Mike Vogel To Star In ABC Series ‘Pan Am’

COMMENTS (23)

• Too smart, too cool for Middle America. Anything over 5 years ago flies over their heads. Modern-day, faux-outraged PC-zombies won’t stand for ’60s behavior. MadMen gets away with it ’cause AMC boutique audience is so small.

  Girlie emphasis on stewardesses in glamour days of air travel no match for “16 and Pregnant,” “Real Housewives” trashy-bitch reality shenanigans or aging “Desperate Housewives” cartoonery. Even my fantasy unprotected sex partner Ms. Ricci won’t be able to save it

  Will be lucky to get 13 eps, will probably get cancelled after 3.

  Prognosis even more dire for “Playboy Club” ’cause it’s on a shit network defined by “The Apprentice,” Jay Leno, and shitty awkward-pause comedies, with a star that Bible Belters seem to hate (Cibrian). The glory days of serious drama like “The West Wing” or Clooney-era “ER” are over for NBC and the audience has only gotten dumber and more country since then

  I will watch both, but you heard it here first.

  Comment by schadenfreude — Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 2:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I’m sure you had a point in their, but it couldn’t be heard over how superior you sound.

    Comment by cindercity — Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 2:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • It’s “there.”

      Thanks for playing.

      

      Comment by schadenfreude — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 4:11am PDT  Reply to this post

    • it’s ‘there,’ not ‘their” for superior spelling.

      so there.

      Comment by magnus — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 11:54am PDT  Reply to this post

    • It’s “there.” And thanks for the compliment.

      Comment by schadenfreude — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 5:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • schadenfreude: Let me guess. You’re a liberal? LMAO! Your post is stunning and disgusting. And pathetic considering you’re clearly not as intelligent or classy as you try to pass yourself off as (while slamming entire groups of people to prove your “tolerant liberal self”). You ought to change your name on here to douchebag.

    But I digress…

    I’ve been a fan of Christina Ricci since The Addams Family flicks so I’ll check out at least the first episode of this to see what it’s like. Promos look intriguing. Plus Kelli Garner from Bully is cool too.

    They’re waiting a bit late to replace the male lead though aren’t they? Or is this old news?

    Comment by Basil — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 2:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Wow, dude, have you ever looked in a mirror? Your response to Schadenfreude’s obnoxious, sweeping assumptions is to pile on some of your own? Maybe you and Schadenfreude should pair up as “Team Douchebag.”

      Comment by pot...kettle — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 11:31am PDT  Reply to this post

  • schadenfreude – you must not have seen the pilot. Ms. Ricci is the worst part about it….and you think she is the one to save it. HA. Watch things before showering us with your opinion.

    Comment by sissy — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 3:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I can’t wait to see it my father was a pilot with eastern during that time period and the stories he told me were incredible. Pilots were rockstars and stewardesses were all hotties hopefully the show captures the way it was back then and the show will be very entertaining

  Comment by proposition joe — Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 4:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow – way to generalize an enormous group of people. What a hateful, unpleasant, miserable person you must be.

  Comment by Miffy — Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 4:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Doesn’t matter who’s in it. It’s the most boring pilot I’ve ever seen. Not even Schlamme’s direction and West Wing music can save it. Snore.

  Comment by Henry H — Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 5:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I live in the midwestern south and I actually enjoy smart shows: 30 rock, mad men, the west wing, arrested developement, the good wife, and parks & rec. I am affluent. I am intellectual. I am better than you.

  So shut up and let the entire US enjoy great television (which is what I pray PanAm will be)!

  Comment by schadenfreude_is_a_dick — Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 6:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Mike is great. The pilot was so-so but maybe Mike’s charm will juice it up. GO MIKE!

  Comment by GO MIKE! — Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 6:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• LOL @ you folks, truth hurts. Just because a relative couple of people watch smart TV doesn’t mean a damn thing. Y’all are still crying over Arrested Development or Pushing Daisies getting cancelled. Hell, I liked Better Off Ted! Time will tell re: Pan Am but it doesn’t look good.

  Comment by Schadenfreude — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 2:58am PDT  Reply to this post

  • I’ve come to believe it has much more to do with the self-fulfilling prophecies of network scheduling than smart vs. dumb audience. Network programmers believe in a show, for whatever reason, give it some golden hammock slot between two hits, and it in turn becomes a hit. They believe less in another show, perhaps because they fear it’s “too smart,” give it some doomed time-slot, then move it around and pre-empt it, which exhausts its original fans and frustrates its would-be new ones. Then they announce the cancellation of the smart “cult hit,” by saying, “Oh, but we loved the show too, we did everything we could to support it…”

    Comment by another writer — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 7:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• One of the worst pilots this year. Lotan was a total bore but nothing can save this show from the crappy script.

  Comment by Jerri M — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 8:41am PDT  Reply to this post

• Period pieces are a hard sell on any network. This one will be gone by Christmas but before that it will be Playboy Club.

  But the visuals in the pilot were fantastic, too bad you can’t sell a series to viewers on visuals.

  Comment by lsb — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 10:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• uhm. not a good sign. the trailer was a beautiful dream with an empty core.

  Comment by Magnus — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 11:50am PDT  Reply to this post

• Why can’t we have intelligent, stimulating programming anymore, like Viva Laughlin, Hank or Cavemen? I give Pan Am 6 seasons, then it is doomed. I hate this. It sucks. All of you suck. Everything sucks. I hate life! Arghagrighairghairghargh!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Comment by by the way this is a joke — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 2:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I aint ben edumacated enuff to like them there smarrt shows like that there 20 rocks and mad guys and that The Good Woman Lawyer but arestedd envelope with justine bateman that was a good shoe. I want them bringin back that thar hee haw and that thing with larry the direct tv guy but no I dont like that jay letterman either but bless his little heart. I like that two men and a half I think that sheen guy he gonna be on tv a long time. Gotta go, them knocked up teens is on

  Comment by stoopid gy — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 2:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why do you think 30 Rock is smart? Smug is not smart. Define it or please don’t comment.

  Comment by A — Sunday July 17, 2011 @ 3:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is it just me or is Schadenfreude the most conflicted poster ever? Seems like he can’t even decipher his own point in a post.

  PAM AM will not live or die by “Middle America.” It will live or die first by its marketing and its time slot, and eventually its quality and ability to retain an audience.

  Comment by mark — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 12:02am PDT  Reply to this post

• Hahaha you guys love shooting the messenger. You act like brilliant network shows DON’T get cancelled prematurely while bullshit reality shows dominate both cable and network.

  I’m not conflicted at all. We will be lucky if PAN AM (not “PAM AM,” there, mark) gets 13 eps let alone a back-nine. lsb above got it right

  What ABC has going for it is they already have femme-centric dramas like Grey’s, Private Practice, and even the aging Housewives, as well as the new Charlie’s Angels this fall, so PAN AM is a good fit

  And ALL network shows live and die by “Middle America.” This is why CBS is the #1 network, because they do shows that appeal to “Middle America.” That vast swath of country between big cities. When CBS did this show called “Swingtown,” which was essentially a hip cable premise, guess what? CANCELLED

  Watched the trailer for “The Playboy Club” today and yup, prognosis still stands, and it will fare worse than Pan Am.

  Oh and I wouldn’t have even known that Bible Belters even had a problem with Eddie Cibrian (something about him and LeAnn Rimes) if I didn’t read it on DEADLINE so blame Nikki

  If you’re offended at being called dumb you probably are.

  Thanks for playing though, haha.

  Comment by schadenfreude — Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 1:03am PDT  Reply to this post