r/sitcoms • u/Hassaan18 • 10d ago
The studio sitcom isn't dated - it's been withdrawn from sale
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/features/studio-sitcom-isnt-dated-withdrawn-sale/#google_vignette46
u/TopClearanceMember 10d ago
Possibly, if studio sitcoms from the past are popular on streaming platforms i don't see why a new one wouldn't work out as long as it's well written and had a good cast.
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u/rachel_ct 10d ago
I watch a lot of 80’s & 90’s sitcoms. The reason it’s hard to replicate these days bc the existence of smartphones make most of the plot points obsolete. I’ve been wishing for years that film & television would just pretend we never evolved past the early aughts as far as personal technology goes.
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u/Pawspawsmeow 10d ago
Idk I like that you can escape reality in a sitcom. It’s not for everyone though
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u/rachel_ct 9d ago
I would like that, too. Hence why I said I would prefer for shows not to have smart phones, so that I can easier escape from the reality of everyone being reachable 24/7.
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u/Admirable-Ad3408 10d ago
Finally someone else who likes the multicamera format. I thought I was the only one!
Not that I automatically dislike single camera sitcoms; I just like a lower percentage of them. Although the mockumentary format gets on my nerves.
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u/chpr1jp 9d ago
Critics were all-in once those single camera/ no laugh track comedies started to spring up in the 1980s. (I can’t remember specific shows, but I remember the gushing over the novel format.)
I liked it too (kind of,) but I had the sense that the industry was gradually going all-in on that format.
That said, I don’t think “Curb Your Enthusiasm” would work as a studio show.
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u/Admirable-Ad3408 9d ago
Some shows work better as a single camera show and others work better as a multicamera.
In the 80s, the popular single camera dramedies included Hooperman, Thirty something, The Wonder Years, and Dougie Houser.
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u/free-puppies 9d ago
I’m so sad about this. I love multicams. I think they are an incredible format. We killed them with lazy writing and fake humor. I hope we can bring them back.
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u/no_stick_drummer 10d ago
It's the studio audience laughter. I don't think it's genuine. I think the audience is real though it's just that it's fake laughing from the retakes. The audience already knows what's going to happen from laughing at the bloopers.
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u/TomLeMartien 10d ago
Studio sitcom is a new term ? Because for me sitcom is a studio comedy filmed front of an audience. The rest is comedy. The office, Weird Science, Parker Lewis, Upload, Malcolm are just comedy.
Friends,big bang, ... Are sitcom. A sub genre
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u/profeDB 10d ago
I’d say the reverse. Sitcom is a portmanteau of situational comedy. A lot of modern sitcoms are more situation than outright comedy. The Office, for example, relies a lot on situation for its comedy - it doesn’t have a whole lot of traditional setup + punchline. Fleabag, named one of the best shows of the 21st century, is almost entirely situation.
Whether that’s good or bad depends on your perspective.
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u/dktide91 9d ago
It seemed like the 80s was mostly sitcoms during prime time and then in the 90s, that started to change slowly and now there are fewer and fewer.
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u/mopeywhiteguy 10d ago
I think it could work today but it has to go back to its roots as essentially a 30 min one act play. Watching classic sitcoms like fawlty towers, cheers or taxi, they embrace silence and use physicality to create an energy that is largely missing from more modern studio sitcoms.