I presume there's a reason why the BBC or BBC Two have decided to start introducing Upstart Crow as "filmed in front of a live studio audience" every week? Or am I missing something?
People nowadays do seem to use the term "canned laughter" to reference any laugh track on a TV show, even if the laughter isn't canned. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people who simply don't understand that live audiences are still a thing in sitcoms.
Yes, the turning point was The Office (and to a lesser extent The Royle Family) it had no laughter and after that sitcoms with laughter seemed very old fashioned to some.
Oddly the second series of I'm Alan Partridge went out a while after The Office had aired and had complaints about the laughter, with a lot of those saying 'why is there' canned' laughter in the second series when there wasn't in the first'. Of course there was in the first series too it's just everyone assumed it didn't
I presume there's a reason why the BBC or BBC Two have decided to start introducing Upstart Crow as "filmed in front of a live studio audience" every week? Or am I missing something?
That was often a thing in US sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s, to distinguish from those that had canned laughter; though as the posters above note, sitcoms with any type of laughter (canned or not) are virtually extinct. The Big Bang Theory is one of the only ones left, but it’s been running eleven years.
I presume there's a reason why the BBC or BBC Two have decided to start introducing Upstart Crow as "filmed in front of a live studio audience" every week? Or am I missing something?
That was often a thing in US sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s, to distinguish from those that had canned laughter; though as the posters above note, sitcoms with any type of laughter (canned or not) are virtually extinct. The Big Bang Theory is one of the only ones left, but it’s been running eleven years.
It's still a thing here of course and there are a few writers and performers who champion the format: Graham Linehan, Miranda Hart and presumably Ben Elton
It still has its place, and some shows like Mrs Brown's Boys wouldn't work without a studio audience
I’ve noticed both Will & Grace and Raven’s Home have featured the ‘filmed in front of a live studio audience’ line over the past year, maybe there’s a resurgence.
Sitcoms with any type of laughter (canned or not) are virtually extinct. The Big Bang Theory is one of the only ones left, but it’s been running eleven years.
Am I mistaken here? I thought the studio-based sitcom was still alive and well in America.