City Hall Hustle: Park Pud? Pick Your Punch Line.

Developer scales down plans for office tower

Jan. 14, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

TV Eye: It Was a Very Good Year

The usual suspects and a few surprises marked a great year on TV

"...3) 'COMMUNITY' (NBC) This wonky little sitcom only gets better and better. Dan Harmon's series about..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye: Make Way for Midseason Shows

New Year, New TV

"...be confused with his very funny and strangely endearing sitcom on FX (Louie, recently renewed for a second season),..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

John Oliver

The British comedian perseveres through pundits, politics, and Peter Pan

"...edition of The Daily Show; filming episodes of the sitcom Community, on which his recurring role has been expanded;..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hunter Gatherers

Modern couples revert to savagery in a savagely funny diorama come to life

"...ease and sweet timing, whether they're exchanging volleys of sitcom snarkiness, wrestling wildly on the floor, battling one another..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

TV Eye: Gleering

Parents Television Council chides Glee, misses the point

"...worked up about $#*! My Dad Says, the CBS sitcom starring William Shatner. Although it appeared that no one..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

AFF: Screenplay and Teleplay Competition Winners

It was a really good week to be Andrew Lanham

"...Carl Garrett Drama Teleplay: Parenthood: “Bounce Back,” Christina Johns Sitcom Teleplay: How I Met Your Mother: “Five Year Plan,”..."

Oct. 24, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye: Rich Rewards

David Cross is wickedly funny in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

"...on his own. Add Dave (Blake Harrison, from British sitcom The Inbetweeners) to the mix, and it's like throwing..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Men With Mommy Issues

Jay and Mark Duplass rock the cradle of love in Cyrus

"...a filmmaker) in The League, the FX network's raunchy sitcom about fantasy football. "Jay and I made all of..."

June 25, 2010 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Off the Record

Commemorating the 20-year anniversary of the Saxon Pub and talking business with Kalu James and ME Television

"...for the song that will air on their Disney sitcom, Jonas L.A. The Vodun Effect..."

June 11, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Body Awareness

This story of people trying to do what's right is both real and really funny

"...Now, Body Awareness does have something of a sitcom sheen to it. Scenes are more episodic in nature..."

May 7, 2010 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

The Atheist

Joey Hood's embodiment of the title character gets you loving the lying bastard

"...me of Neil Patrick Harris' skirt-chasing rapscallion on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother minus the network sheen;..."

March 12, 2010 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

more.

Headlong Dance Theater's study in domestic life was both cerebral and immediate

"...living room, giving it the confinement of a television sitcom. But here the dancers carefully disassembled the living room,..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Manufacturing Fizz

What makes L'Étoile a light, bubbly Champagne of operas

"...Glavin. "The rehearsals – it's like working on a sitcom. We laugh. We have a good time. Everyone in..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye

TV Eye picks her favorite shows of the year. No surprise: No. 1 looks good in dark suits and Brylcreem.

"...for Modern Family. Goofy and often touching, this half-hour sitcom makes me laugh out loud at least once per..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

This column is most definitely not brought to you by the Parents Television Council

"..."early this season Courteney Cox's character on the ABC sitcom Cougar Town was coyly depicted performing oral sex on..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Forgotten Radical

Thornton's plays are Wilder than you might remember

"...setting, with its domestic bits aped in thousands of sitcom scenes that followed in Our Town's wake; maybe it's..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Film Festival: Film & Screenwriting Awards Announced

Grown in Detroit and Tobruk take top honors

"...Sitcom Teleplay: The Office: "It’s Not Easy Being Green" by..."

Oct. 24, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Staged by the Bell

If you watched Saved by the Bell as a kid, you'll have a darn good time at this staged send-up

"...Saved by the Bell is a sitcom already steeped in nostalgia. Running in the early Nineties,..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

The Smothers Brothers

Tom, the elder Smothers Brother, talks about comedy, his heroes, and politics

"...show, then a string of comedy albums, then a sitcom, then, most famously, a variety series. The Smothers Brothers..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...all time, calling it "The most acutely observed, realistic sitcom about regional American life bar none."..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

TV Eye

George Lopez goes live

"...only the fifth Latino to star in a mainstream sitcom. You can count them on one hand: Paul Rodriguez..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Family Is for Life

Austin Film Festival to honor Arrested Development's Mitchell Hurwitz

"...British The Office had already started dismantling the conventional sitcom by the time Arrested Development premiered on Fox in..."

July 10, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Developing Story

AFF honors Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz

"...producer, best known as the creator of the television sitcom, “ HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_%28TV_series%29" \o "Arrested Development (TV series)" Arrested..."

July 6, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Sometimes the Bride

Greezy Wheels vocal point Lissa Hattersley steps out

"...and my manic-depressive father. It should have been a sitcom...."

June 12, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Pops on Top

Father may not know best, but DadLabs has made it its mission to make sure knows a little bit better

"...Wednesday is "Hot Dad Action," loosely described as a "sitcom" but more resembling a short skit or slice-of-life stroll..."

June 12, 2009 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

DVD Watch

Joyless v. Joyful: The case against Pulling and for Gavin & Stacey

"...That's not the only likeness between these two popular sitcoms that debuted on BBC3 within a year of each..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

The Honorable Tater Salad

House declares April 27 Ron White Day

"...late-night talk shows; he has recently worked on a sitcom pilot for HBO and an independent film, Demoted, in..."

April 27, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Interactive Bytes

Comedy on Television and the Web panel recap

"...big way – goofy clips on YouTube and elsewhere, sitcom-related webisodes, longer-form content made specifically for online viewing, as..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

'TV Eye' looks back at the year on TV, from Tina Fey to the Iraqi shoe-thrower

"...and class converged, and were critiqued, was in CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine. Early on, I..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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