If I'd known Carrie Fisher was going to be on, I would have made an effort to watch. I saw her last night on the Late Late show, and I was disappointed I missed her.

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This show looks like it will be really fun to watch. Andrew Hunt seemed like a seasoned professional giving the pitch. It'll be interesting to see what he can do.

Go Randy! I was so excited to see him make it to the next round. Hopefully we'll see more of him on Thursday's show.

Personally I thought the first episode was boring. The task was boring and there were too many people. Maybe it will get better but a new reality show needs to start of strong to keep people and I fear this show did not start off strong.

Also, wondered why Carrie Fisher was a judge. She never directed anything. She also did not age very well in my opinion. It has been a few years since I have seen her but she looks much older than 51. Something about her mouth.

Something about
>her mouth.

I schink sche needsch fixodent...sche scheemed to be holding her teeth in.

Humor award!!!

Schanks

I amuse myself.

Putting out a pitch is a good way to weed out people in my book. Plus they had their 4 submitted tapes to view as well.

You have to start with a story, and then make it come to fruition. Wish we could have heard more, but maybe they spared us!

This next task is really going to rattle cages, so many contestants, so many styles, nobody knows anyone's talents....next week should give more perspectives about the contestants.

I, too, like the guy with the children....rat/mouse story.

I'll watch it as long as it doesn't interfere with Big Brother!!!

I watched and thought it was interesting. But there were way too many people to start with. I will enjoy it more when there are less people and we can get to know them.

There was no reason to the start off trying to showcase 50 people (even though they cherry-picked only a few to spotlight) in an hour or less. I think that caused the large drop in viewers (11+ mil. to 6+ mil.) from the first half to the second.

We'll have to see how it does tonight given that So you think... will be an hour and 25 minutes long. Overall, a pretty good show.

>There was no reason to the
>start off trying to showcase
>50 people (even though they
>cherry-picked only a few to
>spotlight) in an hour or
>less. I think that caused
>the large drop in viewers
>(11+ mil. to 6+ mil.)
>from the first half to
>the second.
>
>We'll have to see how it
>does tonight given that So
>you think... will be an
>hour and 25 minutes long.
>Overall, a pretty good show.
>
>

So this show is on more than once per week??? That's it...I am done with this thing. What do these networks think we want to do with our summers....watch tv every night? There is no reason to have this show on more than once a week.....it is not live....there is no fan voting.

BB Jase rules!

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Edit (looked closer at the futon critic summer schedule)

Mondays is the one hour show
Weds is a 1/2 hour (so I'm guessing some sort of elimination on that night?)

They'll probably get to a once a week leaving thing as it is scheduled to go until August.

ETA: From the On the lot official site
It will be FOX viewers whose votes determine which film should be left on the cutting-room floor. On the next night's "Box Office" results show, the director whose feature garners the fewest votes will be sent home.

These are just the audition rounds, which is why there are so many people. I don't think the whole season will try to have dozens of people on.

We get a look at a few teams efforts, with more tension as the 24-hour deadline nears and some teams discover that they have poor footage for the edit work. Three full clips are shown - the time-stopper one was pretty cool with the special effects of the two main characters convincingly moving around in a time-stopped world.

Twelve went home, 24 remain. Among those cut were prima donna directors who couldn't work with their teammates, or directors who didn't contribute much at all.

Now, coming into next episode, each of the remaining 24 have one hour to direct a set, complete with script, equipment and actors already in place. In a preview of next week, one lady spends half an hour fretting around without a single shot - not a good start for her when every minute counts.

One theme for this series seems to be time management with a lot more pressure than we've seen in other shows like The Apprentice. Time pressure is weeding out the indecisive very quickly, while judging is going to be based on quality - and soon, viewer voting.

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