Most Popular "Sitcom" Comedy TV Series
1.Friends is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which originally aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. It revolves around a circle of friends living in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The original executive producers wereKevin S. Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane.
Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe between November and December 1993. They presented the idea to Bright, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the show to NBC. After several script rewrites and changes, including a second title change to Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends.[1]
Filming took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. All ten seasons of Friends ranked within the top ten of the finaltelevision season ratings; ultimately reaching the No. 1 spot with its eighth season. The series finale on May 6, 2004, was watched by around 52.5 million American viewers, making it the fifth most watched series finale in television history,[2][3][4] and the most watched television episode of the 2000s decade.[5][6]
Friends received positive reviews throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular sitcoms of all time.[7] The series was nominated for 62 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning the Outstanding Comedy Series award in 2002 for its eighth season. The show ranked no. 21 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time[8] and no. 7 on Empire magazine's The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.[9][10] In 1997, the episode "The One with the Prom Video" was ranked no. 100 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time.[11] In 2013, Friends ranked no. 24 on the Writers Guild of America's 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time[12] and no. 28 on TV Guide's 60 Best TV Series of All Time.[13] In 2014, the series was ranked by Mundo Estranho the Best TV Series of All Time.
2.Girl Meets World is an American coming of age television sitcom. The series made its debut on June 27, 2014, on Disney Channel.
The series is a sequel to the sitcom Boy Meets World, which aired on ABC in its TGIF block from 1993 to 2000. The original series centered on Cornelius "Cory" Matthews, including his growing relationship with Topanga Lawrence and their eventual marriage. Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel, who portrayed Cory and Topanga, reprise their roles in Girl Meets World, which centers on the life of the couple's daughter, Riley Matthews. Her father has become a middle school teacher, while her mother is a lawyer, who gains part ownership of an old world bakery in the first season episode "Girl Meets Popular". Other members of the Boy Meets World cast have either recurring roles or cameo appearances.
3.Austin & Ally is an American teen sitcom that first aired on Disney Channel on December 2, 2011. The series was created by Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert, the writers and producers of the Disney Channel sitcoms Sonny with a Chance and Jonas.
Cast and characters
Main
- Austin Moon (Ross Lynch) is an outgoing, confident, and talented singer. After becoming an "overnight" Internet sensation by performing a song he overheard Ally singing, Ally tracks him down to confront him for theft, but they eventually become friends instead and decide to form a musical partnership. His partnership with Ally is initially built on the idea that "he rocks; she writes". Ally is a brilliant songwriter, but is too timid to perform her own music, while Austin loves to perform, but is unable to write songs for himself. Their radically different personalities tend to clash early on, though they find they're much more alike than they think as their friendship develops, leading to an on-again off-again romance starting in the second season. In the third season, they begin to date again and are found in a healthy, secure relationship throughout the fourth season. Austin's best friend is Dez, who directs and films all of his music videos, and his manager is Trish. Austin gives music lessons and teaches students about being a performer at the A&A Music Factory in the fourth season.
- Ally Dawson (Laura Marano) is a singer-songwriter with severe stage fright and a quiet, shy personality. She originally wrote for herself, but after Austin accidentally stole one of her songs and became an Internet sensation as a result, she and her best friend Trish track him down, and she eventually becomes his musical partner and songwriter. Her partnership with Austin is initially built on the idea that "she writes; he rocks". Ally is a brilliant songwriter, but is too timid to perform her own music, while Austin loves to perform, but is unable to write songs for himself. Their radically different personalities tend to clash early on, though they find they're much more alike than they think as their friendship develops, leading to an on-again off-again romance starting in the second season. In the third season, they begin to date again and are found in a healthy, secure relationship throughout the fourth season. Ally works at her father's music store, Sonic Boom, until she manages to conquer her stage fright and begins her own career, at which point the store becomes the A&A Music Factory. She gives music lessons and teaches students about being a performer at the Music Factory in the fourth season.
