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There's not enough Jonas, so Disney Channel is going to fix that. The cable network has ordered a second season of the pop stars' comedy series "Jonas" and their reality series "Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream," according to The Hollywood Reporter .

After years of focusing on original dramas, cable networks are launching a slate of several half-hour, live-action, adult-targeted sitcoms - a genre the broadcast networks had curtailed in recent seasons.

One of my pet peeves, as a sitcom fan, is the inaccurate use of the term "laugh track." A laugh track is laughter added to a show to simulate the effect of a live audience, even though it was shot without one.

Each year around this time, complete-series DVD sets hit the shelves as holiday gift possibilities for TV fans, and this collection of new releases leads off with three.

HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" is in my estimation the funniest live-action American sitcom ever forged, but two years before "Sanders" began we saw the conclusion of "It's Garry Shandling's Show," a funny, surreal and similarly groundbreaking Showtime sitcom from the same creator-star. I was surprised to see writer Sam Simon worked on ...

Soupy Sales died at age 83 on Thursday. He hosted an afternoon kiddie show that reached its height of popularity in the mid-1960s. He was totally unlike other kids-show hosts of that, or any other, era.

With a general election approaching, the return of Armando Iannucci's invective-filled political satire couldn't be better timed, says Gerard Gilbert BBC What is particularly bracing about The Thick of It is the absence of an obviously sympathetic character enlarge The bad news for MPs hoping to shore up their image in the seemingly never-ending ...

While a comic genius, some of Garry Shandling's decisions drive me batty - don't get me started on what's doing with his face these days.

Meeting Liz Lemon sure has been sweet for John Riggi. As co-executive producer for NBC's '30 Rock' , starring Tina Fey as TV producer Liz Lemon, the Sayler Park native has shared in three straight Emmy Awards for best comedy series.

Star of The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard goes back to Larry Sanders and Seinfeld, and - 80 screen appearances later - has become Entourage's first real marquee name Saturday, 17 October 2009 Does Entourage make careers or kill them? Adrian Grenier plays a movie star on the show, but you can't imagine him opening on 3,000 screens nationwide over July ...

WARREN CLEMENTS Published on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Friday, Oct.

After spurning a regular guest-host gig for Johnny Carson , and before his career-defining role as fictional host of The Larry Sanders Show , comedian Garry Shandling starred on one of TV's most innovative sitcoms.

The battling Gosselins met in court Tuesday, and Jon was ordered to return $180,000 to a joint bank account he shares with estranged wife Kate, a source close to Kate told People.

TO this day, Garry Shandling still wonders what his career would have amounted to without his breakthrough comedy, the one that skewered television conventions even as it religiously observed them and provided a framework for countless imitators.

Ari Gold, from the HBO series Entourage , is by some distance the most compelling comedic character on television, and possibly any other art form, today.

The Ellen Show creator Carol Leifer is returning to CBS with a new gay comedy, The Hollywood Reporter reported.

Forty-four years before Grammer's "Hank," there was this "Hank." The sitcom starred Dick Kallman as Dearborn, a young man determined to get a college education at any cost.

Stand-up comedian and actress Janeane Garofalo was the poster child for dry and caustically witty women in film and television in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Ed O'Neill and Sofia Vergara in a scene from ABC's "Modern Family." Funny sitcoms on ABC? Isn't that a sign of the Apocalypse? How bad had things gotten? Last season, ABC's best sitcom was "Scrubs," which the network picked up after fourth-place NBC had discarded it.