That broad summary defines a lot of sitcoms, especially family sitcoms.
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While more cinematic single-camera sitcoms have become the default for comedies, multi-camera sitcoms have a rich history of handling controversy.
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Women-led shows and sitcoms are no longer the exception — and neither are women-created sitcoms, as both Roseanne and Murphy Brown were.
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And this laser-sharp focus lets it tell plenty of stories that haven't really been the subject of animated sitcoms, or sitcoms period.
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"Stylistically it was influenced by the look of black sitcoms from the early 90s—from Martin to Living Single and UPN sitcoms," he said.
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I've often theorized that all sitcoms, or at least all ensemble sitcoms, are actually set in either purgatory or hell and try to do roughly what Sartre did in No Exit.
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My introduction to the world of sitcoms was The Office.
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There's a reason for all the books, memes, and sitcoms.
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She's been on sitcoms, dramas and, of course, soap operas.
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It's why procedurals and sitcoms are so soothing to some.
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So if you're trying to eat less, stick to sitcoms.
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Sitcoms where ethnic characters appear infrequently and always as punchlines.
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She says such a storyline in black sitcoms is nonexistent.
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"Kevin Can Wait" and the other sitcoms are resolutely apolitical.
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So, how much do you really know about forgotten sitcoms?
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But sitcoms were already undergoing an even more dramatic evolution.
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The tone taken by many other sitcoms was more stilted.
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Sitcoms have cycled through similar sets of storylines for decades.
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You can't just erase the St. Elsewhere of sitcoms like that.
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He also appeared on sitcoms including Will & Grace and Spin City.
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Consume feminist media like The Hunting Ground or sitcoms like Insecure.
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People have been declaring this of sitcoms since, oh, around 1995.
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"The moms are not the stars," Dunn says of most sitcoms.
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It has live studio audience sitcoms about families with cute kids.
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After the trial, he appeared extensively on reality shows and sitcoms.
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I was a huge fan of TV sitcoms in the '80s.
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Like, they were always the butt of the joke in sitcoms.
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I have a place in my heart for classic sitcoms. Cheers.
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Gaynes appeared on hundreds of episodes of sitcoms and TV dramas.
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Every month, this series features a new take on classic sitcoms.
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That a major dramatic actress can start out in silly sitcoms.
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In most sitcoms, this would have been just another goofy mistake.
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This is standard in sitcoms; everything returns to how it was.
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"Those were the beginnings of the classic sitcoms," Romano told Entertainment Tonight.
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You can find free films, documentaries, and sitcoms on The Roku Channel.
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What markets worked for you when you were making your past sitcoms?
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It's a recipe that has worked for Black sitcoms in the past.
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Here are a few of the most influential sitcoms along the way.
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The show Martin is one of the greatest Black sitcoms on television.
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Martin isn't a likely name that most people associate with television sitcoms.
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"I really was completely influent in sitcoms until Murphy Brown," she confessed.
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Sitcoms have played a pivotal role in portraying Black culture on television.
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The feature might be great for sitcoms that deliver fast paced jokes.
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Consider the CBS sitcoms Kevin Can Wait and Man With a Plan.
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I'm talking about that hyperreal grass in American grill advertisements and sitcoms.
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We brought on a guy who does the laugh tracks for sitcoms.
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With sitcoms, the classic episodes would usually have that special guest star.
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It changed the game, raising the bar for all sitcoms to come.
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The actors did brief scenes from various sitcoms they were auditioning for.
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Before "Single Parents" kicks off, two tried-and-true family sitcoms return.
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Here, though, Wanda and Vision are reunited...across sitcoms of different eras?
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You don't remember your favorite half-hour sitcoms because of the plot.
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The sitcoms "Black-ish" and "The Carmichael Show" did cross-generational takes.
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The stakes on Michael Schur's sitcoms just keep getting bigger and bigger.
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If it were one thing, there'd be a lot more long-running sitcoms.
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So, we had submissions of people sending in half-hour multi-cam sitcoms.
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Could these two iconic NBC sitcoms be the next big TV crossover event?
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Murphy Brown and Roseanne were about as different as two sitcoms could be.
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The writers don't shy away from stuff you wouldn't see on other sitcoms.
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Other studies have shown watching character-driven sitcoms can lessen a viewers' prejudice.
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Cheers to the actresses who brought so much Black girl magic to sitcoms.
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Great sitcoms are all about timing, looks, and letting an audience's laughter build.
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All of the series, especially the sitcoms, are full of mistakes and inaccuracies.
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She went on to appear on Broadway and in television sitcoms throughout '90s.
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Quick: Think of some of your favorite movies and sitcoms of all time.
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Any underrated sitcoms that lasted between one and three seasons were fair game.
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He liked his sitcoms broad, with larger-than-life characters and big laughs.
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In the '90s, they're turning SNL characters and old sitcoms into big movies.
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Networks say it's impossible, because sitcoms have to last at least 30 minutes.
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Or is this the future of what we've come to know as sitcoms?
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Ms. Magee considered the showrunners friends, having worked with them on other sitcoms.
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Repetition is the signature of sitcoms, too; it's their curse and their power.
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It was becoming too expensive to produce sitcoms and dramas with ensemble casts.
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The stories are the standard stuff of television dramas, sitcoms and soap operas.
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On its surface, Big Mouth is just like lots of other animated sitcoms.
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Like, think about the presence of musical numbers in so many animated sitcoms.
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While the kids and teenagers of past family sitcoms spent most of their time being lectured to, the youth of today's family sitcoms are strong-willed, independent thinkers who often teach their parents lessons rather than the other way around.
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The Simpsons is rooted in the well-made sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.
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Sometimes, though, good people are uncool, like most of the dads in old sitcoms.
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Yet however good Arthur's donuts are, as sitcoms go, this product is pretty inferior.
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And just wrapped its run as one of TV's most underrated working-class sitcoms?
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Sitcoms tend to lend themselves to years and years and years, for whatever reason.
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As a whole, Black-ish is one of the best family sitcoms out there.
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Unfortunately, I don't think that would fly even on the sitcom-iest of sitcoms.
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BBT is much, much better-balanced than other ostensibly male-centered sitcoms and dramas.
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This makes tape nights a strange bubble for multi-camera sitcoms to exist in.
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I sat up in the chair watching old sitcoms until I was bleary-eyed.
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The latest in gaming technology is best used for exploring apartments from 1990s sitcoms.
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Asian-Americans increasingly play leads and love interests and star in multiple family sitcoms.
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The next time you catch your robot watching sitcoms, don't assume it's slacking off.
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We could have said words that you hear all the time now in sitcoms.
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They saw their worldview reflected not on cable news, but in sitcoms like Roseanne.
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Institutional racism still exists, no matter how many jokes old sitcoms told about it.
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Charlotte Rae, who played Edna Garrett on two hit 1980s sitcoms, died at 92.
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Ultimately, things turn out well for Phoebe, the way they usually do in sitcoms.
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It's riddled with lazy gay jokes, which was standard for sitcoms of its era.
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I've been a child of great sitcoms like "The Golden Girls" and "Martin" and "I Love Lucy" and there's just something super interesting about taking the beautiful doll houses that we know to be multicam sitcoms and kind of burning it down.
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It's really pretty simple: Fresh Off The Boat is telling more interesting stories than most sitcoms because telling the story of an immigrant family from the family's perspective yields stories most other sitcoms just don't — and could never — have in their arsenal.
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They developed a series of family sitcoms that target discrete segments of their overall viewership.
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Atlanta just challenges the tone of half hour comedies and sitcoms and what that means.
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There are actually a number of sitcoms that already did this and still do this.
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That means everything from bubbly network sitcoms to dark HBO dramedies are in the mix.
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Despite their differences, they both significantly contributed to furthering women-led sitcoms as a genre.
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Even with my tolerance for shitty sitcoms, I might not make it the whole season.
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There is rarely any middle ground when it comes to parenting and motherhood on sitcoms.
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Though not an immediate hit, "Seinfeld" became one of the seminal sitcoms of all time.
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Unlike a lot of cable sitcoms, Silicon Valley favors cleverly constructed narratives, with sharp twists.
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In TV shows, especially the long-running sitcoms, the principal setting becomes familiar and recognizable.
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In his eulogy, BoJack muses on the nature of sitcoms as a metaphor for life.
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The current crop of family sitcoms, though, has largely flipped that format on its head.
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The Olsens' venture into the world of ABC Family sitcoms premiered 15 years ago today.
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His interpretation was typical of American sitcoms, but Barney's comments are actually supported by research.
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He can host awards shows, star in sitcoms and films, and even win a Tony.
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Over the decades he appeared in practically every televised genre, from sitcoms to soap operas.
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Mr. Lear said in an interview that his sitcoms had provided inspiration to Mr. Poindexter.
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" But he was also drawn to black sitcoms, which proliferated after the success of "Cosby.
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Or rather, it existed the way most houses on sitcoms do, in your mind's eye.
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I, a little suburban white kid, watched sitcoms about poor black people in the ghetto.
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Standup specials now release regularly and improv is woven into most sitcoms behind the scenes.
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You've both worked on broadcast network sitcoms that I've loved, but one thing that's nice about Netflix is having more time to tell your story, because you get the extra five minutes per episode that sitcoms used to have before losing the time to ads.
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Anyway, if we apply this rubric to sitcoms — an American art form that we sometimes try to pretend isn't an art form — it's a lot harder to find shows that fit, because sitcoms are so dedicated to assuring us that everything will be just fine.
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Her memoir, Hot Pants In Hollywood: Sex, Secrets & Sitcoms, will be available on Amazon this spring.
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TN: Did you ever see kids running upstairs in sitcoms and wonder what that was like?
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The show's co-creator, Michael Schur, has been a producer for a few other beloved sitcoms.
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Sitcoms often boast enviable designs that seem way out of reach for the average weekend warrior.
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By playing into stereotypes, the most skillful multi-camera sitcoms can defuse them, bit by bit.
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"Our relationship never really mirrored the father-son dynamic I envied watching '80s sitcoms," he adds.
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Of the seven listed, only two have starred in network sitcoms — Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
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There still aren't any South Asian-dominant sitcoms on TV—though Priyanka Chopra is developing one.
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Twelfth Night–style costume switcheroos are the bread and butter of Korean sitcoms and historical dramas.
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"Ellen" was one of the first majorly popular sitcoms to feature an openly gay main character.
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But early sitcoms engaged with matters of aspiration and failure, and they were tied to work.
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Many sitcoms now are set in the places their creators know best: soundstages and writers' rooms.
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But the various subplots never really arc, feeling more like stitched-together snippets from '80s sitcoms.
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Sitcoms are categorized as "single-cam" or "multi-cam," which refers to the style of filming.
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Her résumé is full of wickedly funny turns on British sitcoms, including Peep Show and Rev.
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In the '90s, she starred on Seinfeld, one of the most popular sitcoms of all time.
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"Friends" (1994 - 2004) is often regarded as one of the most iconic sitcoms in television history.
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If "Friends" were to come back, it would join a growing number of returning '90s sitcoms.
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He is not confined solely to house party kitchens, mediocre bars, BBC sitcoms, or dating apps.
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That business imperative had aesthetic results: It gave us family sitcoms and comfort-food cop dramas.
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Will we be hiding out in our homes, eating Trader Joe's boxed soup and watching sitcoms?
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His presidency now seems to be on a par with football games, sitcoms and quiz shows.
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And what about sitcoms with canned laugh tracks or a live audience being prompted to chuckle?
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It's a bit like Breaking Bad restructured to be the darkest of sitcoms, and it's wonderful.
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But where sitcoms in the '50s and '60s generally eschewed social messaging, there was a shift toward social realism evident in the sitcoms of the 1970s, part of a broader change in the demands of audiences, who increasingly wanted to see their own experiences represented onscreen.
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Stars from current sitcoms Mike & Molly and The Big Bang Theory will be in attendance as well.
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They're just the things we do our work on, the things we watch half-entertaining sitcoms on.
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"Those were great shows and great sitcoms, but they were mostly just actors on them," he said.
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From comic book adaptations to reboots of beloved sitcoms, we will soon be swimming in magical programming.
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Here is everything you need to know about the finale for one of television's most successful sitcoms.
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It was one of the longest-running sitcoms of the '21987s, running for nine seasons from Aug.
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Flowerchainz Before Family Guy ruined everything with jokes written by manatees, animated sitcoms had flavor, style even.
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Still, he eventually built up the courage to quit his job in order to try crafting sitcoms.
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We also tend to get it in a concise manner, something that can seem impossible in sitcoms.
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Despite her success, Del Prete left Gilmore Girls after two years to do the makeup on sitcoms.
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Turn on any number of sitcoms and one will see sexual objectification is a two way street.
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When back seasons of sitcoms are binged, is it often in the form of a comfort binge.
