Update: CBS cancels Murphy Brown

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Originally Posted by SitcomsHeydayfan

Trump hating sitcoms don't succeed because that's already on the MSM news 24 hours a day!

Others have said that, the show during its original run, actually felt important because real politicians such as Dan Quayle, targeted it. But the real Trump didn't when it pertained to the revival. In effect, it tried to manufacture controversy where the original had controversy naturally thrust upon it.

Also, the whole premise about Murphy wanting to get back on TV because the media wasn't holding the then current administration accountable didn't seem to make sense. Without deviling too much into real world politics, anyone who read or watched any news at the time, should've understood that everything Trump did was being scrutinized and pulled apart.

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Some Brief Thoughts on the MURPHY BROWN Revival

As noted, the central problem with this series is that it was initially built (in 1988) to be an ensemble workplace comedy in the MTM vein, but it sadly devolved — around Seasons Four and Five — into an unpleasantly political show, where stories and comedy were predicated on metatheatrical interactions with then-contemporary politicians (most notably, Vice President Dan Quayle). This took the emphasis away from the characters, and made the sitcommery far less satisfying, for the pre-established elements of the “situation” — again, the characters — were not the main source of value: the messages, in response to topical stimuli, were. The original series then spent the latter half of its run trying to move itself back towards a more ensemble, or character-based place, but it was never again able to do so as capably, in large part because the leads weren’t ever strong enough to sustain such figurative neglect. Thus, when I first heard that the 2018 revival’s entire raison d’être was spawned by the 2016 presidential election of Donald Trump, I knew that the new Murphy Brown was off on the wrong foot, leaning into the aspect of its identity that, essentially, accelerated its creative decline.