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Big Day
SERIES: ABC, Tuesday 9:00p (30 minutes)


7.5

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Starring Marla Sokoloff, Josh Cooke, Wendie Malick, Kurt Fuller, Miriam Shor, Stephen Rannazzisi, and Stephnie Weir

Imagine "24" as a sitcom about a wedding day, and you have the gist of this new serialized romantic comedy.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	Josh Goldsmith Cathy Yuspa
FIRST AIR DATE:	November 28, 2006

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

Husband-and-wife team Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa pack the half-hour with oddball characters, zany circumstances and loads of physical comedy, but it's all grounded in enough reality to be utterly believable and irrepressibly funny.

The New York Times Virginia Heffernan

“Big Day” is marvelously cast, and the actors, especially Wendie Malick, manage, like the cast of “24,” to convey a sense of urgency that almost belongs on the stage.

New York Post Linda Stasi

Normally, this should be as much fun as pulling out your own fingernails, but the cast for the most part makes it tolerable and fun.

Newsday Verne Gay

A harmless and mostly fun little sitcom.

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

The larger problem may be whether there's enough material to cover an entire season.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

A lot of this is pretty funny, but for 24 episodes?

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

"Big Day" doesn't feel like a big hit, but it is intermittently amusing.

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

Whether you'll want to go the distance with "Big Day" will probably rest on how close you feel to the family.

Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm

The show often goes to annoying extremes.

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

"Big Day" just doesn't deliver many big laughs.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

Too often, “Big Day” evokes the unpleasantness of pre-wedding stress, without mining the nuptial process for creative, original laughs.

Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker

Big Day is forced and tiring, although Wendie Malick is a delirious hoot as the bride's pushy mom.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

Despite its formal ambition, "Big Day" is disappointingly ordinary.

People Weekly Tom Gliatto

There are small funny moments along the way. [4 Dec 2006, p.39]

New York Daily News David Hinckley

The question, still open, is whether the writers can pack enough comic caffeine into the next 21 weeks to keep viewers along for the ride.

USA Today Robert Bianco

The show is all structure and no substance.

Washington Post Teresa Wiltz

"Big Day"... doesn't have an original bone in its carefully constructed body, which would be a pardonable offense if it were actually funny. Which, alas, it is not.

Variety

With too many one-note jokes and characters, insufficient barrel laughs and too much controlled chaos, "Big Day" will be lucky if it even makes it to the afternoon let alone a walk down the aisle.

Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn

Big Day has no likable characters. [1 Dec 2006, p.72]

Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman

One of the most puzzling things about TV this year is the mere existence of this catastrophe. It is a huge, huge pile.

TV Guide Matt Roush

Big Day should be retitled "The Longest Day," as it spends an entire season showing us how many dreadfully unfunny complications can spoil a single wedding day.

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

The situations are predictable, the writing is unfunny and the cast is forced to overplay every scene in hopes of generating something resembling a chuckle.

Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart

A stinking pile of unlikely plot twists, brain-dead dialogue and cardboard characters.

Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield

"Big Day" is basically bad community theater with music clearances.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

[A] laugh-free comedy.

The average user rating for this tv show is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

CJ Burkart gave it a10:
This show is the funniest comedy on television currently. It different and very clevery, something that is drastically missing from television these days. If ABC cancels this show, its a disgrace. Give it time. None of my family or friends have even heard of it.

francesca d gave it a10:
Great show!

Bryan C gave it a10:
Awesome! Hilarius. Hope they air the final episode or release it on DVD. Another season would be great too.

aj klarkson gave it a10:
Best show ever

Christie W gave it a10:
I think this show is really funny show with great casting and good writing. I am wondering where did it go? I hope that ABC will let it go the distance and gain viewers with time. Not everything is an overnight hit and takes time to catch on. REmember seinfeld was almost canceled.

Neal S. gave it an8:
Not many good comedies on anymore. This one is clever, unique and at times amusing. No, it is not Seinfield or even Two and a Half Men. But it is not bad.

said b gave it a10:
Its pretty good it just has to go a different way if there is more than one season

Big Day SERIES: ABC, Tuesday 9:00p (30 minutes)

Big Day
SERIES: ABC, Tuesday 9:00p (30 minutes)