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His shows don't fit comfortably into the realm of sketch comedy, but they aren't traditional sitcoms, either.
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It recalled the staging of 20th-century sitcoms and the earliest live-theater days of 1950s television.
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All three of CBS's new sitcoms feature a middle-aged white man alienated by the modern world.
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"There are more inventive sitcoms, more visually artful ones," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
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Here, Catastrophe does what few other sitcoms take the time to do: fully humanize its father figure.
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We've rounded up some of the best sitcoms in recent memory that were canceled before their time.
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Then there are three comedies all starring white male actors who have previously been on successful sitcoms.
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And every year around this time, the US networks mostly order single-camera sitcoms without laugh tracks.
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In this case, nostalgia for the way old-school sitcoms were able to reach across partisan lines.
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From sitcoms to dramas, it seems like nearly every TV show has had its own wedding episode.
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Leah Remini is famous for acting roles on sitcoms like The King of Queens and Family Tools.
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Sitcoms as diverse as "All in the Family" and "Seinfeld" trafficked in social transgression and personal embarrassment.
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But podcast listeners still constitute a very different audience than viewers of network sitcoms, with different sensibilities.
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S.I." and its multiple spinoffs, and sitcoms like "How I Met Your Mother" and "Big Bang Theory.
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Like all good '90s sitcoms, the programs that made TGIF a hit weren't all just for fun.
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It's a throwback in the best sense, to an era of mainstream, socially engaged kitchen-sink sitcoms.
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Network sitcoms like "Friends" and "The Big Bang Theory" have long been profit machines for Warner Bros.
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You can watch it as a commentary on TV sitcoms, or on ethical theory, or on religion.
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Blackface still appears in movies and on television, whether on sitcoms, in sketch comedy, or at the Oscars.
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One was "Situation: Comedy" because that was just the start of people not figuring out multi-cam sitcoms.
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These Black sitcoms were racy and youthful in the '90s, an era where wholesomeness and respectability reigned supreme.
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Dozens of deals for TV dramas, sitcoms, films, documentaries, and other programming have been announced in recent months.
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Do we just put her behind laundry baskets and couches all the time like people do on sitcoms?
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It sounds like a Raymond Chandler novel but with less murder and more star turns in NBC sitcoms.
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But after this season of The Handmaid's Tale, I'm tempted to stick to sweet reality shows and sitcoms.
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This year in family sitcoms was bookended by two high school girls coming to terms with their sexuality.
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And it's a characteristic more often associated with dated TV sitcoms than with internet videos: the laugh track.
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Are you walking into a show that maybe you should be running from, and choosing lighter sitcoms instead?
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A crop of black sitcoms from the late 1980s and throughout 1990s cultivated such varied and radiant images.
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We remember the good parts of toxic relationships or dim-witted sitcoms with the same sense of longing.
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There's no end of art installations, sitcoms, dramas, screenplays, first-run movies, that have been inspired by science.
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Divorce and single parenthood are very common in the United States, but not all sitcoms reflect that reality.
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Tina Fey knows that sitcoms get the best laughs when they don't try too hard to be relevant.
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He played a geeky exchange student on one of American's most beloved sitcoms about the bell-bottom era.
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Netflix paid hundreds of millions of dollars for rights to stream beloved sitcoms like "Friends" or "The Office".
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Fox canceled "The Grinder," with Rob Lowe, and "Grandfathered," with John Stamos, two new sitcoms starring TV heavyweights.
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The male protagonists of several new sitcoms are not as belligerent as the male protagonist of the election.
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In the seventies, she did some TV acting, playing a "happy Asian kid" in the background of sitcoms.
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But Dan couldn't be referring to any other network sitcoms about black and Asian families, because none exist.
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You've seen versions of these wisecracking kids in sitcoms for decades, even if their problems have been modernized.
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"The Larry Sanders Show" was one of those sitcoms that you've seen even if you never watched it.
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"A lot of shows, standard sitcoms, we're going to cut to you saying the funny line," Mandel said.
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This decision to leave things unexplained is a choice that most traditional half-hour sitcoms don't lean on.
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Maybe we're gullible or naïve, but that's why standup personas make such good springboards for memoirs or sitcoms.
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Where "Friends" suffered from simplistic and generic storylines, "Seinfeld" remains one of the smartest and most unique sitcoms.
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Or if we binge-watch sitcoms, those accumulated hours of sitting cannot be devoted to any other activity.
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The first episode debuts Thursday, alongside two notable new CBS sitcoms: THE UNICORN, airing at 8:30 p.m.
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It's done it for hokey family sitcoms, for cable news, for weird game shows, for bleak antihero dramas.
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" It will also be the exclusive streaming home for popular sitcoms like "Parks and Recreation" and "The Office.
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The network has bingeable, family-friendly hit sitcoms like "Modern Family," which could be added to the service.
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Those sitcoms, both of which are on Hulu, may just be a little bit too racy for Disney+.
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This is a different matter from a shared pop culture touchstone, such as Top 40 songs or sitcoms.
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But the "mancession" sitcoms (save for, I guess, Work It) weren't really about a decline in men's employment.
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This feels especially groundbreaking when you recall old sitcoms like The Cosby Show in the late 1980s on NBC.
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Laff, a digital network that specializes in reruns of popular sitcoms, has similarly yanked old episodes of the series.
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Readers are, presumably, supposed to respond with shock upon learning that Nazis also bake muffins, own pets, watch sitcoms.
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Helmed by Heathcliff, a gynecologist, and his lawyer wife Claire, they changed the face of Black families on sitcoms.
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Teens shows and sitcoms are often obvious culprits for this stuff, but it's also a hallmark of "prestige TV".
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This is particularly evident in the radio dramas, which are blandly "disturbing" twists on wholesome children's shows and sitcoms.
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That means sitcoms like Friends and Big Bang Theory, and documentaries from CNN, and animation from its Cartoon Network.
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Kaitlyn: Oh my god, what are they doing, like reenacting entire episodes of sitcoms to each other or something?
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Like an opera company facing the improbable popularity of sitcoms they figured the right people would still love opera.
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It only feels a little dated, and unlike so many sitcoms, the quality remains consistent right to the end.
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Many people know Tichina Arnold as the hilarious actress who's starred in sitcoms like Martin and Everybody Hates Chris.
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Some of his other successful sitcoms include Happy Days (1971), Laverne and Shirley (1976) and Mork and Mindy (1978).
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Along with those killer sharks, out the door go British sitcoms, animated superheroes, and a feuding Hansel and Gretel.
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Since ending its run in 2004, many sitcoms have tried to fill the gap left by the six piece.
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Most multi-camera sitcoms are also filmed in front of live studio audiences, who add laughter to the soundtrack.
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Yet, when it comes to female characters on sitcoms, are we still running up against the ol' likability problem?
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Marta Kauffman was one of the creators of "Friends," which was among the last great money-minting multicamera sitcoms.
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Scott Baio, a television actor in 1980s sitcoms, defended a tweet in which he labelled Mrs Clinton a "cunt".
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Cameron Bure, who portrayed eldest Tanner sister D.J. on both sitcoms, shared the important date with her Instagram followers.
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But at the same time we wanted to be really authentic to what those sitcoms looked and felt like.
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Created by Seinfeld and Larry David, it is widely regarded as one of the greatest sitcoms of all time.
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You've focused primarily on sitcoms and indie films in the last several years, so why suddenly turn to theater?
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He showed up on sitcoms and did fast-food ads with his ex-wife Ivana and Grimace from McDonald's.
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The sports coverage has become critical at a time when the audience appetite for dramas and sitcoms has shrunk.
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The best sitcoms are jokey, yes, but full of character truth that sustains the jokes across episodes and seasons.
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The 22 minutes she takes to get the story out amounts to the time most sitcoms last without commercials.
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In an effort to add more diversity to U.S. sitcoms and shows, networks have brought over talent from India.
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It didn't take long for "The Carmichael Show" to set itself apart from the majority of network summer sitcoms.
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Plenty of sitcoms before and since have relied on such a clash of personalities to make the audience chuckle.
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But this is why It's Always Sunny has lasted longer than sitcoms designed to show people growing and thriving.
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The "Leave it to Beaver" comfort zone that sitcoms traditionally occupied has given way to greater multiculturalism and nuance.
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Watch: Three returning sitcoms depict New York life in the era of gentrification, student-loan debt and gig work.
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After all, very, very few of us will ever be the stars of terrible sitcoms we hate being in.
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From a structural standpoint for sitcoms where there's an audience there, you want to make it like a little play.
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He began acting in '80s sitcoms M*A*S*H and Diff'rent Strokes before landing his own HBO comedy specials.
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How many other animated sitcoms would mash up the plots of Working Girl and Die Hard for a school musical?
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It wasn't just television sitcoms that made women worry that maybe we should be husband-hunting instead of job-hunting.
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Most notably, the service will be the exclusive home of "Friends," one of the most popular sitcoms in TV history.
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Don't let the laugh track fool you: One Day at a Time is one of the best sitcoms on television.
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Notably, network sitcoms in particular generally come at these story lines from a middle-class or upper-middle-class perspective.
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New sitcoms tackle current affairs with increased daring, while some older ones, such as "Betoch" ("Families"), are tentatively following suit.
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And yet Seinfeld stands as a testament to how good multi-camera sitcoms can be when they're at their best.
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Like most musical numbers in sitcoms, it's a little random and doesn't really have anything to do with the plot.
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Of course, this is still the same network that gives us Broad City and Another Period, both female-led sitcoms.
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Many family sitcoms embrace the tropes they're expected to embrace: uptight mom, cool guy dad, brainy son, ruthless teen girl.
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She even thinks white parents who got entangled in Operation Varsity Blues may have taken their cue from white sitcoms.
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Now, obviously, Amy and Jonah are going to end up together at some point because that's how TV sitcoms work.
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It was watered down by network and studio notes to the point of being like dozens of other bland sitcoms.
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The two hit sitcoms were the streaming giant's most popular shows last year, according to data from analytics company, Jumpshot.
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With the help of sitcoms and literature, he picked up on the language and began to speak and write fluently.
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But his groundbreaking sitcoms, especially "The Larry Sanders Show," elevated the shtick into something both more grandiose and more human.
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NBC supersized its popular Thursday night sitcoms in the early aughts; Fox inflated "American Idol" like a Macy's parade balloon.
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In that vein, Downward Dog is set and shot in Pittsburgh, and stands out among some of ABC's splashier sitcoms.
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Every night, I fall asleep to similar NBC sitcoms of the mid-2000s, whose jokes I could quote in dreams.
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This year the bloodletting included beloved sitcoms and high-concept dramas, and the networks weren't the only ones axing shows.
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But when he jumped to sitcoms on the WB and NBC, with predominantly white writing staffs, he hit a wall.
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Il trouve refuge dans les films d'Hollywood, comme Titanic et Madame Doubtfire, et dans les psychodrames des sitcoms américaines kitsch.
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Despite initially being told they didn't have a track record in designing sitcoms, they landed a job on the pilot.
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On the 25th anniversary of one of America's most influential sitcoms, here's a look back at what the gang sang.
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FX wasn't counting daytime TV or shows for kids or specials — just regularly scheduled dramas and sitcoms and the like.
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Mr. Whitehall is a star comic in Britain, touring arenas and starring in a slew of sitcoms and talk shows.
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We get bickering sidekicks David Walton and Liza Lapira, who have a dozen failed sitcoms between the two of them.
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While this might sound like heavy stuff for a primetime show on FOX, sitcoms have smuggled in radical ideas before.
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"Horace and Pete" is like a dark take on Norman Lear's sitcoms of the early '70s (if with far more profanity).
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Following a path paved by Norman Lear's "All in the Family," television sitcoms have historically addressed a range of social issues.
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" He composed the theme songs for the game show "Wheel of Fortune" and sitcoms "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts Of Life.
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For example, "The Big Bang Theory," one of TV's most popular sitcoms, nabbed 18 million viewers for its finale this week.
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They certainly weren't in the 25s, when movies like Mr. Mom and sitcoms like Full House played male domesticity for laughs.
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She played Zsa Zsa on EastEnders before taking roles in a string of British sitcoms including Pramface, Badults, and Beaver Falls.
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In his caption Pratt also referenced the comedic characters the two played on their beloved NBC sitcoms with the hashtag #AndyandJim.
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As Snopes reports, no fewer than two OG sitcoms, Cheers and 3rd Rock from the Sun, based episodes on the scenario.
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"Friends" premiered in 1994 and quickly became one of the most popular sitcoms on TV throughout the late 90s and noughties.
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is one of those rare '90s sitcoms whose stars were just beginning to grow brighter.
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You know, that one that is woefully dated and — like many other sitcoms from that era — is pretty problematic in hindsight?
