Big Time Rush aired from November 2009- on Nickelodeon.
Life is about to change big time for four best friends from Minnesota. One day they're playing hockey and trying to pass math, and the next they're on their way to L.A. to become the newest pop sensation. It may seem like a dream, but trading hockey sticks for hair and make-up isn't always easy. Do they have what it takes to make it in the music biz? Will celebrity life change them for ever? And where will they practice their flip shots anyway?
A Review from Variety
Big Time Rush
(Series; Nickelodeon, Mon. Jan. 18, 8:30 p.m.)
By BRIAN LOWRY
Filmed in Los Angeles by Jack Mackie Pictures in association with Nickelodeon Prods. and Sony Music. Executive producer, Scott Fellows; producers, Lazar Saric, Joanne Toll; director, Savage Steve Holland; writer, David Schiff.
Kendall ... Kendall Schmidt
James ... James Maslow
Logan ... Logan Henderson
Carlos ... Carlos Pena
Gustavo Rocque ... Stephen Kramer Glickman
Katie ... Ciara Bravo
Kendall's mom ... Challen Cates
The Disney Channel has certainly demonstrated the commercial potential in the arranged marriage of teenagers, music and pretty lame comedy in the service of corralling the coveted training-bra demo, and Nickelodeon appears determined not to be outdone. Designed to promote a Sony Music boy band, "Big Time Rush" is equal parts "The Monkees" and "The Three Stooges," built around four Minnesota pals living the high life in L.A. -- the Jonas brothers plus one. It's a slick but sloppy affair, one whose popularity (after encouraging ratings for a November preview) will pivot on the dreamy quotient of its fat-headed four.
The premiere picks up after the boys have been discovered, as they lobby to attend a school for performing artists. Unfortunately, the tyrannical head of their record label, Mr. Rocque (Stephen Kramer Glickman), insists on tutoring them within the office, depriving them access to comely teenage girls and a perky teacher. Oh, the humanity.
So the gang -- played, eponymously, by Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Logan Henderson and Carlos Pena -- scheme to get kicked out of the class, sending one instructor after another (among them, in the one amusing riff, a professional wrestler) screaming for the exits.
Director Savage Steve Holland and creator-exec producer Scott Fellows ("Ned's DeClassified School Survival Guide") opt not to use a laugh track, but they do the next worst thing -- punctuating each groaning joke with cartoon-like sound cues. About all that's missing, in terms of comedic ambitions, are the two-fingered pokes to the eyes.
In spite of that, "Big Time Rush" possesses elements of goofy energy, though there's another seeming miscalculation in this episode, anyway, in that beyond the opening and closing credits, the group never sings. More music, if nothing else, means less dialogue, which would be a blessing.
Anticipating the tastes of "tweens" (the Disney-created 9-14 age bracket) is a thankless task, but the benefits associated with finding a project that appeals to them are certainly worth the effort.
In the press release, Nickelodeon describes the show as being about "what happens the day after you win 'American Idol,'" which is a clever premise. To an adult, though, watching "Rush" rush by felt more like what happens the day after a night of heavy drinking.
Camera, Carlos Gonzalez; production designer, Deborah Raymond; editor, Stewart Schill; music, Guy Moon, Dusty Moon; casting, Geralyn Flood. 30 MIN.
A Review from The LA Times
Reviews: 'Big Time Rush' and 'I'm in the Band'
The Nickelodeon and Disney shows are more about being special than the music.
TELEVISION REVIEW
January 18, 2010|By Robert Lloyd, Television Critic
If it seems that every new TV series for young people is about pop music or pop stardom, two shows that begin tonight will do nothing to dispel the impression. In Nickelodeon's “Big Time Rush,” four friends from Minnesota travel to Los Angeles to be molded into a boy band. "I'm in the Band," on the boy-centric Disney XD -- "hyper-marketing to boys" is the phrase the network actually uses -- is about a guitar-shredding teenager who talks his way into an aging metal band.
An Article from The New York Times
Night Out With | Big Time Rush, Nickelodeon’s Boy Band
Hey, Hey, They’re the Monkees
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
Published: May 14, 2010
THE four members of Big Time Rush — the boy-band-within-a-TV-show that Nickelodeon has been pumping — were being their usual adorable selves at the Chelsea Piers sports center: making a racket, chatting with strangers and cracking lame jokes. A female staff member wondered aloud just who these guys were.
“We’re Big Time Rush,” said Kendall Schmidt, 20, who plays Kendall Knight on the show. “We have a show on Nickelodeon, and we’re a band with Sony Columbia, and we’re in town to do our first live performance.”
“Well, O.K.,” she said.
If the explanation seemed to blur reality and reality television, that’s the point. Big Time Rush is most commonly compared to the Monkees: a teeny-bopper band assembled for a TV show that nonetheless releases real music and performs in concert.
At least now they do. The boys had taken the stage for the first time just hours earlier at the Hammerstein Ballroom, performing one song — their first single, “Big Time Rush” — to an audience of advertisers as part of a Nickelodeon presentation. A handful of teenage girls had been brought in to provide a touch of Beatlemania frenzy.
Now they were ready to scale heights of a different kind: a 46-foot indoor climbing wall on Manhattan’s West Side. Unfortunately, some of the guys proved better climbers than others.
“He’s a monkey,” said Carlos Pena Jr., 20, admiring James Maslow, 19, as he dashed to the top of the wall. (Mr. Pena, whose name on the show is Carlos Garcia, had spent much of his own climb dangling from a rope.) “He climbed a mountain. What mountain was it?”
“Mount Whitney,” replied Mr. Maslow, once he was grounded again. “Do we have an extra bandanna? I’m sweating.” (Bandannas are Mr. Maslow’s trademark, both on screen — where his name is James Diamond — and off.)
When the boys weren’t climbing the walls, they were sending and reading tweets. “We have some pretty dope fans,” said Mr. Maslow, grinning and tapping away at his phone.
On the show, they play four hockey-obsessed friends from Minnesota who are trying to make it as a band in Los Angeles. In reality, Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Maslow are from California, Mr. Pena is from Florida, and Logan Henderson (a k a Logan Mitchell), 19, is from Texas.; only Mr. Maslow and Mr. Schmidt had met before the audition process.
As with the Monkees, it’s not clear how much their fans separate their real-life and TV personas. And just as the Monkees brought several chart-toppers to the world — songs like “Daydream Believer” that live on in elevators everywhere — Big Time Rush is trying to leave its mark. A new single, “Halfway There,” released in late April, made the Billboard Hot 100.
Their songs contain the sort of classic boy-band lyrics that “Saturday Night Live” skits are built upon. “If you want it all, lay it on the line,” they sing in their seminal work, “Big Time Rush.” “It’s the only life you’ve got, so ya gotta live it big time.’ ”
When the boys were done climbing, they piled into an S.U.V. and drove to The Diner in the meatpacking district for chicken soup and sodas.
Mr. Maslow read some tweets aloud in the car. “Someone goes, ‘How are you guys tweeting and rock climbing at the same time?’ ” he said, laughing. “ ‘You must be really amazing.’ ”
“Tweet back, ‘It’s true,’ ” Mr. Henderson said. “ ‘We’re just that talented.’ ”
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