Having cranked out 210 episodes in 5 years and proven a new model for cable and syndicated sitcoms, "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" is ending its first-run on TBS, to be replaced by "Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse," based on his "Why Did I Get Married?" films--no details from James Hibberd, but we assume that like Perry's other series (and the similar "Are We There Yet?", whose broadcast syndicator is Debmar- Mercury, Perry's syndicator), they'll make 10 to 20 test shows and if they do OK, then go into assembly-line production in Atlanta with non- WGA writers (or in the case of "There Yet?", Connecticut) to crank out 2 a week (multi-cam tape, but no audience--laugh track) to get to 100 episodes within the first two years:
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/04/26/tbs-orders-tyler-perry-comedy-series-based-on-hit-movie/ So far, Debmar-Mercury and TBS only seem to be working this formula with blackcoms, although it seemed like CMT's flop Ed Asner/Melissa Peterman sitcom "Working Class" was using a similar production schedule (but with a 13-ep order). TV Land's sitcoms and the tweeny- bop sitcoms on Disney and Nick seem to follow the traditional five-day schedule (table read on Monday, film/tape on Friday with an audience) for multi-cam shows and use union crews and WGA writers. The blackcoms on TVOne and BET this season (including the revival of "The Game") seem to be following some of the assembly-line procedure of the Perry shows. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
