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Busy Philipps Talk Show Cancellation, Her Daughter's Letter, and
Professional Darwinism
By: Winterlight Date: January 3, 2020, 10:16 am
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Actress Busy Philipps, who was on the TV show Dawson's Creek,
had a talk show called Busy Tonight which started in October
2018. It was cancelled in April 2019 due to low ratings. She has
just posted a series of #almostgrams,” which are Instagram posts
that she didn't post at the time she made them. One of them was
a rant about being cancelled, which is not surprising. However,
she decided that she should also post the letter her
eleven-year-old daughter wrote to the network.
Apparently Busy thought it was cute and funny.
It's not.
Exposing her daughter's poor spelling and punctuation was bad
enough. Your child shouldn't have to shoulder the emotional
burden of your job ending, and given that Busy's show was not
renewed due to low ratings, IMO she comes off as extremely
unprofessional and foolish to publish this now.
What do you think?
#Post#: 44700--------------------------------------------------
Re: Busy Philipps Talk Show Cancellation, Her Daughter's Letter,
and Professional Darwinism
By: TootsNYC Date: January 3, 2020, 10:23 am
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Yeah, that was all just kind of tacky.
But I think Busy is kind of tacky in general anyway. Charming,
and interesting--but tacky.
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Re: Busy Philipps Talk Show Cancellation, Her Daughter's Letter,
and Professional Darwinism
By: Twik Date: January 3, 2020, 10:31 am
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If you can't take things like cancellations in your stride, you
perhaps shouldn't be in the entertainment industry.
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Re: Busy Philipps Talk Show Cancellation, Her Daughter's Letter,
and Professional Darwinism
By: Hello Ducky Date: January 4, 2020, 3:40 am
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Wow. She thinks it's okay for her daughter to say things like
that? Although I suppose it's not surprising given that she
says, "My girl knows something about her mom- I work hard AF and
love to prove people wrong and finally, the men will always try
to f–k you over so f–k em and figure out something else." Quite
a role model.
#Post#: 44802--------------------------------------------------
Re: Busy Philipps Talk Show Cancellation, Her Daughter's Letter,
and Professional Darwinism
By: Rose Red Date: January 4, 2020, 7:50 am
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Does she think she's edgy because she's swearing all over the
place? Just makes her seem trashy and unimaginative. And nice of
her to teach her 11 year old to swear instead of how to spell.
Poor kid.
I'm also not surprised she's blaming "the man" instead of bad
ratings.
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Re: Busy Philipps Talk Show Cancellation, Her Daughter's Letter,
and Professional Darwinism
By: TootsNYC Date: January 4, 2020, 1:50 pm
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I think her biggest gripe--which she didn't make clear--is that
the executive had been all "sweetness and light" right about the
point they must have been making this decision, and they didn't
tell her themselves or leave a hint of it, or anything.
Sometimes people are naive and think that business people should
always tell the full truth--but often they can't. I remember
when my publishing company was up for sale, and someone in the
company flat-out asked the head of the division if it was. He
said no, of course. And later when the sale was announced, the
guy was mad about having been lied to. I was thinking, "You
asked a question you had no right to ask, so you didn't deserve
the truth. Having it be confirmed that the company was for sale
would have meant lots of advertising cancellations, etc., and
the deal would have been damaged, the company's value damaged,
etc. This is a question you shouldn't ask, because they can't
answer it honestly."
So I can see that someone in Busy's position might be frustrated
that one moment, her studio executive is saying, "we'll plan for
X," and then the next day the manager (not Busy herself) gets
the word that the show has been cancelled--it seems
hypocritical. But if you've been in business very long, you know
that nothing is done until it's done, and sometimes you can't
even hint without messing things up.
Also, she should have been reading the writing on the wall--she
would have been seeing the same ratings the studio execs were.
Things like this are never a surprise.
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Re: Busy Philipps Talk Show Cancellation, Her Daughter's Letter,
and Professional Darwinism
By: Winterlight Date: January 4, 2020, 8:06 pm
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Busy's been in the business twenty years at this point, and been
on other shows that have been canceled. She should understand
that blowing up at the execs isn't helpful, and posting rants
from her child is just cringeworthy. I get that it's upsetting
because it was her show and starring vehicle, so to speak, but
this was a terrible way to handle it.
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Re: Busy Philipps Talk Show Cancellation, Her Daughter's Letter,
and Professional Darwinism
By: Chez Miriam Date: January 5, 2020, 5:56 am
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The problem when a person has shown themself to be touchy, and
high-maintenance, is that in a very crowded field the makers of
a future talk-show/TV show may think "oh, let's look at
alternative; Busy is a bit too prompt with the tantrums to want
to take a second chance on her".
If you have your meltdown in an exec's office, word may get
around; if you post it on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook, etc word
WILL get around and spread so much further.
It could be a case of "lesson learned", but what I have read
doesn't point that way. :(
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Re: Busy Philipps Talk Show Cancellation, Her Daughter's Letter,
and Professional Darwinism
By: Twik Date: January 6, 2020, 10:54 am
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[quote author=TootsNYC link=topic=1473.msg44824#msg44824
date=1578167448]
I think her biggest gripe--which she didn't make clear--is that
the executive had been all "sweetness and light" right about the
point they must have been making this decision, and they didn't
tell her themselves or leave a hint of it, or anything.
Sometimes people are naive and think that business people should
always tell the full truth--but often they can't. I remember
when my publishing company was up for sale, and someone in the
company flat-out asked the head of the division if it was. He
said no, of course. And later when the sale was announced, the
guy was mad about having been lied to. I was thinking, "You
asked a question you had no right to ask, so you didn't deserve
the truth. Having it be confirmed that the company was for sale
would have meant lots of advertising cancellations, etc., and
the deal would have been damaged, the company's value damaged,
etc. This is a question you shouldn't ask, because they can't
answer it honestly."
So I can see that someone in Busy's position might be frustrated
that one moment, her studio executive is saying, "we'll plan for
X," and then the next day the manager (not Busy herself) gets
the word that the show has been cancelled--it seems
hypocritical. But if you've been in business very long, you know
that nothing is done until it's done, and sometimes you can't
even hint without messing things up.
Also, she should have been reading the writing on the wall--she
would have been seeing the same ratings the studio execs were.
Things like this are never a surprise.
[/quote]
It's unfortunate and frustrating, but the entertainment business
does work like this. It's not like they can take actors and
talk-show hosts and put them on probation to see if they can
generate more views. So, yeah, I understand sounding upbeat or
supportive to prevent premature walk-offs, or scenes, or simply
to avoid making the talent nervous which could sink an "iffy"
show before its time.
But in network tv, all work is temporary.
#Post#: 45564--------------------------------------------------
Re: Busy Philipps Talk Show Cancellation, Her Daughter's Letter,
and Professional Darwinism
By: Star Wars Fan Date: January 15, 2020, 1:22 am
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Just one more reason to not like Busy Philipps. ::)
Ed.
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