DISQUS

Rob Long: Rob Long: Thoughts on Old Media, New Media

  • Ger Apeldoorn · 9 months ago
    The two married couples now married to each other series is actually being done here in Holland now. With a slight twist. It's two people pretending to live together to spite their exes who have run off togetehr. No marriage-stuff. It's also not a sitcom, which it was supposed to be. Because of the whole sitcom is dead thing that television managers now suffer from. And it's tanking. Fortynately it is not my show.
  • Rob Long · 9 months ago
    Wow. Hard to accept that I've been bested by Nederland Een. Or is it
    on Nederland Twee? Or Avro? (Do they still have Avro? I used to
    love Avro's Top Pop when I was a kid living in Eindhoven. The theme
    song went -- and apologies for my rotten spelling -- something like,
    "Avro's Top Pop! Presenteered! De nationale hit parade!" I still
    remember seeing the video for Bohemian Rhapsody...)

    And I don't think the sitcom is dead. It's just been in the severe
    burn ward for a few years. But it's getting out soon. Better than
    ever. Stronger. Faster. Just like "Het Man van Ses Million"
  • Chris Collins · 9 months ago
    Or is it going to end up wrapped in bandages and out for revenge like Darkman? Because I'd much rather the sitcom end up like Darkman. Oh Darkman, why did they stop at the third movie...
  • Rob Long · 9 months ago
    I know. I loved Darkman. But Darkman had a purpose and a burning
    desire for justice, which isn't really what motivated people who wrote
    sitcoms. Unless "purpose" and "burning desire for justice" can also
    mean "house in Montecito."