This very inside but modestly amusing show-business satire doesn't seem too far-fetched or exaggerated.

"The TV Set" feels a little underdone and half-realized, as if it were the pilot episode for a show that never got picked up for the fall season.

A weak satire of network television programming, telling you nothing you don't already know and doing so without providing much more than the occsasional mild chuckle.

The appalling sausage factory that produces what we see on network TV is nicely skewered in The TV Set, an engaging if not exactly edgy comedy that exists to restate the obvious.

A facile but likable send-up of how things (don't) work in Hollywood.

David Duchovny, Justine Bateman, Ioan Gruffudd and Sigourney Weaver star in this biting look at the creatively draining world of TV sitcom production.

This satire settles for simply restating the obvious.

Kasdan goes too far over the top on occasion. But he mostly straddles the line between reality and absurdity. But in network TV, reality is absurdity.

Savage little morality tale.

A somewhat cold and calculated film that apparently unconsciously exemplifies that which it intends to criticize.