The Media Guardian appears to have been watching Fox News or something. Following that particular ‘news’ outlet’s call that Studio 60‘s death was imminent, with cast members telling their family that it was all but cancelled, the Media Guardian has followed suit. Strangely though, it cites the one-week change of time slot for Friday Night Lights as the main reason for the call, despite the fact FNL only replaced a Studio 60 re-run.
It might have a point if NBC hadn’t just come out and ordered three more scripts and declared that the show was already profitable. I think Studio 60 probably has a little more life left in it and a probable time-slot change in its future. But its death is by no means imminent, I suspect.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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