ryan423
10-01-2008, 10:09 PM
Dear Mr. Kevin Reily,
How are you today? Actually, I can answer that; you are doing really bad! First you took NBC from first to fourth place, and before you were kicked to the curb, you cancelled the brilliant Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip after just one season. When you moved to FOX, you picked up Christopher Lloyd's well written Back to You starring sitcom vets Kelsey Grammar and Patty Heaton to team up with what was them semi-successful 'Til Death.
When Back to You debuted, it averaged approximately 9.6 million viewers; which by the way, was getting better ratings than 3 out of 4 of the NBC Thursday comedies. And for those familiar with your work, we knew this show's fate was decided before its first airing! When Back to You was canned, I gotta say, I was pretty mad! With that anger, I got together with a few members of the sitcomsonline 'back to you' community and started an online campaign to save the show. Now, as you know by now, it may not have gotten the show back on your air, but we did spread our case. I myself even recieved an email from 'Back to You's' Josh Gad thanking me for being a part of the campaign.
Now, lets move onto the fall of 2008...
Over the summer, you began airing reruns of 'Til Death in the sunday night lineup and I'm not gonna lie, I thought it was really good, although, not as good as Back to You! Come the season opener, I read that the show was given a 'revamp'! Not only were Eddie Kay Thomas and Kast Foster laid off and abruptly were kicked off the show, JB Smoove, the annoying recurring role of Eddie was given a permanent spot as Brad Garrett's rediculously ******** sidekick. It was like the gay-er version of Batman and Robin (no offense to this summer's amazing 'Dark Knight').
Three weeks into your fall season, the Back to You replacement, Do Not Disturb starring not-funny man/ Rebecca Romain's biatch Jerry O' Connell and Style Network's Stacy Nash was cancelled. You just know things are going bad for you Mr. Reily when the creator of one out of two of your only comedies apoligizes for how poorly written and acted it was!
Now, word has begun spreading today that both Sarah Connor and Til Death are about to get the axe! I mean, what are you smoking over there? First off, none of the events that have occurred over the past two and a half years or so would've occurred if you had run NBC properly. In fact, who knows? Maybe both Studio 60 and Back to You would've become hits and maybe Til Death wouldn't have become your worse than average sitcom.
All I know is that you, in my eyes, are a failure. And for those of you [members of the community, whether you know me or not], I am sorry. But I needed to let this all out.
Mr. Reily, please take a hike;)
Signed, Ryan Schwartz
How are you today? Actually, I can answer that; you are doing really bad! First you took NBC from first to fourth place, and before you were kicked to the curb, you cancelled the brilliant Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip after just one season. When you moved to FOX, you picked up Christopher Lloyd's well written Back to You starring sitcom vets Kelsey Grammar and Patty Heaton to team up with what was them semi-successful 'Til Death.
When Back to You debuted, it averaged approximately 9.6 million viewers; which by the way, was getting better ratings than 3 out of 4 of the NBC Thursday comedies. And for those familiar with your work, we knew this show's fate was decided before its first airing! When Back to You was canned, I gotta say, I was pretty mad! With that anger, I got together with a few members of the sitcomsonline 'back to you' community and started an online campaign to save the show. Now, as you know by now, it may not have gotten the show back on your air, but we did spread our case. I myself even recieved an email from 'Back to You's' Josh Gad thanking me for being a part of the campaign.
Now, lets move onto the fall of 2008...
Over the summer, you began airing reruns of 'Til Death in the sunday night lineup and I'm not gonna lie, I thought it was really good, although, not as good as Back to You! Come the season opener, I read that the show was given a 'revamp'! Not only were Eddie Kay Thomas and Kast Foster laid off and abruptly were kicked off the show, JB Smoove, the annoying recurring role of Eddie was given a permanent spot as Brad Garrett's rediculously ******** sidekick. It was like the gay-er version of Batman and Robin (no offense to this summer's amazing 'Dark Knight').
Three weeks into your fall season, the Back to You replacement, Do Not Disturb starring not-funny man/ Rebecca Romain's biatch Jerry O' Connell and Style Network's Stacy Nash was cancelled. You just know things are going bad for you Mr. Reily when the creator of one out of two of your only comedies apoligizes for how poorly written and acted it was!
Now, word has begun spreading today that both Sarah Connor and Til Death are about to get the axe! I mean, what are you smoking over there? First off, none of the events that have occurred over the past two and a half years or so would've occurred if you had run NBC properly. In fact, who knows? Maybe both Studio 60 and Back to You would've become hits and maybe Til Death wouldn't have become your worse than average sitcom.
All I know is that you, in my eyes, are a failure. And for those of you [members of the community, whether you know me or not], I am sorry. But I needed to let this all out.
Mr. Reily, please take a hike;)
Signed, Ryan Schwartz