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Death of the Comedy

NBC has announced its 2007 fall line up and what is missing is any new comedies. Sure they have retained their Thursday "Comedy Night Done Right" lineup with My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, The Office and Scrubs but where is the new blood? Ok so Two and a Half Men and the King of Queens are the only 2 comedies in the top 20, does that mean this is the beginning of the end of the sitcom?

I don't think so, I think the tv guys are just going with the flow. As a show or genre gets popular, all the networks flock to shows that are similar. Grey's Anatomy, House and CSI are hot right now and more serialized shows like Lost and Heroes are also popular so that is where the networks are looking for new shows. [remember when ER first came out and then every network had to have a medical drama - Chicago Hope and more recently House and Grey's]

But the tv folks should be looking for new comedies because The king of Queens is done this year, Scrubs is done next year, and Two and Half has only a few more seasons left before the it becomes cost prohibitive to make any more. What will take their place as the older shows go off into the night? I say start seeding the market now before crunch time gets here and you don't have any shows ready to go [bring on Nobody's Watching].

UPDATE: NBC has posted some videos from their up coming season.

Labels: TV

posted by TheWino @ 10:39 AM