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Brilliantly Canceled

Watching 'Kelly's Kids', the Backdoor 'Brady Bunch' Pilot

by | March 4th, 2013

Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in vain. Other times, the powers that be get things right. That’s where “Brilliantly Canceled” comes in, looking at the shows that didn’t make it past their first season and saved us all a ton of grief.

The early 70s belonged to the Bradys. Co-opting flower power parenting and Leave It to Beaver wholesomeness, Brady Bunch-creator and TV-demigod Sherwood Schwartz turned the story of a lovely lady and some guy named Mike into a ratings dynamo and six kids into the archetypal American youngsters. And, of [...]

Oh Come On

'The Brady Bunch' Reboot Sounds like a Bunch of Brady-Shit

by | July 31st, 2012

Here's a list of things that really need to be rebooted:  _____. The opposite of that empty list is the fact that Vince Vaughn is producing a multi-cam (of course) Brady Bunch pilot for CBS (of course). Ready for the twists?

- Besides bringing their own gender homogeneous flock of kids to the family, Mr. and Mrs. will create a new (super) Brady baby. - Both of their ex-spouses will be alive and in the show. In the original, Mr. Brady's ex-wife had died (lucky) and Mrs. Brady's ex-husband was never mentioned because they weren't allowed to talk about divorce on television in 1969. - The show [...]

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