On The Lot: 3 Directors Voted Off

Perspective from another country but with the same results and opinions. I was geeked for this show: suvivor meets film making...but how can you mess this formula up so much. From the host, to the judges, to the format, to the voting, it was worse than bad, it was dissapointing. And I don´t know watching it from the States, but watching it from Spain as soon as I saw the 6 people in the first row and Carolina was one of them, I knew the foreigners were out... watch out South Africa girl and even Canadian guy, although probably to close to not even realize he´s foreign. But as always in this world, money talks. Better have the people use the phone to make more money, have not very just results, lose some good film makers, keep the bad ones. They could have done so much with this show, and out of all the roads they could have taken... so sad.

There's only two reasons why Adrianna Costa was hired as the hostess. Fortunately they are rather impressive.

No-one has mentioned it yet, but didn't they drop the ball by not showing what happened during the filming of last Thursday's one hour task to film a scene? I was expecting Monday to, at the very least, summarize what happened and show a little judging of the work. But noooooo, they whittled it down to the final 18, killing whatever cliffhanger they had. Also what happened to the blonde host from the first episode? It feels like they are changing the show midstream.

I think I'm finished with this show. There was eighteen minutes worth of content (the short movies) stretched out over three hours! Do we really need to re-cap the judges comments for every single contestant? Please!

They should have stuck with the Apprentice-style format from the first two episodes. I liked watching them work together in groups, acting as the crew when not directing.

I missed last night's results show - I was playing Poker and set my VCR incorrectly (and before anyone mentions it, I can't get a PVR unless I want to spend a lot more than I ever want to to get an HD TV and HD cable box - they don't sell stand alone units like TiVo in Canada) - but I couldn't imagine how they were going to stretch this to an hour. A show like "Dancing With The Stars" can have a wildly successful recap show through the simple expedient of mixing in (usually bad) comedy, professional dance performances, and musical guests but what can you do with this show. I suppose the obvious thing to do is to show behind the scenes material from the making of the shorts, but if it took you 2 hours (with commercials - some of which were better than the short films) to show eighteen 1 minute films, how do you show eighteen "behind the scenes" clips in one hour?

Why didn't they keep the "Apprentice" formula and at least let PROFESSIONALS do the judging?!!? That god-awful "Wack Alley Cab" should have been more than enough to get rid of Kenny, even though he should not have even made to the top 18 after what seemed like sabotage on his first assignment. But like American Idol, when you let the public cast their votes, they'll support the underdog, the one who gets criticized - even if it's justified - the most...can we all say SANJAYA?! Chelsea Handler was competent enough, but maybe she couldn't handle the live stuff. Adrianna must have been the only person available in Hollywood to get the job over the holiday weekend. She's got a grating voice, she shouts all of her lines, and she's just not very good with the contestants (or judges - Carrie Fishy?). Carrie and Garry should march out, saying this isn't what they signed up for because their critiques now mean nothing and can have the opposite effect. They took a show with a promising concept and completely bastardized it into a third rate Idol clone. And why didn't they even tell us what the next challenge is?? I predict that on Monday's show, they'll eliminate 13 more directors and the winner from the final two will be chosen on Tuesday, making June 5th the official end to the summer. If I were Spielberg and Burnett, I'd take my name off this show immediately!

I really want to like this show, but the host is horrible. Surely there is someone in Hollywood just as pretty who can actually speak well.

I can't believe that wacky cab guy and lightbulb girl are still in it.

As for Getta Room - I was with the judges in that I thought it was a funny concept that crossed the line into offensiveness. Or maybe I'm just too old and am looking more for wit than juvenile humor.

I think the reason all 3 foreigners left is obvious, most of the people are staying because of their hometown connections. No one in Italy is going to voting in droves for someone. Whereas someone in Kentucky probably would

i hate the host i swear from the moment i saw her i thought it. and why did the foreigners leave? that to me was offensive just because that wacky cab piece of crap stayed. i mean carolina's wasnt great but the other two? i seriously think people are voting for the worst.

Regarding the hostess again, there was one moment when she read something off the cuecard with the completely wrong inflection, making it totally obvious she was reading a card without knowing what she was saying. It was when she was mentioning the time she gave that one director a hug.

Cute, but godawful as a hostess. Needs replacing, stat.