Sitcom based on Annie Duke canceled
 

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Re: Sitcom based on Annie Duke canceled
 

I almost made it through the first paragraph.

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Has poker officially jumped the shark now?

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Has poker officially jumped the shark now?

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Does this question have to be asked everytime a poker story appears in the mainstream media?

Re: Sitcom based on Annie Duke canceled
 

No, just Annie Duke.

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dude, poker jumped the shark as soon as some genius thought up the idea of putting nascar drivers playing poker on TV.

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thank the lord.

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A sitcom can't be cancelled if it was never picked up in the first place.

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A sitcom can't be cancelled if it was never picked up in the first place.

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Plans for it were canceled.

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Hi Voltron:

I agree completely. I won't state my reasons, but I don't believe that this show would have been good for poker.

best wishes,
Mason

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What Mason won't admit to us is that he still wakes up at 3AM from a nightmare in which he is watching the NBC Emeril Lagasse sitcom "Emeril".

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Why does everybody on this forum love Howard Lederer and despise Annie Duke?

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Howard is sexier.

Not gay. He also has an IQ above that of a tree, while it would appear from most of what she says, that his sister does not.

Re: Sitcom based on Annie Duke canceled
 

Well, I think Howard's sexier, but I'd hope so.

But I respect Annie as much as I respect Howard. And, I think she's just as smart. (It's not like "stupid" is a prerequisite for getting admitted to a PhD program at Columbia.)

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Stupid is a prereq for saying professional poker players have it no better than slaves picking cotton while playing WPT events.

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Good. That show would have been similar to a UTG raise with a 7 2 offsuit and it's not even close [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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When did Jeneane Garafalo become a BIG HOLLYWOOD STAR??

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Who?

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Stupid is a prereq for saying professional poker players have it no better than slaves picking cotton while playing WPT events.

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and Appallingly Stupid is the criterion for what she actually said, which was that poker players were worse than slaves, because they were "paying to pick the cotton".

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A show has to actually get on the air before it can be cancelled.

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When did Jeneane Garafalo become a BIG HOLLYWOOD STAR??

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Early to mid ninties.

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My guess is that casting Janeane Garafalo was a REAL BAD IDEA. If you are going to cast a sitcom, it helps not to have a star that the red states would prefer to run out of town. Can she be funny? Yes. Has she hacked off half the population. Ooops.

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I'd make the simple bet that the pilot was simply bad.

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I agree. TV is desperate for any type of show. If it has ANY potential at all they give it a shot. This thing mus have been rancid....

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I have to disagree. any show about poker is good for the game. more fish, more money for the rest of us. While this show didn't make the fall schedule, I know for sure others are in development. Mason, please tell us the reason you think this was a bad idea. A show about a poker-playing mother seems to have all the elements to make america watch. I don't know if you all are against Annie getting pub - I can understand that, she's annoying - but the basis of the show was good.

franco

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- but the basis of the show was good.

franco

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i hope ur kidding

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When did Jeneane Garafalo become a BIG HOLLYWOOD STAR??

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Early to mid ninties.

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This was a great reason alone to cancel the show, what a terrible pick to star in it.

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This was a great reason alone to cancel the show, what a terrible pick to star in it.

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Actually I think if you're going to produce an Annie Duke sitcom, Janeane Garofalo is pretty damn spot-on as far as her on-screen representation goes.

Unfortunately, the casting wouldn't be the big problem with that project - I reckon that the major issue would be the fact that the idea itself sucks a racehorse's musty....well, you get the idea. Or at least the profanity filter does.