The Beautiful Life TV Show Canceled

Life’s No Longer Beautiful: Why “TBL” Got Canceled

Posted by: Catherine Strawn Filed in: entertainment
8:10AM, Tuesday September 29th 2009

It sounded like a good idea for a TV show. It had a celebrity producer. It had a big TV star, and some fairly well-known young actors. “The Beautiful Life: TBL” seemed like it had what it takes to make it, but it didn’t. After airing just two episodes, the CW has canceled the show. Where did they go wrong? After the jump, what “The Beautiful Life” could have done to stay on-air.

What was with the “TBL” in the show’s name? Nicknames can’t be forced, and neither can abbreviations.

A TV show needs attractive stars, of course, but a show should be slightly realistic, too. Real models aren’t as cutesy as the show’s It Girl, played by Sara Paxton. The casting department should have noticed Agyness Deyn‘s quirky look is where it’s at and thought about giving her a cropped ‘do. Or maybe they were saving that for episode 4.

The fashion world is glamorous, but there’s some grittiness, too, and “TBL” is a little too picture-perfect.

Fashion designers use music that hasn’t even been released yet in their shows, so why did they play MGMT’s “Time to Pretend” at the Zac Posen show in the first episode?

There’s (almost) never smiling on real runways.

comments

jyoti
wrote on September 30 2009 @ 07:59 am: [report]

I loved it. I thought it is much better than top model, better than anything on fox right now. It was new and fresh, just as good if not better than Gossip Girl. It was smallville and Gossip Girl combined a nice fresh look. Melrose is the worst show ever and it is still on, entertaining not anywhere close to TBL. I hope they bring it back and keep the love story piece.

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