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As they used to say on NBC, “If you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you.” Enjoy the reruns (previous posts), and I’ll be back soon with some exciting news.
The third “death of the sitcom”
After close calls with extinction in the late 1950s and late 1960s, sitcoms came roaring back each time. In 1984, once again, many people declared the death of the sitcom. And once again, the genre did a 180 and thrived. The problem had been brewing since the late 1970s. Successful new sitcoms between 1977 and…
The second “death” of the sitcom
As the genre had a decade ago, sitcoms went through a slump in the late 1960s. In the early 1960s, sitcoms recovered from its first crisis with a flurry of hit shows introduced between 1960 and 1965. However, the second half of the decade saw the format decline. The fall of 1966 marked the beginning…