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Shatner's Raw Nerve

EMAILPRINTSERIES: Biography, Tuesday 10:00p (30 minutes)

Shatner's Raw Nerve
63
8.5 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 8 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 2 votes
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Show Info

Genre(s): Interview

Created By: Scott Sternberg

First Air Date: December 2, 2008

Summary

Starring William Shatner

Shatner returns to television, this time as a TV host for his new talk show on the Biography channel.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

80

Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron

You might not think of William Shatner as a talk show interviewer but, in his own way, he is surprisingly effective at getting his celebrity subjects to reveal aspects of their lives that are fresh and surprising.

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75

Baltimore SunDavid Zurawik

The interview was fascinating with Shatner bringing [Valerie Bertinelli] back from PR speak with wisecracks.

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75

NewsdayVerne Gay

What's surprising is how serious this show is, and how grounded is its host.

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75

Entertainment WeeklyClark Collis

The result is mildly entertaining but serves as a remainder that, as Dr. McCoy might have put it, Shatner is an actor, not a psychiatrist.

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60

The New York TimesGinia Bellafante

Shatner’s Raw Nerve puts its host’s peculiar brand of intensity on full display.

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50

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

While the smarm of "Entertainment Tonight" can be excruciating, and the reverence of James Lipton can be comic, Shatner's bullying seems out of proportion to the importance of his endeavor.

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40

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

It's your basic celebrity gossip show, in other words, with Shatner adding a layer of Dr. Phil Lite and removing the overt "Gotcha!" from his responses. It's not much more than that, frankly.

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40

VarietyBrian Lowry

Shatner's Raw Nerve, despite the catchy title, proves neither raw nor nervy enough to be consistently interesting.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this show is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

robert pi. gave it a9:
The show is too short for real exploration.

Quinn K. gave it an8:
I am a fan of Shatner, and as his interviews are fairly interesting, they seem to use him as an attraction, yet besides the fact that he is asking questions, you really get none of the actor.

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