Cracking the Sitcom Code After signing up to write a script for Croatian television, I learned that virtually all TV comedies, from Seinfeld to South Park, follow a simple formula.
NOAH CHARNEY DEC 28 2014 As happens to so many of us, I was asked to write a sitcom for Croatian television. I'm an American ex-pat living in Slovenia, and I know next to nothing about Croatia, besides the fact that it's Slovenia's southern neighbor, a fellow ex-Yugoslav republic, and that the language resembles Slovene except with a lot more "js" in it. I am a writer of books and articles, and I used to write a lot of plays, but I've never written for television. So I immediately said, "Sure, of course I can do that," before rushing off to Google "How to write a sitcom." In addition to much Googling, I spent a good deal of time watching sitcoms. I was after tips on how they are constructed, and watched actively, looking to crack open their laugh-tracked shiny exterior to get at the goopy mechanism within, to see how they functioned. What I found out surprised me, and changed the way that I watch television. ... http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/cracking-the-sitcom-code/384068/ _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews_etskywarn.net
