As you may have seen last night on ABC’s The Best TV Shows That Never Were (based on coproducer Lee Goldberg’s book, Unsold Television Pilots), many vehicles, even for stars as huge as Keanu Reeves, Tom Selleck, and Robert Urich, never make it beyond pilot season. And as the WOW documentary Brilliant but Cancelled proved, genius isn’t necessarily a plus. Such was the case with our own James St. James’ talk show for British TV, pitifully stillborn even before it could be named. Poor James, always the guest, never the host. But in this clip, circa 1999, we see what kind of talk-show host James might have made as he chats with vertically challenged porn star Napoleon. Good thing Napoleon is a good listener. (Watch the clip) Recommended background music: Soft Cell’s “Sex Dwarf.”The Basement Tapes
As you may have seen last night on ABC’s The Best TV Shows That Never Were (based on coproducer Lee Goldberg’s book, Unsold Television Pilots), many vehicles, even for stars as huge as Keanu Reeves, Tom Selleck, and Robert Urich, never make it beyond pilot season. And as the WOW documentary Brilliant but Cancelled proved, genius isn’t necessarily a plus. Such was the case with our own James St. James’ talk show for British TV, pitifully stillborn even before it could be named. Poor James, always the guest, never the host. But in this clip, circa 1999, we see what kind of talk-show host James might have made as he chats with vertically challenged porn star Napoleon. Good thing Napoleon is a good listener. (Watch the clip) Recommended background music: Soft Cell’s “Sex Dwarf.”
