Meanwhile, Malone’s young son (Kaj-Erik Ericksen) is spending more time on the Internet than in front of the TV, and his older daughter (Keegan Tracy) is sleeping with an LGT star (Paul Provenza) who is (a) Malone’s age and (b) trying to hold the network up for an exorbitant raise. Malone will pass this problem off to his casting v.p., a closeted gay, who will turn to a drag queen pal, who will land E.L., already in a wheelchair, in the hospital, which will bring R.L.’s wife (Carol Kane) to Hollywood. “Tall, at least 5-10, preferably Latin,” E.L. So his network boss Emory Luddis (Bill Morey) declares he’s headed west to rally the troops and dally with “a little surprise” he wants Malone to arrange. “Mountainmen,” created by the egomaniacal and volatile Kendall Gifford (Stuart Margolin), ticks off any number of citizen groups, but it isn’t until consumer goods are burned that CEOs, Wall Street and competing networks draw a bead on a network heretofore overlooked.īefore you can say “big overnight ratings,” the industry’s movers and shakers are pleading with Malone to take the show off the air.Īnyway, Malone is as damned if he does succeed as he is if he doesn’t. In a nutshell, “Beggars” gives us Kerwin as Rob Malone, the happily married father of two and the newly installed program chief for Luddin Global Television (LGT), which is failing miserably until a new show becomes controversial and a hit.
One minute Im a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihoods gone. Not when you’re measuring it against “The Larry Sanders Show,” which skewered more egos, myths and butts in a rollicking half-hour than “Beggars and Choosers” does with the luxury of much more time. I was hopping along, minding my own business.
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“Beggars and Choosers” was developed by the late Brandon Tartikoff, the go-go NBC programmer who for much of the ’80s was the boyish face of network TV until his death in 1997.īrian Kerwin is the always-delightful-to-look-at Tartikoff stand-in of this series, described as an affectionate satire. But when you're doing something that goes against agreed-upon common sense, it. There are some people in life who like to break the rules. This isn't a social rule per se, but it's common sense.
Nobody’s watching, so nobody cares what fills the lineup. We all know the saying 'beggars can't be choosers', right Well, that saying exists for a reason.
#CHOOSY BEGGARS ROSE SERIES#
On networks, that’s the time the loser pilots and prematurely canceled series run. THE most authentic aspect of “Beggars and Choosers” is that it’s running in the summer. “Beggars and Choosers” Tomorrow at 10 on Showtime
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