June 17, 2011
This primarily television actress was probably up to a B a few years ago, but has since dropped down to C. This happens when you disappear from the public eye. Never really catching on, she has a new series starting in the fall, but producers are thinking of replacing her as the star with someone more publicity friendly. The reason? The show is so difficult to get into they need someone who will come make people watch for a few weeks.
Debra Messing (Guess they should have picked someone else)
Aw not really her fault. I'm a fan.
ReplyDeleteWas this about Smash? I found the first couple of episodes compelling, but quickly lost interest and never watched again. And I am a big fan of musicals and Broadway.
ReplyDeleteAnd it was nothing to do w Messing...it was the writing. Tell a compelling story and people will stick with it!!
DeleteI never saw Smash, but Debra is a fantastic actress. I think it was the premise of the show that wasn't compelling enough--not her fault.
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way, Debra was an A list television actress for a good long stretch of time. She just needs another well-written show.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Debra Messing should get the blame. I stopped watching before the end of the first season, it went downhill rapidly. The scripts were a big part of the problem. I really wanted to love it. I didn't care for Katherine McPhee tbh.
ReplyDeleteLOL - She must really be a bitch because Enty definitely has a stinger on for her. Too bad. I always liked her on Will & Grace but especially on Ned & Stacey.
ReplyDeleteI thought I was the only person on the planet that liked Ned & Stacey! lol
DeleteRome & Tee Tee: add two more Ned and Stacey fans (+ Rach and + Mr Rach)
DeleteTritto, I loved that show.
DeleteI think Debra has a new show on CBS.
Her part on Smash was semi-supporting so I can't see the need to replace her. Smash went sideways the second season and I'm still bummed it didn't make it.
This is dated 2011, so wasn't that earlier than Smash?
ReplyDelete@Henriette- Yes. Like while Smash was being produced.
ReplyDeleteMcphee is why the show failed. The moment Spielberg cast her and demanded they derail the original stories to prop her dead shark eyes is when everyone knew the ship was sinking.
ReplyDeleteDidn't she also disappear from the public eye because she's Coke Mom?
ReplyDeleteI like DM. (I don't think she's Coke Mom, either; I think it's Angie H.) West End Girl is right and that trick McPhee is the reason the show blew.
ReplyDeleteMessing was the right pick; McPhee was not. The failure of Smash had nothing to do with Debra Messing.
ReplyDeleteMessing was pretty good in season 2 of Smash, but awful in season 1. It was impossible to forget that she was "acting". I agreed though that the writing was bad. Overall the second season was better as they seemed to just start having fun, probably when they knew they were being cancelled.
ReplyDeleteWell, from what little I watched of the beginning of smash, I liked Debra Messing and her gay partner. I didn't like McPhee and I guess that was mostly because of her lack of charisma. She's beautiful and all, but comes across like milquetoast.
ReplyDeleteAnd I know he has a name but I'm too lazy to look it up. I just know he was married to Sutton Foster and then had an affair w Laura Bell Bundy and then divorced Sutton. The biggest surprise to me was that he's not gay irl. ;) okrrrrr?
DeleteYeah producers nice work. Blame the show on someone who had real talent. Sometimes, no matter how damn good you are, you simply cannot rise above the material.
ReplyDeleteDebra was good in the show, always love watching her. @Prada - I know! No IDEA he was straight! Shows he can act.
ReplyDeleteI LOVED Jack Davenport, but then again I always have, right from the early days of Coupling. Anjelica Huston was great camping it up and the vacant Katharine McPhee was nothing short of atrocious. She just can't act. Not even believable for a Depends commercial, which is round about where her performance was.
Such a shame to waste a great cast on such a dreadful non-presence. She actually makes a room feel empty by her presence.
Knowing her real story of how she was married and cheated made it really hard for some of us to watch her do it in her TV show too.
ReplyDeleteI have to wonder why in the world Spielberg cast McPhee. It was a mighty strange choice when the rest of the cast was so talented. She must have really performed well at her-ahem-wink wink-"audition."
ReplyDeleteKatherine McPhee is one of those unfortunate people who has talent but no charisma. She's just not that interesting.
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