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With its handheld cameras, quick cuts, rapid banter and vibrant Miami colors, this relationship sitcom pops onto the screen like a bag of Skittles dumped on a marble counter. Unfortunately, its intertwined stories of well-to-do, young, hot bodies aren't half as interesting to listen to as to look at. David Frankel (Miami Rhapsody) has put sharp dialogue in the mouths of shallow characters, making for a PG Sex and the City without its edge or likability. Frankel's writing and directorial creativity argue for giving the series a chance. But based on the first few dates, this...
...sure to attend the nightly outdoor party in Montreal's Latin Quarter, where hundreds of free events will take place. What makes the festival so unusual, according to comic writer Sean Kelly, who has composed routines for the show's galas, is "the outpouring of devotion to an American sitcom star and the very European stuff going on in the street--the contortionists, the guys making human pyramids or balancing 300 tin cans on a beach ball." Among the festival's most famous alumni are Jim Carrey, Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Chris Rock, Jay Leno and Janeane Garofalo. --By Valerie...
Walking into a movie starring a member of the "Friends" cast is always interesting. I normally expect total ineptness and a hackneyed script trying to play upon the comedic strengths of the cast member while never truly moving away from the feeling of a half-hour sitcom. While The Whole Nine Yards does many things well, it suffers from the same airiness...
...think this sitcom will really bring a fresh, honest look to this kind of drama,i Rosow said with smile. iJust because itis not written by someone 20 years out of high school who decided to look back. I think for that reason the characters are made more realistic. They lack the eloquence or even the self-awareness that a 35-year-old has when evaluating high school problems.i...
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...