TMC
04-08-2015, 03:32 AM
https://therealfullhousereviewed.wordpress.com/
The story of how Full House came to be seems pretty simple, as near as I can tell. Jeff Franklin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291449/), the guy who made “Summer School” and “Just One of the Guys,” two moderately entertaining movies that were on TV an awful lot when I was growing up, got a shot at creating a TV series. He pitched a show about 3 comedians who all lived together and it got retooled into a series that was more or less a rip-off of the movie “3 Men and a Baby.” The network was interested in preachy, moralistic, family-friendly programming at the time and that gradually overrode Franklin’s more raunchy and subversive tendencies as a creator. As the show became successful it started to rely more and more heavily on its established conventions, including terrible catch-phrases and socially tactless characters, and that’s pretty much all there is to it.
Reading this, I get the feeling that Jeff Franklin wanted to do a more edgy, adult, bawdy (or what was considered "bawdy" on TV back in the '80s) type of sitcom (the working title was House of Comics (https://books.google.com/books?id=w7m1-OOvTu8C&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=house+of+comics+jeff+franklin&source=bl&ots=qvDPbkdv5j&sig=Qt7zWuXg4OEw9C9VeppkOkdAzlA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wdkkVYH9EImpogS57YCwAw&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=house%20of%20comics%20jeff%20franklin&f=false)), but ABC wanted to do a family sitcom (since they were all of the rage at the time thanks to The Cosby Show (http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/06/full-house-facts/) and to a lesser extent, Family Ties and ABC's own Growing Pains). Also what I would perceived to have been Jeff Franklin's original vision, but was further watered down by the Miller-Boyett (http://articles.latimes.com/1990-01-14/entertainment/ca-408_1_tom-miller) shlock factory (http://www.macleans.ca/authors/jaime-weinman/the-20th-anniversary-of-the-most-awesomest-tv-contract-dispute-ever/).
The story of how Full House came to be seems pretty simple, as near as I can tell. Jeff Franklin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291449/), the guy who made “Summer School” and “Just One of the Guys,” two moderately entertaining movies that were on TV an awful lot when I was growing up, got a shot at creating a TV series. He pitched a show about 3 comedians who all lived together and it got retooled into a series that was more or less a rip-off of the movie “3 Men and a Baby.” The network was interested in preachy, moralistic, family-friendly programming at the time and that gradually overrode Franklin’s more raunchy and subversive tendencies as a creator. As the show became successful it started to rely more and more heavily on its established conventions, including terrible catch-phrases and socially tactless characters, and that’s pretty much all there is to it.
Reading this, I get the feeling that Jeff Franklin wanted to do a more edgy, adult, bawdy (or what was considered "bawdy" on TV back in the '80s) type of sitcom (the working title was House of Comics (https://books.google.com/books?id=w7m1-OOvTu8C&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=house+of+comics+jeff+franklin&source=bl&ots=qvDPbkdv5j&sig=Qt7zWuXg4OEw9C9VeppkOkdAzlA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wdkkVYH9EImpogS57YCwAw&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=house%20of%20comics%20jeff%20franklin&f=false)), but ABC wanted to do a family sitcom (since they were all of the rage at the time thanks to The Cosby Show (http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/06/full-house-facts/) and to a lesser extent, Family Ties and ABC's own Growing Pains). Also what I would perceived to have been Jeff Franklin's original vision, but was further watered down by the Miller-Boyett (http://articles.latimes.com/1990-01-14/entertainment/ca-408_1_tom-miller) shlock factory (http://www.macleans.ca/authors/jaime-weinman/the-20th-anniversary-of-the-most-awesomest-tv-contract-dispute-ever/).