She also made many cameo appearances parodying herself on television sitcoms and in movies.
Because he didn't produce original sitcoms and dramas, Johnson was accused of failing to provide a platform for black writers, actors and producers.
"As a model, you never get taken seriously, and maybe you shouldn't, " she says of her days on sitcoms and in film flops.
As screens get sharper and batteries stronger, more people will get their sitcoms and weather reports on demand, their articles on the Web rather than on a piece of paper.
Rather than embrace the daring and offbeat as the network (unsuccessfully) did with Swingtown, Moonlight and Viva Laughlin in seasons past, this season's schedule is once again heavy on the tried and true: procedurals, multicamera sitcoms and spin-offs.
But if belles du jour Tina Fey and Amy Poehler can excel at TV sitcoms and movies and teach Ricky Gervais a thing or two (or three) about hosting the Golden Globes, could they be queens of the night with their own talk shows?
But now, between old movies and episodes of sitcoms such as "Bewitched" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show, " she doesn't have much time for anything beside the newspaper.
Of the five shows--sitcoms Happy Hour and 'Til Death and dramas Justice, Standoff and Vanished--introduced last fall, only one, 'Til Death, is returning for a second season.
Not a big deal for fans of dramas and sitcoms, but sports fans will need to figure out which channel their team is on some other way since the iPad app will only let you find future events.
Never mind zapping movies and sitcoms over the Web (that is so Nineties)--Semel is betting on "social media, " letting some of Yahoo's 200 million registered customers create their own content and share it with whomever they choose, linking up in rich multimedia cliques to swap pithy commentary and photos, songs, games, home videos and interactive fare that users themselves will invent.
There are also a number of new and upcoming multi-camera sitcoms that were introduced this fall and will premiere in 2012.
Yet this giant is an eclectic collection of seemingly unrelated pieces--jet engines and lightbulbs, synthetic polymers and Friends sitcoms.
Sarnoff and Paley struggled with business models that would balance quality with the more popular and profitable sitcoms of the time.
One way of doing so is to encourage people with mobile phones that can show video to use them to catch up on last night's sitcoms, late shows and sports events.
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Reality shows are much cheaper to produce than sitcoms or dramas, and six years after CBS jumpstarted the modern reality show era with Survivor, audiences are still eating this stuff up: Three of the 20 most popular shows this season are unscripted.
Robinson Crusoe and 60's sitcoms aside, having an island to one's self is an enduring fantasy, and for good reason.
Now you see that everywhere in series like Downton Abbey and Mad Men, and even in sitcoms.
"I just don't know that we can do sitcoms that are loud enough and noisiest enough, " Ostroff says.
He is a big fan of classic sitcoms like Dad's Army and he loves cricket.
The older-skewing network is heading into another television season focused on genres it has thrived in, procedural dramas and multi-camera sitcoms.
Sitcoms are an American specialty, and here Ying Da has an edge.
And it does so in a dumbed-down Esperanto that its audience can't fail to understand -- the universal language of commercial TV sitcoms, with their constrained cultural vocabulary and their subtext of harmlessness: Don't be offended, none of this really means anything, it's just a goof about a lot of dumb stuff going down around us.
" Multi-camera sitcoms also "are usually cheaper to produce and take less time to shoot.
Major League Baseball games, sitcoms from NBC, movie downloads from Starz and more zip across the Internet via 20, 000 superfast servers that Akamai has deployed in 71 countries.
But Ed Bark, a TV critic behind the TV review website Uncle Barky's Bytes, said that CBS has captured the younger demographic with multi-camera sitcoms like "The Big Bang Theory" and is doing well with its Monday night lineup.
Single-camera sitcoms like "The Office, " "Parks and Recreation" and "Modern Family" incorporate cinematic techniques and allow producers to film outside the studio.
He said that sitcom producers and writers should take up the challenge and figure out how to make multi-camera sitcoms more relevant today.
The Lancashire-born star was known to millions for starring in sitcoms like 1960s favourite Meet the Wife, playing Thora Blacklock, and In Loving Memory playing Ivy in the late 1970s.
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Three out of the four sitcoms he first announced on this stage last year have proved hits and will return for a second season. (Recession-themed Hank got the early boot.) The standout, Modern Family, has averaged an impressive 3.8 rating among the coveted younger audience, along with hefty critical praise.
It was conceived in 1995 as a proprietary service as AOL had been, then reinvented as a straight Internet access provider, then it ventured into content and online "channels, " even trying to produce Web sitcoms.
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