Word: slavishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...least quotable blurbs, after being wined and dined at studio junkets. When the news broke earlier this year that Sony Pictures was promoting some of its films by inventing quotes from "David Manning," a nonexistent critic, you had to wonder why they bothered to make up a slavish reviewer when there are so many real ones at work...
...rest of television spent the summer boning up, and since then "The Mole" came and quietly went, "Temptation Island" drew viewers but scared away advertisers, "The Weakest Link" took "Survivor"-style ruthlessness into the lavish confines of the game-show studio, and "Boot Camp" proved that slavish imitation of a business model can still pay off in this business...
...Furthermore, not only is Sondheim’s music notoriously difficult for performers to master, but the audience may come in with pre-formed expectations from the widely distributed video of the original Broadway production. Innovation, then, is essential, lest the production sink into the pit of slavish imitation. The Loeb Mainstage is a cavernous space that has swallowed up many a smaller production and, like all student shows in the venue, Into the Woods must attempt to fill it with a budget of only five thousand dollars, a figure that has not been adjusted since the 1980s. It?...
...clever construction of an episode is what makes reality good watching, that doesn't mean we want to see the stitching. The Wednesday outtakes will surely draw the slavish fan (and the indiscriminate couch potato), but once folks start thinking about the other 98 hours they're still missing, it can't help but dilute - and demystify - the rest of the action...
Besides, in four years, more viewers will be using digital video recorders to "timeshift," automatically downloading programs and watching them whenever they feel like it. As prime time becomes less and less relevant to these folks, NBC will need to be less slavish in its dedication...