Showrunner Woes At ‘Dirty Sexy Money’

COMMENTS (43)

• I’ll take over the show.

  First order of business: Find out why the show is still on the air, because I don’t know anyone who watched it.

  Second order of business: Keep it on the air long enough for my paychecks to clear.

  Third order of business: Try to make the show interesting and entertaining so it will get renewed, because by then I will have become used to the swanky Executive Producer lifestyle of high pay, model/actress girlfriends that are out of my league, and all the assistants I can hurl abuse at.

  Comment by Furious D — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 2:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m so glad you also think this series stinks, Nikki. Great cast and lots of talent behind the scenes, but what was on screen was a boring and cliched mess. I gave it a month before I finally ditched it.

  Comment by Mike — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 3:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow. I thought the show was good with moments of real excellence. The scenes between Sutherland and Krause were a blast and the evolution of the character Brian was great.

  Comment by Bobby Z — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 3:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• They gave this lousy show to the guy who created (and then ran) “Big Shots” into the ground? He wasted a great cast with that one- why give him another cast to waste?

  Comment by Edie — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 3:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I did love the show.
  “Retooling” means the show will be cancelled by November sweeps. See what happened to “Women’s Murder Club”….

  The Ratings drop during the first Season was not even that big to warrant a direction change. ABC!!

  I really like DSM.

  Comment by Sam — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 4:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• dirty sexy money is on the move to NY, give it another month or so!

  Comment by patcracks — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 4:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This show has survived because the men who make decisions at ABC are just into making green light decisions based on the sexual “edge” of the show. And I say “men” because this show is obviously catering to that audience and would only be green lighted by people who saw men’s most simplistic point of view. There’s no other reason. The show is NOT interesting. There’s lots of bad acting. The scenes seem pieced together. ABC needs to go back to quality shows that capture middle America’s interest for the long haul.

  Comment by Working Actor — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 5:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I watched the show every week – some scenes were far better than others. Interesting premise from the start – looking to get more moral quandries though – I don’t want a soap. I want to watch the lead character walk into complicated dilemmas and make some good and bad choices, and have to suffer the consequences of the latter.

  Comment by LA Gal — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 5:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Anonymous, there’s another guy, “mheister” who does the same thing with weird tirades

  Comment by Anon2 — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 5:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• DSM is a soap opera. Hardly a “man’s show.” If anything it caters to women.

  And the guy who plays Brian has to be one of the worst and most over the top actors I’ve ever seen. He’s also about as believable as a heterosexual as JM J. Bullock was.

  Comment by . — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 5:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If I remember correctly, Grey’s Anatomy was shut down briefly for “retooling” by ABC before season one even aired. That seemed to work ok.

  Comment by blahblahblah — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 5:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• why is nikki finke such a miserable !%&!!@!. dsm is retooling only because abc realizes what a nugget of gold it has. great concept, great creator, great cast, great performances, great critical response, incredible buzz, and 10 million viewers!!!

  they don’t want to blow a good thing because the understand that they are only a few hurdles from having this wonderful, absurd romp on the air for the next five years.

  Comment by partick darling — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 5:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is worst news than a cancellation. With the likes of Jon Harmon Feldman at the helm, I’m simply not watching it anymore. I wonder why the hell execs insist on hiring the talentless hack responsible for epic failures such as Tru Calling, Reunion and, most aggravating of all, Big Shots.

  I must say I enjoyed what I thought was a good (not great) first season of DSM. But now I’m done.

  Comment by J. Tucker — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 5:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Anonymous–

  I guess I must be lucky with the timing, and unlike some folks, who shall remain anonymous, I try to do something different than just snipe at people with that now ossified catch all insult of “get a life.”

  And for someone who appears to have the time to count the comments of others and snipe at them, you don’t appear to have much of a “life.”

  Now if you don’t mind, ABC/Disney is on the phone and we’re negotiating my salary to take over the show.

  Comment by Furious D — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 6:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I love the show, too, but I’m biased because my brother works on it. The July hiatus was scheduled. They went to work early to get some eps in the can and then were taking some time off before hitting it hard again. Can’t get into the show runner troubles, but one has nothing to do with the other. I think this show is a really fun romp. Not meant to be taken seriously. And, yes, it’s more appealing to women. Blahblahblah is right about Greys. Not to mention Brothers & Sisters. Lots of changes there, too. ABC knows how to make this kind of show. It will be fine.

  Comment by Sarah — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 6:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why are all my favorite shows doomed for cancellation? ABC, don’t pull a FOX.

  Comment by Mackenzie — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 6:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Giving Jon Harmon Feldman this show is a sure kiss of death. The man takes talented casts and somehow always screws them royally. Eliza Dushku, Michael Vartan, Dylan McDermott, Dave Annable, and Nia Long have just been a few of his victims. The guy is a hack plain and simple. Krause, Sutherland and Clayburgh deserve so much better. I give this show six more episodes tops.

  Comment by wehardleyknewye — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 6:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Does Feldman have pics of Steve Mcpherson with a sheep? This guy should be driven out of the business not rewarded.

  Comment by thewatcher — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 6:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• As for the actor who plays Brian, I assumed he was going to be shortly coming out of the closet as a plot point until they expected us to believe he had slept with two different women in his life. At that point, the show moved into the realm of science fiction.

  Comment by Easily Amused — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 7:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• @Anon2
  I think mhiester is a sag insider

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 8:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Has anyone noticed that this is the second recent show Cerone has been tossed off of? In addition, the HWP “article” made sure it mentioned how much he was still loved over there, etc. Nice guy to those he likes, to those he doesn’t…watch out. I guess you can say that about virtually anyone so there yah go. And Feldman, oye. I’ll just leave it at that.

  Comment by Sean — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 10:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• One of the best shows last season. Many shows came back for June and planned a July hiatus. So it’s really not that big a deal. It can only get better.

  Furious D, get a J O B!!!!! Always posting comments. Refresh, refresh, refresh. POST COMMENT. Refresh, refresh, refresh. The only thing you’re negotiating Furious D is your Verizon bill, to get more minutes……and unlimited web access.

  Comment by Phil Dale Duckie — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 11:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• People on this website sure do love to be bitter and mean. Why? The reason Feldman gets so many gigs is that he’s talented. Plenty of writers are considered hacks before they hit it big–Marc Cherry and Linwood Boomer to name two.

  Who knows? Maybe he’ll mess up DIRTY SEXY MONEY and maybe it will be his fault. Or maybe not. Sometimes a show is such a mess that nobody can fix it. Other times, as somebody else mentioned, re-tooling can work as it did on Grey’s Anatomy.

  Comment by not a player hater — Tuesday June 17, 2008 @ 11:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I love DSM – and know others who have enjoyed it too. The character of Brian is hilarious. I think you are taking it way to serious – it’s fun. Hopefully the ‘retooling’ will make it better and not try and turn it into a bland soap opera.

  Comment by Dot — Wednesday June 18, 2008 @ 12:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• How bout you dipshits at ABC cancel that piece of shit.

  Comment by Jackof Alltrades — Wednesday June 18, 2008 @ 12:57am PDT  Reply to this post