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Liked the first ep of Pan Am, tuned in the 2nd—not as interested anymore. On my DVR but don’t think I will stay a viewer, sorry.
Pan Am is just not very good.
Bring on the midseason shows!
“Here’s an idea, lets try to make a show in the vein of Mad Men, but without the acting, writing, directing style, sex, racism, or anything that makes Mad Men great! Then, let’s put it on Network TV!”
STUPID IDEA
Oh yeah, in the vein of Mad Men because Mad Men owns the entire 1960′s! Get a grip. The 60′s were the hay day of Pan Am and unlike Mad Men the show is fun and interesting. Mad Men is a snooze fest sometimes and really, I could only take so much of Don Draper and his “magical” way with women that just ONE look and they’re in bed with him.
Mad Men is a great show but come on! Stop trying to compare apples & oranges. The only similarities are that they’re tv shows set in the 60′s!
There would be no Pan Am without Mad Men.
Pan Am had a lot of potential. Interesting concept, great production design, likable cast. It could have been a lighter Mad Men style series for network tv. Unfortunately there’s a few too many cast members, and the writing is just plain BORING. Not surprising at all that it’s dropping so dramatically. I give it 2 more episodes before we get cancellation news.
I have always enjoyed Desperate Housewives due to its imaginative writing and sometimes over the top acting, but this year it is just plain boring. I guess the show has gone on two years too long. Pam Am has a great premise, but as was with The Playboy Club, the execution is all wrong. I used to stick around for Brothers and Sisters, but find myself heading to CSI Miami, which is also another tired show.
ABC is going to need an overall for Sunday Night soon.
DH jumped the shark a long time ago. Its a joke
Pan Am jumped the shark two weeks ago.
I STILL LOVE PAN AM, FAR BETTER THAN MOST THINGS ON TV, I HOPE THEY GIVE IT TIME. SURLY BETTER THAN THE KARNASHIANS AND THAT ILK, AGAIN I HOPE THEY GIVE IT TIME.ITS A GREAT CAST.
I LIKE IT BETTER THAN KOURTNEY BUT NOT AS MUCH AS KIM.
Pan Am is a wonderful series. Sad it’s not doing better.
I liked Pan Am in that episode where Don Draper slept with the flight attendant and brought the wings home to his daughter.
I hate the Good WIfe on Sunday Nights. CBS Football overruns just screw up my TV watching – whether I want to tape TGW or watch something else at 10pm. I now have to tape the entire CBS primetime lineup; very frustrating and Id think it would start to affect ratings.
Also Id like to see producers give Alan Cumming’s a spin off show about a crisis PR firm. You can tell there are a lot of stories to tell there. I personally have always had an idea for a show about a PR firm…Mine was called AGENCY and I have tons of stories from my days working at one of the country’s top PR firms in Chicago. Just so many stories about corporate image, celebrity scandals, corruption and then intertwine that with the relations with the media (my PR agency character would be dating a news anchor so we could see how PR slants TV news and vice versa)… Then you could also go into the personal lives of the staffers…from the closeted guy to the married chairman cheating to the 45 year old single woman who sacrificed her personal life and was found in a fetal position in her office when she was passed up for a promotion (thats true)…to the young girls climbing the ladder and the secretaries who had been there for 30 years and seen it all. Just so many stories- someone contact me for this show…Dont know why its never been done but I don tlive in Hollywood and don’t have connections so I can’t get it done. Could be good for any broadcast or cable network..
It’s called SCANDAL from Shonda Rhymes, and I think it’s picked up for midseason at ABC.
Ever wanted to see the GREY’S ANATOMY creator try her best Aaron Sorkin? It’s unwatchable dreck.
If I were you I’d write it as a book. Do a rough first draft. Take it to your attorney or something, somebody who might can a) get it to somebody’s hands or b) tell you how to improve it. Either way it’s out there working. Oh and send a copy to yourself and don’t open it, that’s the “poor man’s copyright.”
You’re welcome.
I liked the first one somewhat. The 2nd seemed lame. Not watching again.
I tuned in to the first episode of Pan Am cuz of all the excitement and fell asleep – Found it too confusing, boring and too many characters so stopped watching. Not much good TV on anymore. When my Directv contract expires in June, Im canceling TV altogether. Will just watch FREE broadcast HD channels and maybe get something like Hulu or Amazon or Netflix. Prob need to buy a new internet TV…But Im not gonna waste $75 for all of this crap…I rather stop watching TV and actually live my life — instead of trying to live vicariously .
