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...phrases we use or used everyday—“duh” and “I don’t think so” are favorites—and traces their origins from the 1930s to the title of an obscure and deliciously kitschy 1980s sitcom...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Like, Oh My God, What Are We Saying? | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

Aniston, best known for her role as Rachel in the popular NBC sitcom, will also co-direct the movie, titled “Counter Clockwise...

Author: By Andrew Okuyiga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Friends’ Star Slated to Play Prof. | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

...following evening, my wife and I were telling our friends about Tina Fey?s hilarious new NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, but found we couldn?t do it justice. I suddenly realized that I could simply stream the pilot episode, via laptop, from my cable box at home. We gathered around the dining room table, and I launched the SlingPlayer, which produced a virtual remote control identical to the one sitting on my coffee table back home. Within seconds we were watching a show I had originally recorded in high-def. It may not have looked as good-the already scaled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sling Media Slingbox Pro & Family | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...shows will work in which foreign markets is always a bit of a crapshoot. "Rule 1 of the global TV market is that each market is different," says Grindon. Comedies, which often get lost in translation or bad dubbing, have been inciting mini bidding wars. 'Til Death, a conventional sitcom starring Everybody Loves Raymond alum Brad Garrett, and NBC's offbeat comedy My Name Is Earl are getting as much as $500,000 an episode, compared with $200,000 for sitcoms five years ago. Touchstone's Ugly Betty is on its second global lap. Based on the wildly popular Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media: The American Way | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...makers of a series credit for bringing through the development process an idea so ridiculous you'd think it was an "SNL" parody. Starring Jon Cryer - a good enough comic actor but the kiss of death to the short-lived series he's appeared in - this laff-a-century sitcom follows the zany adventures of a therapy group of paranoids. It'll likely be canceled by, oh, about 8:53 tonight, but the producers were able to waste large amounts of the Disney corporation's money in the process, and for that, I salute them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall TV Preview | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

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