More Last Comic Standing stupidity?
FOS Alan Kaye writes:
In reading this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly, I noticed something on page 65 I wanted to bring to your attention. Perhaps it’s a mistake.
It lists the Thursday, July 10 episode of Last Comic Standing as the two-hour “Season Finale.”
Is it possibly the suits at NBC have decided to pull the plug early?
Whoa! This is most intriguing. We are in Cleveland… and we’re here until early Monday. But we’re going to try to find a copy. If anyone out there has this issue, or can find it online, let us know.
Is this more chicanery from the producers of LCS? Are they trying to create fake controversy? Why would the publishers of EW go along with the gag? It would only erode their credibility. And their credibility is tenuous as it is.
Is this like last season’s “mistake” when they “accidentally” announced Amy Schumer‘s “win” in a press release for her performance at Mohegan Sun on September 3 of last year, way before the ostensible end of last season’s contest?
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One could only hope it’s true!
NBC’s website says that the first hour is a rerun and the second hour is a new show. Doesn’t look like the show’s finished yet.
Pick up July 11th copy of Entertainment Weekly, page 65, & see for yourself. Could this be a mistake?
I’ve got the issue right in front of me. The text of the listing reads the way that the author of the listings section for EW (Jessica Shaw) intended…<>The finalists verbally spar in a boxing ring, ’cause comedians are lovers, not fighters. Incredibly bitter, caustic, self-hating lovers.<>Because the 12 (or 13, if you count both of the God’s Pottery guys) who made it through the semi-finals to the house ARE finalists.I think that confused whoever was laying out the page and THEY added the “SEASON FINALE” tag above the time listing.Editing mistake on EW’s part, I’m sure–but that doesn’t mean that NBC is completely sold on this show (and the ratings its getting) so far this year.
EW corrects their LCS “season finale” mistake in a retraction on page 57 in this week’s issue.To quote Jessica Shaw:“Sorry about calling last week the season finale. What I meant was “Good thing tonight’s not the season finale ’cause next week there’s a Bed, Bath & Beyond tie-in.”