"Studio 60" sketch idea: a show nearing cancellation

Not five minutes after receiving notice that the previous blog entry got this comment:

"Studio 60 was just greenlighted for three more scripts, so its not quite dead just yet."

(Which is true, although as the Washington Post's Lisa de Moreas points out, "An order for three more scripts can be a death sentence. ... Don't break out the bubbly on any series just because it got an order for more scripts. By now the networks are announcing that they've ordered "the back nine" episodes on new shows. Ordering more scripts is damning with faint praise.")

... I read this story insisting that, in fact, it is dead. But the writer, Roger Friedman, only cites "insiders," with no actual quotes, includes the caveat that it's "likely" the show will be dumped, and has an obvious axe to grind with the show, noting he dislikes it: "No one cares whether or not the people from the Bartlett White House puts on a comedy show. That's what 'Studio 60' is, essentially: the 'West Wing' annual talent show. There's so much earnestness involved in this endeavour, you start to think that nuclear war will be declared if the 'Studio 60' staff doesn't air some joke—usually one we don't hear anyway."

Ouch. Not that he's wrong, but it sort of sounds like he's trying to drown the show in shallow bathwater singlehandedly.