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Ericguy 10-07-2002, 02:57 PM I was just thinking about the sad sad state of affairs in current sitcom shows. I know some of you love Friends or Will and Grace and others but I can say that there are no shows now i just love even though the Simpsons are high on the list. It seems to be a glut of great dramas and very little comedy worth anything. So I began thinking about all of the writers with major success and I wonder why networks don't get these people to develop shows for them....which would you like to see come back most...here are some ideas
Susan Harris (SOAP, Benson, Golden Girls)
Ron Leavitt (Married with Children, Jeffersons)
Norman Lear (Good times, All in the family)
NRW (Threes Company)
Miller Boyett (perfect strangers, full house)
Larry Gelbart (MASH)
Gary David Goldberg (Punky Brewster, Silver Spoons, Family Ties)
Any more?
Central Perk 10-07-2002, 03:09 PM Glen & Les Charles (Cheers)
FOLrocks1 10-07-2002, 03:33 PM Originally posted by Ericguy
NRW (Threes Company)
I don't know which on of those writers it is...but one of them died like in 1980.
Ericguy 10-07-2002, 04:36 PM Yes, I forgot about Glen and Les Charles. Also I forgot James Burrows who did Taxi and Neal Black and Carol Marlens who did the Wonder Years and Growing Pains. Yes, Don Nichol is the N in NWR that died in 1980 but I never count him because he only did like the first 20 or so of Three's Company then got sick and the majority of the writing was done by Bernie West and Mickey Ross, the other two on the team.
Where have all the good writers gone............?
By the way....does James Burrows still write on the Simpsons?
Last I heard, Larry Gelbart was developing a series for CBS about a powerful media family, kind of like his "Barbarians At The Gate" HBO movie.
Thank God, we need him back.
Ericguy 10-07-2002, 04:48 PM Did you know that Larry Gelbart had a pilot for NBC turned down this fall? I could not beleive when I read that in Tv Guide fall preview. It had John Larroqute from Night Court. NBC said the show was too smart for the audience. Gelbart won a truckload of Emmys for MASH and I think Larroqute won like 5 for Night Court and it seems hard to beleive that two guys with their resume cannot get a pilot on the air. It shows what network programmers think of the audience!
Originally posted by Ericguy
Did you know that Larry Gelbart had a pilot for NBC turned down this fall? I could not beleive when I read that in Tv Guide fall preview. It had John Larroqute from Night Court. NBC said the show was too smart for the audience. Gelbart won a truckload of Emmys for MASH and I think Larroqute won like 5 for Night Court and it seems hard to beleive that two guys with their resume cannot get a pilot on the air. It shows what network programmers think of the audience!
Crap! That was the show I was talking about.
Too smart for the audience.
What audience? The audience made up of people who appreciate quality shows that don't feature wannabe celebs embarrassing themselves for attention, unfunny sitcoms without an ounce of originality? Believe it or not, there are a few of us out there with brains! Show us somehting good dammit!
Whew. I feel better. Think I'll grab a nap.
Central Perk 10-07-2002, 08:12 PM Originally posted by Ericguy
Yes, I forgot about Glen and Les Charles. Also I forgot James Burrows who did Taxi and Neal Black and Carol Marlens who did the Wonder Years and Growing Pains. Yes, Don Nichol is the N in NWR that died in 1980 but I never count him because he only did like the first 20 or so of Three's Company then got sick and the majority of the writing was done by Bernie West and Mickey Ross, the other two on the team.
Where have all the good writers gone............?
By the way....does James Burrows still write on the Simpsons?
I always thought James Burrows did more directing and James L. Brooks did writing for The Simpsons.
Cactus Jack 10-07-2002, 08:44 PM ANYONE who worked for Happy Days, Lavenrne and shirley Get Smat, Mary TYler Moore Show and soooooooo many moew
Oaky, another one I can think of is Peter Tolan, most recently he was co-creator and one of the writers of "The Job" with Denis Leary. He also wrote for "Larry Sanders."
While we're at it, let's just get him and Denis Leary to write another show.
Sitcomwriter 10-07-2002, 10:23 PM Originally posted by TJL
Crap! That was the show I was talking about.
Too smart for the audience.
What audience? The audience made up of people who appreciate quality shows that don't feature wannabe celebs embarrassing themselves for attention, unfunny sitcoms without an ounce of originality? Believe it or not, there are a few of us out there with brains! Show us somehting good dammit!
Whew. I feel better. Think I'll grab a nap.
Yeah I was surprised at that too.I mean look at the cast.You have John Larroqute,Martin Landau and Patrick Demsey!
It was called "Corsairs" and ABC turned it down NOT CBS and NOT NBC!
Who knows? Maybe it'll show up next season....
Ericguy 10-08-2002, 06:06 PM I agree 100% about Larry Gelbart!! I forgot another group of writers, Carsey/Werner and Matt Williams who did Home Improvement, Roseanne, and like 90 other shows.
Sean Snow 10-08-2002, 06:28 PM NRW on TC weren't really a writing team, though they were on "All in the Family" and maybe "The Jeffersons". They were the executive producers and write an episode every once in a great while, most of them being in the first two seasons. Many different writers wrote for the show, totally 81 by the end of the series.
As for my opinion, Larry Gelbart should write for TV again.
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