The Brady Bunch

A cynical dad adjusts to ever-changing life in the so-called idyllic suburbs, along with his wife and two kids.

Bikini-clad students attend college summer school on a Malibu beach, where music and fun in the sun dominate the curriculum. Clean-cut teen dream Rick Nelson played the Dean of Drop-Ins, who each week welcomed singers and other celebs as 'guest professors.' Among them: the Four Seasons; Engelbert Humperdinck; Leonard Nimoy; Bobby Rydell; the Doors; and Marvin Gaye.

The Oscar winner headlines a formulaic family sitcom, playing a sassy careerist from New York City who gets engaged to a widower raising a teenage son and a 5-year-old daughter in suburbia.

Down-home humor about a budding Tulsa comic trying to juggle family life and career pursuits.

Andy Warhol once said that everyone is famous for 15 minutes. Had he lived to the early 21st century, Warhol might have amended this statement to read, "Everyone will some day have his own TV show for at least 15 minutes." As indicated by its title, the weekly cable-TV effort My Life is a Sitcom permitted real-life families to develop their own situation comedy series, whereupon the viewers at home were invited to choose which one of the families was the funniest. The eight clans represented on the series were chosen from hundreds, making one wonder the extent of awfulness that had been served up by those who didn't make the cut. After several weeks of impromptu "sitcomedy," the winning family was given the opportunity to star in a "pilot episode" taped before a live audience. My Life is a Sitcom was first aired by the ABC Family Channel on January 20, 2003.

Few TV producers were more adept at turning Death into a punchline than Bryan Fuller, as witness his cable efforts Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls. Fuller maintained this singular tradition in his first major "over-the-air" series, the seriocomic, semi-fantastic ABC offering Pushing Daisies, which in fact had been originally conceived as a spinoff of Dead Like Me but ended up being developed separately. Lee Pace starred as Ned, who at the tender age of ten discovered that he possessed a rare gift: the ability to bring the dead back to life simply by touching them. Unfortunately, those whom he "resurrected" could only stay alive for 60 seconds, whereupon Ned had to touch them again and send them back to the Other World permanently: if Ned didn't do this within the alotted time-frame, someone else in the near vicinity would have to die in the place of the person he'd revived. As an adult, Ned supported himself with his own piemaking business, which grossed a hefty amount thanks to his ability to invest fruit with substantial flavor merely by touching. He also moonlighted as a partner to private detective Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) and Cod's co-worker Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth), enabling Cod to solve murders by bringing the victims back to life long enough to identify their killers. Among these murdered souls was Ned's own childhood sweetheart Charlotte "Chuck" Charles (Anna Friel)--but when time came to give Chuck the fatal "second touch", Ned didn't have the heart to do it. Thus, Chuck lived on as Ned's "inspiration", taking hilariously elaborate precautions to avoid ever coming into physical contact with her beloved Ned. Narrated by British comedian Jim Dale, Pushing Daisies first blossomed into life on October 3, 2007.