ABC considers bringing TGIF block back

[TMC1982]

Now if only Nick will seriously consider bringing back SNICK!

http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/abc-picks-up-multicamera-family-sitcom/

ABC Picks Up Multicamera Family Sitcom
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

ABC has greenlighted another comedy pilot, Other People's Kids. The
project, from ABC Studios and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, was
written by Hunter Covington and centers on a 32-year-old guy with no
responsibilities who suddenly finds himself with an insta-family when
he falls in love with an older woman who has 2 kids, an ex-husband,
and ex-in-laws. Stacy Traub and Peter Traugott are executive
producing. New ABC programming chief Paul Lee has said that he
believes in the multicamera sitcom form (He set out to prove it while
at ABC Family with Melissa & Joey, which has done pretty well for the
cable channel) and that he is mulling a return of ABC's Friday TGIF
sitcom block. He is certainly backing his words up with comedy pilot
orders that have skewed heavily towards multicamera comedies so far
with Other People's Kids, Jack Burditt's The Last Day of Man, Work It
and Smothered, both from Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen, and Marisa
Coughlan's Lost and Found. And yet, ABC's flagship comedy series that
have been renewed for next season: Modern Family, The Middle and
Cougar Town, are all single-camera.

 

[KYO'NYUU IMOUTO]

My nostalgia senses are tingling!

I've no real interested in the proposed series, though...

 

[Storm Eagle]

It probably won't be as good as it was before, but I've got no qualms about ABC going through with this if they really do.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

It wasn't that long ago they tried to bring it back. This is actually attempt #3.

 

[spongebob03]

It wasn't that long ago they tried to bring it back. This is actually attempt #3.

I enjoyed Hope & Faith. But I can't remember the other shows they had during TGIF's revival. Well, I'll check it out. I wasn't until a few months ago that I realized that the multicamera sitcom was dead.

 

[Rick Jones]

I was a fan of the old block and I'd only hope that if the block is brought back that they would go for shows with some quality and not just dump any lame sitcoms on Friday night. Personally, it's been kind of strange how network tv seems solely aimed at adults outside of some reality stuff like American Idol, so it will be interesting to see what they do here.

 

[Tobias]

This idea will crash and burn FAST. Even in the original TGIF it took a lot to not cancelled after just one season, especially towards the end.

The second run, outside of Complete Savages, was a total failure. I never watched Hope & Faith, and 8 Simple Rules should have been cancelled after John Ritter's passing.

 

[suss2it]

This idea will crash and burn FAST. Even in the original TGIF it took a lot to not cancelled after just one season, especially towards the end.

The second run, outside of Complete Savages, was a total failure. I never watched Hope & Faith, and 8 Simple Rules should have been cancelled after John Ritter's passing.

8 Simple Rules was still pretty funny without him, so I don't mind that they went on without him.

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[Desensitized]

Considering how lousy the last revival was and how bad sitcoms are right now, I'm not seeing much to be hopeful for here.

 

[Lonestarr]

Now if only Nick will seriously consider bringing back SNICK!

http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/abc-picks-up-multicamera-family-sitcom/

I'd much rather see the return of SNICK and I can't be the only one.

 

[mumbo]

ABC's Wednesday block is a success so I can see why they're pushing hard for more half-hour comedies...but this isn't going to work. Friday nights are really tough as it is, and getting tougher, and if it's going to be mostly new series I wouldn't count on many viewers showing up.

 

[DjJuice5]

Eh, I'm not holding my breath for this. Some things are best left alone. The original TGIF itself was lightning in a bottle where the right group of people at the right time came together to create quality sitcoms with dynamic and memorable stories and characters,well most of them anyway(Step by Step). This planned reboot reminds me too much of the original tgif's declining years of 1997-2000 and the flawed come back of TGIF2003 where the network just threw random projects on the wall to see what sticks. If TGIF was ever resurrected again I personally would love to see a return to the former(1989-1997), and not the later(2003). It's too bad because ABC had plenty of sitcoms at the time which could have made TGIF2k3 a proper family block such as My Wife and Kids and George Lopez.

 

[TMC1982]

The original TGIF worked because it targeted audiences for whom you wouldn't normally think would be out on a Friday night, families/little kids. However, back then (late '80s-early '90s), there most likely weren't as many entertainment options. I do think that there is a severe lack of traditional, "old-fashioned", multi-camera (all of the sitcoms outside of those on CBS seem to be shot with one camera sans a laugh track) sitcoms on TV. The last attempt at TGIF didn't work because it seemed like ABC was either putting in shows that didn't really fit the "TGIF model" (e.g. Less Than Perfect), were on their way out to begin with (e.g. 8 Simple Rules), or weren't very remarkable to begin with.

 

[Tobias]

I have a bad feeling that if this does happen, the most family friendly sitcom on the Wednesday block (The Middle) will be shipped off to Fridays, then quickly cancelled because it's not performing well on a new day.

 

[Manga4life]

There was something magical about the original TGIF block that I just can't see them striking gold with a new one, maybe it's because the original held a special place in my heart but I seriously can't see a new TGIF block doing very well in both the ratings and with keeping shows for more than a season or two. Look at the final couple of years of the original TGIF, they were picking up shows for one season and filtering in with new shows all the time, most of which only lasted a handfull of episodes to only one season with the network before being cancelled, it would be hard for them to keep a show for 8 years like they did with Boy Meets World or even 4 or 5 years like with Step By Step and Family Matters.

 

[BartWinkle]

Does anyone remember the alphabet net's early '70s Friday comedy block? With shows such as "The Brady Bunch", "The Partridge Family" "The Odd Couple" and others? I believe the block was a precursor to TGIF.

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't think it will work again. Times and sensibilities and TV viewing habits have just changed too much.

 

[Sketch]

Friday tends to be the dead zone for network prime time so no small feet will be required to get people to consider Friday an important night again.

ABC has some great comedies but they wouldn't do as well on Friday so there's relatively no point in trying them on Friday. Most people wont consider that success in the making but rather the kiss of death for any show unfortunate enough to end up on Friday.

 

[TheVileOne]

Blue Bloods did do well on CBS on Friday. But that's CBS and a show that probably skews to older viewers that still watch TV.

But CBS has already promoted Blue Bloods to Wednesday night for doing well.

 

[Space Cadet]

Blue Bloods did do well on CBS on Friday. But that's CBS and a show that probably skews to older viewers that still watch TV.

But CBS has already promoted Blue Bloods to Wednesday night for doing well.

Its only for a couple weeks though. And its ratings are doing no better than they were on Fridays.