HOLLYWOOD - NBS's new drama "Talk To The Hand," inspired by Jodi Foster's film "The Beaver," entirely failed to connect with audiences last night.
The drama focuses on the trials and tribulations of Darryl Gibb (played by Parker Blythe, the veteran "Criminal Intentions: Hawaii" star), a lonely and alienated assistant produce manager at a local box store who can only relate to the world at large through his sock puppet "Petey." Audiences and critics alike were equally bored and angry with last night's pilot, pushing up NBS's promoted hashtag "#nbsttth" into a top spot on a wave of Twitter scorn, mockery and hate.
"How does this qualify as a show?" tweeted "xalphoxx," followed by 29 immediate re-tweets, one of nearly 300 similar tweets before the show's first commercial break. "#boringboringboring" and "#nbsphoningitinagain" also trended higher, based almost entirely on tweets of the show.
NBS executives, meanwhile, were perplexed by the hostility. "We had solid writers and good production people all around," said Deziree Frye, NBS's Vice-President of Prime-time Drama. "I saw an early cut, and it looked solid. I never saw the film [Jodi Foster's "The Beaver"], but she's [Foster] a completely bankable revenue stream. We thought our gaping holes in prime-time were finally sewn up."
Critics found the drama almost entirely without merit. "The show, in a nutshell, was terrible: a conceptual nightmare poorly executed and ineptly performed," blogged T.V. critic Katie Philips for "Entertainment Television." "I can only hope the writers were stoned or hooked on drugs; at least SOMEONE on the planet should get something pleasurable out of this effort. It took all the power I had left to resist jamming a sharpened pencil into my eye by the time the character makes that first act soliloquy on the benefits of having a sock puppet as a friend."
TTTH racked up a depressing 0.9/1.5 share Sunday with a dismal 1 million viewers, nearly all of whom were tweeting mad by the 15 minute mark.
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