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One of the silliest sitcoms (and perhaps one of the last worth watching) on network television, is NBC's Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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If there were NHL awards for animated sitcoms, The Simpsons would have won the Art Ross Trophy for 10 straight seasons.
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She's appeared in most of the greatest sitcoms of the last two decades, and she has written some of them, too.
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Trump and Trump-like characters pop up on sitcoms and dramas all the time -- a big change from the Obama years.
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She's been acting her way into the canon of TV sitcoms, but only she and husband Hayden Christensen know about it.
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Which is to say, in a lot of shows, standard sitcoms, we're going to cut to you saying the funny line.
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On sitcoms and in movies, a symbol of wealth, ruthlessness and New York City Mr. Trump has almost always played himself.
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For starters, it's a multi-camera sitcom — meaning it's filmed before a live studio audience — and I love multi-camera sitcoms.
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Like many multi-camera sitcoms in the early going, Abby's will need to grow a bit to become its best self.
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Her talent for deadpan comedy didn't go unnoticed, and Colman began to pick up bigger roles, mostly in sitcoms and comedies.
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Over the past decade she's shepherded two beloved and acclaimed sitcoms, "Pulling" and "Catastrophe," and signed a deal with Amazon Studios.
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Lear is known for producing the '70s sitcoms All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and Maude — groundbreaking television for their time.
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ABC's sitcoms might be a better choice for the whole family than, say, Ramy, but everyone of course has different standards.
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While the TV renaissance has radically changed the mix — hello, superheroes, political soaps, brittle sitcoms — the crime drama hasn't gone away.
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With few exceptions (like ABC's "The Middle"), sitcoms moved into offices, cafes and living rooms populated by comfortably white-collar characters.
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Throughout 12 seasons, Big Bang Theory became one of the networks highest-rated shows — and one of television's most successful sitcoms.
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What's more, The Carmichael Show's plots revolve around politics and social issues of the day, something fewer and fewer sitcoms do.
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I was seeking "The One" — a chill, non-smoking roommate suitable for cohabitation and watching sitcoms over a shared bottle of wine.
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Throughout these years, Middleditch, Miller, and Nanjiani faced significant setbacks: There were unconsummated pilot deals, canceled sitcoms, apathetic or downright antagonistic crowds.
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While Roseanne's original run was indeed groundbreaking, in the years since, countless politically and socially relevant sitcoms have followed in its footsteps.
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Traditionally, on sitcoms like A Different World and Family Matters and especially now on modern interpretations like Blackish, it would have been.
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For most other sitcoms, a surprise pregnancy might make us wary, but we have a feeling Black-ish can pull it off.
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The shows will join many more beloved '90s sitcoms that live on Hulu, including Full House, Will and Grace, Seinfeld, and more.
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Fair enough: The show is written in the happily obvious way of old-school family sitcoms and performed in the same spirit.
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Second, The Carmichael Show is one of two current network sitcoms with a predominantly black cast (the other being ABC's Black-ish).
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If your ultimate holiday wish was for your favorite long-gone sitcoms to churn out new episodes, NBC could make it happen.
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There's one thing that the show did better than all of the other coming-of-age sitcoms of its time: musical numbers.
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Of course, sitcoms are also governed by stereotypes — by the idea that humor often derives from the broadest possible version of something.
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It's in ensemble sitcoms like Arrested Development, after all, that the Russos mastered the art of juggling colorful characters with interlocking storylines.
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For more than 40 years, whenever TV sitcoms have wanted a trusted director, the person they turn to most often is Burrows.
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Today, the best family sitcoms build on that tradition and find a way to make even stock clichés feel like real people.
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"One Day at a Time" was a departure from many of the family sitcoms that had populated American television since the 1950s.
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The Hollywood legend made a name for himself in the 220s creating such iconic TV sitcoms as Happy Days and Mork & Mindy.
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There isn't a long history of successful live-action sitcoms with supernatural settings (even "Bewitched" took place on our plane of existence).
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Both shows were critical disasters and each lasted only one season — as many of the worst reality shows, dramas, and sitcoms have.
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They managed to pull it off by quickly creating a whole color model 'for the first time in the history of sitcoms.'
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Her father Thomas Markle was a lighting director for TV soaps and sitcoms and her mother Doria Ragland was a clinical therapist.
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There were auditions for lots of Jack Black-type roles on sitcoms, at least until he quit drinking and got in shape.
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Plenty of episodes in HIMYM's nine-season run dealt with relationship issues that other sitcoms haven't addressed, at least not as well.
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Yes, as on most sitcoms, these types of characters endlessly insult each other, and the audience drones with laughter after each zinger.
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To imagine where his father was living, Alex watched American sitcoms and a reality-TV show about a family running a pawnshop.
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In its own way, Duck Dynasty was an (inferior) update of prior rural sitcoms like The Andy Griffith Show or Green Acres.
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Netflix has started production on cartoons, children's sitcoms and animated movies, to add to its already giant library of original children's content.
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That same fall, "New Girl" debuted to more than 10 million viewers, chasing off long-held Hollywood doubts about actresses carrying sitcoms.
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And if you are old enough to remember sitcoms from the 1960s, don't expect a trap door in the floor to open.
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ABC's night of sitcoms wraps up at 9:30 with "The Real O'Neals" and some self-doubt from Eileen, the family's matriarch.
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The best way I can describe his shows is that they subscribe to the tenets of magic realism and traditional sitcoms equally.
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Why were sitcoms at this time so obsessed with a form of birth control that had been vanishing from use since the 1960s?
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In everything from sitcoms to action movies, the role of the leader of the free world has been filled by women for years.
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From children's programming to documentaries, sitcoms and blockbusters, the comfort of your couch may be more tempting than any kickoff to summer sunshine.
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Judd Hirsch taxis his way back to sitcoms as Arthur, the proprietor of the donut shop, grousing about his increasingly gentrified Chicago neighborhood.
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The success of Christian films at the box office, and Trump-country pandering sitcoms like Roseanne, proves there's a significant market out there.
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If sitcoms offered some of the highest-profile characters, many of the boldest early depictions occurred in made-for-TV movies and miniseries.
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But I do continue to marvel that there are still, like, sitcoms like this in which no one is trying hard at all.
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What's more, Loudmouthed white guys threatened by change aren't unusual TV protagonists, either for comedies set in the '70s or for animated sitcoms.
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Usually free from politics and social commentary, the results are about as frictionless as the many laugh-tracked sitcoms he helped to inspire.
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And I think it's why most sitcoms tend to look the same and feel the same and, you know, they're lit the same.
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The cliffhanger in traditional television, especially in sitcoms, has somewhat disappeared, given the syndication cycle and the way they resell these shows afterwards.
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All television, including zany network sitcoms, can only really work if you care about the characters and their relationships deep in your bones.
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The setup sounds like sitcom material, but Jenkins infuses Rachel and Richard's arguments and interactions with more depth than most sitcoms ever capture.
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Cho, who was the star of All-American Girl, one of the few sitcoms about an Asian American family, is one of them.
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The arc of women-led sitcoms splays out from Lucy Ricardo in an apron to Abbi and Ilana high, running around New York.
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BREAKFAST BROWSE NBC ya later You may not be able to stream "The Office" and other fave sitcoms on Netflix for much longer.
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The series, which chronicled the adventures of the two Milwaukee brewery workers, is now one of the most beloved sitcoms in TV history.
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Most sitcoms are at risk of eventually getting lodged in a permanent stasis, in which time doesn't move forward and nothing ever changes.
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There are hundreds of family sitcoms out there, but with empathetic (and very funny) characters at its heart, Speechless is already a standout.
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Both are hoping to anchor new ABC family sitcoms, remind viewers of their skills, and tell different, ostensibly more mature kinds of stories.
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The series was widely praised for tackling heavy topics not typically seen in family sitcoms, like PTSD, depression, sexuality, drug addiction and religion.
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Mr. Daniel directed episodes of sitcoms like "Newhart" and "WKRP in Cincinnati" before making his feature film debut with "Teen Wolf" in 1985.
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It's been 25 years since "Friends" first hit television screens, yet the show still remains one of the most popular sitcoms in history.
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They all are adored by Golden Globe winner Tracee Ellis Ross, who you know from sitcoms black-ish and early 2000's Girlfriends.
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Before "Roc," which ran on Fox for only three seasons, from 1991 to 1994, "sad" was rarely a word I associated with sitcoms.
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The best example: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, the adorable and adorkable twins from '90s sitcoms Full House and Two of a Kind.
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There are so many bad examples of multicam sitcoms and I get why people's image of it is a bit distorted or negative.
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Wanda Sykes may be best known for her work in TV sitcoms, but her stand-up comedy skills make her an elite performer.
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If it does continue under new direction, it risks losing the socially conscious tone that has set it apart from other family sitcoms.
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We were raised on an unending deluge of American entertainment: music, film, fashion, sitcoms, reality TV, video games, toys, and, most importantly, cartoons.
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Harper returned to sitcoms in the mid-1980s with a self-titled show, "Valerie," which cast her as a mother raising her children.
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ODAAT's tone is reminiscent with current sitcoms like Blackish and Fresh off the Boat but pushes out a fresh narrative through its characters.
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There are surface changes to real women's lives, too, less essential, but still meaningful, which is something modern sitcoms are starting to get.
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It has single-handedly made a case for preserving the cold open in sitcoms and elevated it from weekly gag to high art.
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The comedian also discussed his early days in comedy, why sitcoms today are so bad, and the funniest thing a comedian can wear.
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Whereas before it was like really overly scripted because the beginning era of was coming off all of these years of sitcoms, right?
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The sitcoms weren't officially social experiments, but they were light advertisements for the civilizing (and alienating) benefits of white wealth on black life.
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That makes it easier for them to find common ground at the end of every episode, as the laws of family sitcoms dictate.
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TV, which has profited handsomely from selling reruns of the shows to syndication -- another milestone few current and future sitcoms are likely to repeat.
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Writers can choose from more than 100 templates, covering a wide array of entertainment media — from playwriting to scripting sitcoms to writing graphic novels.
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Television, for so long, was primarily thought of as a home to soaps, sitcoms, and reality shows that get written off as silly escapism.
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But for all of it's modern touches, Marlon is entertaining in the same way that some of my favorite sitcoms of the '21999s were.
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But it also offers extra on-demand content, such as TBS on demand, which includes re-runs of sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory.
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Two of the most influential women-led sitcoms of the '80s and '90s will be back on the air – and back in conversation — again.
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The debut of the The Cosby Show in 290, of course, was what eventually sparked a plethora of Black family sitcoms in the 1990s.
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Latifah has appeared in hit sitcoms, blockbuster films, and hosted her own talk show, after starting off as an emcee in then late '80s.
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I hadn't given this gadget much thought before: In my mind, Roombas were funny novelties that made an appearance in cat memes and sitcoms.
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Living Single was one of the most popular black sitcoms in history, telling the story of six besties in Brooklyn exploring life and relationships.
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In addition to Fresh Prince, sitcoms like Family Matters and My Wife & Kids casually replaced dark-skinned Black actresses, casting those with lighter skin.
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Lately, the genre has been somewhat forgotten: Multi-camera sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory command reliably enormous audiences, but almost no critical attention.
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Netflix, in contrast, is investing in the kinds of programs that you see all the time on traditional television: sitcoms, police procedurals, talk shows.
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Netflix has ramped up production of cartoons, children's sitcoms and animated movies, in part to compensate for Disney content that is leaving the service.
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The change now feels like both a socioeconomic triumph and a creative capitulation: The show was just following where other sitcoms were already headed.
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Right now, it's hard for TV viewers not to see duplicates of civic turmoil everywhere, in satire and melodrama, in sitcoms and superhero fantasies.
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The biggest problem with the sitcoms is the contradictions between the principal set — usually the living room and the kitchen — and the secondary set.
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Her commitment was likely reaffirmed in May after the success of Jimmy Kimmel's live staging of two classic Norman Lear sitcoms on the network.
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That feeling stems, I believe, from the simple fact that multi-camera sitcoms, even at their best, are typically built around very broad stereotypes.
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As a child, when I heard jokes and watched sitcoms, I considered comedy to be a wonderful, ineffable mystery — like sex, or the Trinity.
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The squabbling Maggie and Jacob have been accoutered with those bright, jumbo-size neuroses and eccentricities that are often found in dysfunctional-family sitcoms.
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Network schedules established sitcoms at 30 minutes, with commercials; dramas — with early exceptions like most seasons of "The Twilight Zone" — settled in at 60.
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The premise seems far-fetched, if not bizarre, but fantastical sitcoms like "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Bewitched" became popular around the same time.
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But if you just watched the talk shows and sitcoms that he appeared on, he still had his flash, his respect and his props.
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It was one of the most popular and beloved sitcoms in TV history and has gained a new life from streaming on Netflix (NFLX).
