Word: sitcom
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...turn. Does she go left, right or back to Square 1? Curiously, the movie sees Kate not so much at a turning point as jogging on a treadmill where you meet the nicest people. For this reason, the film could serve as the basis for a superior sitcom...
...slot, spawned a series of other "entertainment news" shows like NBC's Speak Up America, it also turned TV executives on to the fact that low-budget programs produced without costly sets and high-priced talent could be hugely successful. While the tab for producing a half-hour sitcom might come to $300,000. the bill for an hour of reality programming may be $250,000 or less. Another spur to such shows has been the 2½-month actors' strike, which made the filming of dramas and sitcoms for the new season impossible at any price...
There is nothing at all extraordinary about this scene, which has the bad flat feel of a Spanish language sitcom, and I mention it only because of the murder at the end. It is a non-murder; director Cassavetes chooses to show us a window being blown out by a shotgun blast into the sunlit air, and no more. No blood, no violence, and that is a disappointment. Of course there is nothing intrinsically good about violence in the cinema, and those who would tell us that there is come off as silly as those who would picket The Warriors...
Democracy fares very poorly in the ratings this year. Obviously the public is trying to tell politicians and networks something-about conventions as well as about the choice of candidates. If a political convention were a sitcom, it would be canceled by now. If it were a miniseries, as in some respects it is, any producer would be devising more ways to skip the boring parts and speed it up. Conventions, however, are the work of four different and uncoordinated producers-the party chairman and the three networks-all vying for an audience that gets smaller and smaller. Almost...
After the Air Force, Hagman tried his luck off-Broadway, then did a two-year stint on The Edge of Night. There were several modest roles in movies, including one memorable semivillain in The Group. But Hagman's most important part before Dallas was in the airhead sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. For Hagman it was the big break. He worked constantly, rewriting scripts, fighting to get the best possible performers. "I was driven, compulsive," he remembers. "I yelled at people. Finally I couldn't take it any more. I started to vomit...