The critical and commercial success of the Will & Grace redo, which has been earning award recognition and has ranked as NBC's highest -
rated comedy series, no doubt has helped fuel the current interest in reviving some of TV's top comedies of the past few decades and the ongoing resurgence of the multi-camera sitcom format.
The autobiographical The Goldbergs, created / executive produced by Adam F. Goldberg, is ABC's second - highest -
rated comedy series in adults 18 - 49 behind Modern Family, averaging a 2.1 rating in Live +7.
Not exact matches
A scripted
comedy series could be getting a second chance from Facebook just a few months after MTV cancelled it for low
ratings.
In 1943, she inaugurated her own radio
comedy series on CBS, which garnered high
ratings for the next twelve years.
Ballers: The Complete First Season (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, HBO Home Entertainment
Rated: TV - MA, language, sexual content The lowdown: This HBO
comedy series stars Dwayne Johnson, set in Miami, about a retired football superstar - turned - financial manager who helps other athletes figure out what to do when they take off their uniforms.
Best actor in a TV
series,
comedy Anthony Anderson, «Blackish» (ABC) Aziz Ansari, «Master of None» (Netflix) Kevin Bacon, «I Love Dick» (Amazon) William H. Macy, «Shameless» (Showtime) Eric McCormack, «Will & Grace» (NBC) IMMEDIATE REACTION: In a bit of a surprise, McCormack was the only «Will & Grace» cast member to get an individual nomination for the return of the 1990s
comedy, which has been a
ratings triumph for NBC.
Verdict: His studio
comedy phase (which had somewhat varying success
rates) seemingly in the past, David Gordon Green seems to have returned to the territory on which he made his name, and between «Prince Avalanche» and this year's Al Pacino - starring «Manglehorn,» he made this, which teams him up with «Mud» star Tye Sheridan, and Nicolas Cage, the latter making something of a return to quality fare after a long
series of low - rent actioners.
The first hour plays like a PG -
rated Lethal Weapon, with the
series shifting to action from straight
comedy.
The R -
rated action
comedy, like the
series, fixes on California lifeguards who go above the call of duty.
There's a good chance this will be the
series finale, because CBS hasn't renewed the low -
rated Robin Williams
comedy.
But the raunchy, R -
rated comedy with an ever - game Ryan Reynolds as Marvel's irreverent mercenary is another showpiece in Marvel's impressive gallery of adult - oriented films and
series, which includes Netflix's riveting «Jessica Jones» and the intense «Daredevil.»
Factory
Rated: PG The lowdown: This
comedy, a new release from the Shout Select
series, centers on the employees, customers and others at a Los Angeles car wash.
The dark
comedy doesn't finish its second season until September 26th, but Deadline reports Showtime is satisfied enough with the
ratings for The Big C that the cable network has decided to renew the
series for a third season which...
Rachel Bloom, star of CW's «Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,» got a nomination for Best Actress in a
Comedy series, despite the show's low
ratings
Well that R -
rated comedy adaptation of a classic - TV drama
series was very successful, but it also had a big thing going for it: it was unique.
YO - KAI WATCH (
rated «A» for All Ages) is a supernatural
comedy adventure
series is inspired by the explosively popular YOKAI WATCH video game created by LEVEL - 5 for the Nintendo 3DS.
Top -
rated, bestselling romantic
comedy author D. D. Scott is gettin» «cozy» with all your fave Bootscootin» Books Characters... as in «Cozy Mystery cozy»... with Book One of her new, Cozy Cash Mystery
series!
2009: Viz begins serializing the eight - book Butterflies, Flowers, again as part of its Shojo Beat imprint, although the
series is a josei
comedy with a mature
rating due to the sex - based
comedy and explicit content.
From 1990 to 1994 he wrote and drew the hit manga
series, YU YU HAKUSHO (also published by VIZ Media,
rated «T» for Teens), which was followed by the dark
comedy science - fiction
series, Level E, and the adventure
series, HUNTER X HUNTER.
It certainly isn't a perfect transition, with lingering frame -
rate and blur issues in its presentation, but it is filled with dozens of hours of content and very nicely concludes the Mystery
series with old faces and great story balancing between
comedy and epic fights.