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The show was created by Greg Garcia, whose previous credits include "My Name Is Earl" and "Raising Hope," so he knows something about sitcoms.
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As hit sitcoms like "Friends" and "The Office" leave Netflix for upcoming competitors HBO Max and Peacock, respectively, "Seinfeld" will be a valuable property.
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"Seinfeld," one of the most popular sitcoms in TV history, is heading to Netflix (NFLX) starting in 2021, the streaming company announced on Monday.
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In recent years, Netflix has invested in and tried to conquer every genre, including children's programming, documentaries, stand-up specials, sitcoms and period dramas.
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The show explored romantic and platonic life in and out of a Brooklyn brownstone, setting a template for "Friends" and many other ensuing sitcoms.
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But though Fogelman has dabbled in sci-fi and fantasy, it was only for his (genuinely very funny) ABC sitcoms The Neighbors and Galavant.
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In sitcoms and TV dramas — or at least those not aimed at preadolescents — children are typically presented as obnoxiously precocious, whiny, and self-absorbed.
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Though he is not a household name, he has enjoyed an estimable success with sitcoms that were long-lasting audience pleasers if not critical smashes.
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The internet's love for '90s sitcoms runs deep, especially when said sitcom features child actors that managed to grow up without turning into complete trash.
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With a surprisingly deep ensemble cast and a willingness to talk about issues other sitcoms get squeamish about, Superstore is one of TV's best comedies.
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It was one of the longest-running sitcoms of the decade, airing from 1979-88, and by its third season became NBC's No. 1 comedy.
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Unlike animated sitcoms that tend to reset characters at the end of each episode, characters in The Dragon Prince suffer physical injuries and emotional pain.
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" McLaughlin made cameo appearances on the sitcoms "Cheers" and "Murphy Brown" and in several politics-related movies, including 1993's "Dave" and 1998's "Bulworth.
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Echo devices also pair up with the Fire TV Stick for seamless hands-free control when you watch films, sitcoms, and more on your HDTV.
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From procedural dramas like Criminal Minds and prestige hourlongs like Billions to animated sitcoms Bob's Burgers and The Simpsons, their booming tunes found a home.
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You&aposre depriving this generation of their characters, their stories by trying to squeeze them into these old wineskins or old sitcoms in this case.
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Employed to resolve spats within Laurel and Hardy, Blazing Saddles, The Great Race, and countless TV sitcoms, pie fights are the pinnacle of slapstick comedy.
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Exhibit A: "The Big Bang Theory," a show by, for, and about nerds, is one of the highest-rated and longest-running television sitcoms ever.
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Likewise, shorter flashbacks work for sitcoms — they provide background context for specific events in a character's life, but they're not the focus of the storyline.
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The series marks Aniston and Carell's respective returns to TV since the wraps of their massively successful, respective sitcoms for NBC, Friends and The Office.
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At a time when sitcoms were fairly straightforward three-camera affairs about families and workplaces, "Shandling's Show" made no bones about being a fictional construct.
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The result is that more and more multi-camera sitcoms have been marooned on their own nights in the weird hinterlands of their networks' schedules.
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Sitcoms, of course, occupy their own place in TV land, since shows like Superstore and Brooklyn Nine-Nine can essentially be viewed out of order.
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Debuting three years later, "The Big Bang Theory" stepped up to the plate and has become one of the most popular sitcoms currently on air.
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" In fact, it was one of the legendary television director's other sitcoms that initially inspired Schwimmer to pursue acting: "It was the cast of Taxi.
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Singing your own theme song was common enough in TV sitcoms: From All in the Family, to Frasier, to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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If you are an ad buyer and haven't sponsored a Snapchat series yet, you might as well keep wasting your money on "popular" CBS sitcoms.
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When multi-camera sitcoms push for these serious moments, they can feel like so-called Very Special Episodes because of the important issues they address.
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Brewis said he chose Mermaids specifically to "spite" comedy writer Graham Linehan, who worked on British sitcoms Father Ted, Black Books and The It Crowd.
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A recognizable star, clear and not very complex characters, well-turned jokes delivered at a brisk pace: Plenty of sitcoms have succeeded with those ingredients.
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Most modern sitcoms are constructed of an A-story, which takes up the bulk of the action, and then a B-story and C-story.
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One of the best family sitcoms on TV will be back with a new family member, as the Johnsons welcome baby DeVante into the mix.
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She had roles in three of Mr. Foxx's NBC sitcoms: "Sanford and Son" in 19963 and 1974, "Grady" in 1976, and "Sanford Arms" in 1977.
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The accusations against Franklin might be the most galling example of inappropriate conduct behind the scenes of his sitcoms, but they're not the only one.
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Once a sought-after acting coach to the stars, he now makes his living teaching Hollywood wannabes how to audition for sitcoms and shampoo commercials.
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This includes perhaps the greatest of all sitcoms, "Cheers," which also happens to be the series against which all other bar comedies will be measured.
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It is a notable TV milestone for such a physically intense, tightly serialized narrative; typically, it is formulaic sitcoms and procedurals that achieve such longevity.
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All three shows are parodies of live-action sitcoms, but "Rick and Morty" overturns the genre while "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy" simply subvert it.
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Those two actors were introduced to America as men of average musculature through office sitcoms; they are now covered in all kind of inflated 'ceps.
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It's done it for hokey family sitcoms, for cable news, for weird game shows, for bleak antihero dramas — and now for the prestige finale rollout.
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In 210, The Addams Family began as an illustrated cartoon series, but it has since spawned several iterations of movies, TV sitcoms, and animated series.
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Trix Worrell, a creator of British sitcoms, was a classmate, and remembers that, although Hogg had strong opinions, she was discreet in making them known.
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ABC's shows have a rich tradition of going all out for Halloween, though usually, it's the sitcoms that have the best costumes and hilarious plots.
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Then he landed the lead in "Fresh Off the Boat" and recommended Wong for a job, even though she had no experience writing for sitcoms.
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The finest sitcoms are self-imprisoned within a few rooms, and "Absolutely Fabulous," on the small screen, was at its happiest in Eddy's basement kitchen.
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As for non-original content, Hulu recently added a slew of hugely popular sitcoms, like How I Met Your Mother, M*A*S*H, and Glee.
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Around the same time, sitcoms began to devote single-episode story lines to mature subjects and themes, such as racism, alcoholism, abortion, anti-Semitism, and homosexuality.
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Before sitcoms like All in the Family, Barney Miller, and Maude hit the airwaves, gay viewers had to settle for shows exhibiting a certain 'gay appeal.
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Known for his work directing cartoon shows like The Smurfs and sitcoms like Mad About You (which starred Helen), Hunt was a true Hollywood renaissance man.
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According to sitcoms and mainstream societal expectations, this is the time in our lives when we're supposed to stop "adulting" and start being plain old adults.
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Either could be an episode in one of those interchangeable Nickelodeon and Disney Channel sitcoms about high schoolers, which are full of mild messages quickly forgotten.
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is among the funniest sitcoms of the past decade, and the show's sensibilities should translate pretty well to the new setting.
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From roughly its third season onward, The Big Bang Theory has been one of the premiere "hangout" sitcoms of its era, like Friends in its heyday.
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Please, Aniston, I beg of you: Get us excited for your new show, and let us enjoy just the memories of NBC sitcoms gone by fondly.
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"The Facts of Life," a spinoff of "Diff'rent Strokes ," aired on NBC from 1979-88, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms of the decade.
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The Hail Mary that started the conference off and the grace before lunch were tense; my only experience of saying grace was from watching American sitcoms.
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Some people propose at concerts, others propose like their favorite sitcoms, and others do it on stage during a theater performance of Beauty and the Beast.
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Single-camera sitcoms are filmed more like miniature movies; most scenes are short, and many shows will leave their soundstages to film out in the world.
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Drama and comedy mix elegantly on Mom, just as they did on great 1970s sitcoms like All in the Family or The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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Years after their breakthrough sitcoms, Fischer and Braff now get to star as parents struggling to adjust to huge changes in their previously picture-perfect lives.
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Most remember that 1990s sitcoms such as Seinfeld had answering machines as part of the plot so they think it was in the 1970s or 1980s.
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In sitcoms, there were few alternatives to such Tyler Perry confections as "House of Payne" and "For Better or Worse"—shotgun marriages of slapstick and melodrama.
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While Elena is perhaps the best example of how family sitcoms improved treatment of their young characters, it's also on display on plenty of other shows.
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Although her favorite sitcoms presented the US as idyllic and family-oriented, her favorite show taught her the exact opposite could just as easily be true.
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Before Friday nights meant going out, they meant staying in and hoping that maybe your parents would let you enjoy some Bagel Bites with your sitcoms.
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As a kid, there were the sitcoms on the major networks, and if that wasn't your cup of tea, you really had to seek it out.
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Second, is "weird Japan," brought to life by the are countless, recycled jokes about tentacle porn and used panties on TV sitcoms and during podcast banter.
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Occasionally you can catch a glimpse of such issues, though more often on family sitcoms (like "black-ish" or "The Middle") than in overtly political narratives.
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A husband and wife with kids goes back to the roots of sitcoms on the radio, but this show is presented in such a modern style.
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Sunnier sitcoms like "Parks and Recreation," from "The Good Place" creator Mike Schur, dealt with characters who were already decent, not striving to become that way.
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Follow Cory, Topanga, Shawn, and Eric as they graduate from middle school to high school to college in one of the most spectacular sitcoms ever created.
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Surely you've already been warned about the dangers of relying on streamable TV sitcoms to fall asleep, but now, you have the blue light to blame.
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But that ubiquity has been self-perpetuating and kept him working consistently in films, sitcoms and, more recently, several made-for-Netflix movies, often alongside Sandler.
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Autofictional sitcoms have been floating around since The Dick Van Dyke Show, but the genre has become truly dominant in prestige comedy over the past decade.
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" People were also quick to grab hold of Queen Latifah connecting the two sitcoms in a 2017 appearance on "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
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She later embarked on an eclectic comedy career in sitcoms — from The Love Boat to playing Debra Messing's mother on Will & Grace — and voiceover (Rugrats) alike.
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A show intended to be part of a movement pushing back against the broad, gimmicky sitcoms of the '60s eventually spawned a show about an alien.
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The majority of adult animated sitcoms in the US still follow in the footsteps of The Simpsons, which has most of the characteristics I outlined above.
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But fans who love cartoons will need to think seriously about subscribing to Hulu if they want to enjoy some of the best animated sitcoms on TV.
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The history of sitcoms is littered with annoying child actors, but the two main child actors are good on this show and so are the guest kids.
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The very first episode of Netflix's gloriously acerbic BoJack Horseman begins with its alcoholic has-been of a title character offering a spirited defense of crappy sitcoms.
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As the above video shows, this was a challenge worthy of Freund's talents — and his innovations are probably the reason today's multi-camera sitcoms look so similar.
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" Reynolds previously opened up to PEOPLE about the pair's complicated relationship and how their "relationship never really mirrored the father-son dynamic I envied watching '80s sitcoms.
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But as a well-known person who's been in sitcoms, did you worry about making ... Because some people are worried about moving away from the old model.
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Premiering 25 years ago on September 16th 1993, the show's blend of dark humour and warmth made it one of the most successful sitcoms of all time.
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You can visit an old-school cinema to see a movie, watch sitcoms reruns on TV, or settle into the couch for a night of binge-watching.
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If shmaltzy sitcoms are more your thing, The Queen of King's Landing shows us what life at home looks like for Samwell Tarly and Gilly the Wildling.
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Netflix is also losing fan-favorite sitcoms "Friends" and "The Office" to rivals HBO and NBCUniversal, both of which have plans to launch new streaming media services.
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"THE BIG BANG THEORY" makes its debut, and that was a fairly easy one: On how many sitcoms have Dr. Stephen Hawking and Buzz Aldrin made appearances?
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I watched lots of those cheery sitcoms as a kid, and in retrospect one of my favorites, "The Cosby Show," was the most glaringly unrealistic of all.
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"Friends" is celebrating its 25th anniversary in September, marking a quarter-century since one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time came to the little screen.
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Hangout sitcoms live or die by the strength of their casts' chemistry, and by that metric, Happy Endings is near the top of the sitcom food chain.
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That sort of thin characterization can work fine on certain kinds of sitcoms, partly because we already know the characters well enough to fill in the blanks.
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The episode even ends with Darius not getting the piano in the end, the kind of winking, status quo-burnishing conclusion that American sitcoms have always favored.
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Michael Schur, the creator of "The Good Place," is otherwise known for "Parks and Recreation" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," sitcoms grounded with a specific sense of place.
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The streaming service's biggest pitch is that it relies heavily on easily digestible sitcoms and TV comedies, which have become popular fodder for streamers in recent years.
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Sitcoms often have "the day everything changed" pilots, but presumably the "new" character will be warmly subsumed into the rest of the ensemble in the second episode.
