Ever Heard Of Cop Rock?

For those of you who are a certain age or older you probably have heard of the television show Cop Rock. You have probably heard about it despite the fact you probably never saw it. It was created by Stephen Bochco, who at the time had LA Law on the air and Doogie Howser and so he was the man who get anything on the air. So, he came up with the precursor to NYPD Blue. It was called Cop Rock and was actually an hour long cop drama interspersed with musical numbers. Although it was actually halfway decent, no one really liked watched it and they only filmed 11 episodes. I'm not sure if all of those 11 aired, but it was not a pretty picture.

So, when I read today that Fox gave the greenlight to a show called Glee which is supposedly a sitcom and is going to have 3 songs per half hours, I decided they lost their mind. I just guess I am not creative enough to figure out how they will do three production numbers in 22 minutes of air time and still have a plot line for a situation comedy. Talk, laughtrack, sing. Repeat three times.

Plus, Fox ordered 13 episodes which means by my math they will need 39 original songs which means that half of them will suck probably because that is too many. Go count how many songs are in two Broadway musicals combined and it will be less than 39 songs and they had months, if not years to make them good, and they still don't always hit their mark. If a song sucks on this show, people will click their remotes and will not return. I just don't see the concept working at all.