Kevin M. (RPCV)

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 1:09 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:

> Like many here I used to read Ken Levine’s blog and he decried the single
> cam sitcom in the days of The Office and Parks and Rec, harkening back to
> the days of multicam. Then I heard a Maron interview with the show runner
> of Fresh Off the Boat. She said she broke into TV writing for Nickelodeon
> and she said she hated what Multicam sitcoms turned into. The network was
> demanding a laugh every 30 seconds which meant the script was just
> setup-punchline with no chance for plot or character development.
>

I guess I’d need to know the context in which that comment was made, but
there’s a few decades of sitcom history featuring multi-camera productions
that included plot and character development. Granted, there was also mind
numbing pablum filmed before a live studio audience (especially in
kid/family friendly programming), but any TV writer who struggles with the
format should really consider a different line of work.


> On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 11:22 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Same.
>>
>> Kevin M. (RPCV)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 8:08 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> This is one of those series that will go to air, run for seven seasons,
>>> and I still will never have heard of it.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 10:48 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Shifting Gears," (w.t.) with Allen as "the stubborn, widowed owner of
>>>> a classic-car restoration shop," and Kat Dennings as his moving-in
>>>> estranged daughter (with kids), lost original showrunners Mike Scully and
>>>> Julie Thacker Scully over the summer, but gains a new leader in Dennings'
>>>> old "2 Broke Girls" and "Dollface" (Hulu) 'runner Michelle Nader, beginning
>>>> an overall deal with studio 20th TV...
>>>>
>>>> https://deadline.com/2024/09/michelle-nader-shifting-gears-showrunner-20th-television-deal-1236099181/
>>>>  (link)
>>>>
>>>> B
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