I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Absolutely the worst movie.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This movie is for those of us sorry schmucks who have worked our hearts & brains to the bone, only to be told by some soulless corporate suit that our creative efforts are not required.What, me bitter?"The TV Set" is a great comedy/drama about a writer who realizes his 1 shot at success requires him to sell out to mediocrity. This paradox leads to some great acidic fun. The movie gets its power from a great script as could only be conceived by a person (writer/director Jake Kasdan) who has seen the spectacle in real life. It builds momentum through brilliant acting, as could only be pulled off by actors who've lived the nightmare in real life. Presented with moments of riotous satire (stick around after the credits to see a scene from the network's golden egg, "Slut Wars"), the humor is spot-on with great deadpan deliveries all around.I don't usually harp on a film's casting, but in this case it was flawless, from the smallest roles (loved the wardrobe lady!) all the way up to Sigourney Weaver as the "soulless suit" who massacres the script, much to the applause of her corporate toadies.INTERESTING TRIVIA: Sigourney's character "Lenny" was originally written for a man. But due to late scheduling problems they gave it to Sigourney. She insisted that no changes be made to her lines, and even the male name "Lenny" was kept. The result is possibly the funniest clueless exec you've ever seen. Pay attention to her, as almost every one if her lines is classic, such as: "This is not just an opinion here! We have the research from other shows. Suicide is, like, depressing to 82% of all people."Omg I had to rewind that one and play it again to get the laughs out.I will warn you, though, I wouldn't call this "uproarious" the way the DVD box advertises (I'm sure some corporate suit came up with that marketing angle). No, like any good satire, its power is in subtlety. No wisecracking punchlines, no slapstick pratfalls, no fart gags. Well OK, 1 fart gag, but you'll agree it really punctuates the point.Jake Kasdan, himself a veteran of many ill-fated TV pilots, gives us a film that very few can claim to be: an honest & mercilessly uncompromising joyride til the end. It reminded me of the brilliant Christopher Guest satires of the entertainment industry: "Waiting for Guffman", "For Your Consideration", "Best in Show", and the king of them all: "This is Spinal Tap".

The TV Set wants to tell us what's wrong with television, but the tone and substance of the film never rises above a snarky whine.The story follows a writer (David Duchovny) who's trying to sell his show to a network. Things start in a conference room full of suits, deciding who's going to star in the show, moves through shooting the pilot and concludes at the grand unveiling of the network's new schedule in front of a convention hall full of network affiliates. Writer/Director Jake Hasdan thinks he's showing us how talented people end up making terrible shows, but he's not fair and honest enough to do that.Hasdan wants people to see David Duchovny as this talented guy with a great script battling to protect it from self-indulgent actors and directors and a network executive (Sigourney Weaver) who is relentlessly trying to dumb the show down and tear out its creative soul. The problem is that while we see a lot of terrible changes made to it, we never get to see the supposedly great show being butchered. It's a sitcom that we're told is smart and funny and touching, but we never get to see any of the smart, funny stuff and the touching scenes we see are straight out of a daytime soap opera. The movie is essentially a scam that wants to make fun of all the stupid, nonsensical stuff that happens to create bad TV without showing us what good TV actually is. It never rises much above mildly amusing because the punch lines are almost all based on the contrast between the silly and shallow ideas of the network executives and the smart and worthwhile ideas of the writer. But since we never get to see the writer's great ideas, the contrast is weak and so is the humor.I must say, if Weaver's performance is at all close to the real thing, you do get a sense of sympathy for people in television. She's got no real taste at all and relies on her teenage daughter to tell her what's good, but is entirely convinced that things should be done her way and holds the success and failure of others completely in her own hands. The TV Set portrays working in television like it's living in a totalitarian state, where standing up against the powers that be requires heroic courage and a willingness to suffer.The film also comes at the good TV vs. bad TV from another perspective. Ione Gruffud plays a former BBC executive who's been hired by the network to improve the quality of their shows. The movie briefly uses him to embody a different approach to television, one with more high-minded goals and more respect for the creative process. But he soon knuckles under and goes along with Weaver's crude, lowest-common-denominator style and the movie never really explains why.That's because the story scrupulously avoids examining the true root of all TV evil…money. Why do network executives make so many idiotic suggestions and force writers and producers to accept them? It's because creating a television show is hugely expensive and overwhelmingly ends in failure. A network might introduce 10 or 12 new shows a year, each costing millions of dollars an episode. Yet, if the network is lucky, one and only one show might be a hit and maybe another one or two will grab enough audience to barely keep them on the air. The rest are quickly canceled and all the money spent on them is wasted, like it was shoveled into a hole or used to light someone's cigar. Kasdan never comes close to confronting this basic equation - enormous amount of money spent + huge likelihood of failure = a desperate compulsion to do anything that might increase the chance of success to the slightest degree.Without acknowledging that basic truth, Kasdan can't really tell the story he thinks he wants to tell. What's he's created is a mild satire that's neither dark enough or truthful enough to appeal to anyone who doesn't work in television and hasn't experienced the process firsthand.The film does also focus on the young actors who get cast to star in Duchovny's show and tries to show the pressures put on them and how it can turn them into not very pleasant people but again, it's not funny or sharp enough unless you've personally witnessed that sort of metamorphosis.The TV Set is a movie about television, but you get the sense that if Kasdan had been more successful in television (and Duchovny had been more successful in movies) that it would never have been made. This is filmmaking in lieu of therapy.

