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Bill Engvall Show, The
SERIES: TBS, Tuesday 9:00p (30 minutes)

3.1 based on 7 reviews read critic reviews how did we calculate this? based on 29 votes read user comments rate this tv show

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Starring Bill Engvall, Nancy Travis, Steve Hytner, Jennifer Lawrence, Graham Patrick Martin, Skyler Gisondo, and Tim Meadows

Bill Engvall is a family counselor with his own set of problems.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	Bill Engvall Michael Leeson
FIRST AIR DATE:	July 17, 2007

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Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond

The show isn't particularly funny.

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TV Guide Matt Roush

This feels like the kind of show ABC used to churn out in its sleep.

40

Washington Post Tom Shales

There's a sort of comfort that comes from knowing you won't run into anything disruptively unconventional in a sitcom, and that would make Engvall as pleasantly lumpy as a dying couch.

38

New York Daily News David Hinckley

You know a show needs work when its show-stopper is the mime.

30

Variety Brian Lowry

This is decidedly slim and rarely funny fare.

30

The New York Times Ginia Bellafante

There is a sense throughout that Mr. Engvall is betraying his core audience, and the whole blue-collar comedy ethos in particular, trading in one category of cliché for another.

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Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

The wacky situations and jokes on The Bill Engvall Show seem almost willfully dated.

The average user rating for this tv show is 3.1 (out of 10) based on 29 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Brian M gave it a1:
Bill's acting seemnged forced and his costar the wife seems not really interested in acting at all. It seems like a comedian trying to cash in on the fame he archived riding on Foxworthys fame. From a clip show to this disaster.

[Anonymous] gave it an8:
I love this show. Bill Engvall is hilarious.

Wade T. gave it a3:
The Bill Engvall Show is a depressing display of gutless television. Clearly trying to be a generic family sitcom so as to not offend, the show ends up providing nothing of merit. There are moments from the pilot and other episodes I've seen where good actors are asked to do ridiculously embarrassingly lame scenes that lead to every predictable endings. Really, do the producers of this show honestly think they'll attract an audience?

Michael P. gave it a1:
This show took no skills to write. Jokes are not funny, plot is weak, humor is extremely forced, and overall it's boring as all hell. If Bill Engvall gets a show, then surely I deserve one.

[Anonymous] gave it an8:
I love this show. Bill Engvall is hilarious.

Wade T. gave it a3:
The Bill Engvall Show is a depressing display of gutless television. Clearly trying to be a generic family sitcom so as to not offend, the show ends up providing nothing of merit. There are moments from the pilot and other episodes I've seen where good actors are asked to do ridiculously embarrassingly lame scenes that lead to every predictable endings. Really, do the producers of this show honestly think they'll attract an audience?

Michael P. gave it a1:
This show took no skills to write. Jokes are not funny, plot is weak, humor is extremely forced, and overall it's boring as all hell. If Bill Engvall gets a show, then surely I deserve one.

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