Fox Sez Get Lost 'Flatch'

[Mark Jeffries]

"Welcome to Flatch," the Jenny Bicks-Paul Feig Americanization of the Britcom "This Country," has been canned by Fox after two seasons (they waited for the WGA strike to end), although one can wonder, even though everyone says that scheduling doesn't matter in the era of streaming, is the proper lead-in for any kind of sitcom Gordon Ramsay screaming at people for an hour or D-list celebs in masks performing to get approval from a heavily-sweetened audience and overcaffeinated fellow D-listers?:

https://www.thewrap.com/welcome-to-flatch-canceled-fox/

"Flatch" was a one-camera show, but I have the feeling that with a reality show hack programming Fox now, their next multi-cam show will have the studio audience giving standing ovations when every star first enters and lots of staged reaction shots.  (And I suspect that you have tried to avoid the UK version of "Masked Singer," Adam, but as far as you know does the UK version do the same oversweetening and hyper panel as the US version?)

[Kevin M.]

Absent any context, I’ll just assume Flatch was a generic version of name-brand Fletch. 

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[Adam Bowie]

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 8:05 PM Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote:

"Flatch" was a one-camera show, but I have the feeling that with a reality show hack programming Fox now, their next multi-cam show will have the studio audience giving standing ovations when every star first enters and lots of staged reaction shots.  (And I suspect that you have tried to avoid the UK version of "Masked Singer," Adam, but as far as you know does the UK version do the same oversweetening and hyper panel as the US version?)

You would be right in thinking that I basically avoid all versions of The Masked Singer. I think that in the first UK season they had Ken Jeong on the panel, but then the pandemic made that impossible to continue. In any case, from what I saw he floundered a bit because there are lots of UK folk he will be completely unaware of.

From what I've seen it's played for fairly broad laughs, and not massively saccharine. That said, I believe that all the sound is "sweetened" because I read somewhere that only a handful of the studio audience ever sees any of the reveals because they want to keep everything secret, and a few hundred people who scored free tickets for a TV show are unlikely to keep everything entirely off social media between the recording date and the airdate.

Adam