If you took the "Studio 60" stuff out of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and just focused on Jordan’s character and her job as network head, you’d get something like THE TV SET, a fine little movie about one man’s attempt to get his TV pilot on the air. David Duchovny plays the writer attempting to get his show "The Wexler Chronicles" through the pilot process, while fighting studio idiocy at every turn.

I have absolutely no doubt that this is *exactly* how it works in television. Great ideas and great stories are constantly squashed because the network head’s teenage daughter simply doesn’t like the title of the show, or something else equally as stupid. If you’re as weary of network television as I am, this is a must see.

WOW!! This film depicts everything that SICKENS me about Hollywood. Very true to life. Its like oyu just keep getting stabbed with a knife deeper and deeper everytime someone has "notes" or "concerns". Abrasive and devastating this film truly says it all with an incredible wit. I cant imagine that Hollywood enjoys seeing films like this that hit very close to home and exposes them for the retarded frauds that they are.

As a TV nerd, I found this film to be heartbreakingly hilarious. Feels like it was made FOR me by people LIKE me. The more you love/know about the TV industry, the darker the comedy seems. I love this movie.

Thank god for Sigourney Weaver. Without her this movie would have been a dull bird.

The one and only test screening I've ever been to, so unaware if this is the same exact version I saw. What I did see was a great cast about a great TV show that goes to heck under studio tinkering. Duchovny and Weaver were fantastic...the film was just depressing if true...which would explain why so many ideas in Hollywood are so bland.

I know this came first, but I'm only watching it after having already seen two seasons of the VERY similar Episodes, which I think does a better job of telling the same basic story. At 100+ minutes, the movie doesn't work as well as the half-hour sitcom does, dragging in parts and feeling heavy-handed in others. Great cast, though, and I'll watch anything Jake Kasdan makes. I just don't think this project was all that successful.

If you took the "Studio 60" stuff out of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and just focused on Jordan’s character and her job as network head, you’d get something like THE TV SET, a fine little movie about one man’s attempt to get his TV pilot on the air. David Duchovny plays the writer attempting to get his show "The Wexler Chronicles" through the pilot process, while fighting studio idiocy at every turn.

I have absolutely no doubt that this is *exactly* how it works in television. Great ideas and great stories are constantly squashed because the network head’s teenage daughter simply doesn’t like the title of the show, or something else equally as stupid. If you’re as weary of network television as I am, this is a must see.

Funny Satire. Character seems like a precursor to Hank Moody on Californication.

Vom steinigen Weg eines Serien-Piloten. Die Besetzung mit David Duchovny und Sigourney Weaver hat mir wirklich gut gefallen. Leider hätte der Film gerne noch mehr Komödie sein können. Streckenweise dümpelt er doch viel zu sehr vor sich hin. Ein erzählerischer Ton ähnlich dem in "Adaption" hätte ihm sicher gut getan.

Having just been through what it's like to make a TV show, this felt especially poignant and even more funny than I would have expected. Great satire but felt a little TOO inside.

WOW!! This film depicts everything that SICKENS me about Hollywood. Very true to life. Its like oyu just keep getting stabbed with a knife deeper and deeper everytime someone has "notes" or "concerns". Abrasive and devastating this film truly says it all with an incredible wit. I cant imagine that Hollywood enjoys seeing films like this that hit very close to home and exposes them for the retarded frauds that they are.