Self-fulfilling, in a way…
A year ago, Sony commissioned a study to determine how a change in government or the economy could affect television habits. Its conclusion was that this pendulum would swing away from dramas. Six of the shows on Sony’s slate [for the new season] are traditional sitcoms [-]
Also, I guess the LA Times fired its copyeditors, because, man, this sentence:
The multi-cam sitcom, such as legendary hits “I Love Lucy” and “Cheers,” was once the dominant format in which to televise comedies, as much for conveying a theater-like intimacy to home audiences as for its relatively cheap production costs.
