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Instead, the typical reality-TV hit of 2002 took a retro format and gave it a good nose piercing. The Osbournes was a '50s nuclear-family sitcom with dog poop, drug rehab and F words. American Idol, with its aspiring teen stars and vicious-insult wars, was Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour as reconceived by Jerry Springer. And The Bachelor wed--literally--'50s gender relations with 21st century sex. The show's secret (clear to its viewers but not to the paleofeminists and moralists who decried it) is that while The Bachelor pretended to celebrate a primitive dating ritual...
...MOVE IN TOGETHER, HOW LONG BEFORE YOU BECOME A REALITY SERIES? Loretta: Well, there was somebody who said they wanted to base a sitcom...
...tone for a family's life. (The illness also arises when family friend Robert Marcato, 18, moves in with the Osbournes after his mother dies of cancer.) If future episodes ignore it, they may just seem cynically feel-good. And if anyone can work cancer into a reality sitcom, it is The Osbournes, which won us over by flouting convention, and MTV, which wins viewers over by telling them that they and their icons are part of the same extended family. MTV is full of series whose premise is giving ordinary people the key to Celebville (Tough Enough, Making...
...really likes The Godfather. "I have watched The Godfather 10 times. I must watch whenever it's on," he said. He hates when people ask him to be smart about random topics, as when a woman from the bbc asked him whether the characters on the Seinfeld sitcom practice deconstructionism. This was especially difficult because he was unfamiliar not only with Seinfeld but also with the word sitcom. Everyone wants him to say something brilliant on love or war or death. "It's frustrating. Especially when you have to improvise," he said. I told him he should try writing...
...suburban houses, leaky faucets and chatty neighbors. Instead of fighting evil, you would do the dishes, watch a little TV, then call it a night. Instead of saving the world, you would be saving for a bigger split-level. It's the opposite of fun--like an '80s family sitcom without the jokes or Clark Kent without his secret identity...