Could Tim Allen's Last Man Standing resurface at Fox?

[Yong Fang]

I can't stand Tim Allen, but the lady who plays the wife is foxy. If I was in the TV Universe, I would run Tim Allen over high on Coke and run off with the wife to Alcapulco.

[JO Sweet Heart]

^^^ I look at that lady and I still can't believe that its the lady who leaves her infant with Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson back in the late 1980's.

God bless you and them and her always!!!

Holly

P.S. She did really well on speaking with a London accent in that film.

[TMC]

FOX's era of oddball sitcoms comes to an end

Brooklyn cops, new girls, last men, and the end of a sitcom lineup for
the ages
by Erik Adams

With New Girl previously set to conclude its Fox run on Tuesday, May
15 and the fates of L.A. To Vegas and Ghosted (the latter of which has
six retooled episodes hanging in limbo) still undecided, the shape of
funny Fox things to come looked increasingly like Tim Allen pandering
to Trump Country. Friday’s Last Man Standing revival confirmed it: One
of TV’s most reliable sources for oddball sitcoms is drying up. It’s a
minor miracle that it lasted as long as it did.

[Mr. Television]

Originally Posted by TMC

FOX's era of oddball sitcoms comes to an end

Good because most of them weren't funny.

[icecream]

Originally Posted by Mr. Television

Good because most of them weren't funny.

I totally agree. Back to You was easily their best sitcom and it wasn't typical FOX. I liked Raising Hope to an extent but it was hit and miss. I also liked short lived summer comedy The Goodwin Games but it was basically a burnoff from the start. I might have forgotten some (or not), but those three might be the only FOX sitcoms I have liked in their history. There are more dramas and some unscripted like Greed and Beyond Belief I have liked but they are not comedies. From some descriptions of The Mick plotlines I have seen it was total trash that somehow masqueraded as a family comedy. Married with Children was even trashier and total garbage. And way too much animated junk as well. With their new (hopefully a lot less trashier) direction that could be a good sign of things to come. The nursing home comedy coming next season sounds interesting and has a good cast, I have liked David Alan Grier in DAG, Life With Bonnie, and Jumanji. I have also liked Martin Mull in Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Vicki Lawrence in the Dick Clark Pyramids.

[king of comedy]

I agree with you on The Mick. I'm glad that it's cancelled. It is garbage.The only good animated show is Bob's Burgers. The Simpsons was a great but now it's junk. Let's hope FOX will turn things around.

[TMC]

The Return of ‘Last Man Standing’ and the Collapse of Social Justice Pandering

The fact that Fox is even reviving the show in the first place is good news for Middle America.

For several years, content creators working in Hollywood, and especially the “big three” networks (and the Fox broadcast network itself to some extent) thought they could win an audience with taboo and “edgy” fare such as explicit sex, wishing death to Republicans, and on-camera abortions — combined a feeling of superiority on screen and off.

These combined factors have made audiences feel left out, but the good news is that the rest of the country is being catered to by certain people in show business again.

Here’s how…

When the revival of the classic 80’s/90’s sitcom Roseanne premiered to over 18 million viewers, it proved that despite most of the entertainment industry openly leaning left, there was still room for a broadcast TV show catered to conservative or middle-of-the-road people (but more specifically the working class) in flyover country.

And as it turns out, Last Man Standing was also one of these shows. Odds are that when it returns in the fall, it will no-doubt continue to be a great alternative.

All the while, it’s worth asking what happened to shows like the CBS sitcom Superior Donuts, the Fox dramedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the two ABC dramas Quantico and Designated Survivor, and the Catholic-bashing NBC teen series Rise? They all ended up getting cancelled due to low ratings (although Brooklyn Nine-Nine ended up with NBC). For all the promotional efforts each of these network put into their shows, it certainly didn’t pan out. How embarrassing!

The truth is most of the people who make these shows don’t get it. They have no knowledge of what the average American can relate to, and have disdain — even contempt — for what they do know. In the case of Last Man Standing, they don’t like outdoorsmen or intact, nuclear families. They lecture about pet issues such as gun control and abortion, and want to force the rest of the country to accept these things.

Even regardless of that, more people are tuning into streaming services rather than linear TV channels, and established TV brands — especially those aimed at kids — are feeling the impact. So why are these established businesses doubling down on alienating their audience by putting out explicit programming doubling as propaganda? In the case of the former, there are parents and children watching TV too, you know.

No matter what, the return of Last Man Standing is a victory for consumers and anyone looking for true diversity in primetime network content. And, most of all, the return of Mike Baxter is certain to trigger more than a few liberals. And who doesn’t love that?