PAN AM could have been a pretty good series if it weren’t handcuffed by the restrictions of broadcast television. Move it to cable (HBO or Showtime would be best) and give it the freedom to explore the period fully – that incldues cursing, pot use, and yes, sex.
Otherwise, PAN AM remains a very vanilla and pale impersonation of MAD MEN. And we all saw how well THE PLAYBOY CLUB did.
both shows are awful. DH was once clever and compelling, it is now just a hack-fest of the worst multi-cam room jokes stretched into 40 excruciating minutes. Pan Am is dull and a CGI nightmare. Nothing about it is real or interesting. The fact they had to have a spy storyline intro’d in the pilot is such a perfect example of how desperate they are for story that just isn’t there.
Pan Am is another strong premise ruined by NBCs Development Team. Christina Ricci’s character is just plainannoying; the one who’s the CIA courier is played far too stupid; only the French Jewish girl had any depth. Mike Vogel’s pilot isn’t sexist enough. Its too bad this show isn’t working; if it stayed around for a season maybe the flying public would demand a return to the days the FAA regulated airlines and in flight service (even in economy) meant a broiled to order filet mignon and a shrimp cocktail and good wine poured from a bottle and yer gods, LEGROOM!
I flew first class across the US recently and was SHOCKED to be served shrimp cocktail.
Whoever said the actors on Pan Am are trying to act “period” was dead on.
The reason why Pan Am did so awful, in my opinion, was because the promo focused on the most unlikable face on the show, Christina Ricci. The pilot worked because she had 12 lines. The more they focus on thinking her star-power works, the closer the show is to failing, bad.
PAN AM is a refreshing look back at the 60′s. Even tho it was a turbulant time in society we still had standards or at least the apperance of standards. This unlike today when the worst behaviors on TV get normalized as common place.
SJ…They don’t have to contact you…they can now steal it.You pitch a series on Nikki Finke?…how dumb are you?
I’d stop blaming Football for sucky ratings on sundays.
Why?
Because except for TGW all these shows SUCK. Desperate Wives has sucked for like 4 years now, Pan Am is awful and the rest are not dreadful but also not so compelling that you HAVE to watch em.
TGW kinda sucks this year too. Just sayin.
They’re only three episodes in on season three.
Maybe YOU suck.
Just sayin.
If they put comedian Pam Ann on Pan Am I’ll watch!!
I thought episode three was very well done – it had a west wing feel. I only watched half the pilot (thereafter out of curiousity) and could see it wasn’t as strong, I’m not sure about episode two. But maybe it just needs time to find its footing. I know these days that’s not really allowed…but it is a show wit potential.
It’s being done by Shonda Rhimes. Going to be on ABC midseason. It’s called Scandal.
If I need a whitewashed version of history, I’ll read my kid’s US History textbook. Some of us are old enough to remember Pan Am, and the fact that people used to smoke like chimneys. Hell, 727′s still had ashtrays in the cockpit as a standard option for pete’s sake. If you can’t do the past justice, you might as well leave it alone. Otherwise, you look about as legit as a “slutty Nurse” Halloween costume in an actual hospital.
Pan Am could be better, that’s for sure, yet it seems to be improving at least if last night’s “Berlin” episode is any indication. That episode was actually about something real rather than than the light and fluffy soap there were peddling in the first two episodes.
What’s going on with DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES</strong? I'm baffled by this drop in their last season. It can't be due to the plots (they've had more far-fetched in previous seasons). Also, people, start watching THE GOOD WIFE! The acting and writing is top-notch. It’s the only show on TV that I am constantly surprised at, and even find myself wanting to watch next week’s episode right when it’s done airing.
It was a major mistake to move THE GOOD WIFE to Sunday. It’s a show that requires appointment viewing and paying close attention just to keep straight the various characters’ agendas. (In fact, it could use some character- and arc-dropping, for it started becoming gruesomely hard to follow last season.) Making people search for it post-football is just adding another unnecessary complication.
Perhaps some of Pan Ams problems came from the fact that the commercials keep saying it airs at 9pm when it is actually on at 10pm (at least where I live on the east coast with Comcast Cable). I hope ABC gives the show a chance to grow at least. It’s not perfect but has potential.