The TV Set (2007)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:47
Rotten:26
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Offering both broad and insider jokes, The TV Set is a sharp satire that will please both the average moviegoers and pop culture aficionados.
Theatrical Release:Apr 6, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $34,531
Synopsis: Go to any bar in Hollywood and you're sure to find a hard-done-by writer who is drowning his or her sorrows after being chewed up and spat out by the network television system. In THE TV SET, Mike... [More]
Starring: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer
Director: Jake Kasdan
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Reviews for The TV Set
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 3/4 |
...an intriguing, occasionally horrifying look at the behind-the-scenes shenanigans within the network-television world. Full Review |
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 C |
Sad, slow and rather boring story about how writers get dumped on and smart television shows get dumbed down. Full Review |
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3/4 |
David Duchovny owns this movie Full Review |
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C+ |
The best thing that one can say about this film, is that it's probably too good for TV. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Sharky, cynical look at TV world needs more bite. Full Review |
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3/5 |
What rescues The TV Set is the character work. Full Review |
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7/10 |
Not a backstage film for the ages, but it manages to be a bit more useful than the vast bulk of its stablemates. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Honestly, isn't it a little late to be bemoaning sleazy reality TV? Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Is it a travesty? A farce? Utterly preposterous? Exactly. Full Review |
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3/4 |
This very inside but modestly amusing show-business satire doesn't seem too far-fetched or exaggerated. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
"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. Full Review |
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C |
A weak satire of network television programming, telling you nothing you don't already know and doing so without providing much more than the occsasional mild chuckle. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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B- |
A facile but likable send-up of how things (don't) work in Hollywood. Full Review |
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3/5 |
David Duchovny, Justine Bateman, Ioan Gruffudd and Sigourney Weaver star in this biting look at the creatively draining world of TV sitcom production. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
This satire settles for simply restating the obvious. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Kasdan goes too far over the top on occasion. But he mostly straddles the line between reality and absurdity. But in network TV, reality is absurdity. Full Review |
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