Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ May 12 2011, 9:43 PM BSTWell I'd have to put a word in for Carla Lane here, for this thread. An acquired taste in sitcom land for sure, but what she has done is provide a bit more depth to the often shallow, one dimensional studio sitcom. With Butterflies, And Mother Makes Five and Solo in particular, she focused on adult relationships; a preoccupation of many females, perhaps, but it did give the artform a grownup feel it had lacked before.
Then there's The Good Life, a high quality sitcom which was clearly aimed at a slightly older, married, middling type audience. And others like As Time Goes By, Fresh Fields, May To December and few other other middling, relationship based sitcoms. And To The Manor Born.
In short, most grown up sitcoms seem to me to have been aimed at couples or women, so they do have their uses, as it's brought a much needed depth that is too often missing in sitcoms.
They might have dealt with some "adult" themes but I think they were all family shows because there was an eqhal amount of sillyness.
