Sitcoms

If I were looking for a single word to sum up why Chuck Lorre has managed to build a comedy empire in an era that didn’t seem very...

As the networks slowly start re-learning the fact that audiences will always like multi-camera sitcoms, I’m going to make one...

Update: Since I’ve written this post, Jacobs’ bio has finally been added to the Impressionism official site. (Those two events are...

The latest of the Shout Factory licenses (along with the even more welcome announcements of Peyton Place and The Dana Carvey Show...

One thing that I find intriguing about the strong performance of comedies on CBS is that virtually all of their successful...

Long before Shout! Factory announced that they’d acquired the DVD rights to Mr. Belvedere, I had noticed that it was probably one...

Kids’ TV is now about young people in wild situations—with few adults

Earl Pomerantz does, among other things, the absolute best posts about the decline of the sitcom form. (His words have extra...

Silly question of the day: when you’ve seen a sitcom dubbed into a foreign language, do they dub in a laugh track as well, or not?...

Yes, it’s another "what’s wrong with the multi-camera sitcom?" post. (Nobody ever gets tired of those, since we TV-analyst types...