...an intriguing, occasionally horrifying look at the behind-the-scenes shenanigans within the network-television world.
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04/10/08
The TV Set (2007)
65 %
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Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 47
Rotten:25
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Consensus: Offering both broad and insider jokes, The TV Set is a sharp satire that will please both the average moviegoers and pop culture aficionados.
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Television
Theatrical Release: Apr 6, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $34,531
Synopsis: Go to any bar in Hollywood and you're sure to find a hard-done-by writer who is drowning his or her sorrows after being chewed up and spat out by the network television system. In THE TV SET, Mike Klein (David Duchovny) seems set to join them.... [More]
Starring: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer
Director: Jake Kasdan
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Reviews for The TV Set
Sad, slow and rather boring story about how writers get dumped on and smart television shows get dumbed down.
01/23/08
The best thing that one can say about this film, is that it's probably too good for TV.
12/06/07
It's interesting and funny and agonizing and illuminating to know what happens before you get that first annoying animated promo for a new show. For fans of: Undeclared, Studio 60.
11/22/07
Not a backstage film for the ages, but it manages to be a bit more useful than the vast bulk of its stablemates.
09/20/07
The TV Set is a little wonder of a movie, as smart and sad and true as any comedy I've seen this year.
08/18/07
This very inside but modestly amusing show-business satire doesn't seem too far-fetched or exaggerated.
05/31/07
"The TV Set" feels a little underdone and half-realized, as if it were the pilot episode for a show that never got picked up for the fall season.
05/25/07
A weak satire of network television programming, telling you nothing you don't already know and doing so without providing much more than the occsasional mild chuckle.
05/17/07
The appalling sausage factory that produces what we see on network TV is nicely skewered in The TV Set, an engaging if not exactly edgy comedy that exists to restate the obvious.
05/10/07
A facile but likable send-up of how things (don't) work in Hollywood.
05/10/07
Top Critic David Duchovny, Justine Bateman, Ioan Gruffudd and Sigourney Weaver star in this biting look at the creatively draining world of TV sitcom production.
05/10/07
Top Critic Kasdan goes too far over the top on occasion. But he mostly straddles the line between reality and absurdity. But in network TV, reality is absurdity.
05/04/07
A somewhat cold and calculated film that apparently unconsciously exemplifies that which it intends to criticize.
05/04/07
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