{"id":1444,"date":"2012-01-07T19:01:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2012-01-07T19:04:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:04:53","slug":"another-bosom-buddies-un-work-it-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/01\/another-bosom-buddies-un-work-it-abc.html","title":{"rendered":"Another ‘Bosom Buddies’? … Un-Work It, ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got done complimenting ABC<\/em> a few posts ago for Tim Allen’s<\/strong> Last Man Standing<\/em> series.<\/p>\n

It was smart bringing back a known commodity like the likable Allen, former star of the long-running clean and positive hit Home Improvement<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Ben Koldyke-Work It<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, ABC giveth and taketh away apparently with the show that follows Allen’s program:\u00a0 Work It<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Who on earth thought it would be a good idea to give another series to cross-dressing men?<\/p>\n

It should have been played out with the Tom Hanks<\/strong> show Bosom Buddies<\/em> DECADES ago, after all.<\/p>\n

At least this version won’t be around long, thanks to viewers and critics, the latter of which are REALLY enjoying teeing off on the show.<\/p>\n

“Memo to GLAAD: Don’t fret too much. It won’t be around long enough to do much damage to anyone, except the actors playing a couple of out-of-work guys,” read a review in SF Gate.<\/p>\n

Tim Goodman wrote for the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, \u201cWhen the bile bubbles up contemplating what heinous element of a series to slaughter first, you\u2019ve got a problem. Or, rather, ABC has a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

OK…I don’t even NEED to add more here except to say don’t bother re-working Work It ABC, put it on the unemployment line instead.<\/p>\n

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