Why did sitcoms stop being a thing?
Budgets ballooned and "sophisticated audiences" wanted real live sets, more complex cinematography, and more or less wanted movies. Thus they started to get the budgets of movies. This led to fewer episodes a season, sometiems as low as 8, and a few years between seasons.So just ask: why did tv love sitcoms, but streaming hates them?You can also argue that the niche they occupied (cheap social entertainment) is now occupied by podcasts and youtubers.
>>221305130AYYY, IM WATCHIN' HERE!
Because they fucking stink.
WOW, so much SOVL, frSOVL maxxing the public space
>>221305130The largest TV in times square was made by Matsushita (Panasonic) a Japanese company. How did that happen?
>>221305130Because comedy died. Its hard to have a situational comedy when the audience now tries to cancel you because you can't say simple jokes anymore
>>221306640>comedy diedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6teAjGAhechttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJR74vZgX0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDwfQjxbFBMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOVq_UL48o0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVHAd3jwZy0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83I_rQUbw8chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_MvHyAZ7xEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgZfMX2KTohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c-3FQap7iwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6KYKKvs9C0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVIpY-r95w8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCF-mCeW7Ighttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vgpWyAcqO4
>>221306680The first one with Michael Cera is better than the entire movie called Superbad.
>>221306680>every video is from 15-16 years agoYes, It died
>>221306879My point exactly. Things like this could still be made today. But they are not. Comedy is dead. Why? Who knows?
shows like Seinfeld and Friends are garbage, the only reason people watched them back in the day was because it was on TV and there was no other choice. The format does not hold up today where you can choose whatever you want to watch.
>>221305285Most were background noise meant to signal a period of time leading to bed. It is intrinsic to the medium of television
>>221309656>Most were background noise meant to signal a period of time leading to bed. It is intrinsic to the medium of televisionCorrect. people have new backgorund noise. They put on a baseball game or a podcast.
>>221309278and you're happy with these choices?
>>221305130new york has a pol department?
>>221309278your post reeks of someone who grew up with no friendsi will not elaborate
>>221306629WWII
>>221309278this
>>221307262Louis CK, who was becoming a major producer in television comedy, including for Zach Galafinakis (Baskets) and a slate of other programs, was cancelled. All of his projects died. We were left with the wasteland of the Rogansphere.
>>221305130One of the victims of the switch to streaming and other entertainment like streaming and podcasts over regular TV. Sitcoms are better suited to a TV format where people watch the same show(s) each week as part of their evening since you were more limited for choice back then but don't really translate as well to the current on-demand and binge watching culture
>>221305130Watching "Friends" is like gazing into the stream of conciousness of a woman. I'm pretty sure it's what hell is like. There is no sane explanation of why otherwise normal men watched this utter garbage.
>>221305130they didn't. they're still the most watched shows on streaming. just not new ones.
>>221305130what a time to be alivei'll never forget late 00s new york
Because they always sucked and people just laughed because they were expected to due to peer pressure.
>>221305130they are still a thing. a few pull millions every week. but they have mostly been replaced with cheap realityslop. why pay two dozen actors and writers when you can get the same audience with a panel of 4 celebretards and an open mic?
>>221305130When we ran out of jokes, about 18 years ago
>>221312337>All of his projects diednothing of value was lost
>>221305130Shift to streaming, damaged the ad revenue broadcast and cable/satellite programming provides. Things like actors and writers demanding cuts of streaming revenue also further cuts into immediate and future profits. So you're seeing a shift back towards cheaper game shows and reality programming. That said, you've still got shit like Big Bang Theory's endless spin-offs that somehow keep printing money.
