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Tuesday Night Book Club
SERIES: CBS, Tuesday 10:00p (60 minutes)


4.6

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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.

GENRE(S):	Reality (Non-Competitive)
CREATED BY:	Jay Blumenfield Tony Marsh
FIRST AIR DATE:	June 13, 2006

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 Weekly Tom 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]

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

Strangely engrossing.

Chicago Sun-Times Doug 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.

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

Some will find it appalling. Others just may find it appallingly addictive.

Orlando Sentinel Hal 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.

Entertainment Weekly Alynda 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 Reporter Barry 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.

New York Daily News David 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."

New York Post Linda Stasi

A line-for-line ripoff of Bravo's not-terribly successful "The Real Housewives of Orange County."

Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt

Going above and beyond what is miserable about most reality television, "Tuesday Night Book Club" on CBS is a deeply depressing show.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

One of the more awful projects to hit CBS prime time in years.

Variety Brian 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.

Boston Globe Matthew 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.

The average user rating for this tv 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.

Tuesday Night Book Club SERIES: CBS, Tuesday 10:00p (60 minutes)

Tuesday Night Book Club
SERIES: CBS, Tuesday 10:00p (60 minutes)