"All Things TV"---Mad about view, Reiser's show dumped

Where's Helen Hunt when you need her?

That could be what Paul Reiser's thinking after his self titled show was dumped by NBC after just two episodes.

The former "Mad About You" co-star, with the aforementioned Hunt, was never my cup of tea ... I kind of saw him as a poor man's Jerry Seinfeld ... but he was a proven star who deserved better treatment from NBC.

I only caught the second episode of "The Paul Reiser Show" and it was more bad than good with just a few funny moments.

Still, for fans of his brand of "everyman" comedy the show had a few flickers of laughs and it was better than a "Seinfeld" episode in its first two seasons.

Who can't relate, for instance, to the sound of a screaming/screeching cat keeping you up at night like his TV wife dealt with in episode two?

Thanks to my wife, who loves our "munchkin" to death ... I can certainly relate.

(I love munchkin too, after all... and can't wait to have nice memories of him someday ... there's a joke in there somewhere.)

Reiser deserves credit for still appearing on "The Tonight Show" earlier in the week when he was initially scheduled to promote his comedy ... before it was dubbed a "cat-egorical" failure and axed by the network.

In the end, Reiser has something in common with my cat ...

Both seem very content in retirement and should be left that way.

thanks for reading and tty thurs!