Thanks to @janefader for tweeting me a link to an article on next week’s Time magazine, “No Laugh Track Required: The Comeback of the Sitcom.” At first I feared the writer, James Poniewozik, was concentrating in three pages the last four and a half years of my research time (which would have been quite annoying), but in the end the article is just a review of new and not-so-new shows currently airing on American television.
There is Seinfeld nostalgia (enough with it already, the show went off the air 11 years ago!), slight overselling of shows that are kind of meh (see the difference in opinion concerning Modern Family, which I still think is a dud), but it also gives me ideas on new shows to watch.
After all, this is a critical piece (on a mainstream magazine, nonetheless), such as what I may have written lately on this weblog. Analytical work is something else, and those who want to know about the real thing (and read Italian) can check out my personal take on it – or wait for the American edition, coming out in spring 2010. Abundant details will be available in due time.