Category: US
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Family Ties
It’s hard to imagine what the NBC sitcom Family Ties would have been like had the network got its own way, and cast Matthew Broderick in the role made famous by Michael J Fox. The premise, it’s been such a long time since this was on any UK screens, is that the hippy-era parents are…
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Back To The Spin City
The Michael J Fox era of Spin City is ripe for a binge run on some streaming service or other, so if you could make that happen, that would be great, thanks. Just before this early season one preview, there’s a remarkable public appeal for the creation and beginnings of The Archive of American Television,…
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Explaining The Far Side
Here’s a great, little moment from Cheers.
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Loved By You
Following on from the lacklustre response to the British remake of Married … With Children, Carlton persisted with their project to remake all of the succesful US sitcoms, next turning their attention to Mad About You. Paul Reiser’s sitcom hadn’t really been seen on terrestrial screens in 1997, and so they renamed it Loved By…
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Married For Life
After the success of retooling Who’s The Boss? into The Upper Hand, Carlton had a stab at converting another monster US hit for UK screens. And for some reason they chose Married … With Children. I mean, after two hundred episodes (by 1995), the show was doing very well for Fox, but it does seem…
