A roundtable discussion on The Carmichael Show by Phillip Cunningham, Alfred Martin, and Khadijah Costley White.
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Roundtable on The Carmichael Show
The Domestic Apolitics of 1600 Penn
NBC's new First Family sitcom, 1600 Penn, is surprisingly devoid of conventional political engagement, instead relying on traditional domestic comedy in the form of interpersonal conflict.
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Why Little Mosque Matters [Part 5]
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Why does Little Mosque matter to viewers, and why does it matter to television scholars?
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Jokes and the Contradictions of the Sitcom [Part 3]
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The conventions of the sitcom that Little Mosque on the Prairie adopted often worked at cross-purposes with humor’s potential to draw people’s assumptions about the world into question.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: How Little Mosque Found a Home [Part 2]
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The various people involved in Little Mosque’s production were positioned differently in the communities between which they were mediating, and as a consequence, the factors that influenced their creative decisions differed, too.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Humor as a Medium of Translation [Part 1]
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Kyle Conway begins a multi-part series exploring the production of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a CBC sitcom set to debut in the U.S. on Hulu this month.
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In Memoriam: Hal Kanter, the Creator of Julia
The TV series lasted three years and only in its first season did it crack the Nielsen ratings’ top tier. It has never had much of a presence in the syndication market, doesn’t show up on TV Land, and has never been in VHS or DVD release. Julia, the NBC series created by Hal...
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Situation Without Comedy
FOX's new animated sitcom Allen Gregory trades heavily in humiliation. Cynthia Chris examines the comedic resonance of this sort of situation in light of recent events.
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Notes on the Laugh Track
The laugh track has persisted through decades of popular suspicion and disdain, but lately it has come to seem newly disreputable.
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America Needs Historical Comedies Now
It's Like Mad Men, Only Funny!
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Lessons from Los Angeles: Top Takeaways from the TV Academy (Part Two)
The second in our two-part series on the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences Foundation's faculty seminar.
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On Stan Lee, Leonard Nimoy, and Coitus . . . Or, The Fleeting Pleasures of Televisual Nerdom
Maybe it was time to leave the safe haven of sci-fi niche nerdom and dip my toe into a mass program. BBT had just won a People’s Choice award. Could all the people be wrong all the time?
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Louie, Luckily
FX's Louie and new possibilities for half-hour television comedy.
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Laugh it Up, Fuzzball: Star Wars as Sit-com
The news of a greenlit sit-com based on the Star Wars saga is liable to set millions of eyes rolling and heads shaking, but while comedy and Star Wars are uneasy companions, it may be worth giving this latest venture a chance.
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The Return of the Family Sitcom
I have a long tradition of disliking family sitcoms, reaching all the way back to my adolescence. But this season on TV, I have fallen in love with two “traditional” family sitcoms, both on ABC on Wednesday nights: The Middle and Modern Family.
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