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Comedy returns to The CW

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This summer marks the first time The CW has had a full night of comedy since 2008, a year before the channel canceled all of its sitcoms and became a broadcast network airing only dramatic and reality programming. While the network’s low ratings have been the most common argument for questioning its status as the fifth broadcast network, its complete abandonment of scripted comedy has been the most compelling.

On the back of the successful Whose Line Is It Anyway? revival, however, The CW is returning to comedy in a tentative summer maneuver protected by both old and new alternative programming initiatives. Neither Seed nor Backpackers was developed for The CW. Seed is a sitcom that debuted on Canada’s City network in early 2013, the latest CW series to be imported from that nation after The L.A. Complex and the short-lived 18 To Life. Backpackers, meanwhile, is an expanded web series—also Canadian in origin—that originated on The CW’s online CW Seed platform, repackaged and expanded for broadcast. And although the network once again brought forth zero comedies in the most recent development season, the choice to build an entire night of comedy programming this summer—with an original Whose Line at 8 p.m. and a Whose Line repeat at 9 p.m.—seems to test if there’s a future for scripted comedy at the network.
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http://www.avclub.com/review/comedy-returns-cw-without-story-tell-206738
 
This is good news. I had been watching The WB since I got an affiliate with a good signal in 2000 when it was replaced with The CW. There was a lot more comedy on The WB during its early years, but someone decided women were their target audience and that women like drama. I like comedy.

The best show ever to air on The CW was "Everybody Hates Chris", from UPN. If you've never seen it, imagine "The Wonder Years" with a lower middle class New York City setting, great writing and acting from African-American actors, and outrageous narration from Chris Rock, in a cleaned-up version of his trademark style.

"Reba" was the best show ever to air on The WB, but The CW never really gave it a chance.

Other favorites of mine were "Gilmore Girls", technically a comedy but often treated like a drama, and "Smallville", a 21st century reworking of Superman's teen years, much darker in its later years but occasionally funny. And "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment", a very funny prank show. "Raising Dad" from Bob Saget was my introduction to the hilarious Kat Dennings, whose foul mouth entertains us these days on "2 Broke Girls". The WB also remade "Family Affair", which was worth seeing for great performances by Caitlin Wachs and Tim Curry but was otherwise garbage. I was also introduced to Anthony Anderson in "All About the Andersons", which also starred the great John Amos.

"Whose Line Is It Anyway" has long been a favorite of mine, and I was happy to find it in reruns on ABC Family when I would stay in a motel.
 
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