Anchorwoman

2007
Anchorwoman

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EP1 Good Evening Tyler, I'm Lauren Jones Aug 22, 2007

Former Miss New York Lauren Jones heads for Tyler Texas, to become a hard-hitting anchorwoman for a local TV station.

EP2 Are We Gonna Act All Newsy? Aug 22, 2007

Lauren learns how to read the teleprompter, write he own stories and do man on the street interviews.

EP3 A Happy Newsroom Is a Productive Newsroom... Jan 01, 0001

Lauren Jones continues her quest to become KYTX Channel 19's newest anchor in Tyler, TX. Lauren's first few days on the job have been anything but dull while she learns how to read the TelePrompter, write her own stories and do her "man-on-the-street" interviews & in addition to upsetting Queen Bee Annalisa Petralia.

EP4 Kinda Boy Crazy Jan 01, 0001

During her stay in Tyler, TX, Lauren has been so busy learning how to be an anchor that she hasn't had time for dating. All that changes when Lauren's flirting finally catches the eye of shy-guy KYTX cameraman Andrews and he asks her out on a date, even though News Director Dan Delgado and fellow anchorwoman Annalisa Petralia both disapprove of office relationships.
2.3| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 22 August 2007 Canceled
Producted By: Fox 21
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.fox.com/anchorwoman/
Synopsis

Best known for its kindly manners, rose gardens and antique shops, the city of Tyler, TX, will never be the same once Lauren Jones arrives. The former Miss New York and über-vixen packs up her Versace dresses and heads to Tyler to start a new career. Can this bombshell make it as a serious reporter? Follow the trials and tribulations of the buxom blonde as she sets out to transform herself from swimsuit model to hard-hitting news anchor for KYTX Channel 19.

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pancake_repairman First Episode: Too low-key and monotonous to be very entertaining. There's no plot development, characters are one-dimensional and keep saying the same things over and over, but the show did make me think about how journalistic credibility and integrity are things judged on image, and the news is so focused on image that it forgets that actually has no bearing on it's ability to serve it's purpose which is dissemination of information, and it plays a large part in the pavlovian training of society to focus on image so that the more formal someone is the more seriously they will be taken. Second Episode: Lauren's lack of interest in conforming to these formal standards, setting her as the one person to see through the b.s., becomes more of a focal point and left me wanting to see more episodes.
Gregg This show is about putting a person into a job that she does not have the basic requisite skills to perform properly. In particular, Lauren Jones, a former Miss New York, is assigned to a job as an anchorman at a struggling Texas television station. She has no training with television or production equipment, or with doing news broadcasts.Such a concept may work in a scripted fiction show as there would typically be a reason why the person has to try to sustain the appearance of competence, and there would be humorous situations and dialog built in. However, it does not work with a reality show, as comments and situations as those that make the TV series "The Office" or the movie "Anchorman" amusing would (usually) never be made by real people in real jobs. The idiocy in Anchorwoman is incredibly predictable and not at all entertaining. We all deal with inept people at work, and it is frustrating, not funny. As an analog, how amusing would it be to watch someone technologically illiterate be put in the job of a network administrator where he had to call the boss to bail him out for even basic tasks?This is absolutely the worst show I ever saw. The genre was listed as comedy and reality. Comedy is supposed to be funny and reality is supposed to be riveting; this show was neither. Very quickly I didn't find it entertaining (the initial allure of Lauren Jones' looks wore off rather fast), but since it was the premier episode I decided I would give it a chance and stick with the show for the entire half hour. Unfortunately, when 30 minutes was up, there were no final credits, and a quick info check on the TiVo revealed the show was actually a full hour. I rarely do this, but with Anchorwoman I decided I could not force myself to sit through another 30 minutes. I changed the channel and did not go back, and I never had any qualms about not finding out how the show ended.Fox made a very wise decision to limit its damage and not air a second episode.
Pro Jury ANCHORWOMAN is a reality TV series showing what happens when a small Texas television station wanting to increase its ratings hires Lauren Jones, a stunningly beautiful bikini model, to report the news.People want to know, does ANCHORWOMAN show life as it really is? The answer is YES! Right or wrong, in the first two episodes of ANCHORWOMAN, reality is what we see.ANCHORWOMAN shows the grown-up world as it really is. The males "light up like a Christmas tree" when a stunningly beautiful female is in the room. More energy. More smiles. More laughter. ALL of the heterosexual males act different including the big bosses.If an average looking female enters the room, the big bosses remain glued to their chairs and their facial expressions and energy level are unchanged. Night and day.I have worked at offices with male bosses, average looking female workers and some stunningly attractive female workers and have seen it all a thousand times. ANCHORWOMAN is real life.Average looking females will sometimes come up with some great winning ideas, but they still don't receive a show of personal energy from the male bosses. Worse, the average females see it when a stunning beauty comes in with a smaller accomplishment such as, "I found the missing box of paper clips," and then receive the smiles and personal energy.Stunning supermodels have a slightly privileged, over-confident type personality. We see that too in ANCHORWOMAN -- a show that puts the REAL in reality.
Robert A. Nowotny Last night the Fox Television Network premiered a new scripted/reality hybrid series that asks the question: "Would you trust a bikini model to deliver the news?"Dumb question. Just take a look at this anchorwoman's chest and you will see what "fair" and "balanced" really means.Lauren Jones plays herself as the breathtakingly beautiful and buxom bimbo who is hired by a Tyler, Texas TV station to increase ratings. A former "Barker Beauty" on THE PRICE IS RIGHT and a featured WWE Diva, Ms. Jones is the hottest thing on the boob tube since Pamela Lee Anderson. Guys -- if you are looking for a high-def hard-on, ANCHORWOMAN is the place to be.Virtually the entire cast is comprised of the actual KYTX-TV news staff whose reaction to the hiring of Lauren is mixed at best. This includes, of course, Stormy the Weather Dog whose wardrobe helps deliver the forecast. Stormy and staff are remarkably solid in their on-camera performances and the cinema verite style of Director Mark S. Jacobs adds an air of credibility to the proceedings. During the thirty days of production this broadcast news stunt resulted in six half-hour episodes, with the first two airing back-to-back. You might ask, "What's next?" So far there has been no word whether ANCHORWOMAN will be renewed. If not, I do have a suggestion. How about going one step farther and replacing Greta Van Susteren with Penny Pittman? (See CHATTERBOX, 1977)