- Trish (Raini Rodriguez) is Ally's best friend and Austin's manager. She is sarcastic, snarky, vindictive, has little patience, and has a bit of a temper, but cares very much for her friends. Her jobs change frequently due to her lack of effort and presence at work. She takes her job as Austin's manager, however, fairly seriously and she also became Ally's manager when her career takes off. She has a complicated love–hate relationship with Dez. She teaches students at the A&A Music Factory about being a celebrity manager in the fourth season.
- Dez (Calum Worthy) is an aspiring director with a quirky, eccentric personality and an unusual fashion style. He films all of Austin's music videos and is Austin's best friend. He's considerably dense and lacks much logical understanding, which tends to lead him and the group into messy situations. He has a complicated love–hate relationship with Trish. He teaches students at the A&A Music Factory about filming and directing music videos in the fourth season.
4.Best Friends Whenever is an American multi-camera sitcom developed for Disney Channel, created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas and executive produced by Jed Elinoff, Scott Thomas, and Michael B. Kaplan. The series stars Landry Bender as Cyd andLauren Taylor as Shelby.
Cast and characters
Main[edit]
- Cyd (Landry Bender) is Shelby's best friend who is staying with Shelby's family while her parents are away in Peru. She owns a pet dog named Diesel.
- Shelby (Lauren Taylor) is Cyd's best friend.
- Barry (Gus Kamp) is an aspiring young scientist who lives in a Winnebago that is parked outside of Shelby's backyard that he also uses for his lab. One of his inventions gave Cyd and Shelby the ability to travel through time.
- Naldo (Ricky Garcia) is Barry's best friend and lab assistant; Barry calls him "Renaldo".
- Bret (Benjamin Cole Royer) is Shelby's brother who is the twin brother of Chet.
- Chet (Matthew Lewis Royer) is Shelby's brother who is the twin brother of Bret.
Recurring
- Astrid (Mary Passeri) is the mother of Shelby, Bret, and Chet.
- Norm (Kevin Symons) is the father of Shelby, Bret, and Chet. He works as an accountant at Globo-Digi-Dyne.
- Marci (Madison Hu) is a weird friend of Cyd and Shelby who is always relaxed.
- Ms. Nesbit (Jocelyn Ayanna) is a woman who was first seen as Cyd and Shelby's strict history teacher at West Portland High School. Due to Cyd and Shelby's time-traveling, Ms. Nesbit now works as a police officer.
- Mr. Doyle (Larry Joe Campbell) is a gossip-loving teacher at West Portland High School who teaches science and driver's ed.
5.Lab Rats, also known as Lab Rats: Bionic Island for the fourth season, is an American television sitcom that premiered on February 27, 2012, on Disney XD. It focuses on the life of teenager Leo Dooley, whose mother, Tasha, marries billionaire genius Donald Davenport. He meets Adam, Bree, and Chase, three bionic superhumans, with whom he develops an immediate friendship.
Plot
A young teenager named Leo Dooley lived a normal life until the day his mother Tasha gets remarried to billionaire inventor Donald Davenport, whom they move in with. While trying to find his bedroom, Leo accidentally discovers teenage siblings with bionic powers living in his new basement. The show follows the bionic teens as they unravel in adventurous situations in an attempt to live life like a normal family in the fictional town of Mission Creek, California. As the show progresses in the second, third, and fourth seasons, it gets darker with the introduction of Donald's younger brother, Douglas Davenport, who later joins the Lab Rats' side, Douglas' android son, Marcus Davenport, Victor Krane, S-1, who joins the Lab Rats during the fourth season, Sebastian (formerly known as S-3), Krane's bionic soldiers, Giselle, who's planning on rebuilding Marcus, and Troy West, Giselle's android creation. At the end of the third season, Donald opens up a bionic academy on a bionic island to train Krane's bionic soldiers to be the world's new heroes.
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