One of many shows that premiered after Seinfeld was Watching Ellie. Like many other shows that aired after the glory that Seinfeld captured all failed miserably within the first season. Ironically all these shows included either an old cast member or an Seinfeld producer/ writer. The demise of these sitcoms (The Michael Richards show, Bob Patterson, and Listen up) were known as the "seinfeld curse."
However the main stroyline for Watching Ellie followed that of Seinfeld in which a show about a show/ a show about n0thing was trying to be re-created. The main premise for this sitcom revolved around a "continuation" plot as described by McWilliams in her essay "Genre Expectations and Narrative Innovations" where Each 22-minute episode was meant to portray a 22-minute slice of Ellie's life, in real-time. In the earliest episodes, a clock was even shown in the corner of the screen. After ten episodes, the series was put on indefinite hold as there were production issues.
Like Seinfeld, Watching Ellie was a self- referential sitcom that revolved around the main character's role/ life focusing on his/her life and extracting all comical humour of everyday life's minutiae.
Unfortunately after re-airing with a traditonal sitcom production cast now implemented, it failed to luanch any major platform with audiences and after a short run from February 2002 to May 2003 the show cancelled, testifying to the magnificance of Seinfeld that couldn't be replicated without duplicating it's main premise and character format, as well narrative plots that we now see in Friends, and Will and Grace.
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Would you please revise and place the appropriate blog number (#4: Catchy Title) before your title? This way, the blogs will be easy to find when you're sifting through all them at the end of the semester. Thanks.
#4: "Old is Gold"
One of many shows that premiered after Seinfeld was Watching Ellie. Like many other shows that aired after the glory that Seinfeld captured all failed miserably within the first season. Ironically all these shows included either an old cast member or an Seinfeld producer/ writer. The demise of these sitcoms (The Michael Richards show, Bob Patterson, and Listen up) were known as the "seinfeld curse."
However the main stroyline for Watching Ellie followed that of Seinfeld in which a show about a show/ a show about n0thing was trying to be re-created. The main premise for this sitcom revolved around a "continuation" plot as described by McWilliams in her essay "Genre Expectations and Narrative Innovations" where Each 22-minute episode was meant to portray a 22-minute slice of Ellie's life, in real-time. In the earliest episodes, a clock was even shown in the corner of the screen. After ten episodes, the series was put on indefinite hold as there were production issues.
Like Seinfeld, Watching Ellie was a self- referential sitcom that revolved around the main character's role/ life focusing on his/her life and extracting all comical humour of everyday life's minutiae.
Unfortunately after re-airing with a traditonal sitcom production cast now implemented, it failed to luanch any major platform with audiences and after a short run from February 2002 to May 2003 the show cancelled, testifying to the magnificance of Seinfeld that couldn't be replicated without duplicating it's main premise and character format, as well narrative plots that we now see in Friends, and Will and Grace.
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