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Now THIS ought to be reaaaaally interesting
Editor and Publisher is reporting that ABC will be debuting a TV show this fall about a fictional conservative radio talk show host-turned TV pundit:
NEW YORK ABC reportedly has huge hopes for a new series to air this fall called “Brothers & Sisters,” which will follow the hit “Desperate Housewives” on the schedule. Calista Flockhart, best known as Ally McBeal, plays a conservative radio host turned TV pundit. Others in the high-powered cast include Patricia Wettig, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin and Sally Field.
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Asked to describe the pundit, producer Ken Olin (formerly a star of “Thirty Something’) said, “She’s not Ann Coulter. She’s not insane.”
Writer Jon Robin Baitz added, “No, I think she’s a thoughtful conservative. She’s ideologically, in some respects, very much in mind with the older parts of the party, the sort of Eisenhower Republican, the William Buckley conservative. She’s also a humanist.
“She’s not someone who is apologetic about being a conservative. But it’s very, very interesting and compelling to us to try and understand this, to leave behind some of the smug presuppositions of the two coasts, . . . to look at evolving patriotism and evolving traditionalism,” he said, according to an article by Dave Walker of New Orleans’ Times-Picayune.
“For years and years, the left has looked at the right in complete incomprehension and felt, ‘We just can’t connect.’ And maybe there’s an effort in the show to try and bridge that in some way.”
John at Powerline has taken a decidedly negative view of what Olin says about the show, but I’m willing to give it a chance. I’m not so sure the Hollywood Left has a clue how to portray conservatives honestly, but I’m hoping this time they get it right by abandoning the stereotypes about conservatives they routinely like to push in shows like The Left, er, West Wing. It would be incredibly refreshing.
Here’s ABC.com’s preview of the show. From the looks of things there, the show is not going to focus totally on Flockhart’s character’s conservative attributes … which might be a good thing, because the producers of the show could probably only stand so much of it per episode 
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- A couple of thoughts, just as guess’s. This is basically another “personality” showcase for Flockhart, who is a definate hit with bolemic girls everywhere. She’s been off-air for sometime, and the suits at the network think the time is ripe. The premise?. Well I’m betting they slip all sorts of Liberal view points in, and follow a story line that she slowly “see’s the light” and switches to Liberal. A total triumph of emotion over logic, and of course what most people really want to see anyway. Politics of either stripe as the main theme, would be the prime time equivalent of the kiss of death. This will be an extention of sex in the city, with it’s own brand of situational problems.
- Oh, and I think the story line I mentioned will start in with her dating a very “Progressive” sort of dude, which gives rise to a rich set of show scrips all by itself.
- Bang
The phrase “evolving patriotism and evolving traditionalism” is the giveaway. I agree with Bang – probably will be a dud where the main character will “mature” into a KosKid orc. Or maybe it will be a kind of Archie Bunker Reloaded, where the “conservative” is made to look like a horse’s Howard-Dean in every episode. The show will doubtlessly please the Hezbollah wing of the Democratic party, and no one else.
I suppose expecting the networks to give up conservative-bashing is like expecting William Jefferson Clinton to give up chasing black thongs.
I sincerely doubt that any portrayals of conservatives will be favorable…
I remember Henry Winkler’s lame attempt at political humor when he tried to portray a Limbaugh character in a totally unfunny sitcom. Lasted like, two shows.
Hollywood’s idea of consevativism is, well, very Hollywood.
No way will abc – and which way do these people lean, put on anything that is not totally slanted.
Let us pray.
In tag team chess where Bang and MD are partners……I shall not be searched for I will be packin!
I’d like to say to we should give it a chance before we all make our judgements…but, we know what they are up to. Fool me once shame on you…Fool me twice…shame on me….and you ain’t gonna fool me again…or something like that…