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Pamela who? Former Austinite worked on just-cancelled ABC show
There’s a familiar, local name amidst the casualties of ABC’s May 18 cancellation of the Christina Applegate vehicle, “Samantha Who.”
Austinites might remember the show’s executive story editor, Pamela Ribon, from distant past work with local comedy ensemble “Monk’s Night Out” and her contributions to the Big Stinkin’ Sketch and Improv Comedy Festival and FronteraFest. In addition to a slew of local and national theatrical events, Ribon (currently residing in Los Angeles) has also worked on the television shows “Hot Properties” and “Mind of Mencia.” She was a charter contributor to “Technopolis,” The American-Statesman’s late, lamented personal technology section.
“Samantha Who” was the highest-rated sitcom to debut during the 2007-2008 television season, but lost several million viewers while changing time slots in its second season and moving from Monday to Thursday nights this spring. Variety claims that the large number of new series ABC picked up this fall made “Samantha” expendable.
“It was a pleasure working with everybody and I’m honored to have been part of such a fine show,” Ribon says. She’s finishing up her third novel — she calls it “kind of an eat, pray, love about roller derby (eat, cry, shove, if you will)” — and looking forward to her next television adventure.
Read more about the self-proclaimed pop culture princess at her Web site.
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By Jennifer
May 22, 2009 8:43 PM | Link to this
I've been reading Ms. Ribon's blog for a long time, since she was writing for TWoP. She is a great talent and I felt bad that the show was canceled.
By Paul Wallen
May 22, 2009 12:45 PM | Link to this
This seemed like a show I would have liked. But between the changing times and the writer's strike, I only saw it a couple times. Too bad, it might have caught on in better circumstances.