Word: sitcoms
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...just as the VCR turned moviegoers into home cineasts, video and DVD releases of old TV shows promise to create a generation of videasts. And it's not just a handful of hits that benefit. Rhino Home Video, for instance, offers cult classics ranging from Chris Elliott's slacker sitcom Get a Life to the trippy '60s kids' show H.R. Pufnstuf (the DVD versions offer videophile gimmicks like being able to turn off Life's laugh track). This is a material world: if you convert an evanescent work into something tangible, shelvable, revisitable and Christmas-giftable, we respect it better...
...could say there hasn't been such a soft-sell comic presence since Wally Cox, but the comparison would be too facile. There's nothing mousy about Stewart. The difference between most comic hosts and Stewart is the difference between a brassy sitcom and The Larry Sanders Show--for which, in fact, he was a writer and actor...
...Quite a while, no doubt. Already in the works is a one-hour special on Duke Ellington. Lear is, preparing yet another sitcom series for a possible January debut on CBS, this one about a black family named Jones. "Sanford isn't trying to reflect real ghetto life," Lear maintains. "Compared with ghetto dwellers, those two men live very, very well. What I would like to do is a real black-ghetto family show...
Product placement used to be simpler. Jerry Seinfeld gave shout-outs to Snapple and Junior Mints (gratis) to give his sitcom verisimilitude; The Price Is Right still pitches bedroom sets and floor wax. But after Survivor's success, "product integration" (a step past mere placement) is taking in-show advertising to a new level of sophistication and stealth. Products are becoming part of the show, be it the Taco Bell that's a site of a "murder" investigation on a new reality show or an SUV used in a TV-staged transcontinental race. And producers and advertisers are getting cozier...
GLEN JONES DJ sets world record, staying on air more than 4 days. Let's see any UPN sitcom last that long...