Grand
Grand
| 18 January 1990 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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  • Reviews
    KnotMissPriceless

    Why so much hype?

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    ReaderKenka

    Let's be realistic.

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    Dorathen

    Better Late Then Never

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    Taraparain

    Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

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    lhuffman_66

    In 1990, my wife had each browsed through the new Fall TV issue of the TVG...and had both independently decided that, based on the cast and storyline, this was a show we wanted to watch. We started with episode one and loved every minute of it...and like so many others on here, were utterly blown away by the network's decision to cancel...an the worse yet, rework it.Bonnie Hunt was wonderful in an already wonderful cast...but John Randolph made this show. His portrayal of the dour millionaire was priceless and the thing that kept the show moving. Yet another show that should have survived.

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    HartfordHammer

    I love shows with great ensemble casts... NewsRadio was my favorite. Cheers and Just Shoot me are great too.I was just reminded of this show for some reason, and I looked it up. I remember loving Michael McKean, Pamela Reed, and Joel Murray. I was shocked to see Bonnie Hunt and Sarah Rue in there! I guess I just hadn't made the connection between them then and now (now that I know who they are).Great show, ruined before it's time. I'd love to see it on DVD. I was a youngun when I watched it, so I don't think I grasped that the Network cancelled it and then made a lame attempt to bring it back. I just thought the 2nd season was stupid for no reason.

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    newarkf1

    I absolutely agree with Riverstone. This was a wonderful show..one I too planned to follow with high hopes. I never knew why it was pulled and I didn't even remember it being reworked...I guess by that point I was so disgusted with the network that I gave up. It was a clever, witty show that could have made T.V. history. Fortunately, most of the actors did end up with successful careers, but this certainly would have been a feather in their caps had it been given a chance. Any chance that the few shows they filmed could be found on tape?All I can remember about the theme was, "If you want to play it, play it Grand"...

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    JamesL-4

    In this case, the "company town" is a town built not around a coal mine or a lumber mill, but around a piano factory.What do I mean by "soap operetta"? Well, just as an operetta is a comedy in somewhat scaled-down opera form, "Grand" was (far more than outright soap opera spoofs like "Soap" or "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman") a comedy in scaled-down soap opera form. Also, like a typical operetta, and unlike a typical soap opera spoof, the humor was gentle, witty, and largely suitable for a family audience.I never even knew there WAS a second season of the show, or that the second season mostly threw out the "soap operetta" format, but what I saw of the series, I thoroughly enjoyed. The characters were the sort of people you actually would want to meet, something sadly lacking in an awful lot of television.And the open used throughout the first season was certainly one of the best sitcom opens ever constructed.

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