Sentences with phrase «hours of sitcoms»

After rolling out of bed, I'd eat breakfast before situating myself in front of the television to watch hours of sitcoms and Lifetime movies.

Not exact matches

But to date we've filled it mostly with sitcoms: Americans collectively watch some 200 billion hours of TV a year.

(This took them about an hour, a nightmarish thought reminding me of those 1980s television sitcoms and focusing my attention on the peculiar laugh tracks in the background.)

Tonight's new NBC sitcom from the producers of HBO's «Dream On» hands us still one more batch of self - consciously quirky, single, more - or-less charming twentysomething characters and lets them hang for a half - hour reading faux Woody Allen lines.

The humor here is sitcom broad, and Scott displays little sense of rhythm; the film runs under two hours, but feels considerably longer.

Sterling's additional TV work included the hosting chores on the 1956 - 57 season of The 20th Century - Fox Hour, and the starring role of small - town editor Robert Major on the 1961 sitcom Ichabod and Me.

Initially written as a half - hour sitcom for Showtime, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has the sort of kooky, off - kilter, off - the - wall energy of such true TV originals as Pushing Daisies and Eli Stone.

With only six half - hour episodes in each of its two seasons, Amazon's acclaimed sitcom «Catastrophe» is an easy binge.

This thin premise is better suited to a half - hour sitcom than a feature film (in fact, there's an episode of Frasier with a very similar setup), but it's strong enough to support some fun performances from a group of TV stars, along with a lot of weightless filler.

However, the script just isn't able to deliver as much as it should, and the result feels like a half hour sitcom stretched out to full - length feature proportions with a lot of filler in between the funny parts.

The Wonder Years: The Complete Series In two editions: The 26 - Disc Deluxe Edition features all 115 landmark episodes and nearly 23 hours of specially - produced bonus features, housed in a mini school locker packed with memories; and a 22 - disc slipcase edition is streamlined for the sitcom purist.

They're called «auteur sitcoms», laconic half - hour vignettes driven by a singular artistic sensibility, reflecting the idiosyncratic worldview of its creator.

While it would have been nice to get some kind of discussion of the holiday episode and its significance in sitcom production, the disc is quite filled to the brim already with 3 and a half hours of content.

The film's first hour fits Sony's description of the film as a «wicked comedy,» offering some gleefully mean - spirited laughs as Kathryn and Sebastian not only plot Annette's ruin, but that of the innocent and naive (to put it mildly) Cecile (an effectively over-the-top Selma Blair, Zoe of the sitcom Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane), whose boyfriend rejected Kathryn.

«Becoming Ugly» is a succinct but comprehensive look at how the show was adapted to American television; thank the television gods that the original approach — a half - hour - sitcom — was abandoned in favor of the one - hour dramedy - soap it is now.

There's little doubt that Hunt's experiences as a sitcom actress have played a significant role in her directorial style, as Then She Found Me is rife with the sort of timing - both in the dialogue and scene transitions - that one generally associates with a half - hour comedy.

But the movie makes no attempt to stretch itself, challenge its audience, or even function as a movie most of the time: As a director, MacFarlane gives Ted 2 all the visual panache of a traditional network sitcom, and the film's plot is so muddled, it scans more like three half - hour episodes stitched together.

• Indie Wire on the multi-pronged creative casting efforts for The Florida Project • Vanity Fair interviews Joe Wright of Darkest Hour, Atonement, Pride & Prejudice fame • Variety the Roseanne reunion sitcom will start airing March 27th.

First shown at the Kitchen in New York, (A) Drift of Politics: Two Women Are Active in a Space (1978) comprises a single half - hour episode of the Happy Days - style US television series Laverne & Shirley (1976 — 83), the most popular sitcom of its time, which the artist condensed to five minutes by selecting only the two - shots (that is, a shot of two people looking out at the viewer) in which the title characters appear.