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Only in the last section does "Rancho Viejo" start to feel a little too tidy, with loose ends being tied into the symmetrical bows associated with sitcoms.
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From comic book adaptations like HBO&aposs "Watchmen" to remakes of beloved sitcoms like Spectrum&aposs "Mad About You," there were plenty of remakes available to watch.
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Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 39%"Mad About You" is one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time, but there didn't seem much interest in a revival.
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That vision would belong to Kenya Barris, the creator and showrunner for Black-ish, who recognizes how unique his show is in comparison to other family sitcoms.
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"Wonder Woman" gave her leverage, but that achievement also made it somewhat surprising that "Night" landed at a basic-cable network better known for sitcoms and procedurals.
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Throughout the two-hour Sunday evening show, the network will take a look at its series (including dramas, sitcoms, workplace sitcoms, late night and variety shows), newly recorded interviews with its talent (including Ted Danson, Tina Fey, Debra Messing, Amy Poehler, Noah Wyle, Rob Lowe, Blake Shelton, William Shatner and Jennifer Lopez), and Emmy winners (including The West Wing, ER, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, The Office and 30 Rock).
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Though she has appeared on sitcoms like The Suite Life of Zack and Cody in her early Disney days, most of her recent work has been serious dramas.
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With the Roseanne revival no longer a going concern, we figured it's a perfect time to spotlight some of the sitcoms it overshadowed in its brief, contentious run.
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Time was an egg or a sack of flour could be used as a perfectly serviceable substitute for a child (or so decades of sitcoms have taught me).
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In the most recent episode, "Roseanne Gets The Chair," the show turned on the network itself, taking swipes at other ABC family sitcoms — specifically, those led by minorities.
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Top sitcoms "Friends" and "The Office" are set to each leave the Netflix platform in the next two years and be available on HBO Max and Peacock, respectively.
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Cosby said, during filming of one of his sitcoms, an agency would send him "five or six" models every week, right to the studio where he was shooting.
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The darkly funny, surreal comedy parodied the corny ensemble-oriented title themes of the 1970s and '80s sitcoms before spiraling into a bizarre slasher film that defied explanation.
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He famously turned down the title role in 1964's Gilligan's Island, and would go on to make a sea of one-season TV sitcoms from then on.
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But American Crime is part of a recent wave of network shows (see also: the sitcoms Mom and The Carmichael Show) trying to bring back this noble goal.
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She was a pivotal part of not just one but two classic sitcoms, and she was a welcome presence as a guest star right up into her 70s.
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When Gilmore Girls went on the air, it was different from most other shows on TV. We were surrounded by big slick hits, mean teenage dramas, and sitcoms.
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In honor of National Teacher Appreciation Day, approaching on May 9, I wanted to do a story on some of the best and worst teachers on Black sitcoms.
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Broad City has reached a point, as almost all sitcoms do, where the effectiveness of the jokes grows in proportion to how well the audience knows the characters.
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Weekly sitcoms offer a 30-minute dose of television viewing pleasure that is separate from streaming — their familiarity and formula are pleasant enough to stand on their own.
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Both boasted stars of old hit sitcoms as their leads — Kevin James was the Kevin who could wait, while Matt LeBlanc was the man who had a plan.
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Today, children are more likely to have seen queer people on television, with gay relationships present in mainstream sitcoms like Modern Family and cartoons like Nickelodeon's Loud House.
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There are so many highlights from that decade that we find ourselves longing for on a regular basis, but one that stands out is the cheesy family sitcoms.
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But as the streaming war accelerates, it&aposs not just nostalgic sitcoms attracting mega deals, but some of Hollywood&aposs most high-profile producers and executives, as well.
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It stands to reason that this show would follow in the footsteps of Lear's previous sitcoms, which are known for tackling topical issues with candor and bracing wit.
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Streaming on: Hulu (season two only; season one is available for paid download on Amazon and iTunes) Is there a comedy subgenre known as "sitcoms for theology minors"?
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Because studio-audience sitcoms have to please a room full of people off the street, they indulge more in easy jokes and stereotypes than more sophisticated modern comedies.
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She wrote for conventional sitcoms like "2 Broke Girls" and "Hot in Cleveland" while hosting her own "gay-mazing" YouTube series, "This Just Out," from her kitchen table.
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"Millionaire" demonstrated that inexpensive programming -- at least, relative to sitcoms and dramas -- that had largely been relegated to the daytime hours could not only work but dominate primetime.
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"I go where the love is and I go where I do better," said Ms. Clery, who had starred in a few sitcoms before moving into online video.
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This wasn't just a male thing on 1990s sitcoms, apparently; Carrie on "Sex And the City" legs it when she sees her friend Miranda feed her new baby.
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For the sake of your excited inner child raised on the sugary sweet storylines of Disney Channel sitcoms, we can only hope the show still has a future.
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Mr. White, whose book, "Between Heaven and Hollywood," was published last fall by Zondervan, wants to make films, sitcoms and serialized dramas with family-friendly or religious messages.
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Director Ruben Fleischer has an eclectic resume that includes plenty of work in sitcoms, and in theory there's nothing wrong with bringing a lighter touch to the genre.
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Thomas Markle, a former lighting director for TV soaps and sitcoms, has given a series of contradictory statements about whether he will walk his daughter down the aisle.
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But Community's handful of misfired jokes and one romantic plotline that never really went anywhere don't negate it from being one of the all-time great TV sitcoms.
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Will the next big hit seize some of the cerebral nature that's made Only Connect so big, or will questions still revolve around 90s sitcoms and the royals?
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Multi-camera sitcoms are presented like tiny stage plays, in front of an audience, with multiple angles to capture as many different shots at the same time as possible.
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His teachers spend most of the time talking about how funny he is, which is likely fostered by his love of 90's sitcoms (mostly Friends and The Office).
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My own kids blitzed right past both of those relics and dove headlong into the netherworld of shitty Disney sitcoms and YouTube clips of other people playing video games.
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The Kominsky Method was created by Chuck Lorre, the king of network multicam sitcoms such as Two and a Half Men, Mom, The Big Bang Theory, and Dharma & Greg.
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The nature of these cable and streaming series has sparked some debate as to whether they're different enough that they actually represent a completely separate genre from network sitcoms.
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While The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men dominated ratings for years, those sitcoms rarely addressed serious topics in the way their multi-cam ancestors did.
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He set the record straight on a wide variety of topics, including how he prefers to watch sitcoms (without the laugh tracks) and whether he has ever breastfed (no).
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The inspiration for the show comes from British sitcoms like Pulling and Spaced plus older things such as Fawlty Towers, which was always on if we could find it.
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Rod Daniel, who directed hit television sitcoms and moneymaking, family-friendly movie comedies like the Michael J. Fox film "Teen Wolf," died last Saturday at his home in Chicago.
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Are we to understand that sometime when they're not modeling and designing and photographing and launching singing/soccer careers and going to school, the Beckhams all watch sitcoms together?
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The ABC Tuesday-night "black and Asian" family sitcoms aren't "they're just like us!" stories: to the contrary, they're downright gonzo in their cultural specificity, spiked with in-jokes.
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He created the sitcoms "Watching Ellie" and "The Single Guy," in addition to writing and producing "Brooklyn Bridge," which earned him an Emmy nom and won a Golden Globe.
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To a generation whose tastes were shaped by the tube, Mr. Tinker was the unseen hand behind many of the most stylish, critically acclaimed sitcoms and dramas on television.
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That sets in motion a plot that relies on a playwright's clever twist and the audience's ability to stick with a setup that feels partly inspired by television sitcoms.
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Aligned with the rise of dark sitcoms like Arrested Development and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, her work employs the same strategies that comedians use when writing a script.
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Like other sitcoms, The Big Bang Theory used broad stereotypes to try to humanize a group of people who were often the butt of the joke on other shows.
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Whereas most traditional multi-cam sitcoms were expected mainly to deliver big laughs, an emerging spate of single-cam shows started infusing comedy with darker themes and edgier storylines.
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Ms. Gleason hews to the cheerful lighting and snappy editing of high-school sitcoms, but her caustic coming-of-age curiously spares no sympathy for family, friends or faith.
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I felt like I could have seen it, the way that television sitcoms make me feel as if I might know an upper-middle-class family in suburban California.
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The industry is approaching the so-called staffing season, when the broadcast networks assemble their fall lineups and hire writers to bang out telescripts for sitcoms and police procedurals.
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Plus, Ideas for What to Watch Tonight: The Best Movies on Netflix Right Now Binge-Worthy Sitcoms to Stream The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far)
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Ask A Showrunner Ahead of the Season 2 premiere of his Golden Globe-winning Netflix series, the man synonymous with network sitcoms discusses the challenges of trying something new.
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It captured the two breakout stars from one of the 1990s most popular sitcoms, Friends, trying to understand the most-heralded (and subsequently most maligned) operating system, well, ever.
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Since summer began, streaming services have been jockeying for the exclusive rights to legacy shows, particularly long-running network sitcoms—and the TV turf wars are only just beginning.
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And those seeking a respite from the Trump-focused political rancor in entertainment have to endure multiple mentions of President Trump on everything from sitcoms to the Grammy awards.
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Netflix, which has a little bit of everything, from serial dramas and sitcoms, to documentaries and feature films, is in a prime position to win over those people over.
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The show — based loosely on columnist Dan Savage's life — starts off a bit wacky, as so many sitcoms do, but quickly becomes just as sweet as it is smart.
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For, more and more, what was once edgy, out there, or unthinkable, from S&M to routine mass shootings, has become the stuff of sitcoms and ho-hum headlines.
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Their businesses are gonna succeed because you read the news in VR and you're watching your sitcoms in VR. So we spend a lot of time talking to them.
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It's a six-episode experiment, and this is back, by the way, when sitcoms — when anything — could get big ratings on network TV. So that show is gonna get canceled.
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While it later blows up in her character's face, Mollen jokes that these kind of storylines make the show a darker version of one of the most beloved American sitcoms.
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Also scheduled to appear are stars from some of the many sitcoms he worked with, including: Friends: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry.
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Sitcoms have been premised on less, and since two versions of "The Office" have captivated audiences, perhaps it's time to provide the perspective from the CEO of Dunder-Mifflin HQ?
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Because Grace has apparently seen her fair share of overly obvious sitcoms, that latter detail is what made it dawn on her Nancy is "in trouble," as she put it.
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Costars of Erin Moran, the actress best known for playing Joanie Cunningham in the sitcoms Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi, shared their reactions to her shocking death on Saturday.
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But a handful of dramas and sitcoms clearly stood out this year, demonstrating levels of aesthetic, narrative, and thematic ambition that would've been hard for anyone paying attention to dismiss.
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CBS's The Neighborhood has Cedric the Entertainer and Tichina Arnold (arguably one of the queens of Black sitcoms) as the well-to-do couple next door in a Black neighborhood.
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It was the No. 22000 show on TV. Multi-camera sitcoms enjoyed their greatest potency in the '230s and '222s, the eras of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Cheers.
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As long as you live within 50 miles of your broadcast tower, it will pick up network channels so you can watch news, weather, sports, sitcoms, and more for free.
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They are typical sitcoms in some senses, but subversive in how they do away with tiresome tropes or create experimental setups, such as in The Good Place's high concept premise.
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I wasn't entirely convinced that my childhood has officially passed me by until I heard that one of my favorite Disney Channel sitcoms was getting its very own spin-off.
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Black-ish, in particular, has become one of the strongest family sitcoms in years by starting from the clichés their characters inhabit, then deepening their personalities beyond those basic traits.
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Even though Black sitcoms are often only appreciated as sub-genre classics, they were a beacon of representation when Black people, especially Black women, couldn't see ourselves elsewhere on television.
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Earlier this month, a few Netflix users noticed that the beloved series, still one of the most-watched sitcoms in the world, was scheduled to depart the streamer in January.
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I often push it to the back of my mind so that I can focus on other things, like feeding myself, watching sitcoms, and writing blogs in exchange for money.
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Recall that high-rise thriller episode that looked like it was filmed as one long take, for example, or the series's perfect simulacra of 1990s sitcoms and 1980s slasher films.
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He made cameos on sitcoms: on a 1994 episode of "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" (Carlton faints in admiration); on a 228 episode of "The Nanny" (he dates Fran).
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A few seasons ago, a spate of network sitcoms were premised on what I then called "manxiety" — the idea that men were losing their place in a de-masculinized world.
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But the former lighting director for TV soaps and sitcoms gave a series of contradictory statements about whether he would be there, with the Los Angeles-based celebrity website TMZ.
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In the 1982 she returned to sitcoms with "It Takes Two," a topical comedy about the modern challenges that face a hard-charging, career-minded couple, also starring Richard Crenna.
