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Sitcomwriter
12-11-2002, 11:40 PM
For it's 2nd season according to Entertainment Weekly "Watching Ellie" will drop the clock and will become a traditional 4-camera show with a studio audience.
Central Perk
12-13-2002, 08:14 PM
hmmm...I hope they've improved the writing too, the show has potential but I didn't find it that funny..and yet I still made a website out of it...I was bored...:confused:...nevermind.
Sitcomwriter
12-15-2002, 06:23 PM
Originally posted by Dr. Frasier Crane
[B]I made a website for it [B]

Really? What's the address?
Central Perk
12-16-2002, 07:35 PM
Here it is (http://www.geocities.com/watchingellieriggs)

Right now it is pretty much just pictures, if I like the new season I may start to update the site but if I don't like the new season I'll just delete the site.
Will and Grace Fanatic
12-26-2002, 01:13 PM
Hopefully it'll be much better. They need to hire new writers though. Because last season wasn't all that funny.
IheartMoonlighting
01-01-2003, 08:07 PM
I love Julia but the real-time aspect of this show didn't work. The reason why it works so well for 24 is because there's 3 storylines.
Steve M.
12-03-2003, 10:34 PM
"Watching Ellie" might have made it in its original format if Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her husband Brad Hall hadn't succumbed to pressure to change it. By adopting a standard format, they abandoned what originally made "Watching Ellie" so unique. What was the point of abanadoning real-time and going for more cameras when the Halls were trying to be different? Too bad. :(
Riff
12-07-2003, 02:03 AM
Originally posted by Steve M.
"Watching Ellie" might have made it in its original format if Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her husband Brad Hall hadn't succumbed to pressure to change it. By adopting a standard format, they abandoned what originally made "Watching Ellie" so unique. What was the point of abanadoning real-time and going for more cameras when the Halls were trying to be different? Too bad. :(

They had to. Mother Zucker would have axed the show on the spot if they hadn't. One day, he's all high on single-cam sitcoms. The next, he hates them. So he throws 3 episodes in the garbage and gives us all 6 episodes of the horrible four-camera second season.

And then he cancels it anyway.