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The TV Set (2007)

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Consensus: Offering both broad and insider jokes, The TV Set is a sharp satire that will please both the average moviegoers and pop culture aficionados.
 

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Runtime: 87 mins

Synopsis: Go to any bar in Hollywood and you're sure to find a hard-done-by writer who is drowning his or her sorrows after being chewed up and spat out by the network television system. In THE TV SET, Mike Klein (David Duchovny) seems set to join them. Klein's script for a TV show called THE WEXLER... Go to any bar in Hollywood and you're sure to find a hard-done-by writer who is drowning his or her sorrows after being chewed up and spat out by the network television system. In THE TV SET, Mike Klein (David Duchovny) seems set to join them. Klein's script for a TV show called THE WEXLER CHRONICLES was inspired by his brother's suicide, and is very close to his heart. After selling the script to PDN, who are headed by a fearsome executive simply known as Lenny (Sigourney Weaver), Klein watches as everything from the casting to the production goes horribly wrong. Klein has one buddy at the network, a Brit named Richard McCallister. McCallister's former position at the BBC leads Klein to believe that some quality control will be exerted over his project, and hopes McCallister will pull it out of the mire of mundanity that PDN thrives on. But he's very, very wrong, and as Klein's dream turns into dust--the show barely resembles anything he wrote--his health takes a turn for the worse and he enters mid-life-crisis mode. Duchovny and Weaver are outstanding in their roles, adding just the right balance of humor and anger to their characters. THE TV SET is ostensibly a comedy, but may make for painful viewing for anyone involved in the industry, or anyone who hates seeing dreams shattered. But director Jake Kasdan (ZERO EFFECT) manages to add a large dose of absurdity to the proceedings, saving it from being too depressing, and making many of the scenes a genuine hoot. [More]

Genre: Television

Starring: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer, Fran Kranz

Director: Jake Kasdan
Screenwriter: Jake Kasdan
Producer: Aaron Ryder
Composer: Michael Andrews

DVD Info

Release:

Jan 9, 2009

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 2.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scenes
  • Audio Commentaries - 1. Jake Kasdan - Screenwriter/Director; David Duchovny, Lindsay Slone - Stars; Aaron Ryder - Producer
  • 2. Jake Kasdan - Screenwriter/Director; Judd Apartow - Executive Producer
  • Behind the Scenes - "The Making of THE TV SET"
  • Trailers - 1. Forced Trailers
  • 2. Additional Previews

Tracks:

  • 1. Audition
  • 2. Network Casting
  • 3. Network Notes
  • 4. Not My Vision
  • 5. Business and Pleasure
  • 6. Go Pilot
  • 7. Headaches
  • 8. Diplomacy Required
  • 9. Strange Perspective
  • 10. Best Performance
  • 11. Performance Issues
  • 12. What If?
  • 13. Breakdown
  • 14. Audience Testing
  • 15. Positive Reviews
  • 16. Making the Schedule
  • 17. Picked Up
  • 18. Up Fronts
  • 19. Sales Pitch
  • 20. False Advertising/End Titles

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