Sentences with phrase «longer in sitcoms»

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Simon, who died from colon cancer in March, was best known as co-creator of the Fox animated comedy, «The Simpsons,» the longest - running sitcom in American television.

It's offensive in many ways, and at over three hours long, it makes «Avatar» feel like a half - hour sitcom.

It's the longest running sitcom in American history, a cultural phenomenon that made it OK for adults to watch cartoons.

HOFFMAN: Barry Diller greenlit what is now the longest running sitcom in the history of television.

In recent interview with BBC Radio 2 about his play The End of Longing, the Friends actor revealed that he couldn't really remember filming seasons three through six of the NBC sitcom.

Bronx - born actor Steve Landesberg, known for his role on the long - running sitcom «Barney Miller,» died in Los Angeles Monday from colon cancer.

Friends (stylized as F • R • I • E • N • D • S) is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from Line definition, a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.

Actress Tracy Pollan had a few commercials and minor TV roles to her credit when, in 1985, she was cast as Ellen Reed on the long - running sitcom Family Ties.

The actress also found a great deal of success on the small screen — Ivey starred in television productions of The Long, Hot Summer (1985), Dixie: Changing Habits (1985), We Are the Children (1987), and Decoration Day (1990) before landing several prominent sitcom roles.

She shifted to domestic comedy with ease in the role of Samantha Stephens, the attractive witch heroine of the long - running (1964 - 1973) TV sitcom Bewitched.

In 1991, Ivey returned to her Texas roots for NBC's Down Home, though she found more success playing wealthy widow B.J. Poteet on the final season of the long - running sitcom Designing Women (also NBC).

The comedy pokes appropriate fun at the superhero genre and is one of the freshest sitcoms to come along in a long time.

I can't deny that O'Neill does tend to give us all the regular facial / physical expressions and emotions we've seen in his long running TV sitcom.

It's like an anniversary clips show for a long - in - the - tooth sitcom, filmed with the same sort of production values as a backyard porno and scripted (by an uncredited writer) with almost exactly the same kind of ear.

No sitcom has ever been quite as brutal about what it's really like being in a long - term relationship (boredom, mutual loathing, exhaustion — not always) like London - set «Catastrophe».

During the premiere of Vacation, Married... with Children star David Faustino spoke about the long - rumoured spinoff to the hit Fox sitcom, suggesting that the original cast were keen to appear alongside him in the planned Bud Bundy series.

Though Metcalf won three Emmys for her work on the long - running sitcom «Roseanne» and Letts has had well - received turns on the series «Homeland» and in films like «The Big Short,» the two have remained true to their roots on the stage.

In 1977, Howard was near the beginning of a decade - long run on «Happy Days», the popular (and enduring) nostalgia - fueled ABC sitcom.

But at least on their long - running series Aniston and Parker were big, pretty fish in their teeny - tiny sitcom puddles.

Pirate Radio is neither historically accurate enough (it can't even stick to its year of 1966 to provide its tunes, some of which came out a little after («Jumpin» Jack Flash» is from 1968, as is «So Long, Marianne» by Leonard Cohen, to name but two) to provide interest in a bit of pop culture history, nor is it consistent enough to sustain its good cheer without collapsing from the weight of its own cutesy manipulations in its characters for laughs, It's not so much a story as it is a collection of sitcom moments meant to induce laughter and mirth, mixing it with all of the best rock tunes of its era.

In filming the epic indictment of slavery which is adapted from Northrup's book by John Ridley, Sean Bobbitt respects audience patience by his many long takes, enjoining editor Joe Walker from making the cuts that are so common in TV sitcoms and most serious movies alikIn filming the epic indictment of slavery which is adapted from Northrup's book by John Ridley, Sean Bobbitt respects audience patience by his many long takes, enjoining editor Joe Walker from making the cuts that are so common in TV sitcoms and most serious movies alikin TV sitcoms and most serious movies alike.

CBS announced they had given a 13 - episode order to a revival of the long - running, critically - acclaimed sitcom in January, planning to launch it as part of their 2018 - 2019 slate.

In truth, as a comedy, it's standard sitcom, and the broadly stereotypical characters are far beneath the talent of the stars, but the story does gain a bit of traction in the more dramatic moments in which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to bIn truth, as a comedy, it's standard sitcom, and the broadly stereotypical characters are far beneath the talent of the stars, but the story does gain a bit of traction in the more dramatic moments in which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to bin the more dramatic moments in which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to bin which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to be.

This year is the 25th anniversary of the show, making it the longest - running sitcom in U.S. history.

Sitcom follows the going - on in the home of a dysfunctional upper middle - class French family who no longer know how to communicate with one another.

NBC, which has long made Thursday the bunker for its comedy, moves into Wednesday this week with a pair of solidly constructed new sitcoms, «Free Agents» and «Up All Night,» about grown - ups in moments of midlife transition.

In the 15 - odd years since he started acting — on a whim after seeing a flyer for a sketch comedy group while walking across his college campus — he's starred in a long - running, much - beloved network sitcom, landed supporting roles alongside some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, become a bona fide leading man in an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's haIn the 15 - odd years since he started acting — on a whim after seeing a flyer for a sketch comedy group while walking across his college campus — he's starred in a long - running, much - beloved network sitcom, landed supporting roles alongside some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, become a bona fide leading man in an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's hain a long - running, much - beloved network sitcom, landed supporting roles alongside some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, become a bona fide leading man in an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's hain an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's hat.

If you think no - longer - empty - nesters Martina (Carrie Preston) and Mike Moore (Patrick Warburton) will rejoice at this news, then you've probably never seen Patrick Warburton in a sitcom before.

It's a mystery that might have been answered in the movie, which favors instead the kind of confrontations — and easy solutions to long - standing differences — that litter the broadcast sitcom world.

The problem, for British audiences at least, is this sorry episode in French history has been so roundly and repeatedly parodied — principally by long - running sitcom» Allo» Allo — it's hard at times to take Dibb's film seriously.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Santa's and Sibling Spar in Holiday Comedy Coming to DVD This is a sitcom with plenty of failings, from a flawed premise to questionable casting to a dearth of mirth to lasting way too long.

From his early days of stand - up comedy, to a long sojourn in the land of American television sitcoms, Mull since 1980, has returned to painting full time and with a vengeance.

In 2011, fascinated by how Facebook shapes the narratives of people's lives, Ed Fornieles produced Dorm Daze, an ambitious project enlisting 32 volunteers to enact a three month long Facebook «sitcom».