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The TV Set (2006)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 76
Fresh: 49 | Rotten: 27

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

Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 8

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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Writer/director Jake Kasdan's showbiz comedy The TV Set stars David Duchovny as Mike Klein, a television producer who in the beginning of the film successfully sells a network on a story idea. The film follows Klein as he must actually put the show together, navigate the corporate minefield of the network, and figure out what aspects of his show he is willing to compromise. Sigourney Weaver plays the demanding president of the network, Justine Bateman plays Klein's wife, and Judy Greer plays his

R, 1 hr. 29 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Jake Kasdan

Written By: Jake Kasdan

In Theaters: Apr 6, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Sep 25, 2007

Box Office:$34.5k

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The TV Set is a little wonder of a movie, as smart and sad and true as any comedy I've seen this year.

August 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Slate

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Dana Stevens

Slate

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The appalling sausage factory that produces what we see on network TV is nicely skewered in The TV Set, an engaging if not exactly edgy comedy that exists to restate the obvious.

May 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel

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Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

A facile but likable send-up of how things (don't) work in Hollywood.

May 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Top Critic

This satire settles for simply restating the obvious.

May 5, 2007 Comment

Jeff Strickler

Minneapolis Star Tribune

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A somewhat cold and calculated film that apparently unconsciously exemplifies that which it intends to criticize.

May 4, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

While some of the gags may be a little too inside baseball, anyone who has seen Broadcast News or reads the occasional issue of 'Entertainment Weekly' will have no problem understanding and enjoying Kasdan's chomp on the hand that once fed him.

May 4, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press

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Terry Lawson

Detroit Free Press

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...an intriguing, occasionally horrifying look at the behind-the-scenes shenanigans within the network-television world.

April 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Sad, slow and rather boring story about how writers get dumped on and smart television shows get dumbed down.

January 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

David Duchovny owns this movie

January 6, 2008 Comment

Stefan Birgir Stefansson

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The best thing that one can say about this film, is that it's probably too good for TV.

December 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It's interesting and funny and agonizing and illuminating to know what happens before you get that first annoying animated promo for a new show. For fans of: Undeclared, Studio 60.

November 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinerina

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Karina Montgomery

Cinerina

Sharky, cynical look at TV world needs more bite.

October 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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S. Jhoanna Robledo

Common Sense Media

What rescues The TV Set is the character work.

October 3, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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David Cornelius

eFilmCritic.com

An eye-opening satire which makes a powerful statement about television's tendency towards very calculated, mass manipulation.

September 22, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

Not a backstage film for the ages, but it manages to be a bit more useful than the vast bulk of its stablemates.

September 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

The TV Set DVD is highly recommended for fans of the Hollywood-style inside scoop ala 'Entourage'.

September 19, 2007 Comment

Staci Layne Wilson

Fantastica Daily

Honestly, isn't it a little late to be bemoaning sleazy reality TV?

July 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Miami Herald

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Connie Ogle

Miami Herald

Is it a travesty? A farce? Utterly preposterous? Exactly.

June 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Zertinet Movies

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Steven Snyder

Zertinet Movies

This very inside but modestly amusing show-business satire doesn't seem too far-fetched or exaggerated.

May 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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Jeff Vice

Deseret News, Salt Lake City

"The TV Set" feels a little underdone and half-realized, as if it were the pilot episode for a show that never got picked up for the fall season.

May 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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"A place where dreams are canceled"The story of a TV pilot as it goes through the Network TV process of casting, production and finally airing.REVIEWJake Kasdan's satire, "The TV Set", is a pitch perfect , dead-on depiction of the myopic vision of American television which has become a vast

March 9, 2010

Lorenzo von Matterhorn

Super Reviewer

Duchevny is just fine in this role, but Sigorney steals every single scene she's in, getting almost all the laughs in the film. This is well trodden ground, and while it does a reasonable job (recalling the hilarious, short lived, tv show "Action"), I felt that the guy cast as the male lead in the tv show was just as

August 30, 2008