Extremely smart, funny show that is carried on by it's clever and witty characters.The premise of the show may sound like your "Newsradio" ripoff but the truth is that "Just Shoot Me" may be the most clever show of it's kind.The acting is essential part of the show and without the correct cast it wouldn't work at all. David Spade adds the typical SNL humor but with mature characters such as San Giacomo and Malick, the humor has an equilibrium and makes the show be considered as mature, clever, and funny as hell.The script always delivered expectations when talking about funny situations and social criticism.The office situations were never this funny and witty. Please, give this sitcom a chance and witness 90's humor at it's best.

From 1997 to 2003, this brilliant comedy was one of the most highly rated sitcoms on TV. It starred George Segal as the brains behind a woman's fashion and tips magazine called Blush. The creative work team- his daughter writer Maya Gallo (Laura San Giocomo), photographer Elliot DiMauro (Enrico Colantoni) fashion expert and ex-super model Nina Van Horne (Wendy Malick) and secretary Dennis Finch (David Spade). The show was mostly popular because of David Spade who enjoyed the biggest success outside the show in various comedy movies and a stint on Saturday Night Live, in skits where he was usually paired with the now late comedian Chris Farley. The show never had a dull moment.The colorful cast carried most of the show, as the relationships were connected in one way or another. Wealthy billionaire Jack Gallo gave a top writing job to his daughter, the brainy Columbia graduate Maya (this was the pilot episode)..eventually we meet the rest of the characters and we even delve into their personalities and backgrounds. Jack found Elliot working as a street photographer and hired him on the spot, Nina had a very exciting and crazy past, coming from poverty in a farm to big supermodel in the 70's to washed-up super model who despite her age is still "hot" and adventurous, never giving up her pleasure-seeking lifestyle. Shes quite hilarious as a lovable diva. Dennis Finch was once a figure skater but Jack saw potential in him not only as a secretary for Blush, but as a sort of son figure. The electric chemistry between Maya and Elliot was also very cool to watch on TV. They were almost like Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn- so charismatic, so strong, so smart, nearly always at each other's throat but always with a sexual tension in there somewhere. Jack Gallo, who was a sort of Donald Trump parody, had married and divorced several times but is at heart a good father, despite his tough, no-nonsense exterior.My favorite episodes- The Finch that Stole Christmas: Dennis gets his co-workers bad presents as vengeance, Nina's retrospective life story told by a narrator and the rest of the cast, David Hasselhoff as an actor appearing in one of Dennis' low budget films "The Burning House" a cheesy drama, Jack and Maya accidentally kill Denni's cat, Maya's endless unsuitable dates among them a guy who likes to take off his shirt, a guy who compared to her is very dumb (played by Joe Rogan who would later host Fear Factor)..Elliot taking high class hooker to a party and pretending she's a doctor (played by Lucy Lawless better known as Xena), Maya hosts a "Clue" type party in period costume, Nina dating a man who is too attached to his mom, Kathy Lee Gifford as a bitchy romance writer who takes Dennis as a boy toy...so many episodes to count. It was a very funny and well-written comic sitcom. I really wish Blush was a real life magazine. LOL

I found this show rather boring and annoying. I was shocked to find so many fans of the show and even more shocked to find that it ran for six years on NBC. OK, there's the main character, Maya, who is really annoying, boring and self-righteous. Then, everything always gets screwed up and the end is very predictable.I like David Spade, but his character bugs me, he always has sarcastic comments, and not in the good way, in the, "Enough Already!" way.Then there are all the other boring characters. You really have to have high tolerance to watch the LONG 30 minutes of it.

I'm going to first preface this by saying I think David Spade is about as one dimensional and talentless as they come, and I thought his character did little more than suck up valuable air time in this show(although occasionally his ascerbic comments towards the incredibly self absorbed and vapid Nina were funny). I used to watch this show, I think because it came on in between Seinfeld and ER, but I didn't even know it had been cancelled until a few days ago. The best part of this show was probably the earnest Maya and the oversexed commitment phobe Elliott-I remember being very glad when she poured water over his head and kicked him out of her bed and life when he wouldn't marry her. Otherwise, I'm not sure how it went on as long as it did. George Segal was entertaining but predictable as the mogul Jack, and the rest of the cast, save Spade, were reliably entertaining but not a laugh riot or very cleverly written. Good time slots mean a lot, I guess.