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Similarly, I'm watching the US version and have seen the Australian version but not the UK one. They're quite enjoyable, but not addictive.
Haven't seen this yet. I don't think I've seen all of Young Sheldon either. The free-to-air channel that had it didn't publicize when there were new episodes and I lost track of it.
I watched it once.
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There's an obvious pun there but I won't make it.
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I was very saddened about the cancellation of STUMBLE by NBC, but I'm still hoping that they decide to move the show exclusively to Peacock.
But I'm not holding my breath on that.
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Although most of my favorite sitcoms are classic 3-camera filmed with an audience shows, I find I don't care for that format with newer series. In older shows, it feels quaint and cozy; in newer shows, it feels antiquated and stagey.
This has been most obvious in bouncing between THE BIG BANG THEORY and its two spin-offs. I've only watched TBBT and GEORGE & MANDY intermittently and only the first two seasons of YOUNG SHELDON. TBBT and G&M, 3-camera shows, feel limited and very loud. YS, filmed like a movie with 1 camera, felt more intimate and immersive.
This has been most obvious in bouncing between THE BIG BANG THEORY and its two spin-offs. I've only watched TBBT and GEORGE & MANDY intermittently and only the first two seasons of YOUNG SHELDON. TBBT and G&M, 3-camera shows, feel limited and very loud. YS, filmed like a movie with 1 camera, felt more intimate and immersive.
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In older shows, it has never bothered me the use of a laugh track or a live studio audience. I can watch anything --- I LOVE LUCY, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, MARY TYLER MOORE, LAVERNE & SHIRLEY, THE GOLDEN GIRLS, DESIGNING WOMEN, and so on --- and never be annoyed by the canned laughter or audience reaction. It adds to the atmosphere for me.
Meanwhile, the newer shows that have laugh tracks and live audiences sometimes feel fake (yeah, I know it's TV) and corny. I guess the newest show that I actually like that used an audience was REBA, but even that show isn't particularly "new" when you think about it. Sure, there are others I had to have liked, but they're escaping me right now.
I've never liked THE BIG BANG THEORY, so I've never even bothered with the spin-offs.
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We're overlooking the fact that many of the classic sitcoms were one-camera in the sense that they were filmed in the style of a feature film - short scenes filmed out-of-sequence, reverse angles and close-ups filmed separately, and so on. Think Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan's Island, many others.
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You're right, but those had laugh tracks added during post-production, and had a different "vibe" than what is generally seen on TV today.
Today, there's a lot of single-camera, laugh track-less sitcoms. Some mockumentaries, some more "traditional" sitcoms.
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But the shows you mention aren't canned laughter tracks -- they're actual live audience response.
In fact, the "sweeteners" brought in to add fake laughter to sitcoms often had to delete audience laughs from MARY TYLER MOORE and LAVERNE & SHIRLEY lest the episode ran too long. They had to do the same with the curtain rod moment in CAROL BURNETT's 1976 'Went with The Wind' sketch (when the laughter went on for several minutes).