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...happy truth of working life that offices are generally not breeding grounds for zaniness, despite what so many sitcom producers would have us believe. Most of us do not jump up and down on trampolines placed next to our desks like the team on the short-lived software-company sitcom Dweebs. Most of us do not have catastrophe-magnet assistants afflicted with a taste for awful vintage clothing like the architects on last year's unfunny Partners. And most of us do not seek inspiration by unfurling toilet paper all over our desks like the copywriters on last season...
...overtake Michael Richards' Kramer as sitcomdom's most physically inventive nervous wreck. Connie Britton and Alexander Gaberman are also quite funny as, respectively, a romantically addled accountant and a shy speechwriter. As homage to the unclean gymnastics of p.r., Spin City is certainly the season's most believable new sitcom. And also by far the best...
MARGOT KIDDER Just months after her breakdown, she comes back with a role on NBC sitcom Boston Common...
...aren't the kind of people who say, "I told you so." But if anyone in TV has a right to say it, they do. The former ABC programming executives, who teamed up to form their own production company in 1981, brought one of their early projects, a family sitcom starring a well-worn comedian, to their old network--only to have it rejected. NBC later put The Cosby Show on the air, and it became the most popular series of the 1980s. The producers' next breakthrough hit, Roseanne, landed on ABC only after NBC turned it down. And last...
When the NBC sitcom suddenly Susan debuts along with most other new network series next week, it will be clear that the show's star Brooke Shields has been kept exceedingly busy. During the course of the 22-min. premiere episode, Shields' straitlaced Susan Keane leaves her wealthy fiance at the altar, makes the improbable leap from copy editor to columnist at a hip San Francisco magazine (we know it's hip because editor in chief Judd Nelson has installed a rock-climbing wall behind his desk), gets drunk on Jell-O shots, sings It's Raining Men and further...