I'm really surprised by this. I thought Studio 60 was a great new show, and I like every actor and the characters they play. Hopefully I'm not the only one who thinks this way....

I'm not surprised by this. The show - while mildly entertaining - still seems more like a therapy session for Aaron Sorkin than a real drama.

I'm not surprised. When netflix offered the pilot a few weeks before the show aired, I think they referred to it as 'already doomed'.

To be honest, I thought the show wouldn't succeed from the moment it was announced as part of NBC's 2006 Fall schedule. Why?

The show's name. No one outside of Hollywood or the Upper West Side knows what the "Sunset Strip" is, and to everyone else, it sounded like yet another navel-gazing exercise whereby Hollwood finds its goings on much more interesting than the rest of the U.S. does. I think there's a real turn-off towards anything that seems to be about how The Industry workd, it's petty ego crises, and the personalities that put our television entertainment together.

That and the show had cast members who were 'The Kiss of Death': Steven Webber and Timothy Busfield. Two of the most irritating presences on TV, in one show, at one time. The other, more interesting characters were doomed by those two!

I wanted to like Studio 60, I liked West Wing and Sports Night, so I wanted to like Studio 60. But it sucks.

1) It's not funny. It tries to be a behind the scenes SNL. You would think that at least there would some funny in there. But no, it's just not funny at all. Case in point they open with Gilbert and Sullivan and act like that is funny.

2) It takes itself TOO seriously. The fate of the network, indeed the fate of CIVILIZATION does not rest on whether the fictional Studio 60 show is on the air, but that's how they act. For pete's sake it's a show that supposedly airs at midnight on a Friday night. How much audience would it really have?

The characters are too self indulgent. Mathew Perry's character is not humorous or even likeable. He acts like a self centered know it all. Sarah Paulson's character comes across as a liberal's view of how a Southern Baptist SHOULD be.

3) The show goes out of its way to disrespect parts of its audience. Every episode has found a way to insult Conservatives, Christians, the right, etc. If they aren't insulted they are stereotyped or made into caricatures. Is that really necessary? SNL at least finds ways to laugh at the left.

4) It's not the West Wing and it doesn't have to be. Bradley Whitford, is still doing Josh Lyman. I expected the President of NBS to be Martin Sheen.

The show doesn't require the same rat a tat tat dialog like in West Wing. Most people don't talk that way. The importance and events of the White House made that pacing work, here it doesn't. In fact, here it is just annoying. Not every situation requires some long speech full of stats and trivia.