Flipping around the TV channels…

Updated on October 18, 2007 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

…I saw a few bits of whatever that musical drama set in Las Vegas is, the one CBS is running. In the two clips I saw, one guy was singing Viva Las Vegas (I mean, please), and Hugh Jackman, who I can only assume is playing a bad guy, was later singing the Rolling Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil. Good grief, if you’re just going to cover old standards (at least Cop Rock gave us original music), could you at least use just a tad more imagination as to what songs you choose. Yeesh!

Let’s just say that I don’t advise anyone to get hooked on this show, assuming that possible during the two or three weeks it will be on the air.

Say, remember when Rob Lowe had that show Doc Vegas, or whatever the hell it was called, where he was a casino doctor?  (Wasn’t that also on CBS?  Network Executives, please note:  Just because CSI was set in Las Vegas and was popular, doesn’t mean it’s some magic totem, OK?)  I remember catching a bit of that show’s first episode, and they actually did a bit where a guy swallowed his wedding ring or something, and Lowe goes, “I guess what goes down in Vegas, stays in Vegas!”  And as soon as I heard them using that gag in the very first show, I knew it would be off the air within a month.  And it was.

That’s exactly how I felt when I heard the lead character singing Viva Las Vegas here.

Pin It



Related Posts

  • “if you’re just going to cover old standards”

    Depending on the audience, they might think Viva Las Vegas and Sympathy for the Devil are new songs. The kids and the history, not-a so good.

  • sardu

    Except these days it’s know known as “Viva Viagra”.

  • Ericb

    I’m suprised that ABC was able to air three whole Cavemen episodes. What’s wrong witht he world.

  • Ericb

    And isn’t this kind of a step down for Jackman? What happened to his career?

  • Those two songs are still played constantly on the radio, and used in TV commercials, etc. So I can’t believe they would be new to anybody. And let’s admit it, ‘kids’ are *not* going to watch this show.

    Jackman is one of the show’s producers. He won’t be a regular on the show, but instead an occasional guest star, should it *cough* last that long. For what it’s worth, he’s a classically trained singer, so its OK from that standpoint. In fact, I always thought it was weird they didn’t cast him in that movie of the Phantom of the Opera musical.

  • fish eye no miko

    Ericb said: “And isn’t this kind of a step down for Jackman? What happened to his career?”

    Does he have much of a career out of the X-Men films?

  • Viva Laughlin is canceled now, as you predicted. 2 episodes aired, I believe.

  • The Rev. D.D.

    I wondered about Jackman being on that show…he did like Salma Hayek did during the first season of “Ugly Betty.”

    Of course, “UB” is actually pretty cute and doesn’t suck and is loaded to the gills with hot women (young and old), so that probably helps.