Page 54 - Sitcom News Today

Cameras to your positions. traditionally recorded in front of a live studio audience, the british sitcoms roots, like much earlier television, were theatrical. for a long time, its biggest home was the bbc�*s television centre. is this a piece of your brain? there, audiences saw the creation of some classic comedy and witnessed some extraordinary practical effects. i am not a virgin! but thoughtalent, imagination and creative ambition were on parade on the studio floor, an audience in good for...

This show brings strong feelings of nostalgia. But...why?

Vir Das brings an outsider perspective to comedy and is reaching people on Netflix, in film and on the road, hitting 32 countries with his current stand up tour.

>> afternoon, everybody. >> norm! >> hey, whats the story? >> boy meets beer. boy drinks beer. boy gets another beer. >> reporter: 30 years after the sitcoms last episode -- >> where are we? >> we are sitting at the prime corner of the "cs" everybody knows your name. >> reporter: the iconic bar and the bar stools, even the props on the wall, are all up for auction. josh benes with heritage auctions in dallas showed us around and said whoever buys the bar will also notice it comes with a few auto...

"all in the family" is on the auction block. of course, archie and ediths chairs come with the set. >> this was where race got discussed for the first time. this is where homosexuality got discussed for the first time in a sitcom. this is where family dynamics and marriage and divorce and unhappiness and the strife of being middle class happened in tv land for the first time. ♪ >> reporter: and for fans of late night talk, one of the holy grails is up for sale. the set for the last ten years o...

Families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like the simpsons. >> huh? >> we go to a completely bizarre period of time in 1992 when a sitting president is raging against a sitcom. >> they have dealt with politics. they have dealt with popular culture. theyve dealt with all kinds of issues of racism, of sexism. >> dont ask me, im just a girl. ha ha! ha ha! >> right on, say it, sister. >> its not funny, bart. millions of girls will grow up thinking this is the right way to act. >> they hav...

If you've got the money to spare, you can have a piece of television history in your own home.

And i would write down everything that they said. and all of them were like, "youre gonna be okay." - yeah. yeah. - like, "youre gonna be okay." and so one of those showrunners was kind enough to give me my first job. that was "quintuplets." that was my first wga job. and on that show, i met carter bays and craig thomas, who created "how i met your mother." - after years of hustling and writing for non-latin shows, the job of showrunner, or the boss, still eluded her. thats because latino writer...

The play will feature seven of the iconic Channel 4 show’s original cast members

1980s sitcom star hid her health issues for at least 30 years before her death.