• Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 21, 2007
  • Season #: 1
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  • Summary: Former WWE and "The Price is Right" model Lauren Jones hopes she doesn't sink while anchoring the news desk in this reality show.
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Reality
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 10
  2. Negative: 6 out of 10
  1. Anchorwoman turns out to be entertaining--even as it indicts the local TV news operation it pretends to value.
  2. Reviewed by: Neely Tucker
    40
    Anchorwoman is the sort of trailer-park television you wouldn't mark your calendar to watch each week, but if you channel-surfed across it, you couldn't help but watch.
  3. Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    Actually, this comedy-reality concept is rather quaint.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 5 out of 7
  1. patrickk
    8
    I think some people unfair with the show. after all it does shows what the news has become lately at least that what i been hearing.
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  2. MichaelS.
    3
    Had a few funny moments but the fundamental premise that her colleagues believe Ms. Jones somehow degrades the profession of journalism while it is ok to have a weather dog does not fly. In some respects, the show puts the correct perspective on what editors have allowed journalism to become. Expand
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  3. DiggemtheFrog
    3
    Anchorwoman's premise -- a former model and game show hostess decides to change careers and try her hand at newscasting -- must have sounded very promising on paper, especially to network executives who can't plan beyond one season, which is all this premise is good for. Well, at least they tried to do something different -- almost. It was worth a shot. You know, the wrong casting director could have cast Paris Hilton and turned this show into the latest season of “The Simple Life.” At least they had the good sense to cast a bimbo who is serious about her efforts – at least ostensibly – and a news team who can act effectively enough to make the drama seem less scripted than it really is. It just wasn’t very funny. I wasn’t really surprised to see it canceled after opening night. I did laugh at least twice. I laughed when Lauren Jones was out in the field (literally) and asked where the bathroom was, and I laughed when she goofed off in a cubicle, not realizing that she was visible on camera. I could see just about any rookie making that mistake their first week. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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