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Don Johnson and NBC Combine Forces to Make the Worst Pilot Ever

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Don Johnson is returning to NBC for the first time since his Miami Vice days as the star of A Mann’s World, a drama pilot set in a Beverly Hills spa.
Produced by Sex and the City‘s Michael Patrick King, the project finds Johnson playing Allan Mann, a celebrated (and straight) hairdresser in his 50s who is struggling to stay young and relevant in a business fixated on youth. Successful and rich, Allan has no interest in following society’s traditional timeline for retirement. Instead, he decides to expand his beauty empire by purchasing the building next door to his salon to transform into a day spa.
 
How can anyone know if it's gonna' be bad or good just based on a description?

There have been some great shows over the years that sounded dumb in a soundbite description, but ended up being great.

Don Johnson is awesome...so I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
 
I bet if you watched that pilot while listening to "Heartbeat" your brain would implode.

--Justin
 
I'm not even sure that's the worst pilot of this season. Check out this train wreck to be:
Work It (ABC) - multi-camera comedy about two out-of-work car salesmen - both husbands and fathers - who dress as women by day to get jobs working as pharmaceutical reps.
 
both series do sound awful, what makes ABC think that a crossdressing series is going to work?
 
I'm not even sure that's the worst pilot of this season. Check out this train wreck to be:
Work It (ABC) - multi-camera comedy about two out-of-work car salesmen - both husbands and fathers - who dress as women by day to get jobs working as pharmaceutical reps.

Is it just me, or does this sound pretty funny?

Don Johnson is awesome...so I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Yeah, I like Don Johnson. If/when it makes it over to this side of the pond, I'd tune in just to see what he does with the material.
 
Because it's worked before, remember Bosom Buddies? :rommie:
no but having done due research, im left with a few questions, why is a womens only apartment complex cheap? in my experinces services aimed at just women, are priced higher than normal.

2, any woman who needs such an apartment block, will probaly struggle to live an everyday life, and they certainly wouldnt be open to dating men.

Still 2 series, not a bad acheivement for what looks like an awful show, and well done to Tom Hanks for managing to put this in his past, and going on to have a succesful career.
 
Because it's worked before, remember Bosom Buddies? :rommie:
no but having done due research, im left with a few questions, why is a womens only apartment complex cheap? in my experinces services aimed at just women, are priced higher than normal.

2, any woman who needs such an apartment block, will probaly struggle to live an everyday life, and they certainly wouldnt be open to dating men.

Still 2 series, not a bad acheivement for what looks like an awful show, and well done to Tom Hanks for managing to put this in his past, and going on to have a succesful career.
You think too much.
 
I'm not even sure that's the worst pilot of this season. Check out this train wreck to be:
Work It (ABC) - multi-camera comedy about two out-of-work car salesmen - both husbands and fathers - who dress as women by day to get jobs working as pharmaceutical reps.

Is it just me, or does this sound pretty funny?

Could be dumb fun, but then again, so could the Don Johnson show. Anyway, I think this has the best chance of being the dumb-fun hit of the season:
Brave New World (NBC): Comedy about the staff at a Plymouth plantation-type living museum that have people reenact the way the pilgrims once went about their days.
Why hasn't anyone thought of setting a show in a theme park before? From what I've heard, they are hilariously horrific workplaces. :D And setting it in a Williamsburg type park is less risky than riling the Disney lawyers by going the more obvious route...
 
There was an episode of The Middle I saw that had Patricia Heaton's character working in a Colonial type park. It was hilarious.
 
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Don Johnson is returning to NBC for the first time since his Miami Vice days as the star of A Mann’s World, a drama pilot set in a Beverly Hills spa.
Produced by Sex and the City‘s Michael Patrick King, the project finds Johnson playing Allan Mann, a celebrated (and straight) hairdresser in his 50s who is struggling to stay young and relevant in a business fixated on youth. Successful and rich, Allan has no interest in following society’s traditional timeline for retirement. Instead, he decides to expand his beauty empire by purchasing the building next door to his salon to transform into a day spa.

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Huh? Wha---Oh, sorry. I dozed off halfway through that description.

CHRIST, that sounds boring.
 
Well, certainly desperate agents all over L.A. are pushing this pilot script on their young out-of-work clients with the urging that "Tom Hanks started out this way." :lol:
 
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