Comedy Retreats in ‘Army Show’
From here to (feels like) eternity.
Think of Sgt. Bilko minus humor and Phil Silvers, and you have a new WB sitcom titled “The Army Show.” It’s hard imagining a comedy more unfunny or more banal.
David Anthony Higgins has the Silvers role--a thankless one here--as the flimflamming master sergeant who involves his band of Army nincompoops in one outrageous scam after another, starting Sunday with a scheme to keep open the obscure military base from which they operate a thriving commercial enterprise with the nearby town.
His nemesis is a straight-arrow lieutenant (Craig Anton), his chief ally a flower child of a computer hacker (“These boots are really uncomfortable. Doesn’t the Army make sandals?”), played so gratingly by former MTV veejay John Sencio that you’d love to give him the firing squad. Higgins showed some flair as a regular on ABC’s “Ellen,” but even the gifted Silvers could not have made anything from this cheesy, derivative misfit of a series.
* “The Army Show” premieres at 9:30 p.m. Sunday on WB (Channel 5). The network has rated it TV-PG-L (may be unsuitable for young children, with an advisory for coarse language).
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