TelevisionAre there too many female-centred sitcoms? ’Two and a Half Men’ co-creator says we’ve reached ’peak vagina’—but insists he was joking
Uncategorized950th Chevy Chase postThe feud between Chevy Chase and Community creator Dan Harmon has been publicized rather suddenly. It’s only coming into the...
UncategorizedHow to pitch a TV episode in 1967I recently read the book The Studio by John Gregory Dunne, where he followed people around the 20th Century Fox lot for a year and...
TelevisionLaugh tracks in sitcoms are so retroSingle-camera shows, shot without an audience, are all the rage
UncategorizedSmash’dWell, Smash didn’t Save NBC, and it sure didn’t save the cause of serious drama on broadcast networks. But it is getting a second...
UncategorizedFrench Scopitones are the best ScopitonesThis song is the successor to Ann-Margret’s "Bye Bye Birdie" as a ’60s sex-kitten song that briefly makes a comeback due to Mad...
UncategorizedSitcom stock plots that disappearedSpeaking of sitcoms: I was thinking about stock sitcom plots the other day. (Actually I was thinking about the stock plots that...
UncategorizedThe NBC sitcom counter-backlashI see that Salon’s Willa Paskin has written an article about how Whitney has improved , thereby saving me from fearing I was going...