Another crap sitcom for NBC?

There are three types of American sitcoms. First there are the huge, massively-rated ones that get shown at prime time in England. Think Friends or Frasier or Will And Grace.

Then there are the ones that are enormous in America, but get the shoved into strange timeslots here. For instance, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Everybody Loves Raymond.

Then there are the ones that nobody watches anywhere, so they get shoved on at 3am on ITV. Like Veronica’s Closet or Coach.

It remains to be seen what becomes of All In, NBC’s new poker sitcom starring Janeane Garofalo.

There is no doubting that the broadcaster is latching onto a major
craze with All In. Poker has never been so popular, especially on the
Internet. A quick ‘online poker’ Google gives more than 20 million
results.

With stories like that of Chris Moneymaker, you can see why. He entered
an online poker competition in 2003 and won a seat at the Las Vegas
World Series Of Poker. And then he won that, too. And $2.5 million. And
then another American, Greg Raymer, did the same thing the next year.

But can the show match these huge successes?

All In will be based on the real life of female poker champ Annie Duke
who, judging from the bio on her website, seems to have had a really
dull life. To sum it up, all she does is win money while bringing up
four kids.

Hopefully not both ath the same time. hecklerspray would hate to see a show where a woman plays cards with a baby hanging off her tit.

And the proposed star, Janeane Garofalo, doesn’t strike us as an obvious first
choice for the role of wholesome, all-American girl. She usually plays
more scowling, intelligent, sarcastic characters, like The Bowler in Mystery Men, or
the woman who works in the abortion clinic in Dogma.

Here’s an Annie Duke quote, "Let (men) think that flirting with them is the most fun you have had at a poker table in years".

And, just for the sake of comparison, here’s a Janeane Garofalo one, "When Communist U.S.S.R was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalise the peace movement"

See you at 3am, then.

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[story by Stuart Heritage]