Sentences with phrase «running sitcom»

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.

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

The film would be reworked for TV as the long - running sitcom «Bewitched».

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.

The child star - turned - teen heartthrob began acting when he was eight years old, and became a household name with his role on the long - running sitcom Home Improvement.

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).

Rodriguez starred in the short - running sitcom AKA Pablo (1984), drawing from his own experiences to play the role of up - and - coming nightclub comic Paul (Pablo) Rivera.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A borderline unbearable and patently unfunny attempt at the straight - laced sitcom, complete with a no - kidding laugh track, from two long - time producers of Two and a Half Men, easily the most unforgivable and inexcusable of the long - running sitcoms.

For 20 years and through two long - running sitcoms, Mary Tyler Moore turned the world on with her smile.

Not exact matches

I pulled an end run and went into the sitcom business, which worked out rather well, rather than trying to tell the world that they were wrong and I was right.

Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar star in this sitcom about a father and daughter who run an advertising agency.

One is Father Ted Crilly (Dermot Morgan), the eponymous lead of the brilliant Channel 4 sitcom that ran in the late 90s but remains a firm favourite.

With footage of frolicking polar bear cubs, mesmerizing time - lapse video of a frozen waterfall thawing in spring, and an up - close look at how rising temperatures are ravaging those environments, Frozen Planet has something for everyone — even those whose tastes run more to sitcoms than documentary.

Mikel HealeyCandace Cameron Bure, 34, best known for her role as DJ Tanner on the sitcom Full House, struggled with bulimia after the show's eight - year run ended.

Until then, make a list of other non-food related activities you could do, which you believe would be a step towards satisfying those emotional needs: running, watching a sitcom, talking to a friend, reading, or anything else.

is an American television sitcom, which ran on TBS for three seasons from June 2, 2010 to March 1, 2013.

He made his television bow as a regular on the CBS serial Love of Life, then gained prime - time fame as Dr. Alex Stone on the long - running (1958 - 1966) sitcom The Donna Reed Show.

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

After nearly a decade of this type of work, Zimmer landed a recurring roll on the short - lived series The Fighting Fitzgeralds, then landed a large part on the sitcom Good Morning, Miami, a run that lasted for two seasons.

In subsequent years, Van Dyke continued his television work (he enjoyed a lengthy run on the sitcom Yes, Dear as Big Jimmy Hughes), did standup comedy bookings around the country, and emceed advertisements for various brands, products, and companies, including Big Lots.

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.

Often cast as domestics, Freeman had a year's run in 1953 as the «spooked» maid on the ghostly TV sitcom Topper.

Originally famous as the bodacious, brain - challenged Bundy offspring Kelly on Fox's long - running dysfunctional family sitcom Married... With Children, Christina Applegate parlayed her comic talents and sexy image into a parallel movie career.

Best known in feature films for his acting work in Cool Runnings (1993), he also became a television star during the second half of the decade on Cosby, the sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which ran from 1996 until 2000.

Although there are serious themes running throughout ATL, they sometimes are glossed over in a fairly sitcom fashion.

The original BBC sitcom The Office ran for 14 episodes from 2001 to 2003, and now 13 years later Ricky Gervais returns to his iconic character for a follow - up movie.

That's just not the way television runs, especially in sitcoms.

Over the course of its five - year run, Taxi was one of the best - loved sitcoms in North America because its comedy was derived from the creation and development of characters who were fleshed out and felt real — even [or maybe especially] the burnt out, but warm - hearted «Reverend Jim» Ignatowski [Christopher Lloyd] and the Gravases, Latka [Andy Kaufman] and Simka [Carole Kane].

Perhaps you know the book or maybe the 1968 - 70 sitcom that ran a season on NBC and a second on ABC.

De Niro plays Jackie Burke, who returns to the stage to perform comedy after a long run on a TV sitcom.

But sitcom vets Arnett and Applegate have no problem generating laughs from a running gag about trying to curb their cursing in front of the baby.

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.

That today's sitcoms run just over 21 minutes after commercials means episodes whiz by, particularly with all the location and costume changes and lacks of big, staged scene - closing zingers.

Stone Age Smackdown is refreshingly adept at recreating the tone and look of the cartoon sitcom that ran for six seasons on ABC.

TV: PBS begins broadcasting; «All My Children» begins its multi-decade run on ABC; «The Mary Tyler Moore Show,» «The Partridge Family,» and «Josie and the Pussycats» all debut; beloved sitcoms «The Flying Nun,» «Get Smart,» and «I Dream of Jeannie» reach the end of their runs.

Few female stand - up comedians have been able to have successful television shows, e.g., Sara Silverman's The Sara Silverman show ran for three seasons on Comedy Central, Wanda Sykes» late - night talk show The Wanda Sykes Show was cancelled after its first year in 2010 and Whitney Cummings» (who's also one of the creators of 2 Broke Girls) has had both a sitcom and talk show cancelled (Whitney and Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings) within the last two years.

The original sitcom ran for eight seasons between 1998 and 2006.

«Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You» provides an affectionate profile of the revered television writer and producer whose groundbreaking sitcom, «All in the Family,» confronted and obliterated countless taboos during its acclaimed run in the 1970's.

The popular sitcom aired for 10 seasons, from 1988 through 1998, and garnered 18 Emmys and three Golden Globes over its initial run.

Though her career spans an extraordinary sixty years, Doris Roberts seems certain to forever be identified solely as Marie Barone or «the mother from «Everybody Loves Raymond»» for less than devout viewers of that highly - rated, long - running CBS sitcom.

1961 Shirley Booth starts her run as Hazel a TV sitcom that lasts five seasons.

Alyson Hannigan as Stripper Lily in How I Met Your Mother A running joke in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother is that each of the main characters has a mysterious doppelganger.

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

In between his five - season run on the decorated sitcom «Taxi» and the movie stardom he enjoyed in the 1980s, Danny DeVito made his feature directing debut on The Ratings Game, a 1984 Showtime television movie.

Spacey's rumored taste for young men was a running gag on the sitcom Difficult People, and a dark joke on Family Guy.