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A Thousand Words May Be Even Worse Than Jack and Jill

by | March 13th, 2012

Yikes. Eddie Murphy's latest family comedy A Thousand Words has a 0% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes right now. To put that in perspective, even Jack and Jill – the "literally unwatchable" movie that's shattered all previous Razzie nomination records – has a 3% critics rating. So this movie must be pretty bad. One reviewer writes that it "makes The Adventures of Pluto Nash look like Beverly Hills Cop." (Even Pluto Nash had a 6%!) Anyone actually seen the thing and want to weigh in?

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Sh*t My Dad Says Creator Talks Failed Sitcoms and Anxious Writers' Rooms

by | December 21st, 2011

Peep this essay from Justin Halpern, the creator of Shit My Dad Says (canceled) and writer on How to Be a Gentleman (canceled), for the perspective of someone who's made it from Twitter into the glitzy, glory-filled world of TV writing but hasn't hit on a show with staying power. It paints a good picture of the writers' room on a show everyone knows is going to be cancelled:

“Where does it go in the second act?” one of the senior writers asked, as we were trying to outline the next episode.

“What if in the second act, he turns to the girl he’s with and he’s like, [...]

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