Has anyone noticed that ever since 2000 or so sitcoms have died? Sure CBS has an ok line up on Mondays with How I Met Your Mother, 2 1/2 Men and Rules of Engagement...(and some other show with the girl from Charmed with 3 geeks, wasn't one of them David on Roseanne?) But where are the rest of the shows... whatever happened to T.G.I.F??? ABC had a steller idea in the mid 90's which consisted of basically Nick At Nights line up today... Full House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, Step by Step and other various plug ins..... NBC had Friends, Blossom and Seinfield..... but what the hell is going on now?
There is nothing to laugh at anymore...America has gotten serious and not in the good way... sure 100 million people tune into American Idol, Surviver, The Amazing Race and Dancing with the Stars....but these are reality shows...which I blame MTV for creating...we all know that Road Rules and The Real World came first.
Then you have all the hour long drama shows that have held intrest but is slowly fading...Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, ER, and of course every Law and Order...but where is the comedy...
This rambler (and Mugs of course) has found that USA is most likely to show something with a little humor...step child of NBC, USA has gone from second run movies to 1st run shows... Psych gives a great laugh while solving crime....same goes for Emmy Award winning Tony Shalub and Monk....(who would have ever thought the mechanic on Wings would be winning Emmys)...and of course you could always watch the dramas like Burn Notice and In Plain Sight to catch comic relief....
But truely the sitcom is gone, and has been taken over by god knows what.... FOX's solution to this is of course Family Guy and American Dad...but new episodes get to be few and far between....thanks to hulu.com we could watch them over again.....
I give up... I'll go and look for my Box sets now... because syndication has just too many commerical promos....
