Sentences with phrase «sitcom with»

The Emmy winner played Lou Grant in the 1970s sitcom with Moore and in «Lou Grant,» a spinoff drama set at a newspaper.

And the Telltale games actually have some really imaginative puzzle design when they're at their best — stuff like trying to act out a scene in a sitcom with room for the advertising break, or A Christmas Carol - ing Santa Claus himself, or the brilliant time - jumping mystery on the Disorient Express, where you have to play the story out of order in order to get clues for the present from the past and future.

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.

The Family Stone (20th Century Fox) directed and written by Thomas Bezucha, is a very heavy - handed home - for - the - holidays romantic sitcom with cancer thrown into the mix — which makes it both a would - be crowd - pleaser and a wriggling hunk of Oscar bait.

Of the other competition buzz films leaving Sundance with distribution deals that guarantee their release: Peter Hedges's Pieces of April is a silly sitcom with a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner twist; Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent is little more than a three - character, metaphorically burdened off - Broadway play, but Peter Dinklage's understated performance gives it a bit of substance; Catherine Hardwicke's thirteen captures the hysteria of teenage girls, and its depiction of how a good girl can go bad overnight will give parents nightmares, but the script, co-written by Hardwicke and Nikki Reed (who also plays one of the two teen leads), is as overexcited as the girls themselves, and its affirmative ending is unearned.

So many of the lines and performances are played awkwardly big — usually around the central joke of Leonardo adjusting to a life of little means and tons of work — that it feels more suited to a terrible sitcom with lots of mugging for the camera and canned applause from a laugh track.

Amazon's Red Oaks took no time at all to establish itself as a sitcom with a heart as much as a sense of humour.

The lighthearted legal drama Striking Out: Series 2 from Ireland and the first two seasons of Goodnight Sweetheart, the BBC sitcom with Nicholas Lyndhurst as an accidental time traveler are available to stream in their entirety.

Yes, it's basically a feature - length sitcom with a very foul mouth, but as far as vulgar, feature - length sitcoms go, Neighbors 2 earns some pretty high marks across the board.

So, director Joel Hopkins owes a debt of gratitude to these talented Oscar - winners for generating the requisite chemistry to imbue what would have otherwise merely been a readily - forgettable sitcom with enough gravitas to make it actually worth watching.

CBS has given a 13 - episode series order to Murphy Brown, a revival of the 1988 sitcom with its creator Diane English and star Candice Bergen both set to return.

ROSEANNE (multicamera; series revival) Ordered straight to series; eight episodes STUDIO: Carsey - Werner Television TEAM: Tom Werner (ep), Roseanne Barr (ep), Sara Gilbert (ep), Bruce Helford (ep, sr), Whitney Cummings (ep, sr), Tony Hernandez (ep) LOGLINE: Revival of 1988 - 97 ABC sitcom with original cast.

This plot outline, as it stands, could supply the materials for a film of complacent stupidity — a formula sitcom with one of the Culkin offspring blinking cutely.

Calculated, corny, and oh so contrived, this plays like a feature - length sitcom with hijinks that could very well have been lifted from 20 - year - old reruns.

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

The rapper's latest music video pays tribute to the classic sitcom with a six - minute visual, with stars like Issa Rae, Lil Rel Howery and Tiffany Haddish playing our favorite friends.

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

Roseanne is supposedly working on a new family sitcom with herself playing the mother again.

A new sitcom with a transgender character fits into an established genre and a predictable agenda.

11 pm: Still surgically attached to sofa, watching reruns of 80's sitcoms with empty ice - cream bucket propped on lap.

Not exact matches

The show, which takes place in a world in which animals are interchangeable with humans, tells the story of a talking horse, BoJack, who used to have a sitcom and now lives a pathetic life in Los Angeles.

For example, in the late 80s when most TV sitcoms followed the same formula of hugging and learning a lesson at the end of the episode, Larry David created Seinfeld, a show with famously self - centered characters.

