The Comeback (HBO) - Series Thread - starring Lisa Kudrow
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Nice review from Scott.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=22957
Looking forward to this one tomorrow. Not as many extras as I'd hoped for, but didn't expect much from the lack of enthusiasm the show received.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=22957
Looking forward to this one tomorrow. Not as many extras as I'd hoped for, but didn't expect much from the lack of enthusiasm the show received.
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Looking forward to this one tomorrow. Not as many extras as I'd hoped for, but didn't expect much from the lack of enthusiasm the show received.
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WOW!
i just watched the DVD with the commentaries.
let me just say that the Valarie Cherish commentary on episode 2 is excellent- almost like a whole new episode.
the extra with valarie reflecting on the past season and talking about her and mark's production company is really lame.
the "dancing with the stars" extra is decent.
the set is, of course, all about the episodes... and they are all supurb. this is an excellent series with a lot of talent and it is a shame that hbo canned it after 1 season. maybe the dvd will help the series find some new fans as i'm sure there are many kudrow fans out there without HBO.
i just watched the DVD with the commentaries.
let me just say that the Valarie Cherish commentary on episode 2 is excellent- almost like a whole new episode.
the extra with valarie reflecting on the past season and talking about her and mark's production company is really lame.
the "dancing with the stars" extra is decent.
the set is, of course, all about the episodes... and they are all supurb. this is an excellent series with a lot of talent and it is a shame that hbo canned it after 1 season. maybe the dvd will help the series find some new fans as i'm sure there are many kudrow fans out there without HBO.
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Worst Show Ever.
EW had a nice lil blurb about the show and DVD as well. Good to see some positive press on it, as I feel many missed out on a good show.
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Originally Posted by BassDude
I believe ARLISS continues to wear that crown.
EW had a nice lil blurb about the show and DVD as well. Good to see some positive press on it, as I feel many missed out on a good show.
EW had a nice lil blurb about the show and DVD as well. Good to see some positive press on it, as I feel many missed out on a good show.
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Hello, hello, hello! I really think this series is misunderstood. Kudrow is brilliant ... she plays so many characters and her facial expressions are classic! You can sense her anxiety rising when she's on camera and there's nothing interesting happening. There's a great scene when Valerie goes to the Viper Room to see Juna perform. When she's introduced she starts dancing by herself. Oh my God! Now that the series is cancelled, will we ever really know why Paulie G was such a jerk to her?
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Looks like it may "come back":
http://www.deadline.com/2014/03/come...on-2-hbo-plan/
After Netflix resurrected Arrested Development, another cult 2000s comedy, HBO‘s The Comeback, is eyeing a comeback. I’ve learned that HBO is in discussions with the series creators/executive producers Michael Partick King, who also served as director, and Lisa Kudrow, who toplined the show, about doing a second season almost a decade after the first one. Comeback, which debuted in June 2005, was a docu-style single-camera comedy starring Kudrow as washed-up sitcom actress Valerie Cherish, who gets a reality show documenting her attempt at a career comeback with a role on a new sitcom. The series, whose cast included Malin Akerman, didn’t go beyond the 13-episode first season, which earned three Emmy nominations, including a lead actress nom for Kudrow and a directing nom for King. Like Fox’s single-camera comedy Arrested Development, which aired at the same time, Comeback was considered to be ahead of its time. While it didn’t get a lot of traction during its original run, Comeback quickly achieved cult status, with fans still buzzing about it. The Comeback also has earned posthumous critical praise, landing on a number of lists of the best/most underrated comedy series of the last decade. Viewers are far more used to the style and pace of shows like The Comeback and Arrested Development now with a slew of series that also include another TV industry satire toplined by a former Friends star, Matt LeBlanc’s Showtime comedy Episodes.
Like the show’s fans, King and Kudrow — each busy with work (King is running his CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls, Kudrow has her Showtime series Web Therapy and has been recurring on ABC’s Scandal) — too had not forgotten The Comeback, often discussing a possible new chapter. “Every time we get together for lunch, we’re talking about, ‘OK, so what would happen next?’,” Kudrow told Bravo talk show host Andy Cohen last summer. Where do they envision Valerie a decade later? “Taking classes at the Actor’s Studio. Just because,” Kudrow told Cohen. “We really want her to be on a Bravo show.” Wouldn’t she be perfect for the Real Housewives franchise!” At the time, Kudrow was asked about doing a Kickstarter campaign to bring back the show, the way Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell were able to resurrect their cult series with a feature. She didn’t rule out that route at the time. Now, a much better scenario is presenting itself if deals can be closed, with The Comeback making a comeback at the place where it started, HBO.
