But the sitcom disaster did not seem to slow Lagasse down or shake his spirit.
It only came to light after the jury had picked the winners of the sitcom category.
With "30 Rock" leaving the air, the sitcom again finds itself at a crossroads.
The levity in the sitcom made it easier for many viewers -- and me -- to swallow.
The sitcom is one of the best examples of ensemble acting on British television for many years.
We thought on broadcast television in prime time the sitcom was dead, and then came 'Modern Family.
In an online interview, the Anchorman creator said he had submitted a script during the sitcom's first season.
Winters won a best supporting actor Emmy for playing Randy Quaid's father in the sitcom Davis Rules in 1991.
And how much will his bad-boy antics, and the decision to clean them up, cost those behind the sitcom?
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Keith, who played snobbish aristocrat Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in the sitcom To The Manor Born, will be joined by Flog It!
In 2002, "Boss of Me" (the theme to the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle) earned They Might Be Giants a Grammy.
At least since the resolutely cynical "Seinfeld" and the absurdist (and underrated) "NewsRadio, " the sitcom has been self-reflexive, a parody of itself.
Sadly, Buster Merryfield - who played the brothers' immovable high rise guest Uncle Albert - has died since the sitcom went off air.
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.
"Charlie's Angels" turned out to be a huge hit, and shows ranging from the sitcom "Three's Company" to the drama "Baywatch" owe the show a debt.
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.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies asked if the Welsh government would try to "pull the plug" on Gavin and Stacey if the sitcom couple got stuck on the M4.
The sitcom, which features the former Dawson's Creek star as a fictionalised version of himself, was pulled from TV schedules earlier this week, 11 episodes into the season.
"Whereas the movie was over-the-top funny, the sitcom's opening episode was over the top minus the funny, despite lacking only one member of the big-screen cast, " the review said.
K., after all, already tried updating the sitcom with "Lucky Louie, " which kept the traditional multi-camera, studio audience formula but built episodes around real adult problems and mature jokes.
In fact, despite headlines declaring the sitcom dead in recent years, comedies have kept audiences glued to their TV sets for more hours recently than in the genre's early 1990s heyday, it says.
While the show ended with the "Modern Family" cast onstage for the best comedy award, the sitcom also monopolized the first half-hour of the show, winning all of the first four Emmys handed out.
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.
We have the number one scripted series, the number one drama, the number one sitcom, the number one news sitcom, the number one news magazine and the number one most-watched scripted series every single night of the week.
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The sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for example, is filmed for the most part in studios in even sunnier LA. And several shows focusing on New York City's Manhattan, such as Mad Men, Friends and How I Met Your Mother, are also shot primarily in the City of Angels.
As a reflection of the rest of pop culture, something it has captured for nearly 30 years, MTV has embraced geeks in a big way (the sitcom "The Hard Times of RJ Berger" will start its second season soon, and there's even a site called "MTV Geek" now).
Coming in second is the only sitcom on the list, the long-lived CBS laugher Two and a Half Men, currently in its seventh season.
The series, produced by Granada for the BBC, was expected to do well in Montreux, but the top sitcom prize was given instead to All Stars from the Netherlands.
But in an indelible episode of the NBC sitcom, Warburton's David Puddy immortalized himself in the eccentric history of Devils hockey, to the point where, almost two decades after it aired, stray hockey fans still occasionally stop Warburton and quote lines back to him.
The cast and creators of the hospital sitcom are happy to get a new lease on life at the Disney-owned network.
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