Sentences with phrase «sitcom called»

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.

My girlfriend joked that it was like the catch - all advice that was always offered by the geeks in a British sitcom called The IT Crowd — but in this case, it really worked.

Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty.

One can easily imagine that if this film were to become a hit, next fall a spin - off sitcom called The K - PAX Kooks would hit the airwaves.

Now, Wiseau is back with a new project of his own: A sitcom called The Neighbors.

Often when I was younger I would dream of writing a sitcom called «High Monkey Five», where a detective would be paired with a monkey to solve crimes.

A John Goodman political sitcom called Alpha House, Betas (see below) and three children's shows will air this fall.

Meanwhile, â $ œthe fifth estateâ $ saw its budgets cut, and moved from a primetime TV slot on Wednesday nights to the graveyard shift of Friday nights, to make way for a now long - forgotten sitcom called â $ œBeing Ericaâ $.

Syms appeared in last spring's New Museum Triennial, alongside similarly multifaceted collectives like K - Hole and DIS, with a video installation about the history and future of television called S1: E1; it included a video about the representation of African - Americans in sitcoms called A Pilot for a Show About Nowhere.

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We call it a sitcom reality show.

To avoid bad but vaguely plausible start - up ideas — what the Y Combinator team calls sitcom ideas, i.e., the kind of ideas TV writers would make up if a character on a show had a start - up — choose something that some people want a lot rather than something lots of people might sort of want a little.

Marc Andreessen, a founder of Netscape who is now a venture capitalist and who has been optimistic about the start - up boom, once called Mr. Gurley his Newman, a reference to the annoying postal worker in the sitcom «Seinfeld.»

This gets a 10 on our yecch scale: a pretentious vehicle that allowed Cosell to call sitcom stars «Baby» and to interview a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader.

We call your attention to the labors of John Vorhaus, a Los Angeles - based television sitcom writer with a specialized computer program and way too much free time, who has extracted what he calls the «secret meaning» of several sports names by turning them into anagrams.

In 2008, British sitcom The IT Crowd aired an episode called Are We Not Men?

A device called the integrated ion - trap - time - of - flight mass spectrometer, which was invented by Hudson's lab and which was used to discover the reaction — was featured on a recent episode of the sitcom «The Big Bang Theory.»

* The Nobel physics laureate Leon Lederman, in his second career as an advocate of what some call «public science literacy,» has often wished publicly for a TV sitcom about scientists.

Getty ImagesHow does the star of the new NBC sitcom Kath and Kim and mom of Stella, 4, and Nolan, 3, stay healthy despite a work schedule even she calls «kooky?»

Abandoning the screen for a career as a legal secretary the same year that Zelig was released, fate guided Jeter back into his true calling when a producer, recalling his role in television's Designing Women, asked that he take a supporting role on the Burt Reynolds» sitcom Evening Shade.

... Although the humor — in the show's pilot at least — is less reliant on what most people would call «jokes» and more reliant on «a tiny child in a bowtie saying the word «brassiere,»» as far as sitcoms go, it's inoffensive and as comforting as Mrs. Cooper's tater tots.

The film watches aghast as Jerry gives vent to his cruel streak and courts professional destruction, most notably while writing for what he calls an «alien puppet sitcom.»

It's a thoughtful movie that recreates the 1950s TV sitcom in the form of a fictional such program called Pleasantville - a black and white town à la Leave to Beaver and Father Knows Best where everything that happens is expected and pleasant.

If the film feels a bit sitcom - y in retrospect, it's more a measure of its influence than a slight against it; Warner Bros TV tried to develop a TV spin - off of the show, but when Crowe nixed the prospect, the project turned into a little show called «Friends ``... [B --RSB-

At some point, American Beauty isn't a lean satire so much as a reductive, facile, mean - spirited sitcom that — perhaps inadvertently, for what it's worth — sees Lester's desire for a muscle car, a job flipping burgers, the freedom to call his wife and daughter «bitch,» and a liaison with jailbait Angela (Mena Suvari) as the secret of life.

HE: A half - hour sitcom with Tim Allen called Last Man Standing.

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

Between you and the last shuttle home in time for tea and spacecakes is the bastard son of the dad from the sitcom Dinosaurs, and Nintendo's Bowser — a lizard - like dude called Brood Master Vrax.

And this week he's been getting dragged through it all over again with the premiere Tuesday night of his live - action Fox sitcom «Dads,» which, in an unfortunate parallel to the Oscars, has been called racist and unfunny.

Coming from television comedy («In Living Color» and his self - titled WB sitcom), Foxx was then being relegated to such lowbrow big screen fare as Booty Call and The Players Club.

Beloved U.S. TV actress Katey Sagal has signed on to play a Chicago police woman in a new sitcom, called Superior Donuts.

The series, based on a British sitcom of the same name, traffics in a soft - spoken kind of comedy that I'm tempted to call «gentle,» but that would belie the series's finely honed edge.

Sereboff got the ball rolling by calling former sitcom star Justine Bateman, whom he'd met on the picket line.

I'd call the character sitcomish, but that's insulting toward sitcoms.

The gig led to his very own sitcom «The Jamie Foxx Show» and supporting roles in «The Great White Hype» and «Booty Call.»

Titus, who currently has three one - hour specials running on Comedy Central, starred in a self - titled sitcom on Fox called «Titus.»

Even This I Get to Experience By Norman Lear Penguin • $ 17 • ISBN 9780143127963 This revealing and sometimes poignant memoir from the creator of groundbreaking TV sitcoms «All in the Family» and «Sanford & Son» won critical praise from many sources, including Booklist, which called it «one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written.»

He said that it was inspired by Ricky Gervais» sitcom about movie extras called Extras.

Cory in Britain we have a very tedious sitcom on radio 4 (based on characters in a rural village, farmers etc) called The Archers.

For her Tuesday Evenings presentation, «Ending Things, «O'Neil discerningly addresses the nature of «endings,» from the last lines of poems to final episodes of TV sitcoms, explaining that, «Endings can be inconclusive, but yet are still called «endings».

* The Nobel physics laureate Leon Lederman, in his second career as an advocate of what some call «public science literacy,» has often wished publicly for a TV sitcom about scientists.

Priestley, 44, has starred on the Canadian sitcom «Call Me Fitz» since 2010.