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Will it work? Green is a natural fit on cable lifestyle shows or news programs--though enlisting a news division to do advocacy has its own issues. But commanding a sitcom like The Office to work in an earnest environmental theme sounds like the kind of high-handed p.r. directive that might be satirized on, well, The Office. Even Begley--formerly of St. Elsewhere--notes that the movie Chinatown worked because it kept the subplot about the water supply in Los Angeles well in the background: "It's a story about getting away with murder, and the water story...
...dinner. This was partly because it was the right thing to do and partly because I'm hoping it starts a trend so that someone takes me out for a free meal in a few years. Freelance contributors Duncan Birmingham, a screenwriter, and Mark Miller, a former sitcom writer who provided so much copy he used 10 pseudonyms to make it look like more people worked there, did a fine job drinking to their former publication. Surprisingly, the only rule WWN writers have had to follow was that their stories had to be believable. Most of the readers, they believed...
...primarily a stand-up and sitcom comedian. Can you do well in a more straight environment like The Price is Right? -Charles Peruchini, Los Angeles I'll be fine. It is like being at a party. You have to keep the games moving, but there are plenty of opportunities to make jokes...
...cadre of cartoon geniuses-South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone-to another, earlier one: Matt Groening, James L. Brooks and their team of highly educated misfits, who developed Groening's crudely drawn one-minute Tracey Ullman Show vignettes of a chinless yellow family into a half-hour sitcom, nay, a veritable comedy cosmos that this fall begins its record-breaking 19th season...
...original version of this article referred to the series Max Headroom as a "sitcom". It is more accurate to describe it as a "black-humored sci-fi series...