Along with Aaron Spelling, Garry Marshall was the man who helped make Fred Silverman make ABC a ratings contender in the 70s with "The Odd Couple," "Happy Days," "Laverne and Shirley" and "Mork and Mindy"--attacked for appealing to the lowest common denominator, he answered by saying that he wanted everyone to watch and enjoy his shows and give them the best quality production he knew how:
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/writer-director-garry-marshall-dies-81/ In the 80s, Mr. Marshall went on to make many hit movies from "Pretty Woman" to "The Princess Diaries" and didn't return to television. Nowadays, his shows are mostly on the digital subchannels, but the look and feel of his shows is pretty much the look and feel of most multi-cam sitcoms made today, not the more stagey Norman Lear look and feel. And of course, with the exception of "The Carmichael Show," today's multi-cam shows (especially on the kiddie channels) go for broad comedy, like most of Mr. Marshall's hits, not social commentary and satire like Lear or the sophistication of the MTM 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