Like the show’s fans, King and Kudrow — each busy with work (King is running his CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls, Kudrow has her Showtime series Web Therapy and has been recurring on ABC’s Scandal) — too had not forgotten The Comeback, often discussing a possible new chapter. “Every time we get together for lunch, we’re talking about, ‘OK, so what would happen next?’,” Kudrow told Bravo talk show host Andy Cohen last summer. Where do they envision Valerie a decade later? “Taking classes at the Actor’s Studio. Just because,” Kudrow told Cohen. “We really want her to be on a Bravo show.” Wouldn’t she be perfect for the Real Housewives franchise!” At the time, Kudrow was asked about doing a Kickstarter campaign to bring back the show, the way Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell were able to resurrect their cult series with a feature. She didn’t rule out that route at the time. Now, a much better scenario is presenting itself if deals can be closed, with The Comeback making a comeback at the place where it started, HBO.
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HBO Revives Lisa Kudrow's "The Comeback"
Valerie Cherish’s Comeback is set.
HBO on Monday officially confirmed the worst kept secret in Hollywood: Lisa Kudrow’s underrated comedy is returning for a six-episode second season, to launch this fall.
The “limited series” will pick up 10 years later and find Valerie trying to gain a foothold in a very crowded TV landscape. “Valerie thinks she has it all figured out this time,” reads HBO’s press release. “She doesn’t.
“The Comeback holds a special place in the hearts of its many fans, including many of us here at HBO,” said the cabler’s programming president Michael Lombardo in a statement. “I can’t wait to find out what Valerie’s been up to since we last met.”
Added Kudrow: “It was almost too fun to play Valerie Cherish the first time around. I look forward to revisiting this resilient and ironically self-unaware character.”
The Comeback, which debuted on HBO in 2005, was cancelled after one very low-rated season. The series, and Valerie Cherish, went on to develop an avid cult following.
Kudrow will once again serve as an EP alongside her producing partner Dan Bucatinsky and Comeback creator Michael Patrick King.
HBO on Monday officially confirmed the worst kept secret in Hollywood: Lisa Kudrow’s underrated comedy is returning for a six-episode second season, to launch this fall.
The “limited series” will pick up 10 years later and find Valerie trying to gain a foothold in a very crowded TV landscape. “Valerie thinks she has it all figured out this time,” reads HBO’s press release. “She doesn’t.
“The Comeback holds a special place in the hearts of its many fans, including many of us here at HBO,” said the cabler’s programming president Michael Lombardo in a statement. “I can’t wait to find out what Valerie’s been up to since we last met.”
Added Kudrow: “It was almost too fun to play Valerie Cherish the first time around. I look forward to revisiting this resilient and ironically self-unaware character.”
The Comeback, which debuted on HBO in 2005, was cancelled after one very low-rated season. The series, and Valerie Cherish, went on to develop an avid cult following.
Kudrow will once again serve as an EP alongside her producing partner Dan Bucatinsky and Comeback creator Michael Patrick King.
http://tvline.com/2014/05/05/the-com...e-lisa-kudrow/
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Re: HBO Revives Lisa Kudrow's "The Comeback"
I guess that means Web Therapy on Showtime was cancelled.
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From what I recall, the stuff in in the first several episodes were just not funny at all. It finally got interesting in the final 3-4 episodes, but apparently it was too late by then and most people already bailed...
Assuming if they can keep it at the quality level of the 2nd half of the season I may check it out again.
Assuming if they can keep it at the quality level of the 2nd half of the season I may check it out again.
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Re: HBO Revives Lisa Kudrow's "The Comeback"
Thats pretty cool... I picked this one up from Big Lots years ago and watched it all... it's decent, a little overrated by how everyone else seems to make it, but it was good...
...maybe one day HBO will do the same to Deadwood (crosses fingers)... most likely after Justified has ran its course
...maybe one day HBO will do the same to Deadwood (crosses fingers)... most likely after Justified has ran its course
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It shouldn't be too tough to juggle both since this S2 is only going to be 6 20-minute installments. How long could that really take to write/film/edit? Wasn't most of it improv-ed anyway?
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While shooting footage for a self-produced reality TV pilot she hopes will get picked up by Bravo, Valerie Cherish learns that her nemesis, Paulie G., is creating a series for HBO about a sitcom writer and his relationship with a neurotic older actress - a redhead named Mallory Church. After dropping in on Andy Cohen's lunch, an incensed Valerie crashes the HBO offices to create a "table flipping scene" worthy of a Bravo show, as she tells them to cease and desist.
8 episode second season... 9 years after the first.
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Is she the first person ever to have a HBO and Showtime series (Web Therapy) on at the same time?
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