultimate episode of season 7 which loses Tootie's rendition of "Ease on Down the Road," which was cleared when Sanford and Son* and Diff'rent Strokes used it. Last edited by WonkaBedknobs83; 12-09-2021 at 06:51 AM.

12-03-2021, 08:16 PM	#21
JamesG. Power Member Member since:Jul 2012	Aaron Sorkin told Vanity Fair that he wasn't completely satisfied with "The Newsroom". "I was never able to get it quite right. I always felt like I had a pebble in my shoe. I felt like I could write a good scene. I could put a couple of good scenes together." Sorkin compared the situation to a football team that can put together two good quarters of play, but not a full game's worth.

12-09-2021, 01:28 PM	#26
JamesG. Power Member Member since:Jul 2012	Rooney Mara did a guest spot on "Law & Order: SVU" in 2006 before she was famous. In 2011, while out promoting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, she bashed the role during an interview with Allure. "It was so awful. So stupid. Me and my boyfriend—although I don't look old enough to have a boyfriend—went and beat up these fat people, and at the end of the show you find out that I used to be obese and I hate fat people. It's ridiculous. Who would beat someone up because they're fat? People are obsessed with that show. I don't get it." She told The Huffington Post a few days after the story blew up that her "SVU" comments were taken out of context. "First of all, the 'SVU' thing -- that's just not true. That was my first job. It couldn't have been more exciting for me. It's an experience I hold very dear to my heart. People take things out of context, and that's just not the case. I didn't love the experience, but I would never take it back because I feel like I learned something from it and it brought me to my next job. It's hard to have to talk about yourself all the time and things are out of context, and whatever that quote was, I don't know, but it's certainly not what I meant. If anything, I didn't mean that the storyline was ridiculous; I meant that humanity is ridiculous. I know that 'Law & Order' makes their episodes out of real things that are happening in the city, so to me, by 'ridiculous' I meant that humanity is ridiculous. People are awful to one another; and to me, I find it ridiculous."

01-21-2022, 10:47 PM	#27
JamesG. Power Member Member since:Jul 2012	"Santa Barbara's" A Martinez revealed during a Facebook Q&A in 2019 that he hated one particular plot from the soap. “Pretty much the only thing I hated — in fact I was ashamed that I did it — is when Eden came back [from the “dead”] disguised as another person to try to lead Cruz into the next stage of his life. She wore glasses and a [red] wig and we were supposed to pretend that Cruz would not know who she is when he danced with her. I was ashamed that I played that. I’ll never get over it. That was one of the weakest things I ever did as an actor.”

01-21-2022, 10:54 PM	#28
Samus Aran Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Jun 2010 Location:USA Home Theater Gallery:11 4K collection:14 Blu-ray collection:49 Trading Score:195	Sophia Bush and Chicago PD is another one, but entirely for behind the scenes harassment and abuse. Did Patrick Dempsey hate the end of his time on Grey's Anatomy or did he just feel like he was there too long?

01-28-2022, 09:14 AM	#29
JamesG. Power Member Member since:Jul 2012	Rob Lowe told GQ in 2015 that he left "Brothers & Sisters" because he felt that they ran out of things for him to do. "I left Brothers & Sisters when they ran out of storytelling runway. I mean, there are so many family dinners you can do. I eventually had to go to them and say, 'Look, I don't do spatula work. I don't do scenes with oven mitts. If you're looking for that, you've got the wrong guy. I'm not doing scenes about casseroles. It's not happening.'"

01-28-2022, 12:34 PM	#30
JDub1 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jan 2015 Location:Iowa, The Hawkeye State Blu-ray reviews:65	Angus T Jones who played Jake on Two & A Half Men called the show "filth" and told people not to watch the show.

01-28-2022, 02:39 PM	#31
JamesOttoSweetHeart Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Oct 2012 Location:East Tennessee	^^^ I remember that. I could be wrong, but I believe that A.J. made room for the Lord in his life and so his entire frame of mind where that show was concerned completely changed. God bless you and him always!!! Holly P.S. For the record, I've never watched the show before.

04-08-2022, 06:37 AM	#32
JamesG. Power Member Member since:Jul 2012	Roy Scheider hated the new direction of "SeaQuest DSV" going into Season 2. He told the Orlando Sentinel that it was "childish trash."

04-09-2022, 05:56 AM	#33
JamesG. Power Member Member since:Jul 2012	Laurie Holden mentioned that she did not like how 'Andrea' was written out of "The Walking Dead". "I think the departure from book Andrea to the screen was a mistake. I think the whole stuff that they wrote about Andrea and the Governor was complete and utter nonsense. I did the best that I could to tell that narrative, and to justify it where Andrea kept her heart. I love Scott Gimple for giving me a gorgeous death with redemption so that you understood, and she wasn't a victim -- she died on her own terms. But I think that there was so much beautiful narrative that was lost and that she should have been there a long time, and been the leader that Robert Kirkman created in the comic book." Though she loved her experience on "The Sopranos", Lorraine Bracco said that she didn't like how 'Dr. Melfi' “abruptly” discarded 'Tony Soprano'. “I just felt that David Chase wanted me to get rid of Tony [Soprano]. I would have liked for it to have been more meaningful. I mean, I think she cared for Tony. Even though he was a screw up and maybe he was never going to really straighten out… I think she really cared for him. You don’t spend seven years with someone and discard them. I felt bad about that. It was rough and abrupt.”

06-16-2022, 12:13 PM	#34
JamesG. Power Member Member since:Jul 2012	David E. Kelley did not like his 2013-14 CBS sitcom "The Crazy Ones". He told THR, "It was terrible. Robin Williams was great, but the show itself was not very good."

06-21-2022, 12:51 PM	#35
JamesG. Power Member Member since:Jul 2012	"Orange is the New Black" creator Jenji Kohan revealed in a New Yorker interview that she wasn't that pleased with the show's 5th Season (the prison riot season). She described some of the plots as "fan fiction" -- a product of losing some of the show's original writers as they moved up in the ranks and hiring on new blood. "We had lost a bunch of the original writers. It was just a new dynamic -- people were attached to the characters as viewers, not as creators."

08-31-2022, 06:54 AM	#39
JamesG. Power Member Member since:Jul 2012	Matt LeBlanc had mentioned that there's things he did not like about his "Friends" spin-off "Joey" He told The Guardian in 2012 that though he has "no regrets" about the show that there were things he wish he could have changed. "I just think that we were telling stories that emasculated the character. They wrote a guy who became very doubtful of himself in this new place, in Hollywood, no friends, can't meet girls - and that's not who Joey was. He was always, always, always, the consummate optimist. Always. And that's not who they wrote. That was very frustrating for me." "Friends" creator David Crane had turned down the job of being the head writer/ showrunner on "Joey" and LeBlanc said, "I guess if I could go back in time... I would have put my foot down and said, 'I'm not doing it without David.' That's the one thing I would do differently."

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