Bette Midler regrets doing her short-lived 2000 CBS sitcom, 'Bette.' She also wishes she had sued Lindsay Lohan for bailing on the show after doing its pilot.
The way she tells it, Bette Midler’s short-lived sitcom “Bette” was more like a comedy of errors. The singer-actor’s semiautobiographical CBS show premiered in 2000 and was canceled 18 episodes into its 22-episode order. Midler dissected her self-declared “big flop” Tuesday on David Duchovny’s podcast, “Fail Better.” “I did a television show, ‘Bette.’ Does it get any more generic than that?” the “Hocus Pocus” star joked. “A big, big, big mistake.
“Because I was so green,” she said, “I didn’t know that I could have taken charge.” That’s why, when a teenage Lindsay Lohan bailed out on “Bette” after the show’s pilot — despite being under contract — Midler didn’t fight it. “If I had been in my right mind, or if I had known that part of my duties were to stand up and say, ‘This absolutely will not do, I’m going to sue,’ then I would have done that,” Midler said.
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