Take Nobody's Watching, a WB pilot about two television lovers who get to make their own sitcom.
The trouble is, the movie is not all that different from a sitcom.
Ferguson and Stonestreet play partners Mitchell and Cameron on the Emmy-winning ABC sitcom.
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But there was BBC success for Mrs Brown's Boys, which won best sitcom.
Writer Eric Chappell has used that script as the basis for the new show, peppering it with famous lines from the subsequent sitcom.
Now the NBC network has moved the show away from its plum 2130 BST slot and replaced it with a Whoopi Goldberg sitcom.
Working in its favor: In addition to cheaper price tags, when compared with the hour-long drama, no genre reruns or syndicates better than the sitcom.
Hart, who won three awards in 2010, is up for best female TV comic, TV comedy actress and the People's Choice award, while her show is up for best sitcom.
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This is especially evident in the first act, which is peopled with vapid stick figures who appear to be drawn not from real life but from an Eisenhower-era television sitcom.
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The young star proved both refreshing and likable as host of this year's Tony and TV Land Awards, and the opportunity--and buzz that comes with it--can only boost ratings for his nominated sitcom.
They're the wacky neighbor recurring on a sitcom.
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To make matters more confusing, Brendan O'Carroll's real-life wife plays his TV daughter, his TV son's wife is acted by his daughter, and his big sister is his neighbour and best friend in his sitcom.
NBC's adaptation is successful because it takes the central message from the BBC creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's work, the well-used notion that life is really about the unexpected significance we find in everyday human interactions, and absorbs it into the modern American sitcom.
He also became a fan of Cheers, the U.S. sitcom set in a bar.
It only came to light after the jury had picked the winners of the sitcom category.
That could be why NBC is now experimenting with a new multi-camera sitcom lineup.
After nine years, he knew it was time for his show to go to sitcom heaven.
Viacom will use Joost to revive defunct cult favorites such as MTV's Beavis and Butthead and Comedy Central's absurdist sitcom Stella.
Dad has a playful side to him, but when he's in parent mode he can sound as proper as a 1950s sitcom dad.
Other celebrities flanking Sheen at Wednesday's press conference included Janeane Garofalo, best known for Reality Bites, and Mike Farrell, star of sitcom MASH.
Cleese, a co-founder of Monty Python's Flying Circus and creator of Fawlty Towers, was cast partly because of an earlier Emmy-winning performance in an episode of US sitcom Cheers.
Jack Davenport plays the young, roguish gentleman who vies for Lady Windermere's affections - quite a change from his most famous role, as Steve in the ranchy BBC sitcom Coupling.
He also has another sitcom possibility.
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