Nuturing hands? They damn near cancelled a show that won the Emmy for best comedy in it’s first season! It wouldn’t surprise me at all if they cancel it halfway through next season and replace it with Hell’s Kitchen 2 or something.

Newsradio was brilliant. It would be my favorite sitcom of all time if not for the untimely death of Phil Hartman and the less the fufilling John Lovits replacement. The funniest joke in Newsradio? When Joe Rogan’s character “Joe” is asked to perform in a talent show, and his talents is punching a phone book, really really hard. Thats it. After this Dave Folley’s character “Dave” has to relearn the art of knife throwing. Brilliant.

Drew, They could have cancelled Arrested, but they didn’t. They gave it a great spot after the Simpsons and when it still didn’t perform, they renewed it again. Fox has been pretty lousy with lots of shows (Andy Richter comes to mind), but they’ve been supportive here perhaps because they finally recognize the gem they have. If they cancel it next season, it would suck. But they’ve tried. For an ad-supported network, I’m not sure what else I could ask of them. (Other than be human beings and be patrons of good work… but c’mon, these are NETWORK EXECUTIVES)

NewsRadio was the victim of constant time-slot switching, underpromotion and a network that didn’t know a good thing when they had it (which was strange, considering they had just learned to protect an underperformer like Seinfeld). NewsRadio was dicked over time and time again by NBC and it had better ratings than Arrested Development does now.

Jon, I loves me some Throwdini

Hi all,

Maybe you’ve heard about the following: The reason why I’m writing is because I have been a long time NewsRadio fan and I was quite excited to find that some cast members have been reunited with NewsRadio writer Joe Furey to do a special feature for his film called “Love and Support.” (http://www.loveandsupportmovie.com). They’re contributing to a special DVD supplement called “Working with Joe Furey”. As far as I can tell, it sounds like a humorous payoff on Joe’s contribution to NR. Hope this is useful info for you and/or your site and maybe this will do something to revive a cult sitcom… Best regards,

Didi

Guys,

I hear some of you were also into Andy Richter. At the time I saw it, I thought it was very promising. A kind of show Scrubs is now. I definitely felt the kind of absurdist vibe NewsRadio had throughout its run. Does anyone have any idea if Andy Richter DVDs came out at any point in time?

Keep rallying!