Failing Grade for 'Teachers'

I won't sugarcoat this: NBC's new sit-com Teachers is bad. Really bad. Really, really bad. Imagine watching a re-run of Saved By The Bell, adapting it into a show for adults, and updating it for 2006. THAT is Teachers. And it's, well, bad.

Honestly, I'm surprised. I'd expect that the executive producers, who worked on NBC's hits Scrubs and Will and Grace, would have come up with a MUCH better show. I think this show wants to be better. It could have had so much potential, but somewhere along the line someone just flat out screwed it up.

The cast is made up of a bunch of pretty decent actors -- read: not "good" actors -- delivering campy and generally unfunny lines, all the while attempting to get across very watery messages by the end of the half hour. It's a formula that worked...12 years ago. It won't fly now. Teachers doesn't apply itself and needs improvement or else it'll be gone before you can say "Mister Belding."