Word: sitcoms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...burst on the scene, seemingly out of nowhere --the soap Santa Barbara, the sitcom Growing Pains (as a homeless kid), bits in Critters 3 and Poison Ivy--as Toby in This Boy's Life. He is at the center of this movie about a boy who bad-lucks into a stint with an abusive stepfather. And he holds the center; he can commandeer the screen doing nothing, with an eloquent slouch and a gaze that says, beneath the winsomeness, I can take...
...testing so far has only been done on pigs--not a legitimate gauge, since it is hard to distinguish their laugh from an oink-snort--results are promising. Some studios and networks are toying with the idea of "development nurseries" that would venture to create the optimal candidates for sitcom stardom through gene manipulation...
...Death of the Sitcom...
Though TV sitcoms already have an incredibly fast-paced, joke-every-3-sec. tempo, in the future that will seem to have an almost Shoah-like pace. One possibility is that story lines will be junked altogether to get straight to the laugh--since, as any sitcom producer will tell you, the same seven plots have merely been recycled endlessly since the beginning of television. Realizing that likable characters are the key to a TV comedy's success, the networks will establish new characters in 2- to 3-min. "mini-coms." Then, after viewer response is gauged via an Internet...
When MICHAEL J. FOX announced his departure from Spin City to battle Parkinson's disease, many thought it meant the end of the four-year-old City Hall sitcom. Not necessarily. Actor CHARLIE SHEEN is in serious discussions with ABC and DreamWorks, which produces Spin City, to join the cast. Spin City creator Gary David Goldberg--who had worked with Sheen on a pilot, Sugar Hill--would return to reshape the comedy in its fifth season next year. Producers toyed with the idea of introducing Sheen's character before the show goes on its summer break in May, but decided...