Cute, but no need to continue on with this farce. The actors on your show (including you) are beautiful, the sets are very pretty, and let's face it; there's no beating Manhattan as the backdrop for anything. All the ingredients for a hit, right?

But...nothing. You got a show about nothing, and I'm not talking Seinfeld nothing. I didn't even last until the first commercial. Aren't you yourself just a little embarrassed by it?

Completely overrated as it was, Sex & the City worked because it was in the right place at the right time, there was a real connection between the women, and there was something about each of their relationships (with men) that somehow resonated.

Your show is like a bad Jackie Susann novel gone bad(der). Start going on auditions again, boy. You're going to be out of work come summer.

don't think he'll need auditions--maybe Vanity Fair or The New Yorker will come calling.

but i agree--the show is like treading water--needs to be on HBO/Showtime to become more interesting.

the only possible thing gained by moving to HBO would be allowance of nudity, I doubt that would add anything at all except mild titillation. Its all about the writing. What they're doing now is the same tired old cliched banter thats been on television for well over a decade. There seems to be only a handful of brilliant writers in Hollywood, the rest are, well, on the same par as old Andrew here.

And not to be overly critical, but Vanity Fair or the New Yorker? I'd say Andrew has a long. long line of waiting ahead of him.

"And not to be overly critical, but Vanity Fair or the New Yorker? I'd say Andrew has a long. long line of waiting ahead of him."

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Agreed. That McCarthy has 10 days of his own acting to critique, amazes me. Even John Hughes couldn't get Andrew to sparkle in St Elmo's Fire.

Okay, Mannequin was mildly entertaining ... over 20 years ago.

(Interesting 'Sex in the City' connection)

"Even John Hughes couldn't get Andrew to sparkle in St Elmo's Fire."

I doubt Hughes could have made anyone 'sparkle' in "St. Elmo's Fire", seeing as how it was directed by Joel Schumacher. Hughes had nothing to do with "St. Elmo's Fire".

I thought Andrew was excellent in "St. Elmo's Fire", and in "Pretty In Pink" (might this be the Hughes film you were groping for?) McCarthy was the highlight of this tv show, and I'll certainly tune in as long as his character remains...

if Andrew has a long, long line ahead of him---yours is going to be much longer. i think he's a good actor that made bad decisions (like many). Less Than Zero was just a terribly written script. The Dorothy Parker film was not a great role, but the movie was very good. St. Elmo's Fire--its kitsch, but well done kitsch --like Hughe's (sp?) Breakfast Club. i think writers are very limited with not just language on non-HBO network/cable, but i think they are limited in all kinds of story lines, material etc. i really can't think of any show on the networks that's any good (maybe "How I met your Mother" for interesting/funny writing). this show is no Six Ft Under or The Wire but it has potential--it just on the wrong channel--and i'm not talking mild titilation--it could be a metrosexual "L Word" with a some work and foresight.

A little sensitive, aren't we? I'm noticing that most of the posts here are like a raving Andrew McCarthy fan club. I just don't see it, thats all.

i get it (ok maybe a little bit)...i am not an actor or related to anyone who is...though, worked in the entertainment arena + do have friends who r so get the deal from a diff lense...i believe from my own experience;(some by design, but most by default)...living with that sense of adventure (trying new experiences out and all) pushes me on that journey of pure sensory living...and for me that's what I picked up reading mccarthy's piece here (a sense of unmasking the really deal of the entertainment world to some extent along w a human taste of just being and taking in that day to day experience from his own perspective..yada). i guess - some of us can relate to that...maybe. best all. :-)

topazz--if it stays the way it is, doesn't hit any kind of stride--then i'll be the first to agree with you.

Well granted he's no Olivier but Andrew does have his charms and admirers.