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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Obviously the Brits haven’t seen America’s version of The Office.
This week London’s Guardian newspaper posed the following question: “Is the U.S. sitcom, like, so over?”
“I can’t imagine a sitcom from America now that could be as huge as Friends was in its mid-1990s heyday,” said writer Gareth McLean.
He said that: “As popular as My Name Is Earl is, I can’t imagine anyone popping into the hairdressers and asking for ‘a Joy’, can you? And though The Big Bang Theory has a bouncy theme tune by The Barenaked Ladies, I can’t see it reaching Number 3 in the singles charts, as The Rembrandts’ ‘I’ll Be There For You’ did back when we were all obsessed with Ross and Rachel and the gang.”
McLean said that — since the end of Will & Grace — there hasn’t been an American sitcom that has truly captured the British public’s imagination.
McLean’s commentary brought about a flood of comments from readers citing their love of U.S. sitcoms such as Scrubs, 30 Rock, and How I Met Your Mother.
