Why did CBS cancel the final comic play of Williams

It is considered a footnote now, but the last TV balance of Robin Williams before his death was for “The Crazy Ones”, a single camera play from David E. Kelly, which was broadcast from September 2013 to April 2014. “Mork and Mindy” (with PAM Dawber) More than three decades. Williams spent the largest part of his career at the Standoupe or a film championship, and often acquires a lot of praise for his performance. He was nominated for the Academy Awards for “Good Morning, Vietnam”, “The Dead Poets Association”, and “The Fisher King” before finally winning for him His generous role in “good hunting”. His comedic albums also won several grams, while his own shows to two Emmy.

Williams Salim was a joke about how it was not elegant, but just the ego.

However, it was seen (at the time) as a bold step by Lillams. It was the latest high -ranking star that TV was no longer “below”, but it is a Hessej mediator itself. (For several decades, the movie stars accurately refused to appear on TV, and I saw it under it.) Josh Group (!) Brad Garrett also had frequent roles, being David E -Kelly, a detailed, and the show attracted many big stars of guest sites, including Kelly Clarkson, Ed Asnar, Karim Abdel Jabbar, Brad Pesley and David Copefield.

However, “The Crazy Ones” was canceled after its first season, as it lasted only 22 episodes. This is surprising, given the proportion of supply. In 2016, after the death of Williams, Kelly spoke to Indiewire about “The Crazy One”, “ He had a very clear explanation for the reason for canceling it. It seems that the show was not very good.

The “Crazy Ones” hypothesis was a mature capabilities. Williams played the role of Simon Roberts, an executive in Chicago trying to save his relationship with his daughter, Sydney (Giler). Simon has gone through many divorce and struggled with addiction since he saw the last time Sydney, so he decided to try to re -contact her by giving her a high -level job as his assistant. Sydney was a crushing for her colleague in her office Andrew (Lincolreter), and he worked, Sydney, and Simon alongside Zach (Wolk), who works at work. (It seems that the interoffice is not Vibubin.) This series is not only permitted to the dura of comedy soap, but it also has a lot of opportunities to ridicule Madison Street, as Williams was often raised terrible advertising campaigns for fake products.

Kelly admitted, however, that the show did not rise to the level of its potential. He hated her stories and felt that his book did not find their steps. It is also not used in the 30 -minute TV structure, after cutting his teeth on a dramim for an hour. As Indiewire said:

“The show was not very good. (…) started with great reviews, but after watching three or four episodes, I thought that the story of the stories was very bad. I was not a person for half an hour, so I delivered it to half an hour and I was ready to back down.”

After a few episodes, Kelly felt that he should be able to interfere in the show and improve it anyway. Unfortunately, CBS was not an idea … and for sarcastic reasons.

When Kelly offered to intervene to return the “Crazy Ones” tools, CBS suddenly rejected it. The network felt that the shows no longer needed to be good anymore, as the largest part of the masses was now partial only on TV while they had one eye on social media. Kelly also remembers:

“Robin Williams was great … But the stories made me want to carry my nose. (…) I went to CBS and told them,” This is not very good. “() Their response was,” We don’t care about anything good.

Kelly was crushed, and he saw that the work he had seized for a long time was very bitter about his art. Kelly had already won 10 Emmy at this stage of his career, specifically for successful performances such as “La Law”, “The Practice” and “Picket Fences” (Which crossed with “X files” once) And “Ally McBeal”. He knew how quality TV appeared and often got a lot of creative space as a result. When CBS told him that “The Crazy Ones” was “well enough”, he took it personally and moved away from the main networks.

After 22 episodes, the classifications were dropped, “The Crazy One” was canceled, and Kelly could wash his hands from everything. Go to other strikes such as “Big Little Lies” and “Big Sky”.

“The Crazy Ones” is currently not available to broadcast on any services, although it can be rented and purchased via Video Video and Appletv. It was not lost, but the series is me. It is an opportunity to see Robin Williams Final TV shows. And 22 episodes of half an hour from Williams do not reject it.