The TV Set

The TV Set (2006)

  • 64% of critics liked it
    (76 reviews)

  • 56% of users liked it
    (6,283 ratings)

Writer/director Jake Kasdan's showbiz comedy The TV Set stars David Duchovny as Mike Klein, a television producer who in the beginning of the film successfully sells a network on a story idea. The film follows Klein as he must actually put the show together, navigate the corporate minefield of the… More

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R, 1 hr. 29 min.
Directed By
Jake Kasdan
Written By
Jake Kasdan
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 6, 2007 Wide
On DVD
Sep 25, 2007
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Critic Reviews

  • Dana Stevens, Slate

    The TV Set is a little wonder of a movie, as smart and sad and true as any comedy I've seen this year.

  • Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

    The appalling sausage factory that produces what we see on network TV is nicely skewered in The TV Set, an engaging if not exactly edgy comedy that exists to restate the obvious.

  • Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    A facile but likable send-up of how things (don't) work in Hollywood.

  • Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    This satire settles for simply restating the obvious.

  • Tom Long, Detroit News

    A somewhat cold and calculated film that apparently unconsciously exemplifies that which it intends to criticize.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lorenzo v


    <i>"A place where dreams are canceled"</i> The story of a TV pilot as it goes through the Network TV process of casting, production and finally airing. <center><font size=+2 face="Century… More

  • paul s


    Duchevny is just fine in this role, but Sigorney steals every single scene she's in, getting almost all the laughs in the film. This is well trodden ground, and while it does a reasonable job (recalling the hilarious, short lived, tv show "Action"), I felt that the… More

  • Robert C


    I great idea, great cast, just not very well executed. To those of us who feel like network TV is (for the most part) SHIT...this will seem like a very tame (sometimes ammusing) attempt to point out why network TV is so bad. It could have been done in a much more effective and… More

  • Lanning :


    One bright star each for Ioan Gruffudd and Judy Greer. In an otherwise plodding look at the compromising of principles in the battle for TV network success, these two actors stand a cut above a very mediocre attempt at telling us something we all already know.

  • William D


    [font=Trebuchet MS][size=3]The TV Set was very mediocre, almost frighteningly so. What scared me was that it seems to think that it's a smart critique of dumb television and dumb Americans that watch TV. It seems to look down from its perch at TV.[/size][/font] [font=Trebuchet… More

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