"The Powers That Be", like almost all of the best shows on TV, was cancelled after a VERY brief run, two seasons. It was thoroughly delightful, and the funniest show I have ever seen on TV, in movies, on stage, or anywhere else.
This show introduced me to David Hyde Pierce.
This is the spoiler: He created a character whose inhibited wimpishness previewed Niles Crane, and was possibly even funnier than Niles.
Senator Powers' fumbling idiocy, his wife's management of her husband and everything else in sight, his mistress' unabashed frankness, his weasly assistant (who suffered, as I recall, from Tourette's Syndrome, are only a few of the sterling items that made this show such a treat. The Senator's bastard daughter was at least as funny as his other daughter, with her anorexic diffidence.
Go -- go now -- run, don't walk -- to http://www.tvshowsondvd.com, and vote for The Powers That Be. Vote early and often.
This show introduced me to David Hyde Pierce.
This is the spoiler: He created a character whose inhibited wimpishness previewed Niles Crane, and was possibly even funnier than Niles.
Senator Powers' fumbling idiocy, his wife's management of her husband and everything else in sight, his mistress' unabashed frankness, his weasly assistant (who suffered, as I recall, from Tourette's Syndrome, are only a few of the sterling items that made this show such a treat. The Senator's bastard daughter was at least as funny as his other daughter, with her anorexic diffidence.
Go -- go now -- run, don't walk -- to http://www.tvshowsondvd.com, and vote for The Powers That Be. Vote early and often.