Sentences with phrase «network sitcoms»

Already a veteran of two network sitcoms at age 17, Symoné became star of the Disney Channel series «That's So Raven», debuting January 2003.

Jim Rash & Nat Faxon («The Way Way Back») Sure, «The Way Way Back» writers / directors Jim Rash & Nat Faxon might have already won an Oscar, but even with both actors killing it in regular roles on network sitcoms (Rash is the Dean on «Community,» Faxon is one half of the title duo on Fox «s recently axed «Ben & Kate «-RRB-, most of the country, and even the industry, might have struggled to pick them out of a line - up, but that could all start to change once their directorial debut, «The Way Way Back,» leaves Park City and finds audiences around the world.

Even if you're not one for network sitcoms, there's a reason to root for Roseanne to break beyond the typical audiences for laugh - track shows.

In this sense, the premise is not so different from dozens of other network sitcoms featuring hapless husbands and the life lessons they learn and impart.

It wouldn't survive as a network sitcom especially that 30 Rock, The Office and Parks and Recreation has ended and Community has been moved to Yahoo! If these sitcoms were still to be on NBC, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt would blend well with the crowd.

And it's definitely the first time that a character like this has been in a network comedy — weekly, network sitcom, which is pretty impressive.

While it may promise some action bombast and movie stars, Greg Mottola's Keeping Up with the Joneses basically operates at the level of a network sitcom, and not a critically acclaimed one like Black - ish or Fresh Off the Boat.

Of any network sitcom currently on the air, Fresh Off The Boat may have produced the most holiday episodes this season.

Robin Williams pretty much set the template for comedians breaking into movies: start out as a wildly popular cult comedian, get your own network sitcom tailored specifically to your style of comedy and then begin accepting starring roles in Hollywood films.

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.

While an HBO series would be one thing, so the thinking goes, this is a network sitcom derived from another show that has, according to some, already overstayed its welcome.

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 hat.

Not exact matches

She most recently stared as Melanie Moretti in TV Land's critically - acclaimed sitcom Hot in Cleveland, and co-hosted Food Network's Kids Baking Championship.

Summer is nearly here, which means its time for America's major television networks to fire off the failed sitcoms for which they have no hope, and the low - effort, brain - numbing content that requires no effort — like rounding up «celebrities» and putting them in awkward situations.

Two of a Kind is an American sitcom that aired on ABC as part of the network's TGIF line - up, starring Mary - Kate and Ashley Olsen in their first television Praktica

This reminds me, every once in a while on television they'll show failed sitcom pilots that never got picked up by the networks, and this has the feel of something like that.

When he next reappeared, Clay had dropped «Dice» from his name (a contract stipulation from the CBS network) and was starring in the sitcom Bless This House (1995) opposite Cathy Moriarty.

Reed Between the Lines is instead a totemic analogy, bemoaning in sitcom form the lack of well - adjusted black families living in upper - middle - class splendor on network TV.

By 1997, he seemed to have mended his rift with MTV, which co-starred him in Hitz, a sitcom airing on the UPN network.

I should also point out to would - be sitcom writers that you're officially touched by God if you're hired for a network program before you have an agent.

«Workaholics: Season One» (Paramount) arrives as the second season of the new Comedy Central sitcom is underway and «Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1: Season 1» (Warner) is the is actually the new incarnation of the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim hit «Aqua Teen Hunger Force,» renamed but as weird as ever.

Among the 34 new series the six major networks are introducing, there are 16 family sitcoms and dramas occupying airtime previously devoted to comedies about cute, self - absorbed singles.

Hear me out: I know this is a multi-camera, feel - good sitcom, but for the adults who remember tuning in for network comedies in the early 90's, this one may win you back to them.

The basic cable network's biggest hit, «Hot in Cleveland», was a deliberate throwback sitcom with laugh track and aging former TV stars.

Originally made for the Showtime Network in 1986, this was not so much a spoof of sitcom conventions as a sitcom that invites the audience into the fabric of the genre: the star literally taking audiences into his home as his guest.

Alyson Hannigan will be making a return to the network that made her a sitcom star in «How I Met Your Mother» as she has landed a guest - starring role...

Via TV Line, the network has decided to cancel sci - fi series V, Matthew Perry's sitcom Mr. Sunshine, the superhero family drama No Ordinary Family...

Freed from restrictions imposed on him by the necessities of a mainstream audience, creator Dan Milano is finally allowed to reveal how embittered he was by his network experiences — the latest (read: second) volume of the new show presents the IFC pilot, «Fur on the Asphalt,» which hilariously recasts the Fox sitcom as a hopelessly compromised, formulaic piece of crap co-starring Clint Howard — and responds by lowering the budget drastically and throwing his felt creations into a new line of work parodying movies.

The stars of hit sitcom That»70s Show are to reunite on TV to celebrate the 25th anniversary of U.S. network Fox.Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Laura...

CBS is bringing back the multi-Emmy-winning sitcom, and the network has unveiled a first look at the revival.

BETTY WHITE's career is officially back on track - network bosses at TV Land have commissioned the GOLDEN GIRLS star's new sitcom HOT IN CLEVELAND...

All through my twenties, I was trying to get a sitcom on a network.

The ineptitude of this motion picture is astonishing, never able to escape the sitcom situations to make this something you couldn't see on a network almost any night of the week.

Traditionally entrusted to the teenage girl whose sitcom drew the cable network's biggest ratings,

That is Tim Allen's sitcom, and it's just moved to another network.

Amazon is currently in talks with a number of major television networks to bring live content and sitcoms into its Prime and Fire TV service.

She recently made a T.V. sitcom called «A Pilot For A Show About Nowhere,» — but instead of being made for a network, it's been screened at The Hammer Museum's biennial exhibit «Made in L.A.» which features contemporary artists from Los Angeles.

Wasserman Projects» Artist, Michael Scoggins» work is getting attention in print and on screen, from reviews of recent exhibitions to a cameo on USA network's sitcom Donny!

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