Producer and screenwriter Mike Klein(David Duchovny,whose dry,stoic demeanor actually serves him even BETTER for comedy than drama)has decided to pour part of his life story into a script and a project for a TV series. Through about four months and plenty of experience with executives,test groups,agents,directors,crew and actors,he will most certainly come to regret that.Over that period of time,Mike watches in various shades of horror,disbelief,disappointment and despair as the personal story of his brother's suicide and how it affect his life turn into a sterilized,sexied-up and contrived network "ratings-getter". All the while,he's soft-pedaled by his loyal but woefully superficial agent(Judy Greer,who gets plenty of chance to shine here),put off by an oblivious director(Willie GArson)and getting his project raped by a team of network air-suckers led by a guile-as-natural-as-breathing chief of programming(Sigourney Weaver). Director Jake KAsdan dials it down from previous effort--more from the unexpectedly poignant "Orange County" than the dry,strange and sharp "Zero Effect"--to make a film that is wryly documenting the degradation of dreams,ideas and creativity in favor of ratings and profit. The complaints of this show that I've been reading have been two things mostly: pacing and Ducovny's acting. On the first count,I'd say the pacing was intentionally set to show how the creative process can die a slow and painful death due to plenty of "committee". As for Ducovny,well,he is what he is. Take it or leave it. As said before,he seems to work better for comedy since he doesn't feel the need to EVER punch up the lines,and to me,comedy is much better when the actors involved AREN'T trying to hit the marks. The best performances here were probably by Greer,Justine BAteman(as NAtalie,Mike's very pregnant,very patient,no-nonsense wife),Ioan Gruffudd(spelling?)(as the British producer who senses that he's losing control of both his personal AND private lives),Lindsay Sloan(as a vain,in-sincere hot,young actress. I know,I know...is there any other kind?)and Fran Kranz(as the over/under-acting douche who's letting his modest success get to his head). I'd be lying if I said this film was of superior quality,of course. My main(or chief)complaint is that this film is done at such an economy of information and plot that one might think that writer/director KAsdan was under a time and money constraint to make this show go into the can. I won't spoil the ending,but it feels like it was almost MADE to create a level of Love-it-or-Hate-it debate among viewers. Overall,this film does what it sets out to do,which is namely to offer an acidic,subtle(perhaps a little TOO much so)and funny account of the "creation" process of television. It may go over some heads,and it certainly isn't a perfect concoction,but it worked for me. Of course,it didn't do any favors for MY ambitions of creating a TV show(or movie for that matter),but I suppose it should be more of a cautionary tale than preventive. I sure hope so,anyway.

Its a simple, true story that pulls everybody in, who wants to see the reality of that business and who wants to take for the leading character. When this tragicomedy touches you, you are on the right way, leaving the standard comedy besides you and heading towards the easy listening of truthfulness moments. David Duchovni is much better than I thought and well, you haven't to complain about Sigourney Weaver and Ioan Gruffudd. Also Fran Kranz comes to grips with his role, sometimes more than you can take:). He and Duchovni stands for the best laughters and the most embarrassing moments. Go out and see that movie.