Friday Night Dinner is also up for best sitcom and new comedy, with nods for stars Tamsin Greig and Tom Rosenthal.
Mrs Brown's Boys has been a surprise success - winning a Bafta for best sitcom and gathering up to eight million viewers on BBC One.
Sitcom and reality show fatigue, says Quart, may be the perfect setting for Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman to make his comeback in HBO drama Luck, which debuts in January.
Kutcher's role as Apple mastermind Jobs, who died last year, marks a departure from his recent comedy film roles and the sitcom Two and a Half Men, which Sundance director John Cooper says is typical of the festival.
Scott Sedita, an acting coach and author of the book "The Eight Characters of Comedy: Guide to Sitcom Acting and Writing" said that the multi-camera sitcom's automatic invitation to laugh makes it much more accessible to everyone.
Ferrell was joined in the claim by his wife, Vivica Pauldin, and fellow comedian Larry David, famous for producing hit sitcom Seinfeld and star of his own Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Developed by Norman Lear and co-created by Whitney Blake herself a former sitcom star and single mother raising future actress Meredith Baxter the series was groundbreaking for its focus on a young divorced mother seeking independence from a suffocating marriage.
The Emmy-award winning sitcom star and producer amassed quite the real estate portfolio while married to Camille.
FORBES: Kelsey Grammer's Beverly Glen Home Back on the Market
But Drescher is a sitcom veteran and knew where she stood the best chance of securing an audience.
The 38-year-old is recognised for roles in two BBC shows - religious sitcom Rev and Olympic satire Twenty Twelve.
CBS' top-ranked sitcom Two and a Half Men regularly attracts nearly double that.
Actor Charlie Sheen is to star in US sitcom Two and a Half Men for another two seasons, it has been announced.
He said that sitcom producers and writers should take up the challenge and figure out how to make multi-camera sitcoms more relevant today.
Sitcom fans and creators alike can reasonably wonder that if such a show as "30 Rock" had trouble finding viewers, what chance do other quality sitcoms have?
Greenblatt has said that he wants NBC to reassert its strength as a sitcom leader and many pundits have said that the new Fox show is an example of how Greenblatt is going to do that.
The 55-year-old comedienne became a household name with her BBC sketch show Victoria Wood As Seen On TV and has gone on to create sitcom Dinner Ladies and West End Musical Acorn Antiques.
On Wednesday, the Hulu homepage featured photos of NBC and Fox TV shows that the network will presumably distribute, including The Simpsons, 24, My Name Is Earl, K-Ville, Friday Night Lights, Bones and the forthcoming Back To You, a new sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton.
Legendary sitcom characters Laverne and Shirley fixed bottle caps on one of the city's assembly lines.
Like when Hobbs recycles lines from his sitcom to try and communicate with his lovelorn teenage daughter (Ryan Newman).
Earlier in the year, it was her critically acclaimed sitcom 30 Rock and her big-screen flick Baby Mama grabbing the ink.
First, Del Boy Trotter, the fictional dodgy dealer who was the area's most famous resident thanks to the hugely successful 1980s BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses.
The screenwriter, Jeffrey Abrams, has a mind that channel-hops from AMC to Nick at Nite: he stuffs the film with old-movie gimmicks and sitcom devices, such as Gibson being able to propose marriage only when his lover is absent.
Among the new owners is Thomas Werner, who has experience both as a baseball owner (San Diego Padres) and in television (developing several sitcom megahits, including The Cosby Show and Roseanne).
We thought on broadcast television in prime time the sitcom was dead, and then came 'Modern Family.
CBS' stable, if not boring, schedule has five new scripted primetime series--four dramas and one sitcom--on offer this fall.
Previous winners of the award include comedy game show, Celebrity Juice and Channel 4 sitcom, The Inbetweeners.
The chorus at the end of "Hey Eugene, " for example echoes of 1970s sitcom staples, Good Times and The Jeffersons.
However, they were both pipped by Lena Dunham, creator and star of sitcom Girls, which also won best comedy TV series.
Miranda Hart and Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner are leading the charge at this year's British Comedy Awards, with four nominations each.
Asked why there had never been a Blackadder feature film, Atkinson said it was "surprisingly tricky" to expand the sitcom format to an hour and a half.
应用推荐