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But some of the network's sitcoms are not only still plucking along, but becoming bolder and stronger as they age, determined to make a mark lest they become forgotten, too.
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"Moo Moo" is a bit of a departure from Brooklyn Nine-Nine's general tone, but it's a necessary one, showing that even light-hearted sitcoms can get a little real.
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Last year NBC canceled "The Carmichael Show," an inspired throwback to the era of politically charged Norman Lear sitcoms like "All in the Family" and "Good Times," after three seasons.
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It takes a little while to rediscover its rhythms, but once it does, it feels tuned in to its world and its country in a way few sitcoms are anymore.
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Vox culture editor Todd VanDerWerff argued for the AV Club in 2014 that too many sitcoms have an absence of real conflict, which strangles any possibility for real, interesting action.
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He became a fan of offbeat TV characters like Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle in "The Andy Griffith Show," and dreamed of appearing in sitcoms as the hero's goofy sidekick.
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Op-Ed Contributor In recent years, threats of government shutdowns have come with the regularity and, until now, predictability of one of those TV channels running marathons of old sitcoms.
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In Russia, it's all about casting the president as a bare-chested action hero, pumping out anti-Western conspiracy theories and serving up remakes of Western sitcoms and reality shows.
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Since then, she's starred in several sitcoms and movies, went through a highly publicized marriage and divorce, and now belongs to a group of women known as the 'Real Housewives.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 91%What critics said: "A self-aware work of melodrama, You combines the best elements of murder-mystery series, Millennial sitcoms, and revenge fantasies.
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Just an hour earlier, my partner and I wrangled them from the warmth of their rooms and the sweet oblivion of their rerun streams of '17413s sitcoms to this moment.
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Rich's work occupies a weird in-between space in the comedy world, where his shows fit comfortably into neither the world of sketch comedy, nor the world of traditional sitcoms.
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Unlike most sitcoms, including Broad City, which always suggests that friendship triumphs over all, Girls kind of feels like a show about four characters with less and less in common.
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Now, as Hollywood contends with its embarrassingly monochromatic slate of Oscar acting nominees, "Fresh Off the Boat" is part of a growing list of sitcoms with ethnic minorities in leading roles.
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Together these two videos run around two hours, but it's worth the time investment, whether you're a fan of Roseanne or merely interested in leftist analysis of 1980s and '90s sitcoms.
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Dawber enjoyed her own success on the small screen with sitcoms "Mork & Mindy" and "My Sister Sam," but she chose to put her career on hold to raise the couple's children.
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While it seems silly to complain about too much of a good thing, it can actually become extremely stressful to deal with your growing backlog of sitcoms, miniseries, and feature films.
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Like most sitcoms, The Simpsons needs you to avoid thinking about how its characters are stuck in place, because it might make you start thinking about how you're stuck in place.
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Scully has obviously called no-hitters and perfect games before, and also put in plenty of time narrating implausible love stories, convoluted game shows, retrospectively problematic sitcoms, and celebrity softball spectaculars.
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Like many sitcoms about careerism and the slog of American professional life, it's considered an insult to have to do boring, seemingly meaningless tasks just because some higher power demands it.
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Yahoo View will be free to watch (as long as you can handle the ads) and feature the last five episodes of shows from ABC, NBC, FOX and other network sitcoms.
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And I thought doing something with Netflix would give us the opportunity to creatively go out and try to reset what a sitcom is, because I think people really like sitcoms.
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In 2004, the year that both "Frasier" and "Friends" ended, NBC moved "The Apprentice" to the coveted Thursday night slot originally reserved for sitcoms; shouty finger-pointing replaced witticisms and wisecracks.
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ABC's slate of family sitcoms is consistently good-to-great, with Speechless, The Goldbergs, The Middle, and Modern Family all capable of airing one of any given week's best TV episodes.
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With social media, we're no longer seeing Botox only on TV shows or sitcoms, where it was portrayed as something humorous—you know, with the frozen face and over-inflated lips.
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At this point, you may be wondering why if multi-camera sitcoms are so great — with so much potential to tackle America's conflicts head on — they ever fell out of favor.
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Yet, although we see all kinds of families on television now, it seems like some people still take their idea of what a "real" family looks like from the 1950s sitcoms.
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Americans may occasionally look abroad for salvation from the cavalcade of milquetoast TV sitcoms that still thrive in Friends' wake—but the UK can't stop getting enough of the real thing.
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It would have been equally obtuse, though, to complain that television was not important to the flow of events simply because people mostly used it to watch sitcoms and game shows.
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A quick perusal of his IMDB page makes it clear that any exhaustive compilation of his cameos and self-owns would be lengthy, ranging from cartoons to sitcoms to children's shows.
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While many of the sitcoms' stars were relatively unknown at the time, some of the actors on these shows are recognizable from their current (and more successful) TV series and movies.
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However, both her divorced parents, mother Doria Ragland, a clinical therapist, and father Thomas Markle, a former TV lighting director for soaps and sitcoms, will play "important roles" on the day.
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In a phone interview, Mr. Howery and Mr. Carmichael discussed audience resistance to multicam sitcoms, debates around Louis C. K.'s return to performing and casting Sinbad to play Rel's father.
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Thicke had a huge impact on television off-screen as well, through his work as a songwriter, which he applied to crafting theme songs for several TV sitcoms and game shows.
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And they're stuck in a way that underlines the show's original mission of representing the kind of paycheck-to-paycheck life that other, more upscale sitcoms of the era left behind.
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She was, however, a household name in her home country, thanks in part to "Happy Ever After" and "Terry and June," the sitcoms in which she played Terry Scott's suburban wife.
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"There are things about sitcoms that we like in that you can tell a story, and you can have characters and build those characters and make them have relationships," Heidecker said.
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"There are things about sitcoms that we like in that you can tell a story, and you can have characters and build those characters and make them have relationships," Heidecker said.
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But along with other stars from the golden age of Broadway like Betty Garrett and Bea Arthur, she found her greatest success in sitcoms, beginning in the early years of television.
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It didn't invent the "reality sitcom" genre — that was MTV's The Osbournes in 2002 — but it correctly identified a gap that sitcoms had once filled that they just didn't any more.
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The former lighting director for U.S. TV soaps and sitcoms pulled out days beforehand after undergoing heart surgery and it also emerged that he had staged photos with a paparazzi photographer.
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Fran Drescher, the creator and star of one of the most beloved sitcoms of the '90s, is developing "The Nanny" into a musical bound for Broadway, the production announced on Wednesday.
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Pure Flix has made hundreds of films ("Do You Believe?" starring Cybill Shepherd), sitcoms, serialized dramas and web series including "On the White Track," which stars Mr. White and his wife.
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The Cosby Show, A Different World, and Living Single are a few past shows that set the stage for popular black hairstyles to make their way onto current sitcoms and dramas.
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In the course of three years, the sitcoms ''Black-ish,'' ''Insecure'' and ''Atlanta''; the Marvel Comics drama ''Luke Cage'' and the Southern soap opera ''Queen Sugar'' all turned up on television.
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The oldest of the four Partridge children, Cassidy managed to unite a generation of flower children with the wholesome family values of primetime TV sitcoms in America, and audiences loved it.
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What followed was the stuff of R&B songs and sitcoms: without-warning crying spats, sometimes triggered by Sarah-centric memories at places like the grocery store, in the meat aisle.
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In the years following Arrested Development's first cancellation, multiple single-camera sitcoms sprung up that adopted some of its style and sense of humor — most notably, NBC's Emmy-winning hit 30 Rock.
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Netflix offers original hit TV shows like "The Crown" and "Stranger Things" and it will be adding "Seinfeld," one of the most popular sitcoms in TV history, to its lineup in 2021.
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I felt laden with shame trying to figure out how I had become that low-functioning middle-age clown you see on sitcoms: the hairy, interloping barnacle with an affinity for couches.
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However, the immediate build-up to the wedding was overshadowed by her father, a former lighting director for U.S. TV soaps and sitcoms, who pulled out days beforehand after undergoing heart surgery.
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There is even a slow-moving chase scene in which they evade an officer of the law on a scooter, a sequence familiar to fans of sitcoms, cartoons and other derivative comedies.
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After moving to New York in the early '90s, Theroux said he was invited to audition for several sitcoms – including Friends, the iconic series on which Aniston starred from 1994 to 2004.
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Watching so many women, in everything from family sitcoms to rom-coms to superhero dramas, grapple with their sexuality and assert themselves as "not straight" was as jarring as it was exciting.
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ABC's Insiders has a doozy of a mashup to finish the year, adding Australia's prime minister, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and other ministers to the bars from your favourite sitcoms and films.
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When Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux), Nora Durst (Carrie Coon), and a few others arrive there, it feels not at all like one of those stunt vacation episodes that sitcoms used to do.
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With so many shows choosing to continue their storytelling with an entirely separate show, it's worth wondering if one of the most celebrated sitcoms of the last decade will do the same.
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The series – which ran for four seasons on Showtime and re-aired on Fox – was one of the first sitcoms to break the fourth wall and have characters speak directly to camera.
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This isn't particularly surprising—I have never enjoyed sitcoms, and have always found it difficult to sink my teeth into a show that isn't serialized or at least features long narrative arcs.
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That being said, I don't want to dismiss the importance of The Simpsons—I appreciate the immense impact this show has had on pop culture, animated and family sitcoms, and even politics.
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Single-camera sitcoms are usually filmed more like a movie — often on location or on more "realistic" sets — and, as such, they don't have an audience present to laugh at the jokes.
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In some ways, the pair might have been too low-key, never breaking out to the explosive fame that creates national catchphrases, headlining concert tours and starring roles on long-running sitcoms.
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The network spent decades shuffling through a mix of religious programming, children's cartoons, game shows, black-and-white sitcoms and westerns, and family-targeted dramas, never quite cohering into a recognizable identity.
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Its original content will include both scripted and unscripted shows, like sitcoms, dramas, reality shows, and documentaries, but not live TV like you'd find on Sling TV or YouTube TV, for example.
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"Given the recent tensions between India and Pakistan, the public is demanding that Indian channels and sitcoms be completely banned," a spokesman for Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) said on Thursday.
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Eddie Murphy used AIDS material and homophobia in his 1983 special Delirious (he later apologized), and even mainstream family sitcoms such as Mr. Belvedere made AIDS jokes—complete with a laugh track.
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It's an allusion to the bland family sitcoms of the nineteen-eighties, when syrupy, anti-racist "very special episodes" dominated prime-time comedy (think "Family Ties"), treating color blindness as a virtue.
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From NBC sitcoms like "The Good Place" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" to the final season of "Jane the Virgin," we've rounded up all the best shows of the year according to critics.
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But what's become clear is that there will never be another, in part because the entertainment landscape means star comedians can no longer make sitcoms with finales watched by 76 million viewers.
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The show, which debuted in 2017, took on subjects that aren't commonly dealt with in family sitcoms with a studio audience, including issues surrounding L.G.B.T. life, immigration and recovery from drug addiction.
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Seinfeld is widely considered to be one of the best sitcoms out there because it dared to shove its characters's myopic narcissism in our cringing, sympathetic faces and still make us laugh.
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The results show that, of the Americans surveyed, Democrats prefer getting more laughs from their small screen fare, picking seven sitcoms as their favorites, compared to the GOP respondents' three comedy shows.
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Ms. Moore transformed and tamed the vaudeville style that had dominated sitcoms, perfecting a comic housewifely hysteria in Laura, made visible in the way she often appeared to be fighting back tears.
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Ms. Moore, who has worked extensively on shows like "So You Think You Can Dance" and "Dancing With the Stars," as well as on sitcoms, trained Ms. Stone and Mr. Gosling herself.
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Everyone is far too involved in each other's business, because that's how sitcoms work, but the show's screechy self-loathing makes that seem damning and toxic rather than just antic and fun.
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VICE: When I think about black love, a lot of 90s films like How Stella Got Her Groove Back and even sitcoms like Martin and The Parkers stick out in my memory.
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Also people know me as a comedic actress for my sitcoms, so this character stands out as the most challenging and probably the one I was the most nervous about taking on.
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Amazon unveiled the new voice-controlled Fire TV device, which lets users shout out when they want to turn on the TV, flip channels or search for sitcoms, all without pushing any buttons.
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In comedy, particularly in classic, multi-camera sitcoms, a situation escalates more ludicrously; a car crashes into the kitchen and a character decides to become a fugitive before all is forgiven without consequence.
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It's almost as if we overhype the worst stereotypes about men (see every sitcom ever featuring lovable goofs incapable of loading a washing machine) and women (see those same sitcoms featuring overbearing nags).
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While the Soros comments didn't help her case following ABC's decision to cancel "Roseanne" despite planning a second season and it being one of the highest rated sitcoms on TV, they didn't help.
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The show itself became one of the highest-rated sitcoms in the coveted adults 18–49 demographic from 2001–05, attracting more than 18 million total viewers for its series finale in 2006.
