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NBC's Just Making Shows for the Sole Purpose of Cancelling Them Now Is all I can think after reading the news that the network -- which has basically no scripted series left except that one really good one and has promised their entire 10 PM time slot to Jay Leno in the near future -- has picked up a Doogie Howser-inspired series called Barely Legal, starring Hilary Duff as a genius who passes the California bar exam at 17 and then proceeds to practice law. This is supposed to be OK, because it's based on a true story, but it is not OK, I don't care how quickly it's going to be canceled and gone from all of our memories. Not OK at all.

And since NBC is clearly just so obsessed with canceling things that they're picking up flagrantly terrible series just so they can experience the joy of canceling them, I guess there's hope for the sitcom idea I came up with the other night when I was drunk where Patricia Heaton and I open a nail salon, hire Alex Borstein to be head of waxing, fight with our landlord Bill Engvall daily and throw our hands up and say, "Men!" a lot when discussing our useless husbands, Jon Lovitz and David Spade. And also Howie Mandel wrote it. And Caroline Rhea is producing. NBC is so all over this. I can tell, because they cast the star of these things as a genius lawyer:

Agent Cody Banks (genius espionage skateboarding)
Cheaper By the Dozen (genius siblinging)
Lizzie Maguire (genius tweening)
A Cinderella Story (genius fairy tale escapism fulfillmenting)
Raise Your Voice (genius waste of John Corbett's time-ing)
Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (even more geniuser)
Material Girls (genius shopping)
The Perfect Man (genius Heather Locklear is an insufferable man driver awayer-ing)

Actually, on second thought, I guess it does make sense. Can't wait. Hope it's on before Heroes so I can watch two really awesome shows in a row.

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January 13, 2009 12:23 PM
Alison
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The CW already picked up this same show two or three years ago. It had Jay Baruchel and Don Johnson as the leads and I think it was even called "Barely Legal" or "Just Legal" or something like that. It lasted maybe three episodes.

January 13, 2009 2:10 PM
amroyo
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Let's hope NBC gets it's canceling fix satisfied with this stinker and not decent shows like CHUCK or LIFE.

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