Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Comedy Drought On Television

It isn't just you and me, I am sure, entire US is bored of watching Seinfeld re-runs. Situation is so pathetic that this year's one of the nominee for Emmy - best comedy series is "Desperate Housewives" ABC. Now, how is that show a comedy series? 'Everybody Loves Raymond' won the Emmy if anyone cared.

Don't worry folks, NewsWeek thinks there is a light on the horizon. There 3 shows to watch for, as the new season starts very this week. You know me, the minute I heard it (hours later) tuned my tivo to record all the shows. I will update this post with my reviews, so stay tuned.

3 shows are following:

'How I Met Your Mother' - looks promising (watched it yesterday)
'Everybody Hates Chris' - based on comedian Chris Rock's childhood experiences.
'My Name Is Earl' - (is being recorded on Tivo as I type this) I have my doubts about this, this seems certianly not like a family show.

Not listing timings and stuff because many of you can look it up. To read more about the shows click on the title to navigate to the NewsWeek article.

2 comments:

virinchipriya said...

It is true good comedy drought is every where even on the Indian small screen both Telugu and Hindi TV serials have more become (Aasu bhari, aahey bhari) fashion show parades and that too not in a healthy way.
Gone are those days where everyone enjoyed shows like 'Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi,""HumLog," "Wagle Ki Duniya" and "Hum Panch" etc to add there lot more comedies in the ninties.
About Telugu I do not remember the good comedy serials, anyone can add upon this.
virinchipriya


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Raahy said...

Don't forget Vennela Veta - I liked it 17 years ago, and I would probably like it now :)

R.