Plan B Forum

I watched the first showing of the CBS half hour sit-com 'Livinging Bibically'. I read the book. I mildly liked the book and was glad I got it free from the library.

The show followed a re-run from 'Young Sheldon' The contrast was sinful. 'Living Bibically' is a living witness that CBS is still populated by program schedulers who believe a situation comedy requires only a funny situation and a cast of clowns and a laugh machine activated every 30 seconds. It was horrible. The 'star' and his wife and their neighbors in the next apartment cannot tell the difference between noise from next door and noise from the unit above them. The workplace is a newspaper that explains why nobody buys newspapers any more. 'WKRP in Cincinnati ' had a better news staff. Sean Hannity has better writers. The staging and scenery was mindless clutter. Give it time to develop?
I'd rather spend the 30 minutes reading the Book of Numbers.

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Burning Petard wrote:the Book of Numbers.

Is that a fancy name for the phone book?

I recorded it last night and tried to watch it today. Couldn't make it all the way through. Comedy doesn't work for me when I can't get past the urge to punch the main character in the face.

No Sue, it is the fourth book in the Old Testament, or the TANAKH , sometimes known as the census report. It has all the popular attraction of a minor government bureaucrat's detail report of all activities to justify his budget. A phone book, even the white pages, would be more engrossing for me.

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