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Like many ancient crafts, pure farce disappeared long ago; it was replaced by the machine-tooled "sitcom" or by crude, graffiti-black comedy. But British Playwright Joe Orton was not a man to ride a trend. In the '60s he wrote a cycle of extravagant farces, most of them failures on and off Broadway. Orton would not bow to the times, but circumstances eventually bent to him. His last play, What the Butler Saw, is now an off-Broadway smash. The American stage production of Entertaining Mr. Sloane lasted only 13 performances; the film version is a savagely witty...
...want to know whether it is comedy or drama; it is very difficult for them to twist their imaginations to encompass both," says Constantine. The show is billed as a "comedy-drama," but the show's originators managed to persuade the network to eliminate a standard but bothersome sitcom laugh track. "Our humor is too subtle for it," Reynolds explains...
...Deal. Conway himself will be back on the network headlining a variety hour. So will two other old CBS sitcom stars, Mary Tyler Moore, who will play a career girl at a TV station, and Andy Griffith, who will no longer be a rustic sheriff but headmaster of a private school. Herschel Bernardi will be a fledgling executive in yet another comedy series. CBS's other substitutes will be city-slick, with titles like The Interns and Store-Front Lawyers. The intent, says the network's senior programming vice president, Michael Dann, is to "deal with...
...list: / Dream of Jeannie, Daniel Boone, Dragnet '70, The Debbie Reynolds Show, Then Came Branson and My World and Welcome to It. In their place will go variety hours starring Black Comic Flip Wilson and Don Knotts (from the old Andy Griffith Show) plus Nancy, a sappy-sounding sitcom with Celeste Holm set in the White House. NBC has also taken on CBS Castoff Skelton, although for a half-hour at a time instead of an hour...
...season. Why? Of the 30 series introduced this year, only one is at all distinctive: Room 222, ABC's comedy drama about a black schoolteacher. The Bill Cosby Show (NBC) has also had its weeks, as have My World and Welcome to It (NBC), the sitcom about a cartoonist resembling Thurber, and The Bold Ones (NBC), the doctor-lawyer-police trilogy. But if anyone should take a new look at what TV has wrought this past season, it is the networks...