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Now, sitcoms are able to frankly explore all the issues and facets of the women experience, from periods to disappointing relationships to ambition (and the days when ambition seems too lofty a goal).
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After decades of watching family patriarchs roll their eyes at their wives on sitcoms, it's easy to expect an older man like Abe will resent this new, laissez faire Rose and her interests.
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If you weren't already able to guess punchlines simply from hearing a joke's setup, seeing that many sitcoms land on top of each other at once could only force you to do so.
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But it also existed in a kind of nihilistic, dark space that didn't allow for revealing the ultimate humanity of its crass stereotypes in the way the best multi-camera sitcoms always had.
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In the best multi-camera sitcoms, in the Carmichaels and One Days and Moms of the world, this relationship between serious subject matter and tension-relieving laughter is sometimes why an episode works.
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Fourth-wall-breaking, meta-humor may be everywhere these days, but in 1986, it was anathema to mainstream television, and Shandling fearlessly dove into the breach, skewering conventional comedic sitcoms at every turn.
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They're quirky opposites linked by friendship and an ampersand, a combination your subconscious has been told is charming by 50 years of sitcoms: The Odd Couple, Kate & Allie, Will & Grace, Grace and Frankie.
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It also used to be really clear what was a movie, what was a TV show—sitcoms, police procedurals, maybe soap operas, there were very few limited boxes in which TV shows fit.
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If TV shows, and especially sitcoms, are ultimately about family in whatever form one constructs it, then Will and Grace and their two wacky grown-up kids haven't missed much of a beat.
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But as far as sitcoms have come, there is still a "long way to go" in terms of showing the actual diversity that exists in the country and moving past stereotypes, she said.
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For her, being on one of America's favorite sitcoms, The Cosby Show, and then becoming a Disney star meant keeping her sexual orientation in the closet, which she says ate at her soul.
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There are also up-and-coming actors like Mindy Kaling, Steven Yeun, Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong, Constance Wu, and Randall Park, whose work run the gamut of comedy to sitcoms to dramas.
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The history of sitcoms is littered with characters trying to weasel their way out of jury duty, whether it's Liz Lemon donning Princess Leia buns or Larry David resorting to straight-up racism.
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Ken Berry, the boyish television actor who played nice guys with affable attitudes and a wide range of I.Q.s on three popular sitcoms between 1965 and 1990, died on Saturday in Burbank, Calif.
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But to its credit, it seems to resist the standard conclusion of young-people-in-the-city sitcoms: that characters must "grow up," which means getting a steady job, kids and a mortgage.
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Barbara Schultz, an adventurous television producer who showcased serious topical dramas at a time when the networks were preoccupied with sitcoms and variety shows, died on April 21927 at her home in Manhattan.
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This week, we've got two brand-new CBS sitcoms, both featuring lead actors of color, The Neighborhood and Happy Together (that's unusual for a network that has had diversity problems in the past).
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Whether you're more inclined to read up on political news or binge sitcoms during the winter, there are multiple HP products with deals attached to them that we think are worth checking out.
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Spoofs of sitcoms, infomercials and true-crime shows crash into one another, buffered by forlorn snippets of the original wedding tape and clips of Ralph's interactions with his best friend, Josh (Rahm Braslaw).
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Before there was Netflix and chill, our Friday nights in the '90s were devoted to TGIF, a television programming block on ABC that packed all of the biggest sitcoms into one weekly event.
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But the immediate build-up to the wedding was overshadowed by her father, Thomas, a former lighting director for U.S. TV soaps and sitcoms, who pulled out days beforehand after undergoing heart surgery.
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A cursory perusal of entertainment periodicals and television sitcoms would suggest that anyone over the age of sixty-five has declined in mental capacity, or is no longer a contributing member of society.
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Hang on to your mouse ears: Disney Channel — land of safe, sweet sitcoms — is exploring this charged terrain with "Andi Mack," a comedic drama aimed at children 20153 to 14 and their parents.
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Despite its 1970s airdate, and live studio audience, "All in the Family" was always ready to let things get dramatic, and also thrived on tackling social issues that were usually taboos on sitcoms.
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In the 1990s, after the Iron Curtain came down, many Americans wondered whether the appealing lifestyles the world saw on U.S. sitcoms and blockbusters deserved some credit for energizing global resistance to communism.
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That's the role she played for seven years on one of television's most enduring sitcoms, and it's the persona she maintained in the public eye, in decade after decade of pleasantly inoffensive interviews.
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Dusting down his ill-fitting suit is a risky business; the legacy of The Office, which only ran for two seasons and a Christmas special, has been preserved as a high watermark for sitcoms.
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In June, the WSJ reported that Facebook was willing to pay up to $3 million per episode for centerpiece shows, and was also interested in original sitcoms with episodic budgets in the six-figures.
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It was quintessential '80s design (called Memphis Milano, a style created by a group of Milanese architects and designers) that permeated fashion, interiors, and the last stop in total cultural saturation: mainstream American sitcoms.
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The always engaging Rosenthal made the trip to Moscow, and his travelogue is a lot of fun, and weirdly timely in an era when it's always good to remember Russians love family sitcoms too.
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Returns Wednesday, October 26, at 10 pm Eastern on Sundance After many years in the TV wilderness, sitcoms filmed in front of a live studio audience have made a solid comeback in recent years.
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When looking back at the profusion of black sitcoms in the '90s, most of which aired on the now-defunct WB and UPN, Howery has learned lessons about ownership from how that trend died.
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As the multi-camera sitcoms were going the way of the dinosaurs (Big Bang Theory ratings notwithstanding), these were thoroughly modern comedies, remaking what could be possible in half-hour network and cable shows.
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Between 1971 and 1983 Mr Bunker, played by Carroll O'Connor, provided the focus for two sitcoms, "All in the Family" and "Archie Bunker's Place"—a gruff, bombastic, bigoted but big-hearted blue-collar patriarch.
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There simply aren't many sitcoms out there that could do an episode about police brutality from this perspective, and as Carmichael Show's incredibly deft "Protest" and Black-ish's "Hope" highlights, that's a real shame.
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American film was finally entering a newly mature phase of its life cycle, and the same evolution was happening everywhere, with social issues–driven sitcoms on TV and world-weary rock on the radio.
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Traditional sitcoms and their laugh tracks suddenly had to share the primetime spotlight as comedies like The Office, Parks and Recreation, and Modern Family dominated airwaves and demanded coverage in the fledgling TV blogosphere.
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Millennial Europeans are pretty familiar with the concept of Thanksgiving, thanks to the cultural saturation of American sitcoms, but older generations see little reason in marking a festival dedicated to the American historical memory.
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What he observed — the predominant whiteness of sitcoms and talk shows, the exoticized depiction of people of color — left a permanent impression, one that still inspires him to imagine his own alternative cultural narratives.
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Neo-Nirvana grunge bands with names like Drenge and Darlia (both from England, rather than Seattle) have emerged concurrent with cozy-glow sitcoms like "Grace and Frankie," nostalgic in format rather than subject matter.
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Before this nosy kid hit it big-time in arguably one of the best sitcoms in TV history, he considered himself just a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.
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Netflix adheres to no genre or specific audience, instead providing viewers with everything from inventive sitcoms to gritty comic book adaptations, from true crime documentaries to 90s television sequels and "continuations" of existing shows.
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A similar impulse fuels all those TV sitcoms with live studio audience laughter; even if the jokes aren't that great, the desire to recognize the actors working so hard to entertain you is real.
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All credit for the published clue goes to my friend Gabe Chandler, who found a balance by referencing classic sitcoms: familiar and fun, but also based on tired stereotypes that have aged so poorly.
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The broadcast networks gave an unprecedented amount of prime-time coverage to a midterm election, with ABC, CBS and NBC replacing the usual sitcoms and police procedurals to fill their 8 to 11 p.m.
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The 22011 fall TV season kicks off with a particularly rich batch of comedies, from network family sitcoms to existential crises punctuated by jokes to shows that wear their weird hearts on their sleeves.
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Despite the song and dance around police procedurals, soaps and sitcoms, the narratives provided by the Golden State Warriors or the New England Patriots are most likely what have kept TV front and center.
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Charlotte Rae, the quavery-voiced redhead who started out on Broadway but was best known as a warmhearted, wisecracking housemother in two hit 1980s sitcoms, died on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles.
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More than four decades after the advent of "Monty Python" and "Fawlty Towers," John Cleese has returned to BBC sitcoms with "Hold the Sunset" (his silly walk now cautious and supported by a cane).
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The wrestlers did guest appearances on game shows like Card Sharks and Family Feud and popped up on sitcoms like Married with Children and talk shows like Donahue and The Sally Jessy Raphael Show.
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Yet, for four seasons, The Good Place was not only one of the funniest sitcoms on TV, it popularized academic philosophy in an unprecedented fashion and put forward its own highly sophisticated moral vision.
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Yes, all the classic HBO stuff will still appear on Max, but it'll be mixed with bingeable content designed to have a broader appeal, ranging from network TV sitcoms to DC super hero movies.
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The stereotype of the overbearing in-law appears in sitcoms and movies alike, but according to Robinson-Brown this kind of intrusive behavior can be an indication of a deeper problem in the dynamic.
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It's the type of meta-comedy that TV sitcoms often experiment with once they are no longer novelties, when the creators have begun to engage, consciously or unconsciously, in a conversation with viewers' responses.
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It's no coincidence that "BoJack Horseman" itself replicates the plots of sitcoms—Princess Carolyn goes on a series of bad dates, BoJack crashes a wedding—to inject them with something rawer and more unsettling.
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But he also had a wild sense of humor — he began his career as a stand-up comedian — and for more than 50 years he was primarily a scene-stealing supporting player on sitcoms.
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In essence, most episodes of the first two seasons of the show were filmed like mini movies, unlike most sitcoms of the era, which were filmed in the "multi-camera" setup, like stage plays.
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There aren't many family sitcoms that would — or could — seriously address America's ongoing struggles with police brutality against black citizens, but we're lucky that Black-ish did exactly that in a series standout episode.
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Only the rare series finale reveals each and every thing that happens to the characters after the credits roll, but most sitcoms do try to suggest that everything will be all right for all involved.
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Cable channels such as MTV and A&E began to produce regular comedy specials; comedians including Bill Cosby, Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen and Roseanne Barr were launched into blockbuster careers by sitcoms built around them.
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Years after it was canceled, Netflix's revived comedy felt like a poor imitation of its pioneering first incarnation — especially in the wake of the great sitcoms that Arrested had influenced, like 30 Rock and Community.
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It helps that the steady hand of Mike Schur (The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parks and Recreation) is an executive producer, and that Pamela Fryman, truly the GOAT for multicam sitcoms, is its director.
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An episode on deaths in sitcoms focuses on three types of death: the death of love for a character, a change of actor playing a character and the death of a character within the plot.
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We wondered whether that was also true in the UK—or does the British thespian world of well-meaning sitcoms and classical training mean that women are less likely to be asked to strip off?
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Sanders was born in Chicago, grew up in Arizona and moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, where he got his start writing episodes of sitcoms like Sanford and Son and Welcome Back Kotter.
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At that point, though, Shandling was already the star and creator of the show most comedy fans remember him for today, which is now one of the few sitcoms worth watching decades after its end.
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And, in one sense, "Jane" is simply the latest in a tradition of ambitious shows that both emulate and deconstruct established TV genres, from "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" (daytime soaps) to "BoJack Horseman" (nineties sitcoms).
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From there, there is very little relationship-based awkwardness between the pair, eschewing the will-they-won't-they-oh-now-one-is-sad-what-the-fuck dance that drags the comedy of other sitcoms down.
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One of the few studio-audience sitcoms that has been granted a spot on the schedule for the new season is Will & Grace, a limited-run revival of NBC's last big hit multi-camera show.
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They were in Super Bowl commercials and sitcoms and The Sopranos, and they were all pretty much the same idea: Rooms that were shrines to television, sports, guitars, semi-nude women, and microwavable finger foods.
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After all, it's a show about a lazy married guy with five kids who's trying to navigate the weird pitfalls of modern life, a type of sitcom that has existed literally since sitcoms were invented.
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From the work of Norman Rockwell to sitcoms like Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best, a middle-class, nuclear family in the suburbs was presented as both a fantasy and an achievable reality.
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The former is one of TV's greatest sitcoms, while the latter (an All in the Family spinoff) isn't quite at the same level of quality, but is endlessly watchable and stacked with great performances nonetheless.
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Notably, "Roseanne" is just one of three new sitcoms ABC is introducing the same week, and while the others don't have three decades of history in their corner, the concepts do possess a retro flavor.
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Television exhibited a similar naughty streak during these years, with sitcoms like "Bosom Buddies" and "Three's Company," where young men ogling women -- while pretending to be women and gay, respectively -- was baked into the premise.
