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global1

(25,919 posts)
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 12:53 PM Jun 2020

CBS Has Cancelled The Following Comedy SitComs & Shows With A Message.....

Man With a Plan, Carol's Second Act, Broke, and God Friended Me.

These were all wholesome family type shows that are needed during this time of pandemics and protests. I don't know what those people at CBS are thinking.

I suppose they will put on more violent cop shows or stupid reality and game shows for us as replacements. A lot of the new shows that TV is airing are made to appeal to just the lowest common denominator of Americans.

I've given up watching premiers of new shows - because I get into them and then they are cancelled just as they are hitting their stride.



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CBS Has Cancelled The Following Comedy SitComs & Shows With A Message..... (Original Post) global1 Jun 2020 OP
Maybe they weren't attracting enough of an audience. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #1
God friended me? Sheesh. stopbush Jun 2020 #2
This. Jirel Jun 2020 #5
The Lead In The Show Was An Atheist.....nt global1 Jun 2020 #6
Indeed, a theist's perverted view of what an atheist is. stopbush Jun 2020 #10
I'll go with that. Jirel Jun 2020 #12
I call myself a cosmist Lord Ludd Jun 2020 #15
We were watching Broke. BarbaRosa Jun 2020 #3
Oh, poop. I love Matt LeBlanc and Man with a Plan. CurtEastPoint Jun 2020 #4
Could be they were not really funny? Most are not. Srkdqltr Jun 2020 #7
Precisely Sherman A1 Jun 2020 #8
I never watched Carol's Second Act or Broke. Staph Jun 2020 #9
"manchild married to a long-suffering wife" -- gee, what an original idea!!111! PSPS Jun 2020 #11
Never watched Rebl2 Jun 2020 #14
Odd to say this, but maybe streaming has raised the quality level of television ... Auggie Jun 2020 #13
Evil is good. LessAspin Jun 2020 #16
Who was 'She'? LessAspin Jun 2020 #17
God Friended Me was a bit offbeat matt819 Jul 2020 #18

The Velveteen Ocelot

(120,821 posts)
1. Maybe they weren't attracting enough of an audience.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 12:57 PM
Jun 2020

I've never heard of any of them so I can't comment about their content or quality.

stopbush

(24,630 posts)
10. Indeed, a theist's perverted view of what an atheist is.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 01:42 PM
Jun 2020

That was a huge part of the problem with that bullshit show.

Of course, the problem starts with the word “atheist” itself, which is a word devised by theists to describe people who are not theists. Imagine if we defined other aspects of the human condition in such a way. Someone who does not collect stamps would be referred to as an “aphilatelic.” A person who does not collect coins would be called an “anumismatic.”

Gee. Those two terms alone cover 98% of humanity. Yet imagine using those terms to describe people not for what they are, but what they are not!

Perhaps we should start calling theists what they really are: arationalists.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
8. Precisely
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 01:36 PM
Jun 2020

I watched all of them at least once and found them to be very tired rehashings of worn out sit-com themes.

They simply were not funny.

Staph

(6,345 posts)
9. I never watched Carol's Second Act or Broke.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 01:38 PM
Jun 2020

I saw several episodes of Man With A Plan, after CBS's Sunday Night Movies (love the movies, but that's another story). Man With A Plan is painfully unfunny, an old school manchild married to a long-suffering wife. I didn't like Everyone Loves Raymond; I don't like Man With A Plan.

On the other hand, I enjoyed God Friended Me. As mentioned above, the main character is an atheist, or perhaps an agnostic - I'm not sure of the distinction for this fictional character. Other characters are believers, but all characters are treated fairly for the beliefs or lack thereof. And I enjoyed having a show without car chases and hails of bullets!


Rebl2

(14,677 posts)
14. Never watched
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 07:57 PM
Jun 2020

God friended me. Didn’t care for man with a plan or broke. Did kind of like carol’s second act, but won’t miss it.

Auggie

(31,798 posts)
13. Odd to say this, but maybe streaming has raised the quality level of television ...
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 04:56 PM
Jun 2020

Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, Apple, etc. give people much better stuff to watch (and are drawing talent away from the banality of network control). There's no "must-see" programming on broadcast anymore.

LessAspin

(1,407 posts)
16. Evil is good.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 08:43 PM
Jun 2020


Other than that CBS usually has had pretty mediocre offerings. Person of Interest and Elementary were good and had good runs.

I'm still mad they cancelled Limitless after one season..



Same with Fox and Alcatraz.


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