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'Strange Days' indeed for Bob Saget, A&E

17 Nov 2009 10:19:47 PST

Strange Days' indeed for Bob Saget, A&E Of course, he also starred in "Surviving Suburbia" on ABC, but we can't necessarily hold that against him. Saget will serve as executive producer on ... TV Tidbits: Bob Saget's Strange Days, Alternative Star Trek Pilot Coming, Lost .../FILM (blog)

Original story at HitFix .

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Mr. TV: Stuffing TV Turkeys

15 Nov 2009 10:08:27 PST

Also lame in the sitcom arena was ABC's Surviving Suburbia with former Full House dad Bob Saget playing a bumbling, immature curmudgeon with a wise and ...

Original story at MEDIAWEEK .

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Primed for new views

11 Nov 2009 07:03:37 PST

From Kevin Abbott, who produced Roseanne, Grace Under Fire and My Name is Earl, comes Surviving Suburbia - the adventures behind the cookie cutters in the ...

Original story at New Zealand Herald .

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ABC slates summer tweaks

05 Jun 2009 09:10:57 PDT

Wednesday comedies "Surviving Suburbia" and "The Goode Family," meanwhile, will now move to Fridays at 8 pm and 8:30 pm, respectively, starting June 12. "Suburbia" and "Goode" have been pulled off Wednesdays immediately, which means ABC will air ...

Original story at Variety .

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Harper's Island, Parks and Recreation, Surviving Suburbia

01 May 2009 14:07:10 PDT

- Mickey O'Connor Can ABC's Better Off Ted produce laughs as well as far-out inventions? Is Parks and Recreation worthy of Amy Poehler's talents? Does Harper's Island slay us? Now that TV's new spring shows have had a few weeks to strut their stuff, TVGuide.com's senior ...

Original story at TV Guide .

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TV Review: ABC’s Quirky ‘The Unusuals’ Off to Promising Start

08 Apr 2009 10:17:37 PDT

ABC has thrown several new shows up against the wall to see what sticks, including “Castle,” “Better Off Ted,” “In the Motherhood,” “Cupid,” “Surviving Suburbia,” and, now, “The Unusuals”. With “Castle” treading water and still needing improvement and ...

Original story at HollywoodChicago.com .

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Surviving Suburbia news and blogs - December 05, 2009

