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Originally Posted by IronMan
Are sitcoms a dead artform?
What says the VE forum?
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Art?
Oops, wrong discussion ...
I have a few disjointed and incoherent ideas. Someone might be able to make use of them:
Only a couple handfulls of worthwhile current sitcoms have been named in this thread. About 30 years ago there were the same number of "quality" sitcoms.
However, 30 years ago we had 1/20th of the channels broadcasting ... I suggest that, therefore, there are significantly fewer quality sitcoms, otherwise they would be more popular.
I chose 30 years ago because it was then that I noticed that people were beginning to laugh
after the laugh-track of the show did! Not
with the laugh track as they seemed to do earlier. It seems that people were getting used to being told what was comic rather than deciding for themselves.
Perhaps, what we have now is sort-of the same "volume of quality" as then, but diluted of a much greater number of shows produced.
I think the above is a little less than two cents of thoughts, but I don't want change.
e.d.