Quote: Aaron @ February 10 2010, 9:41 PM GMTMy Family and After You've Gone vs. Clone.
Not that clear a saviour.
'Take your favourite American sitcom and drop it in IMDB and check out the writing credits... Who are these people? '
I was answering that question Aaron not the one posed in the thread title. 
Quote: chipolata @ February 11 2010, 11:45 AM GMTMy Family was created by an American, Fred Barron, who applied the American table-writing system to Britain. And After You've Gone was created by the same guy. Fred Barron. An American.
Yes dear. As opposed to Clone, also an American sitcom, which was terrible. And indeed According To Bex, also created by Fred Barron. An American.
As I said, not that clear a saviour.
Quote: Aaron @ February 11 2010, 12:04 PM GMTYes dear.
Quote: zooo @ February 10 2010, 9:43 PM GMT
I think you'll find she's contributed a tad more to classic sitcom creating than Frost!
Yeah, I am not sure why I added frost in there. I think I was under the impression that he had writing credits in the ensuing, so-called "Blood and Ice Cream trilogy".
I also am a Brit-com neophyte.
I am your Padawan, my Jedi. 
Quote: deckard @ February 12 2010, 7:04 PM GMTYeah, I am not sure why I added frost in there. I think I was under the impression that he had writing credits in the ensuing, so-called "Blood and Ice Cream trilogy".
He has co-written the forthcoming Pegg and Frost starring 'Paul' though.
The traditional sitcom is probably a defunct form in this country for the foreseeable future.
I hope not.
Are you saying there's no market for sitcoms in the same vein as Only Fools, One Foot, etc??? No waaaay!! The public love them.
There seems to be no public appetite to revive it.
I disagree. The public aren't commissioners.
It's the fault of blind producers, so-called TV execs and those bloody coke-snorting media studies whores who continue to "think" that all we want is bloody "edgy" rubbish.
There should be a choice. A happy medium.
Some trad sitcoms, some edgy adult stuff. Not ALL the latter.
The Noughties were awful overall, sitcomwise.
Quote: Mikey Jackson @ February 16 2010, 10:24 PM GMTThere should be a choice. A happy medium.
Some trad sitcoms, some edgy adult stuff.
Isn't that what we have now?
Not really.
Where are the trad sitcoms?
Must watch sitcoms like One Foot and Only Fools?
Quote: Mikey Jackson @ February 17 2010, 1:55 AM GMTWhere are the trad sitcoms?
Must watch sitcoms like One Foot and Only Fools?
To be fair, part of the reason they were 'must watch' was because they were broadcast at a time when there were only 2 or 3 other channels available. That's not to say they weren't great, just that the a new sitcom of the same quality wouldn't have such a monopoly of viewership.