Will CBS Have Any Idea What to Do With a ‘Curb’-Style Improvised Sitcom Starring Paul Scheer?
If the pitch of “an improvised multi-camera sitcom about a married couple of real estate developers made by the network that does Young Sheldon” doesn’t sound attractive to you, then you don’t work at CBS.
The broadcast behemoth is Curb Your Enthusiasm but in a broadcast sitcom format.
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Plenty of sitcom showrunners give their stars leeway to insert their own jabs and jokes – Michael Schur has Friends seems to think that broadcast TV is ready for what HBO viewers have been enjoying for decades.
However, the stream-of-consciousness style of comedy feels like an odd fit for a CBS multi-cam sitcom – the set-up-to-punchline rhythm of a Chuck Lorre project doesn’t flow the way a scene from Curb does as it meanders through the minutiae of human interaction and escalates conflicts to their pettiest peaks. Though CBS has bucked its cookie-cutter formula for sitcom success with shows like the surprise hit Ghosts, an improvised sitcom sounds slightly overambitious for one of the most traditional networks on broadcast.
So in this case, it’s not so much about Curb Your Enthusiam the show, but actually curbing your enthusiasm.
