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Tuesday Night Book Club
EMAILPRINTSERIES: CBS, Tuesday 10:00p (60 minutes)
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 51 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Reality (Non-Competitive)
Created By:
Jay Blumenfield
Tony Marsh
First Air Date: June 13, 2006
Summary
Real-life suburban housewives get together each week to discuss their personal lives (what, did you think they would actually discuss literature on primetime television?) in this CBS reality show.
Episode Guide & More Info: More about this show at TV.com
Also On The Web: Official Show Site
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...
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
The show isn't all that different from Bravo's recent Real Housewives of Orange County, although the production values are much higher--everything has an expensive, carefully lit feminine gloss that perfectly matches the homemakers. [19 Jun 2006, p.37]
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
"Tuesday Night Book Club" has the effect of making viewers wish to live somewhere less petty and self-destructive than America, or at least the Scottsdale of this show.
Read Full Review >Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Some will find it appalling. Others just may find it appallingly addictive.
Read Full Review >Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
This show isn't diverting enough to be a guilty pleasure, but it has a professional sheen that makes it more like a drama than a reality series.
Read Full Review >Entertainment WeeklyAlynda Wheat
Book club? Please. These Scottsdale, Ariz., women don't read. They whine, they shop, and they obsess over the way they look. [16 Jun 2006, p.71]
Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
"Book Club" is one of those "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" series. You know, the kind that promote themselves as giving unvarnished looks into real-life issues facing women in a variety of situations but that mostly exist to exploit them.
Read Full Review >New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Since these "Book Club" women do not seem inclined either to read or discuss their books, my advice is to follow their example - and neither watch nor discuss "Tuesday Night Book Club."
Read Full Review >New York PostLinda Stasi
A line-for-line ripoff of Bravo's not-terribly successful "The Real Housewives of Orange County."
Read Full Review >Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
Going above and beyond what is miserable about most reality television, "Tuesday Night Book Club" on CBS is a deeply depressing show.
Read Full Review >Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
One of the more awful projects to hit CBS prime time in years.
Read Full Review >VarietyBrian Lowry
This is strictly a cheap knockoff for those who can't survive a summer hiatus from housewives married to, and often equipped with, oversized boobs.
Read Full Review >Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Every moment of this repugnant product is absolutely precious, if you have a fetish for counterfeit emotions, Tupperware cheeks, ice-pick fingernails, and "real women" who can cry on cue -- without spoiling their makeup.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 4.6 (out of 10) based on 51 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Michelle G gave it a9:
We still miss Tuesday Night Bookclub. The show was very addictive and interesting to watch. We were just talking about it again the other day. Loved the newlyweds and the woman with the animals. It was really a good show.
Holly G gave it a10:
Please air this show again! I want to know what happened to everyone!!!
Inez S gave it a9:
Show was not that bad. Better than the crap CBS has put out lately. Each of the women had an interesting situation they were living with...i know a lot of other women could to relate to something in each. Too bad it was canned so fast, it was getting quite interesting
Kristi gave it a0:
Awful.. so glad it's not going to be on anymore. I've lived in Scottsdale almost all my life, and they really gave the place a bad rap. This was the most unrealistic 'reality' show I've ever had the displeasure of watching.
Glenda J gave it a9:
We enjoyed it...much better than the crap that's on replacing it. Hope it returns soon. Very real, very right on.
Melody G gave it a9:
Just found this site. Had to put my 2 cents in even though it's over. Too bad it's been cancelled ~I thought it was pretty good and was quite bummed it went off the air. I hope CBS reschedules it so we can all see how it went for the women. it sure is still getting a lot of chatter for a cancelled show.
A D gave it a10:
I really enjoyed this show. Even though these women are all differnet, I could relate to all of them, and I do believe that it is true, and not scripted! I hope that they will bring it back. If you get past the outside appearances and look at the real issues, you may find that you relate as well.
