Showing posts with label sitcoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sitcoms. Show all posts

Friday, January 03, 2014

Too Middle Class, Too Rural, Too Urban, Too...

"BBC Axed My Family for Being Too Middle Class.

I've seen reruns of this show on BBC America; it was nice. It reminds me of how, at the beginning of the seventies, TV networks cancelled many rural-themed sitcoms like Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies, some of which still had high ratings, and started a wave of gritty urban programs.