Other British sitcoms such as Steptoe and Son and Dad's Army had previously produced films made for the cinema, but the BBC were initially sceptical as they had never before commissioned a film based on a comedy programme for original broadcast on television.

The channel also phased out original drama and reality series, shifting its original programming focus to live-action sitcoms and animated series.

It has aired a large variety of different programming ranging from educational programming, original animated programming ( Nicktoons ), live-action sitcoms, game shows, talk shows, dramas and sketch comedies and a late night classic programming block aimed for family, teens and adults ( Nick at Nite ).

In 1997 it switched to cable and changed its style with airing preschool educational programming in the morning, children's entertainment in the afternoon and airing teen sitcoms, dramas, original movies and music videos during evening and classic Disney films and shorts at late night.

Its programming is a mix of original ( mostly animated ) series, reruns of mostly action-oriented cartoons, movies, family oriented game shows, and a block of family-friendly sitcoms in the evenings.

In 1996, the original older programming was spun off Nick at Nite as a new channel entitled TV Land, which currently airs a variety of older shows, primarily sitcoms from the 1950s through the 2000s.

During its original run at NBC, it was one of five successful sitcoms on the network that featured predominately African-American casts.

While Disney Channel original sitcoms / laugh tracks mainly film in front of studio audiences, Nickelodeon, Disney's top competitor, recorded such hits as iCarly and Victorious without audiences ( due to their decision to do away with their now-defunct original studios ) and use laugh tracks as a substitute.

The standard broadcast television season in the United States is 22 episodes per season ; sitcoms may have 24 or more ; animated programs may have more ( or fewer ) episodes ; cable networks with original programming seem to have settled on about 10 or 12 episodes per season, much in line with British television programming.

* ReelzChannel-an American digital cable and satellite channel that launched with the same concept as original Movie Time, but has since added sitcoms and films to their schedule

227 had higher ratings than other sitcoms airing at the time with a predominantly African American cast during the first two seasons of its original run on NBC, ( 1985 – 1990 ), ( with the exception of The Cosby Show, as it was # 1 from 1985 – 1990 ).

Of these original series, the channel has had minimal success with situation comedy programming as of recent, with its drama series having generally outlasted the original sitcoms.

The network also began its first foray into original scripted programming in 2010, beginning with two new sitcoms.

The network continued to have success in 2011 with original sitcoms, such as Happily Divorced starring Fran Drescher, which premiered on June 15, 2011.

In a 2005 BBC documentary series showcasing some of Britain's favourite sitcoms, The Blackadder edition of the series, presented by John Sergeant, revealed that the original ending of this series had Baldrick, George, Darling and the troops under Blackadder's command unambiguously killed.

Originally to have been titled Father Knows Nothing ( a parody of the title of the 1950s sitcom Father Knows Best ), the series was one of the four sitcoms that aired as part of the original Wednesday night two-hour lineup that helped launch The WB network ( along with The Wayans Bros., Unhappily Ever After and the short-lived Muscle ).

* Nickelodeon Edition ( Edition includes questions based on all original non-game show shows on the network, with the exception of Doug for copyright issues with The Walt Disney Company, as well as older sitcoms, All That, The Amanda Show, and KaBlam!

Unhappily Ever After was one of the four sitcoms that aired as part of the original Wednesday night two-hour lineup that helped launch The WB network ( along with The Wayans Bros., The Parent ' Hood and the short-lived Muscle ).

In 1993, Lawson was one of the original cast members of Saved by the Bell: The New Class, she also appeared in multiple episodes of The WB sitcoms Sister, Sister, The Parent ' Hood and The Steve Harvey Show.

The regional cable TV network offered movies, tv series, sitcoms, regional news updates, and unique original programming, plus professional sports coverage for the Atlanta Braves ( Major League Baseball ), Atlanta Hawks ( National Basketball Association ), and Atlanta Thrashers ( National Hockey League ), all of which were owned by Turner Broadcasting at network launch.

The show was part of the network's GMA KiliTV block and was one of the must successful original Pinoy sitcoms of recent history.

He also produced some original prints, including two etchings.

In that same year Lerner also wrote the Oscar-winning original screenplay for An American in Paris, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

A Taiwanese television series based on the original novel was produced.

Advocates such as Jane Jacobs argue that this enables an economically depressed region to pull itself up, by giving the people living there a medium of exchange that they can use to exchange services and locally produced goods ( In a broader sense, this is the original purpose of all money.

Some strips which are still in affiliation with the original creator are produced by small teams or entire companies, such as Jim Davis ' Garfield, however there is some debate if these strips fall in this category.

In 1950, St. John Publications produced the digest-sized, adult-oriented " picture novel " It Rhymes with Lust, a 128-page digest by pseudonymous writer " Drake Waller " ( Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller ), penciler Matt Baker and inker Ray Osrin, touted as " an original full-length novel " on its cover.

But the output of the stenotype is a phonetic code that has to be transcribed later ( usually by the same operator who produced the original output ), rather than arbitrary text.

Late in his career, therefore, Lyell produced a condensed version titled Student's Elements of Geology that fulfilled the original purpose.

The new Dilbert animations are animated versions of original comic strips produced by RingTales and animated by Powerhouse Animation Studios.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

Various spin-offs and modifications to the original Duke Nukem 3D were produced in the following years of the game's initial launch.

Despite this, several individuals in modern times have claimed that they have rediscovered the methods in which the original Damascus steel was produced.

Historians such as Hobson, Sinopoli, and Juleff state that the original damascus was produced from ingots of wootz steel, which originated in India and Sri Lanka and later spread to Persia.

After the end of the original series, Don sometimes produced additional " missing " chapters.

There have been dozens of arcade-based releases across several countries and hundreds of home video game console releases, promoting a music library of original songs produced by Konami's in-house artists and an eclectic set of licensed music from many different genres.

In the original 1902 definition by Bayliss and Starling ( see below ), they specified that, to be classified as a hormone, a chemical must be produced by an organ, be released ( in small amounts ) into the blood, and be transported by the blood to a distant organ to exert its specific function.

After Wood's departure following the band's debut record, Lynne wrote and arranged all of the group's original compositions and produced every album.

The original puppets produced for the series were made by Christine Glanville and had papier-mâché heads.

( e. g. an undetectable performance-enhancing gene therapy was used by one of the characters on himself, but to avoid copyright infringement, this gene therapy was modified from the tested-to-be-harmless original, which produced a fatal cardiovascular defect )

Although they are generally included in the category of electronic organs, original Hammond organs are, strictly speaking, electric or electromechanical rather than electronic organs because the waveforms are produced by mechanical tonewheels rather than electronic oscillators.

Since the original ratification of H. 263 in March 1996 ( approving a document that was produced in November 1995 ), there have been two subsequent additions which improved on the original codec by additional optional annexes ( extensions ).

However, the claim has been advanced that the original Hebrew ( דבש devash ) actually refers to the sweet syrup produced from the juice of dates.

It is produced in Westfield, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire by A. G. Barr of Glasgow, since moving out of their original Parkhead factory in the mid-1990s, and at a second manufacturing site in Mansfield, England.

Many of the original cast of Saturday Night Live came from The Second City and the franchise has produced such comedy stars as Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Bob Odenkirk, Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Eugene Levy, Steve Carell, Chris Farley, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.