White's performance was edgy and widely praised, and the grandmother with a blue streak finished out 2010 by agreeing to costar in the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland, releasing a calendar and popping up in cameo roles on almost every self - respecting comedy in the fall.

It disappeared faster than a bad Fall sitcom, leaving me to wonder why the only place I ever saw a pair were on my doctor as he conducted my appointments, complete with a note - taker on the other side of the connection (so many... jokes... can't pick... just one).

Nostalgia for the 1980s and the 1990s has peaked in recent years, as evidenced elsewhere in the fashion world with a denim comeback not to mention listicle upon listicle on BuzzFeed, reboots of countless nineties sitcoms from Boy Meets World to Full House (or original takes on dated themes like Netflix's Stranger Things), or even the release of the Nintendo NES Classic Edition that immediately became The Gift of the 2016 holiday season.

Currently in the works is a sitcom - style miniseries in which viewers can influence the actions of characters with a click of the mouse.

But to date we've filled it mostly with sitcoms: Americans collectively watch some 200 billion hours of TV a year.

Even the CBC last year promoted its banal sitcom Being Erica with promises of a hot lesbian sex scene — and when the Mother Corp thinks girl - on - girl action makes acceptable prime - time viewing, it's a sure sign that sex is no longer shocking.

Just over two years later, with a half - hour Christmas special pilot, The Simpsons became the first prime - time animated sitcom since The Flintstones left the air in 1966.

In the ads, Thicke — a Canadian who played the father on the hit»80s sitcom Growing Pains — pitches the idea that, with Cambridge Life, consumers can cut their unsecured debts by up to 70 per cent.

At some point, though, things changed — to the point where the Fox sitcom, which aired its 100th episode Tuesday night, was able to replace its star entirely with another character played by Megan Fox, to cover for Deschanel's maternity leave.

Along with Fox's new sitcom, they are also the home to The Exorcist.

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.

In a world where sex permeates everything and where the dominant Reichian myth, preached with demonic plausibility by every movie, sitcom, and soap opera, is that sexual activity is what constitutes true existence, the place of single, celibate Christians is set to be a significant pastoral issue.

Community has some of the richest, most complex characters of any sitcom on television right now, and Shirley (portrayed with marvelous nuance by Yvette Nicole Brown — she should be getting far more recognition) is one of its best.

Miranda is actually a comedic actress with her own sitcom!

The sitcom Young Sheldon featured an interesting moment recently, with prayer playing a pretty essential role in the plot.

It's a line packed with humor, love and honesty — all of which are hallmarks of ABC's hit sitcom Black - ish.

With Keegan - Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Fred Savage, Billy Eichner, and several other familiar names to tout, Friends From College has one of 2017's best casts for a sitcom.

(Searching for differences between Republican and Democratic foreign policy experts is akin, he suggests, to «contrasting the finer points of the sitcoms on NBC with those broadcast on CBS.»)

What's wrong with replicating it a generation later for its successor New York young - adult sitcom?

Despite your tireless efforts in media (Movies, Music, Sitcoms) People are inundated daily with these visuals, and yet your still losing.

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.

On the other hand, Henson did have her start with sitcoms -LRB-

On the other hand, Henson did have her start with sitcoms (Sister, Sister and Saved By the Bell), so there could be some comedy goodies beneath her hard exterior.

Now the boat was almost elegant, serving food and regaling the passengers with Hongkong - made sitcoms and science - fiction movies (the two, as far as I could tell, overlap).

That comedian was Miranda Hart; and with her growing fame came the chance to write on her eponymously named and multi award - winning sitcom Miranda.

Along with starring alongside James in a new sitcom (Kevin Can Wait), Remini also hosts the docu - series, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.

Because my family was never part of the coffee culture, I thought people only began their day with a steaming mug on sitcoms and morning talk shows.

At four o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon, I sat down on the floor with a plate of syrup soaked pancakes in my lap and flipped on a familiar re-run of my favorite sitcom.