What happened to the familiar, comforting, evening TV sitcom, on TV?

[Anonymous]

I ain't talking your streaming channels/scheduling either.

Now sure, like Google says, TV audiences and audiences generally are more picky, fractured and gone are the days of "just 4 channels to pick from, at most, on an evening week night" - however.

Isn't there still an audience for "whatever the hell is on TV, tonight?"

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Personally 📺 I surely view the traditional sitcom (laugh track, multi camera, filmed in California) as essential for worldwide society's stability. It's nightly anchor 🌃 ⚓

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even for all my love of cheap overseas made good consumer goods from Thailand, China, Japan - shopping 🛒🛍️ lol - we all know California is what pop culture survives on, thrives on. We just must always worship California 🏔️🏔️🏔️

[exitseven]

the sit coms of today are mostly garbage. I keep hoping for a good one but they are all garbage. Everybody Loves Raymond, Home Improvement and even Friends were funny. The new ones are not.

[Asker]

Someone needs to beg Chuck Lorre to do more 😁☹️ and even the creators of past hits like Seinfeld, Frasier or whoever are producers of that era - surely they can't all be retired or long gone : 😞

[exitseven]

Actually the Frasier reboot was not half bad.

[Asker]

It was bad 😔

[pervertedjester]

Hollywood stop catering to the Audience in favor of Amoral Accolades It sent to Itself.

[AI Opinion]

That cozy “whatever’s on” vibe mostly died with two things: ad money shifting to streaming/online, and networks chasing safer, cheaper formats like reality and competition shows 📉

Multi-cam sitcoms with laugh tracks used to anchor prime time, but now comedy’s gone to streaming, cable, and YouTube. The audience who leaves TV “on in the background” is smaller and older, so networks prioritize news, sports, and unscripted.

The appetite for comforting sitcoms is still there, it’s just migrated to streaming reruns instead of live scheduled TV 📺✨

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

You’re kinda weird. Just watch “Kevin can F Himself” it has those elements while also telling a deeper story

[OlderAndWiser]

If my TV is turned on, I am watching college football, YT videos, or a historical documentary.

[tfan1]

Everything went to schit when they allowed to get so graphic talking about penis vagina masturbation etc So much for family friendly.

[Jeff51]

Tv broadcast suck these days. I miss the 90s.