Talk:The State (TV series)
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Stella is available on iTunes, could hint towards the release of The State on iTunes. We can all wish, can't we.208.252.49.130 20:03, 10 August 2006 (UTC)badfishstan
I pulled the following text from the article on Thomas Lennon, since it was describing details that only pertained to the show, not to the actor. However, it appears that some of those details are not mentioned in this article, so perhaps they should be integrated with it. (Here, the phrase "after graduation" refers to Lennon's graduation from New York University.)
- The group changed their name after graduation while working on a development deal for MTV. The 11-member group has always insisted that the name had no symbolic meaning.
- MTV picked up The State as a series in 1993. Initially, the show was only signed for 6 episodes. While the reviews were negative, the ratings were extremely high, so MTV pursued the show as a series. In 1995, CBS was looking for a show to compete with NBC's Saturday Night Live. The State decided to make the jump to network television. In July 1995, Variety magazine made the announcement that The State was making the jump to CBS. After the low ratings of their Halloween special, their only show on CBS, the series was cancelled and the group disbanded.
Note that the last sentence is inaccurate, according to this article, which claims the show was never cancelled.
Vocaro 10:57, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- I think the problem is this: the State, as a series, never aired on CBS. The Halloween show, although kind of like a pilot, was billed as a special. So the show was dropped by CBS, but it couldn't have been canceled, as it never even saw the light of day. Of course, this is just my logic, and I'm not sure how the Halloween show was billed or what sort of formal relationship it had to the proposed show, and I also don't know what terminology networks use (i.e., dropping a show vs. canceling it), so this is all just speculation.
- Of course, the important rumor to dispel is that MTV canceled "the State on MTV." In my experience, this is (or used to be) widely believed. But, as stated in this article, the State the group decided to leave MTV for CBS. And, as this article is about "the State on MTV" the TV series, it's true that the show was never canceled.
- A thought--should this article be changed to refer to the State (comedy group)? Although mainly about the TV show on MTV, the article contains quite a bit about the State in general. The State (TV show) could be redirected here, too. It would make more sense to put a TV show featuring a comedy group as a subsection of the entry on that comedy group than to put a comedy group as a subsection of the entry on the TV show for which it is best known.
- 72.68.33.194 13:48, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
