Published on May,25 2012 - by Variety
"Men at Work" premiered Thursday on TBS to a total audience of 2.6 million viewers, including a network record in men 18-34 for a firstrun comedy. Created by Breckin Meyer, "Men at Work" gave TBS a 14% improvement in ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES _ Al Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who spent much of his more than 40-year career writing for Jack Benny's penny-pinching, vain and perennially 39-year-old persona, has died. He was 89. Gordon ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Variety
...f ProSieben in Germany gave it a thumbs up, while Boess said he was "surprised" at how funny the Charlie Sheen sitcom was. There was strong praise across the board for the lineup from CBS Intl. Studios, highlighted by pr...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Variety
Emmy winner Al Gordon, a comedy writer for Jack Benny's series and specials, "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," "The Carol Burnett Show" as well as sitcoms including "Three's Company," died Wednesday in Los Angeles ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Variety
... CBS. Programs like "Smash" and "Glee" -- and soon "Partners" and "The New Normal," Ryan Murphy's upcoming NBC sitcom about a gay couple and the surrogate birthing their child -- invariably stand on the shoulders of what...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Variety
...The sitcom equivalent of empty calories, "Men at Work" really ought to be titled "Juvenile Guys at Play," for all the time the central quartet of sex-obsessed dudes spend at the Manhattan magazine (or as the kids will sa...
Published on May,22 2012 - by Variety
...ely always knows where the funny is." Heisler's talking about Patricia Heaton, star of "The Middle," the first sitcom to have that particular distinction. Heaton spent nine seasons of "Everybody Loves Raymond," but after...
Published on May,22 2012 - by Variety
...oice; it's how the cards fell." Nine seasons as Debra Barone (during which she won two Emmys) let her hone her sitcom skills as the spunky, take-no-guff straight woman on the show, and she had two of her four children du...
Published on May,22 2012 - by Reuters
...With its cast of scheming and upwardly mobile women, a bit like the character Lucille Ball played in her 1950s sitcom, and with an indelibly memorable fat man, like Jackie Gleason as the overweight bus driver Ralph Kramd...
Published on May,22 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
...arper, long-suffering wife of dentist Ben Harper, played by Robert Lindsay. At the peak of its popularity, the sitcom was watched by more than 10 million viewers but by its end, was struggling to reach audience figures o...