In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy Butler studies our love–hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genre’s position as a major media artifact within American culture and providing a historical overview of its evolution in the USA.Read more…

I just put together a table of 21st-century comedies that are woman-centered and was surprised to see just how many of them had women creators, showrunners, and/or executive producers. Even if you drop out the EP’s that are just vanityRead more…

Several interviews related to Julia (1968-71): http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/shows/julia  

The amount of old-time radio recordings online is a bit intimidating. There are thousands of hours of shows that have slipped into the public domain. As I’ve been working on a radio-sitcom section of my book, I’ve often used archive.org forRead more…

When researching the impact of sitcoms, it’s often handy to refer to the Nielsen ratings for specific years. The Website, Classic TV Hits has compiled them for 1950-1999. Thanks! http://www.classictvhits.com/tvratings/index.htm

We earlier posted eerie YouTube videos of The Big Bang Theory with its laugh track removed (October 28, 2014). Those snarky folks at ClickHole decided that they would satirize the program by adding even more laughs: http://www.clickhole.com/video/watch-big-bang-theory-more-laughter-added-1132