2011/12 TV Season - New Shows (The Comedies and Reality TV Thread)

[manhn]

OMG, Alex's storyline was FANTASTIC. Yay, Happy Endings!!!

I can't believe the censors allowed the ""when my friend was tucking me in" joke.

[PeterG]

The last entry for returning and new shows (new ones in bold):

Sunday, October 30

8:30 Allen Gregory (FOX)
9:00 The Next Iron Chef (Food)

Friday, November 4

9:00 Flying Wild Alaska (Discovery)

Saturday, November 12

11:30 The Thick of It (BBCA)

Wednesday, November 23

9:30 I Hate My Teenage Daughter (FOX)

Wednesday, November 30

10:00 Hot in Cleveland (TV Land)
10:30 The Exes (TV Land)

[AliasJohnDoe]

Also:

"Beavis and Butt-head" return to MTV with new episodes tonight at 10:00pm after years of being off.

I use to be a fan.

[PeterG]

Also:

"Beavis and Butt-head" return to MTV with new episodes tonight at 10:00pm after years of being off.

I use to be a fan.

Uh huh.

[Artemis@BC]

I'll check out Allen Gregory, despite the fact that I've been completely unimpressed with every other recent Fox animated series.

[Beefcake]

Couple/3 sitcom commments, albeit not about new comedies ...

1. As expected, Community was put on hiatus. Completely expected, as its ratings were miniscule even by cable standards. Fans are grasping at straws, but there is no way this show will be back for anything but "episode burn-off" ... Community doesn't even give NBC "awards/prestige" or publicity, ala big sister 30 Rock, so it'd be moronic to keep it. I'll miss the cast, except for Chevy Chase. The season started terribly, but actually produced some terrific episodes before this news. Oh well.

2. Oh, how grand! Arrested Development is still going to be a movie, but now the return to television is definite. And definitely groundbreaking. NetFlix to produce AD / debut expected in 2012

I love this, er, development! Streaming/per view is the immediate future, and it's that a once-a-generation show such as AD will be at this cutting edge. I'm also thinking that the measure for success for this pathfinder venture will be lower, so perhaps we can dream of more than the single season?

3. It's been a while since I've watched a show with canned laughter, a long while. Recently I've DVRed Big Bang Theory, thinking that this series should be right up my viewing alley. NOPE! Well, the show is okay, though not Beefy DVR worthy. The far (far far far) larger problem is that I've not been able to endure an entire episode because the odious, dominating laugh track makes me cringe and want to throw things. WTH? (ETA: BBT may be filmed in front of a studio audience, but post-production is obviously REALLY turning up the laughter decibels .. argh.)

To those who watch other laugh tracked shows: Is it this bad with those shows, as well?