Paul Reiser was booked on The Tonight Show last week to talk about his new show The Paul Reiser Show before it got cancelled on Friday. So on Sunday when I saw he was one of the guests on the show I wondered if he was going to do to the late night show what NBC did to him. Well he proved he has balls of steel because he appeared on the show 3 days after his show got the ax after just 2 airings. Luckily he had a good sense of humor about it, which is something I think his now defunct show was missing.
The Mad About you star said to Jay Leno, “They said, ‘They decided we are going to pull the plug because not enough people are watching.’ Which is odd because it is on NBC. And NBC, to my knowledge, they don’t traditionally make bad decisions.” And Jay responded with a chuckle, “Really?” To which Paul questioned him, “Have you had that expression? I don’t know what your experience is…” The former-prime time talk show host just threw his hands up and laughed.
If the My Two Dads star did jokes like this on his show, it seriously might’ve lasted more than two showings.
In fact he went to joke about it because when Christina Aguilera, who was sitting next to him, said she now feared for her new show The Voice that debuts on NBC at 9p, he told her not to worry because NBC spent the advertising dollars on his show to promote her’s! Me and ow!!!
After just two low rated airings, NBC has cancelled The Paul Reiser Show according to The Futon Critic. They added that the show will be replaced by repeats of The Office, but I wish they would do it with episodes of Outsourced instead because that has been NBC’s only successful new comedy of the season.
Now when it comes to The Paul Reiser Show, I can understand NBC’s decision. What worked in the ’90s isn’t necessarily going to work today.
Tonight on NBC at 830p The Paul Reiser Show is going to debut and if you miss Mad About You, you are going to love this show. It has the feel of his other NBC sitcom, but in this new one there is no Helen Hunt. Instead he is married with two kids and the show revolves around his life since the show and now he is father with friends that are not in the business. He hangs with four other fathers who are friends with his kids and we get to see him how is life is different with them. And since it has been 12 years since Mad About You went off the air, he has decided he is thinking of getting back in the biz and it isn’t going as smoothly as he thought and he handles it in a way only Reiser can.
So if you are missing the ’90s sitcoms from NBC, The Paul Reiser Show will fill that vacancy so watch it tonight and every Thursday on NBC!
