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Conference ljsrv1::tv_chatter

Title:	The TV Chatter Notes Conference
Notice:	Welcome to TV Chatter :-)
Moderator:	PASTA::PIERCE

Created:	Wed Dec 16 1992
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	498
Total number of notes:	5416

334.0. "Cybil" by GRANPA::JBOBB (Janet Bobb dtn:339-5755) Fri Jan 27 1995 05:20

    Any watched the new show "Cybil" starring Cybil Sheppard? I've watched
    it a few times and have liked it.
    
    Cybil plays a middle-age actress facing all the job problems we hear
    about for middle-age actresses. She has 2 ex-husbands, a kid from each
    marriage, youngest is somewhere aroung 16 yrs old, give or take a year,
    still living a home. Cybil's friends with both ex's and is still
    working out unresolved feelings for the more recent ex (don't remember
    the actor's name, but he played a lawyer for a few years ago ...Law and
    Order... and then on L.A. Law last year as the same character, but
    relocated. He's a writer in this series.)The first ex is currently
    living in her garage apartment as his place was destroyed in one of the
    recent California disasters (don't remember which one). Everyone seems
    to get along ok. 
    
    The show has opened each week with her doing some 'bit' part or
    commercial. Usually over acted or soap-opera type of scene, with some
    problem. One week it was a giggling fit, this last week it was a line
    in a commercial that had to be done over and over with different
    inflections and of course the director picks the silliest of them.
    Usually what happens in the opening becomes a running gag/theme
    throughout the episode.
    
    She also has a best friend that has just been divorced and is currently
    stalking her ex-husband. The scenes have been funny, but I'm not sure
    I'm comfortable with the idea of making comedy out of stalking. 
    
    However, I generally like the show. Not great, but good. They help
    themselves by having no commercial break between Murphy and Cybil, so
    it doesn't give you time to channel surf before the show. That's how I
    got started on it in the beginning.
    
    janetb.

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334.1	She's Worth It?	SWAM2::SMITH_MA		`Sat Jan 28 1995 07:44`	6
	I haven't seen it yet. I have mixed feelings about CS. I was a lunatic Moonlighting fan, long before the show even got popular, but since that time I haven't been very impressed with her stuff. I'll try to tune in next Monday. MJ
334.2	Cybil meets Star Trek?	GRANPA::JBOBB	Janet Bobb dtn:339-5755	`Fri Feb 03 1995 05:44`	46
	Not sure whether to put this in here or in the Star Trek replies .... The repeat show mentioned was just on 1/30/95. My guess on the following is that it will be the opening sequence. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Cybill meets Star Trek? Article: 2387 Path: netnews.alf.dec.com!crl.dec.com!crl.dec.com!caen!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ove rload.lbl.gov!agate!xcf.Berkeley.EDU!griffith From: [email protected] (Overpaid) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info Subject: CYBILL meets STAR TREK Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc Date: 31 Jan 1995 01:32:09 GMT Organization: The Biz Lines: 19 Approved: [email protected] Distribution: world Message-ID: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] NNTP-Posting-Host: xcf.berkeley.edu Originator: [email protected] (It was suggested I repost this here from rec.arts.tv) This Monday (1/30) CBS is re-running the CYBILL pilot (I guess for people with extremely short-term memories), but next Monday (2/6) is our blatant attempt to suck in even more viewers as Cybill meets Jonathan Frakes (playing himself) on the set of... well, let's just call it an "unidentified (and not infringing on anyone's copyright) sci-fi show". Lee Aronsohn Co-Executive Producer -- CYBILL -- Watch CYBILL -- Mondays at 9:30 on CBS!!! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith. Email submissions to [email protected], questions to [email protected]
334.3		BUSY::SLABOUNTY	Trouble with a capital 'T'	`Tue Jul 18 1995 13:22`	16
	Caught part of this show last night ... not bad. I'd watch it again if I remembered it was on. And living in what would appear to me to be Hollywood will "open the door" [pun not intentional] to all sorts of cameos, like Elliot Gould last night. And Zsa Zsa Gabor. Tom Wopat as one of the ex-husbands ... you might remember him as Luke Duke from "The Dukes of Hazzard". And that looked like Dedee Pfeiffer as the pregnant daughter ... she was in "The Horror Show", as well as guest appearances on "Dream On" and "Seinfeld" and she also starred in a movie "Red [something]" a- bout a drug dealer who was planning his last big deal before retiring. I believe it also starred KISS's Gene Simmons.
334.4		ODIXIE::MOREAU	Ken Moreau;Sales Support;South FL	`Wed Jul 19 1995 12:27`	18
	My wife and I are hooked on this show. It is the only current sit-com that we can count on to have us laugh out loud at least 2-3 times per show (as opposed to every other current sit-com where we might smile occassionaly). The thing we like about it is that the writers and actors are obviously having fun with this. Mary-Ann (the divorced friend) has most of the best lines in the show, both of Cybill's ex-husbands are amusing, the kids are good without being overdone, and Cybill herself is obviously not taking any of this too seriously. She is having fun spoofing a lot of the problems that the actor herself is facing in real life. But the best thing is the acting gig's she gets, and the cameo's that occur almost every week. The people doing the cameo's are spoofing their own characters, and that is a lot of fun. It is probably not to everyone's taste, but we really like it. -- Ken Moreau
334.5	moving to sundays this fall	GRANPA::JBOBB	Janet Bobb dtn:339-5755	`Thu Aug 03 1995 10:57`	2
	The fall schedule has this moving to Sunday night at 8pm. Wonder if it will do as well in that time slot!
334.6		TROOA::BUTKOVICH	happy&peppy&bursting with love	`Fri Aug 04 1995 02:07`	1
	Isn't that the same time slot that NBC is moving "Mad About You" too?
334.7		PCBUOA::LPIERCE	Do the watermelon crawl	`Fri Aug 04 1995 09:19`	2
	Yes - Mad About You is on Sun at 8:00 to .. :-(
334.8	Totally gratuitous, unbelievable, and unnecessary	TNPUBS::NAZZARO	Thanks UMass for a great season!	`Tue Apr 02 1996 12:13`	13
	I am very upset with the writers of this show, who usually do an excellent job. In case there are people who taped the show SUnday, I'll put why I'm upset after a FF There is NO WAY Sean would have gone to a motel with another girl. He and Zoe are so alike, so connected, so together - this is an act totally opposite his character. It is a cheap way to bring conflict (unnecessary conflict, I might add) into the show. This is an excellent, funny, witty show that certainly didn't need to have a character go against his principles. I am furious! NAZZ