Archive through February 10, 2003
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Archive through February 10, 2003
Ryn | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 10:38 pm     http://abcfamily.go.com/sitcom.html Part of the page: Welcome and thank you for your interest in MY LIFE IS A SITCOM, an exciting new reality series produced by SRJ Productions, Inc. ("We"/"Us") and premiering this January on ABC Family. We are conducting a nationwide talent search to find a REAL FAMILY to STAR AS THEMSELVES in a TV SITCOM based on THEIR REAL LIFE. Put your family on videotape (3-5 minutes in length) and show us how they are funnier than any characters in a sitcom. We want to see your family as they really are-whether it's fighting over the bathroom in the morning or being slobs at the dinner table. We want to get to know the quirky personalities that make your family life as funny as a sitcom. Make sure you include one shot of your entire family together announcing your family name and hometown. For example, "Hi, we're the Jacksons from Tallahassee, FL." Based on these videotapes, we plan to select ten families who we think may be entertaining enough to have their own sitcom. If you are one of the finalists, a TV production crew may be sent to your home to see how hilarious your family really is. Cameras will follow your daily activities at home, at work, in school, and wherever else the members of your family spend most of their time. Finalists may be flown to Los Angeles, California for an extended period of time for production of a sitcom So if you believe your family is funnier than any characters in a sitcom, please mail your video and contact information to: My Life is a Sitcom P.O. Box 4343 Hollywood, CA 90078 MORE INFO AT THE LINK!!! |
Ryn | Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 04:18 pm     Premires Jan 20th on "ABC Family" (just saw an ad). |
Ryn | Sunday, January 19, 2003 - 08:43 am     Starts tommorow night.. |
Wink | Sunday, January 19, 2003 - 09:31 am     Grooch you been holding out on me? |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 08:15 am     Both this and Last Resort are 30 minutes long. |
Grooch | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 08:17 am     LOL, Wink! Sorry, but I don'thave a vidio camera so I won't be on. Dang, I don't get the ABC Family channel. |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 08:51 am     My Life Is a Sitcom Mozian Family 30 min. Debut: Eight families from across the U.S. compete to star in a sitcom pilot based on their own lives. In each of the first eight weeks, a professional TV writer visits one family at home to observe them in action and determine the clan's sitcom potential. A celebrity panel will select the two groups of finalists, who will fly to Hollywood for screen tests. The top family will then star as themselves in a pilot written especially for them. In the opener, the Mozian family of Greenwich, Conn., is featured. Most of the comedy is generated by stay-at-home dad Joe as he cares for sons Michael, 4, and Alex, 2, and as he tries to rekindle the romance with breadwinner Michele. I think it re-airs on several other days, but the TV guide doesn't list them in their summary, check Last Resort's times as it follows this show. |
Grooch | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 10:51 am     Reality 'Sitcom' In the meantime, networks will keep trying new reality show variations. At 8 tonight, ABC Family unveils its latest effort, "My Life Is a Sitcom", in which eight families vie to have their life stories made into a televised situation comedy. It's kinder and gentler reality TV, to be sure. A sitcom writer was sent to spend a week with each of the families and a jury of sitcom star peers -- Maureen McCormick ("The Brady Bunch"), David Faustino ("Married... With Children") and Dave Coulier ("Full House") -- offer commentary on the family profiled each week. At the end of eight weeks, judges will pick two semi-finalists to audition in Hollywood. The winners will star in a pilot episode of a proposed series based on their lives. Tonight, viewers meet the Mozian family of Connecticut, headed by an unemployed Mr. Mom, who tries way too hard to be funny. "When he wasn't trying to be funny, he was really, really funny," McCormick says, but too often, the guy's doing shtick. "My mother-in-law is French, so even when she talks to herself, she's rude and offensive," Joe Mozian says in tonight's premiere. At a press conference earlier this month, executive producer/host David Perler said the resulting sitcom, which will air as the series 10th and final episode, will hew closely to the winning family's way of life. "The winning family's home will literally be replicated in a Hollywood sound stage," Perler said. "And the characters, the dialogue, everything that you see these people going through and ultimately the finished product, which is the sitcom, will be based on the reality show that you saw with the family." |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 02:25 pm     Well for me its up against Fear Factor and so I am gonna give it a try They have been