In September, Roseanne Barr revealed her Roseanne character would die of an opioid overdose on The Conners, and so it was. Tuesday’s premiere episode—essentially the start of the 11th season of Roseanne, sans Roseanne—continued a narrative thread introduced last season regarding Roseanne’s dependency on pain meds due…
Does it not often feel as if present-day political maneuverings are just rehashing classic sitcom formulas (conflict, disbelief, resolution, forgetting in 22-minute increments)? In all ways possible, yes.
CBS is reportedly working on a reboot of the ’50s sitcom The Honeymooners, continuing the tradition of network TV reviving old white shows.
Sunday night’s episode of The Carmichael Show opens with talk of a condom breaking, after which the show’s lead, Jerrod Carmichael, excitedly supports his girlfriend Maxine taking a Plan B pill. Later, he consoles his mom, who hates the idea, telling her, “Stop acting like we’re killing a baby. We’re not. We’re…
In a jumble of descriptors not normally associated with Fox, Variety reports that the network has greenlit a pilot co-written by Rob Rosell and delightful-as-all-get-out SNL alumni Nasim Pedrad. The series, titled Chad: An American Boy, will star Pedrad as a teen dealing with the trials of adolescence, his awkward…
I love autumn: it’s TV’s cuffing season, when all sitcoms suddenly become rom coms. In both The Mindy Project’s Season 4 premiere earlier this month and Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s start to Season 3 this week, relationships got serious. For two seasons, Brooklyn Nine-Nine ran on the steam of detective Jake Peralta (Andy…
The Golden Girls, a sitcom that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1992, is currently on American television—specifically the cable channel Hallmark—three hours every weekday. At six episodes a day, you could watch the entire series in about six weeks, at which point Hallmark would pop in the disc one of their complete series…
Let's play Mad Libs! "___ [name of pop singer who seems like he ironically wears a lot of gas station attendant shirts] to produce ___ - era [decade between the '80s and the aughts] sitcom about his childhood for ___ [failing network]. ___-writer [Fox cartoon about the Griffin family] signed on to pen pilot."
Attention fans of The Simpons: Your summer just got exponentially better.
The premiere of the long-awaited Disney Channel comfort comedy Girl Meets World draws nigh, and at long last the millennials and late Gen X'ers who will make their nieces and nephews watch it with them have a short preview to quench their unending thirst to relive their own childhoods.
As the popular ensemble sitcom How I Met Your Mother draws near the end of its nine-season run, a downer of a fan theory is starting to look more and more feasible. The theory: The Mother has been dead this whole time. M. Night Shyamalan'd!
If all you want for Christmas is a sitcom written by and starring MC and Twitter All-Star Jean Grae, congratulations because that's exactly what you're getting!
Super Fun Night—the sitcom starring Rebel Wilson that premiered on ABC last night—seems to ask the question: how many fat chick jokes can be squeezed into 22 minutes? The answer: 13.
Perhaps we've reached a point with sitcoms where we're giving them too much credit. They are, at their core, just supposed to be funny. But as their quality has improved, our understanding of their significance and depth has maybe gotten blown a little out of proportion.
Um, Anna Faris sounds like a lot of fun to split a bottle of wine with.
Fans pining for the comedy stylings of Tina Fey were delighted this week to hear that Fey would be returning (probably not as an actor) to TV with a Cheers-like comedy set on Fire Island. That, as it turns out, is just Part One of the good news. Part Deux is that there’s a second Tina Fey project coming down the…
Nasim Pedrad is leaving SNL to play the female lead on John Mulaney's unnamed autobiographical NBC comedy pilot. She'll join Mulaney, Martin Short, and Elliott Gould, to play Jane, a "sweet, intelligent and lazy grade school teacher who doesn't love her job and wants to make changes but she's addicted to…
30 Rock comes to an end on January 31st with a two-part season finale (it's extra long because they know we have to cry so much). Tina Fey's sitcom about show business featured one of the most unlikeable — but somehow impossibly lovable — cast of misfits in TV history. While the ratings were never great, it gained a…
Justin Halpern is a lucky guy. His "Shit My Dad Says" Twitter scored him a sitcom deal about three months after he began the account. Unfortunately, after airing 18 episodes*, CBS pulled the plug and the show died a quick death. But don't cry for Halpern; he's already written a book called I Suck at Girls (ugh) that…
You know how sometimes you'll be watching The Exorcist and thinking, "Yeah, sure, this is great or whatever, but can't this movie be a little more like Perfect Strangers?" Well, you spoke up and someone listened.
