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Well, ABC decided to kill the FUNNY IN FARSI sit-com. I am so sorry and SO disappointed. The pilot was hilarious and had many, many fans at ABC but the decision came down to just one person, the president of ABC and he passed on it.
What I am most sorry about is that this show had writers, actors and supporters of all backgrounds and it was truly laugh-out-loud funny. It would have been a groundbreaking series, believe me. For whatever reason, the president of ABC did not see its value.
The Facebook site for the series had 12,000 fans eagerly waiting for the show. The fans were from all over the world. As admin, I could see where the fans originate. It was a veritable United Nations, humor being the common ground.
I will recuperate from this…it feels like someone hit me over the head with a mallet, and then decide what to do next. ABC owns the script so I’ll have to think of something else. Given time, I trust I will.
Thank you again for all your support. It really does make a difference.
Thanks to all the fans who left comments after my last NPR piece (see the post below), I was asked to record the piece. Of course I had to leave out certain “bad” words in French to appease the FCC and our Puritan ancestors. (The deleted words were merde and ca ca, hardly shocking, I know.) Here is the link. You may have to cut and paste it.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105169655
If you are at the office and want to avoid working, you can always go to www.npr.org, type my name in the search box and listen to all my pieces. I know, it’s not as fun as working on spreadsheets and crunching numbers but think of it as time spent supporting the arts.
Cheers,
Firoozeh
Here is the link to my latest NPR piece. (You have to cut and paste it.) There is no audio. I couldn’t record it because I use a bad word in it…merde. We can thank the Puritans for that!
I hope you enjoy it! I had a lot of fun writing it, as you can probably guess.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105169655&sc=nl&cc=es-20100502