Word: sitcoms
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...When the network decides to roll the dice and unleash the weirdest crap that's ever been seen on broadcast TV, because, well, why not? A drama about the rough-and-tumble world of professional plumbing inspectors! A reality show about dogs - directed and produced by dogs! A family sitcom by the guy who just made a movie about Jesus Christ getting tortured to death...
...wiser to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally, and it's just a shame that whoever coined it did not live long enough to get a big corner office in Burbank. Even NBC's unconventional moves this year are conventional. "Father of the Pride," an expensive, computer-animated sitcom about a family of lions in Siegfried and Roy's Vegas revue, comes from the people who brought you "Shrek" and "Shrek 2," which puts in the great network tradition of From the Makers of... (Translation: if you loved their first movie, you'll love watching them cash in it repeatedly...
...that part out of the way: it's pretty awful.) But its real function is to expand the financial empire built by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. At 17, the twins have 34 years of show-biz experience between them, from their debut on the sitcom Full House at the age of 9 months. Since then they have starred in and helped supervise dozens of direct-to-video films and fronted the mary-kateandashley brand of fashions, cosmetics and cell phones. Their earnings last year topped $1 billion. When they turn 18 next month, they will take official control...
...dismay of its many fans, the hit NBC sitcom Friends aired its series finale amid much fanfare last week. When comedian JERRY SEINFELD announced that the ninth season of his namesake show would be its last, fans were equally devastated...
Seinfeld, the person, has been even more perplexed and flattered by the outpouring of national grief that came with the Christmas announcement that his show would be pulling its plug even though it is currently the nation's top-rated sitcom, even though it is as popular and lucrative as ever, even though the audience has not yet tired of the self-absorbed lives of Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer ... Aided by the dearth of real news over the holidays, the nation's papers and airwaves filled themselves with pleas from mourning fans for Seinfeld to reconsider and speculation from...