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In fact, when I started at "The Office," I probably couldn't have named two sitcoms with women that I liked, and now the only shows that I like either star a woman or a minority.
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Later, such sitcoms as "One Day at a Time" and "Who's the Boss?" had divorced mothers as protagonists, but the breakups were barely addressed: the focus was on the women moving on with their lives.
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While cautioning that the show is always aware it needs to be funny and entertaining, Sanchez-Witzel points to how old sitcoms used to push for that dark, dramatic place as a matter of course.
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In binge-watching old favorite sitcoms, I've uncovered a bizarre trend in late 22015s and early 2000s: a significant proportion of female characters in these shows chose, as their preferred birth control, to use a diaphragm.
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Along with T. J. Miller, who plays the smart-ass sage Erlich, these actors have spent years working in every comedic climate imaginable, from midnight improv gigs to far-flung stand-up sets to network sitcoms.
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Everything from culottes to chokers to old sitcoms have made a comeback at some point or another in our cyclical culture, and now, a piece of technology from our recent past is experiencing a tiny resurgence.
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While it still played on a handful of smaller channels dedicated to reruns of old sitcoms, all the pieces were in place for Murphy Brown to fade away as much as any TV show does nowadays.
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ABC's Fresh Off the Boat, about an Asian American family in the 1990s, is part of a classic TV tradition of domestic sitcoms, but tells a story that same genre canceled or ignored in the '90s.
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In the era of the magic-dusted TV sitcoms Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, and My Favorite Martian, it didn't take long for Sabrina to get her own comic book, and her own Saturday-morning cartoon.
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That's because for all the series that have been set in NYC — goofy sitcoms, gritty cop dramas, reality shows where Heidi Klum and Donald Trump gleefully crush people's dreams — no single one gets it quite right.
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But their neatly wrapped episodes are usually underscoring low-stakes, semi-comedic storylines similar to scripted family sitcoms (like when Rev Run was convinced to change his wardrobe, or when the family tries to eat healthier).
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James Corden's career has risen mightily since he was a semi-familiar, bit-part face on UK TV sitcoms; even since he co-created and starred in the genuinely and objectively actually good Gavin and Stacey.
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Although they had regrouped after the failure of "Baywatch," setting up new pilots at different networks, their uncle Sherwood Schwartz — the syndication savant behind sitcoms like "The Brady Bunch" and "Gilligan's Island" — gave them crucial advice.
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In the meantime, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" fractured into spinoffs: the sitcoms "Rhoda" and "Phyllis" and the acclaimed drama "Lou Grant," a rare example of an hourlong series spun off from a half-hour sitcom.
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An explosion of options from streaming and premium services has offered a greater variety of views into American life -- the tradeoff being that mass-appeal hits, like the broad sitcoms of the past, are increasingly rare.
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The show is lovely and even borderline artful, part of a 1970s sitcom movement that believed television could attempt to tell stories about real life, not just be filled with gimmick sitcoms about aliens and genies.
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" ("Full House," a Top 10 show in Mr. Franklin's final year, slid to 25th place by its eighth season, after which it was canceled.) Mr. Franklin continued to produce sitcoms like "Malcolm & Eddie" and "Love That Girl.
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On Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel and producer Norman Lear teamed up to host a live revival of two of Lear's most beloved sitcoms, All In The Family (which ran from 1971-1979) and The Jeffersons (1975 -1985).
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To this day, Roseanne remains one of the few sitcoms to embrace the realities of American blue-collar life and, over the course of the series, Darlene becomes the symbol of upward mobility for a struggling family.
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I've had to contend with being a far cry from the image of a supermom that plays out in sitcoms, laundry detergent commercials, and in online mom groups (at least the ones I find myself scrolling through).
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Marshall's hit sitcoms, a powerful force in prime time from the 1970s into the 1980s, were almost a form of counterprogramming to All in the Family and other edgier, of-the-moment shows produced by Norman Lear.
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Since Friends hit Netflix last year, many young people watching the series for the first time—or rewatching it through woke-colored glasses—have found it to be as dated and problematic as, uh, most '90s sitcoms?
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Hotstar, is the market leader among India's over-the-top platforms when measured by active subscribers, and holds exclusive Indian rights to stream many hit sitcoms from the U.S. TV channel operator HBO, including "Game of Thrones".
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It's also a series that argued that having a spouse you loved and kids you cherished is one of the primary reasons to be alive, and not an endless burden, as too many other family sitcoms do.
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While I studied Flaubert, learned Quebec's history at school and bantered in French during hockey practice, I spoke English at home, watched American sitcoms and lived in a separate but parallel universe from my French Canadian peers.
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Traditional sitcoms are staging a bit of a comeback, and this Netflix revival of Norman Lear's '70s hit comedy about a single mother is a terrific example of just what can be accomplished within the classic format.
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Visitors will be given an electronic survey at the front door and be outfitted with devices that will tailor the experience of the museum to their individual comedic tastes, whether that be sitcoms, stand-up or sketch.
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What TV consisted of then, virtually exclusively, were sitcoms, dramas, and newsmagazine shows—none of which came from the UK. But Davies came from the UK; he was born in London and attended the University of Edinburgh.
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Television was still in its infancy in the early 1950s, which meant there was a fair amount of risk-taking on the programming side, the familiar formats — half-hour sitcoms and hourlong dramas — having not yet solidified.
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In a post-"Louie" world, in which all the best sitcoms deal in melancholy and rage, "Broad City" offers something zany, warmhearted, and sweetly liberatory, like a piñata spilling out Red Hots, Plan B, and pot snickerdoodles.
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A former lighting director for TV soaps and sitcoms, Markle said that he was sad to have missed the ceremony, but also proud of his daughter and grateful to Queen Elizabeth's oldest son Charles for stepping in.
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Appearances on numerous variety shows, as well as recurring roles on the sitcoms "My Sister Eileen" and "The Bob Cummings Show" and even the occasional dramatic part, established her as a familiar presence on the small screen.
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And later, once she had moved to Los Angeles to star as April Ludgate, the terminally unimpressed intern on "Parks and Recreation," she joined Chris Pratt and Nick Offerman on that show's team, playing against other sitcoms.
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Cosby also said that while filming one of his television sitcoms, he had an agency send him "five or six" models on a weekly basis, some ages 17 and 18, who were struggling to launch acting careers.
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But BoJack doesn't fall into the same trappings as other adult-animated sitcoms—Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty, The Venture Bros—whose weightier moments are usually few and far between, or undercut by their overall bro-y tone.
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Other media companies are hoping that a future version of Netflix that only boasts Netflix original programming will be a lot less enticing than one that offers reruns of your favorite comfort food sitcoms alongside that original programming.
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Most German-speaking viewers preferred to watch sitcoms like Big Bang Theory, the U.S. hit that airs on the ProSieben channel, on scheduled TV. ProSieben's content has an overlap of 9 percent with that of Netflix, Ebeling said.
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Other sitcoms have tried valiantly to recreate its magic, but so far no group of quirky, attractive white people living in objectively unattainable New York apartments has been able to capture the public's hearts in the same way.
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Markle's parents are divorced and while Harry has been pictured with her mother Doria Ragland, there had been speculation about what role her 73-year-old father, a former lighting director for TV soaps and sitcoms, would have.
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Discovery is just one of the more than 60 channels that come with Hulu + Live TV.You'll gain access to cable networks like ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, so you can keep up with your favorite sitcoms and news programs.
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Seasons: 2Episodes: 16The second season of "The Kominsky Method" premiered last month with little fanfare, but this series (created by "King of Sitcoms" Chuck Lorre) is one of the most consistently pleasant shows on Netflix at the moment.
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Read more: 'Friends' will leave Netflix at the end of this year for a new service called HBO MaxThat's two very popular US sitcoms that will be departing Netflix for rival streaming services in the next two years.
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The majority of ABC's recent sitcoms have fallen into two categories: swiftly canceled newcomers (Selfie, Manhattan Love Story, Uncle Buck) and long-lasting shows that people often forget are still airing (Modern Family, The Middle, Last Man Standing).
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Just as Lear remade British sitcoms into American shows like All in the Family and Sanford & Son, today's traditional sitcom producers may use the cushion of familiar, pre-sold titles to tell the stories they want to tell.
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Directed by Tim Story and co-written by Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow — all better-known for their comedy movies and TV sitcoms — the 219 "Shaft" appears to offer a more tongue-in-cheek approach to the series.
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She brought the voice — her real voice — and the comedic skills to other sitcoms after "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" ended in 603, most notably "Everybody Loves Raymond," where she had a recurring role from 260 to 22015.
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DuBois recently made an appearance on a special as part of ABC's "Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times'," which saw episodes of the the classic sitcoms remade with new actors.
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Tracked into gifted programs early on, she was the kind of girl who asked other children if they had ever invited Jesus into their heart, but she also enjoyed watching sitcoms and listening to the Mary Jane Girls.
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This isn't a show I'll keep rewatching to relax, the way I do with some other sitcoms — though I think that's partly due to the plot-driven nature of it, which feels markedly different from most network comedies.
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As sitcoms go, this one begins with a typical plot: Alice (Jenna Elfman), a driven career woman, is thrown for a loop when she meets the love of her life, a divorced father who comes with three children.
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Yet, three-and-a-half seasons on, The Good Place is not only one of the funniest sitcoms on TV, it has popularized academic philosophy in an unprecedented fashion and put forward its own highly sophisticated moral vision.
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It splices together clips from network news stations with commercials and sitcoms from the same era: one moment an anchor traces the path of an airstrike, the next the "Golden Girls" are sitting down to slices of cheesecake.
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The bride-to-be's parents are divorced and while Harry has been pictured with her mother Doria Ragland, 61, there had been speculation about the relationship with Thomas Markle, a former lighting director for TV soaps and sitcoms.
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The bride-to-be's parents are divorced and while Harry has been pictured with her mother Doria Ragland, 61, there had been speculation about how Thomas Markle, a former lighting director for TV soaps and sitcoms, would feature.
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"Cheers" When Joyce flashes back to a sweet shared moment on the sofa watching sitcoms with the late, lamented Bob, they're chuckling together at "Cheers" and the ongoing will-they-won't-they dynamic of Sam Malone and Diane Chambers.
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But when I look at the sitcoms I love most, shows like One Day at a Time and Superstore and The Good Place, they tend to have a lot of conflict in them, conflict that isn't resolved particularly easily.
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In the early 2000s, at the same time that multi-camera sitcoms simply felt tired because there were so many of them, The Daily Show was pushing political humor to new places, even with that studio audience cackling away.
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This fall, "Fresh off the Boat" is taking over the timeslot of "Last Man Standing," moving from Tuesday nights where it only managed to garner 4.2 million viewers last season and ranked 10th out of the network's 11 sitcoms.
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Trish has been a writer on several TV sitcoms and also penned columns in the New York Daily News and Boston Globe, in addition to a romance novel, "Liberated Lady," and two plays about her experience with Alzheimer's disease.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK As you'll know from sitcoms and Ben Stiller films, sleepless nights spent listening to the rhythmic thumping of a bedpost against the wall are a hilarious part of sharing a living space.
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This weekend I'll be digging into "Lady Dynamite," sobbing into the season finale of "Call the Midwife" and going to TV church to light candles and pray that CBS stops making joyless cop shows and sitcoms about hapless dads.
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The comics in the cast -- many of whom have appeared in sitcoms -- appear liberated playing roles that strike so close to home, even if the casual racism and sexism of the time signals that this was a different era.
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The latter is important to note because it shows that comedies, too, are not shying away—in fact, the two best episodes to touch on police brutality are from network sitcoms: ABC's Black-ish and NBC's The Carmichael Show.
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Even before the show was renewed for another season, the studio let it be known that it was interested in doing reboots of other Lear sitcoms from his 1970s golden age, like All in the Family and The Jeffersons.
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Mr. Armisen, who moved to California three years ago, has been able to explore the state on Amazon's dime; for the producers, it's been a chance to get out from under the faux fluorescent lighting of their previous sitcoms.
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But my father's warning that sex was "not as important as the sitcoms would have us believe" has often reminded me that sex in America is as much marketing as it is a means of pleasure or self-expression.
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Not yet 30, Drnaso has topped his virtuoso 2016 debut, "Beverly," which had a cheerful palette gleefully at odds with all that roiled beneath its speckless Midwestern skies: class friction and psychosexual urges, brain-draining sitcoms and kneejerk racism.
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Even as its characters ruin weddings, relationships, childhoods, and most everything else, the show's hook of letting you in on their inner monologues makes you bond with them in a way that feels different and deeper than most sitcoms.
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The show is one of the most significant early sitcoms, debuting less than a year after I Love Lucy and standing as one of the first shows to prove that earlier series' innovations could be replicated on other shows.
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