I miss DAG

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Dag was a great one season show that's in my top 20 overall. Starring David Alan Grier and Delta Burke, Dag aired in the 2000-2001 season on NBC Tuesday nights. I wish it would come out on DVD, there's certainly plenty of modern shows being released. Sadly I'll probably never see Dag again.

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Reviews that I uncovered from the year 2000.

"DAG": So much potential, wasted

"These are two good characters played by two appealing performers, who together manage to keep 'DAG' from being as aggressively awful as most of this year's new sitcoms, but the situations and punchlines are so tired, it's a wonder Grier and Burke can stay awake long enough to get through them," says Alan Sepinwall.

• "It's a run-of-the-mill half-hour that, underneath its government accouterments, is really just another formulaic office comedy with neurotic co-workers and an eccentric boss," says Matthew Gilbert.
  
• "They don't tick, click or spark," says Tom Shales. "Grier has proved time and again to be a formidable and versatile comic talent, and Burke knows how to make jokes work, but there have to be jokes there to work with."
  
• "If NBC could manage to avoid yet another rush to judgment, there's even the possibility — just a hint of daylight peeking through a not-quite-punched ballot — that 'DAG' might eventually emerge as a winner," says Ellen Gray. "But it's not there yet."
  
• "'DAG' . . .is an unheralded comedy whose timing may be perfect in this topsy-turvy political season," says Joanne Ostrow.
  
• "With this boring title and borrowed premise. . .NBC's 'DAG' has emerged with a very watchable and likable sitcom," says David Bianculli.
  
• "With recent presidential developments in this country, the premiere of the White House comedy 'DAG' couldn't be more out of step," says Terry Morrow. "That's the problem with political humor. Like fresh bread, there's a time limit on how long you can hold onto it before it is hopelessly stale."
  
• "Whether the writing remains strong and subsequent episodes hold up remains to be seen," says Howard Rosenberg. "Hail to the premiere, however, which finds agent Jerome Daggett getting reassigned to First Lady Judith Whitman, a demotion he earns by bungling — hilariously — his assignment with the goofy president."
  
• "Part of the problem of 'DAG' — which just sits there like a deaf dog as you shout out, 'Jump!' ' Rollover!' — is that you never get a sense who the star is," says Tim Goodman.
  
• "After 'Tucker,' 'The Michael Richards Show' and 'Cursed,' this last new fall series wins the expectations game just by not being totally embarrassing," says Alan Pergament. "But it is close."

ALSO: Delta Burke doesn't mind being David Alan Grier's second banana

• Grier: "My character is a fish out of water; he is a man who is in hell"