The TV Set

...a well-acted and generally funny comedy...

...show['s] an uncanny attention to detail as he traces the processes by which a writer's pet project is neutered by a network...

...there's a lot more going on in The TV Set than first meets the eye. You'll have major fun at this movie. But what makes it something special is the way Kasdan laces the laughs with a sting.

...the accuracy of his shrewd parody concerning the fate of a sitcom during pilot season is a major strength.

A writer has to endure the agony of seeing his television pilot undergo the fickle process of network notes (translation: when they impose their idiot ideas on you), bad casting and other control-freak tortures.