Paramount+’s comforting reboot of Frasier raises a question: how did a once ubiquitous TV genre reach death’s door?
Veteran television director James Burrows knows what it takes to make people laugh; the 82-year-old’s been doing it for 50 years, ever since he directed his first episode ofin 1974.
TV comedy master James Burrows. The 82-year-old has over 1000 sitcom credits to his name, stretching back to his first job on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1974. The original cast of Cheers, including Kelsey Grammer, Woody Harrelson and Shelley Long. Burrows created the series with Glen and Les Charles, and directed 237 of its 275 episodes.
“We haven’t traditionally, or for a long time, done shows with that canned laughter in. But I know people who put onThe first thing we’d have to change, she says, is our writers’ rooms. “When you look at how the US do it – the punch-ups, the rigour, that group of writers always on – that’s just not how we create television, and – this is something that’s– it’s become increasingly expensive.
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