pro-moting it heavily today while the Bachelor re-runs were on. |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 04:48 pm     Its on Maureen McCormick (Brady Bunch), Dave Coulier (Full House) and 'Bud' (Married with children) are there for comments while they view each family. |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 04:49 pm     Hmm - the Dad is overacting..... Can't tell if mom is being 'real' at times either. kids are cute. |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 04:52 pm     Host talked to the 3 celebrities about sit-coms, then we saw highlights of the first family, silly sit-commy stuff it seems which prompted my comments above. Now the "Sitcom" writer arrived, commercial break. No comments from the celebs since the beginning of the show. |
Demeter | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 04:54 pm     I'm watching too, Ryn. Seems like for this kind of show they could get an hour's worth of footage, since the writer visits with them for a week. |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 04:59 pm     Well - if it was THAT good a show it would be on regular ABC ;) Back to the show - writer there, shows her interviewing, dad hands writer a dirty diaper, complains about no job. Writer says he is as close to a real life sit-com dad as she has seen. Now dad cooks, makes a mess with the kids. Tells 2 year old he is the "egg man" and the older son he is the walrus (har har). Writer introduces the dads father.... "Oscar" Writer says the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Grandpa has 26 working phones, son counts em.... The two year old panics when the phones ring, so we get to see it. Now the MIL is shown.... She speaks with a very heavy accent....shows her praying for the dad (Joe) to get a job. |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 05:03 pm     MIL and FIL visit Joe & family, she brings a paper with potential jobs highlighted, comedy ensues as they review the ads.... "you know I can't be a plumber" MIL brings a quiche, Joe does not like quiche (of course). Joe goes out to mow the lawn to escape, puts on a silly hat and proceeds to cut the lawn while mom and daughter talk in french (and I can't touch type so I have no idea what they said but I am sure it was funny..) Tease for the next segment and commercial.. |
Demeter | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 05:03 pm     I enjoyed his Dad and her mother. They really do fit the sitcom type characters, yet I don't think either one of them was "trying" (too hard)like Joe. The 26 phones was hilarious! |
Theowl | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 05:08 pm     Is this supposed to be funny?!?!?!?!  |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 05:09 pm     Back, the writer says that the couples love life is not so hot. Cut to photographer showing up to do aome type of "Glamor" shots of Joe... The selected outfit "Gladiator" he looks goofy and the photographer laughs... posing and photos.....more photos and banter.... Cut to wife arriving home, finds a trail of roses to the bedroom, he says "happy 12 1/2 year anniv" Gives her the photos, no - tis a calendar with him as the photo each month. They toast with champaign, he says "here's to the hour before the kids come home" - claps his hands and the lights go out. commercial... next the celebs discuss this families potential to have a sit-com made about them. |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 05:14 pm     Writer back with the celebs... She explains how it would be like King of Queens... They all seem to like "Joe" - Maureen wonders if the kids are too young. Now they tease the next family... Single mom of 3... kids: oldest girl, middle boy, youngest, girl. hmmmmmmm thats it my review, if I miss it I won't feel bad. Last Resort on now.... |
Ryn | Monday, January 20, 2003 - 07:30 pm     Ok, I taped this and re-watched the beginning that I missed. After they show all the families they select 2 to compete "head to head" for the right to have a sitcom episode written around them. I dunno if its true, but as they announcer says this they show a shot of a studio audience applauding for the 1st family shown (you only see their backs, but is ia obviously this family). So my guess at the moment is that this family takes 1st or second. |
Laura11103 | Friday, January 24, 2003 - 01:52 pm     missed this last week, was it any good? |
Ryn | Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:12 pm     It repeats tonight around 10pm EST I think - tune it in and see for yourself |
Ryn | Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 05:37 am     Was on last night - I half-watched it, it will re-peat Friday ;) They apparently choose between the previous weeks winner and the current weeks family and only one moves on. Should I spoil it and say who was eliminated?? |
Ryn | Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 08:15 am     New official website: http://abcfamily.go.com/mylife/ |
Ryn | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 04:46 pm     Its on right now on the east coast ;) |
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