Themed Thursday Nights Are Back!

If you caught last week's "Super Sized" return of the Office, you saw that Michael was caught wearing a woman's suit. Later on 30 Rock's return Pete is caught wearing Liz's clothing. Just another Thursday night for NBC, where all of the shows enjoy a common theme. Brilliant.

Less than brilliant however was the series premeiere of "Thank God You're Here", a comedy show that is trying something new, at least, in throwing "stars" into scripted scenes without any direction or dialogue and forcing the guests to improvise their way out of tight situations. So many cardinal rules of what make a good improv scene were broken during the show that the result was something controlled and mostly laughless. 4 Problems to be fixed:

1) Better supporting actors. These guys need to roll with the punches and push the guests to heights of improv hilarity. Instead here they just serve set up after set up, offering no real interaction or dialouge with the guests. Boring! Let the scene spiral out of control!

2) FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT NEG! We saw the cheapest crutch in improv history right in the first line of the first sketch of the first show. Monique attempts to name a girl Linda and they shoot her down, telling her that the contestant is actually named Rachel. Sloppy! Who lets that fly on the air?

3) Leave out the set up! We get the premise, we don't need an interview every time the actor goes on stage, just get to it already!

4) BETTER GUESTS. Everyone seems to be washed up in one way or another, whats keeping real stars from trying this out? NBC, sap more SNL people. Universal, get some real stars on stage! Who else thinks Christopher Walken would kick ASS in this?