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NBC asks viewers for better sitcom ideas
Entertainment Weekly ^ | April 8, 2014 | James Hibbert

Posted on 04/09/2014 6:35:11 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog

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To: fwdude

The last one was probably Seventh Heaven.


81 posted on 04/09/2014 7:19:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

LOLOL!


82 posted on 04/09/2014 7:20:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Hey NBC!

Here’s an idea for yah.

Rerun the following:

Winky Dink and You - the first interactive cartoon show
Crusader Rabbit
Tom Terrific

That’s right, cartoon shows from the fifties. They would certainly raise the intellectual content by several orders of magnitude over the puerile nonsense NBC currently broadcasts.

And they’re certainly vastly funnier.

Bring back the evening Family Hour.


83 posted on 04/09/2014 7:22:25 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: qam1

Good idea! Kind of like Gilligan’s Island, only it could be Gullibles’s Iceberg.


84 posted on 04/09/2014 7:23:51 AM PDT by bobo1 (progressives=commies/fascists)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Though it wouldn’t happen through NBC, I can imagine a new production studio oriented to “volume” instead of just a few high budget productions. It’s selling points:

1) Popular with the various unions, because it provides *some* work for a lot of people, instead of just a few big names. So an emphasis on vignette productions, like the original Twilight Zone, with a mostly different cast and production team each episode, live music, script and acting heavy, with minimal f/x.

2) Everybody works for scale, so no stars who want more. Everything goes direct to syndication, and profits go back into production.

3) Return to the stage production look and feel instead of reality based shows. That comes into play later, with old style travelogue and nature shows like Wild Kingdom.

4) Eventually produce a variety show, which is a tried and true formula.


85 posted on 04/09/2014 7:25:07 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’d watch Bob Newhart every week, but of course, he’s about 84 years old now, probably not going to happen. I loved his guest spots on Big Bang.


86 posted on 04/09/2014 7:26:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Buckeye McFrog


87 posted on 04/09/2014 7:27:17 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
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To: SunkenCiv
Probably one of the best Newhart moments was the skit he did for Mad TV.

"STOP IT!"

88 posted on 04/09/2014 7:28:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Buckeye McFrog

OK, so there’s this overly paranoid, not-too-smart-but-very-arrogant, gay drug abuser with a hidden past......


89 posted on 04/09/2014 7:29:20 AM PDT by wbill
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To: oh8eleven
While channel surfing and finding nothing to watch again last week (with over 200 channels!),

I concur.

I have Netflix and HBO GO which help. Also, I have a rather large collection of old and modern TV series I enjoy. Occasionally, I will marathon a season. [Commercials have been removed, and that makes them more watchable.]
90 posted on 04/09/2014 7:29:35 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Buckeye McFrog; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...

Heeeeey... yeah... Bob Newhart plays a retired astronaut who almost went to the Moon during the Apollo program, but his scheduled flight was cancelled (it all ended with 17). One of his neighbors believes the Moon landings were faked, his first marriage ended in divorce (which was a commonplace during the space program heyday) but he remarried a much younger woman. First episode his wife is watching “Apollo 18” and it’s making him angry, frustrated, and uncomfortable.


91 posted on 04/09/2014 7:30:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...

Sometime in the first season he invites his old space program buddies over for a poker game, and all of them except him are actual Apollo astronauts who went to the Moon.


92 posted on 04/09/2014 7:31:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: martin_fierro

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3142457/posts?page=32#32


93 posted on 04/09/2014 7:33:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: muir_redwoods

...and during the episode they cut away from the action and have a fake CNN newscast about the search for their missing plane, and the search area varies by 1000 miles each time.


94 posted on 04/09/2014 7:36:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Alex Murphy

George: What writer? It’s a sitcom.


95 posted on 04/09/2014 7:37:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

I never watched Seventh Heaven, but if Michael Landon was in it, it had to be great.


96 posted on 04/09/2014 7:38:25 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: cripplecreek
Two Unlikely Roommates

Two Unlikely Roommates

97 posted on 04/09/2014 7:39:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Democrat Suicide of the Week with weekend group shows.


98 posted on 04/09/2014 7:39:54 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I still think the broadcast finale episode of Newhart was one of the best and funniest finales ever.

I watched The Bob Newhart Show but never watched Newhart — until that finale.

IIRC, when they released the Newhard DVD, they edited out significant parts of that finale episode, thus ruining the comedic value the broadcast episode had.


99 posted on 04/09/2014 7:40:32 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Buckeye McFrog

How about a compilation of guys getting hit/kicked/slammed in the testicles? You could call it “Ouch! My Balls!”

Considering the caliber of today’s brain-dead audience, it would be a smash.

(With acknowledgement to “Idiocracy,” which at first I thought was a documentary.)


100 posted on 04/09/2014 7:40:55 AM PDT by IronJack
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