Over years of watching television, fans have almost tuned out the tracks of laughter that are played over the scenes. If they come to think about it, are laugh tracks really necessary for sitcoms? Or ...

When was the last time you spared a thought about sitcom laugh tracks? Probably years. Maybe decades? Sitcoms with background laughter have seemed almost dead, definitely and firmly dying, for a very ...

There's a lot of things that can ruin an otherwise decent sitcom. A cheesy script or underwritten characters is one. Cringey, outdated jokes or overused, tired tropes is another. But when it comes to ...

If you look at a list of the most-watched television shows of the 1990s, you’ll find that seven of the top 10 were sitcoms. As any fan who lived through it can tell you, the decade was a golden era ...

Welcome to the “Joanie Loves Chachi” of the 21st century. Like that best-left-forgotten 1980s spinoff of “Happy Days,” the new CBS sitcom “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” plucks two young characters ...

Once upon a time, kids, there was a TV show called Seinfeld. It was a “sitcom.” This was a term for a popular genre — watched by tens of millions of viewers — in which amusing things were said and ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In NBC’s “Happy’s Place,” Reba McEntire stars as Bobbie, left, who inherits her father’s bar along with her sister Isabella ...