The TV Set
Grade: B+

In the tradition of Hollywood send-ups like The Player, writer/director Jake Kasdan (Orange County) exposes the nitwit television execs who dumb down risky material for fear of low ratings. Though its message is not exactly groundbreaking, the film is consistently funny and it boasts Sigourney Weaver in an exhilaratingly bitchy performance that recalls her Oscar nominated role in Working Girl. David Duchovny stars as writer whose loses creative control of his script for a TV pilot. Justine Bateman, Judy Greer and Philip Baker Hall round out the cast.