05 Dec 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Surviving Suburbia news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• The Soup - -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com "Surviving Suburbia" "Bob Saget" OR "Cynthia Stevenson" OR ABC OR "G Hannelius" OR "Full House" OR "Jere Burns" OR "Jared Kusnitz" OR "Media Rights Capital" OR CW OR sitcom OR "Steve Patterson" OR comedy OR "Dan Cortese" OR Roseanne OR "Men in Trees" OR "Steve and Anne" OR "Dancing with the Stars" OR episodes OR MRC OR "wife Anne" OR "According to Jim" OR TV OR "daughter Courtney" OR "new next door neighbors" OR "Dr Jim" OR "son Henry" OR sitcoms OR Premise OR "Mindy Schultheis" OR "Zac Efron" OR Onno OR "Lorna Scott Monica"
• Bob Saget hopes for a full house in Westbury -- from Newsday
• The Soup -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com "Surviving Suburbia" "Bob Saget" OR "Cynthia Stevenson" OR ABC OR "G Hannelius" OR "Full House" OR "Jere Burns" OR "Jared Kusnitz" OR "Media Rights Capital" OR CW OR sitcom OR "Steve Patterson" OR comedy OR "Dan Cortese" OR Roseanne OR "Men in Trees" OR "Steve and Anne" OR "Dancing with the Stars" OR episodes OR MRC OR "wife Anne" OR "According to Jim" OR TV OR "daughter Courtney" OR "new next door neighbors" OR "Dr Jim" OR "son Henry" OR sitcoms OR Premise OR "Mindy Schultheis" OR "Zac Efron" OR Onno OR "Lorna Scott Monica"
• What's on TV tonight? -- from The Cincinnati Enquirer
• TV Best Bets: July 24 -- from The Record and Herald News
• Steve gets stuck with chores after Anne joins the workforce -- from Cornwall Standard Freeholder
• Saget's Full House on '' -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com "Surviving Suburbia" "Bob Saget" OR "Cynthia Stevenson" OR ABC OR "G Hannelius" OR "Full House" OR "Jere Burns" OR "Jared Kusnitz" OR "Media Rights Capital" OR CW OR sitcom OR "Steve Patterson" OR comedy OR "Dan Cortese" OR Roseanne OR "Men in Trees" OR "Steve and Anne" OR "Dancing with the Stars" OR episodes OR MRC OR "wife Anne" OR "According to Jim" OR TV OR "daughter Courtney" OR "new next door neighbors" OR "Dr Jim" OR "son Henry" OR sitcoms OR Premise OR "Mindy Schultheis" OR "Zac Efron" OR Onno OR "Lorna Scott Monica"
• Celebrity Interviews : -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com "Surviving Suburbia" "Bob Saget" OR "Cynthia Stevenson" OR ABC OR "G Hannelius" OR "Full House" OR "Jere Burns" OR "Jared Kusnitz" OR "Media Rights Capital" OR CW OR sitcom OR "Steve Patterson" OR comedy OR "Dan Cortese" OR Roseanne OR "Men in Trees" OR "Steve and Anne" OR "Dancing with the Stars" OR episodes OR MRC OR "wife Anne" OR "According to Jim" OR TV OR "daughter Courtney" OR "new next door neighbors" OR "Dr Jim" OR "son Henry" OR sitcoms OR Premise OR "Mindy Schultheis" OR "Zac Efron" OR Onno OR "Lorna Scott Monica"
• 'I Survived a Japanese Game Show' -- from HitFix
• Maybe David Letterman Should Thank Sarah Palin -- from E! Online

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TV: Other Shows: Surviving Suburbia, "Hero"

07 Apr 2009 09:55:00 PDT

There are good family sitcoms (Roseanne, Malcom In The Middle), middling family sitcoms (Growing Pains, King Of Queens), and family sitcoms so terrible they call the entire idea of related human beings living together in these small groups called "families" into question. ABC's bland...

Original story at theonion.com .

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Review: Surviving Suburbia Series Premiere: Bob Saget Returns to ...

06 Apr 2009 22:53:21 PDT

ABC's new comedy Surviving Suburbia features several sitcom veterans, including Bob Saget, but fails to deliver laughs or a single memorable moment. ... While he may forever be known as the head of the Tanner household, five minutes into his new series it is clear that Saget is no longer the ki...

Original story at Prime Time TV Articles .

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How does 'Full House' comedian Bob Saget find work?

06 Apr 2009 19:37:45 PDT

Seriously. Bob Saget? Has he ever been funny? Now he's starring on "Surviving Suburbia," a comedy so awful that even the CW wouldn't air it. Anybody watch it after "Dancing with the Stars"?

Original story at Knoxville News Sentinel .

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Big week of premieres

06 Apr 2009 13:15:32 PDT

Written by Glenn Teichman
Tonight’s offering is “Surviving Suburbia” on ABC. If the show sounds familiar, that’s because it was going to air on the WB a few months ago. The sitcom starring Bob Saget was canceled before it even aired. But don’t despair because here it comes. Also premiering this week are Amy Poehler’s n...

Original story at blogs.timesunion.com .

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B&C Review: ABC’s Surviving Suburbia Chances For Survival Slim

06 Apr 2009 11:55:49 PDT

Written by Robert Seidman
I haven’t seen a single good review of this show, and I think both Bill and my eyes widened when we learned ABC had picked up Surviving Suburbia, a show born out of The CW’s ill-fated partnership with MRC (Media Rights Capital). Here’s the 90 second review round up from .... If SS hits, will stay aft...

Original story at TVbytheNumbers .

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With 'Surviving Suburbia,' ABC aims for mediocrity and misses

06 Apr 2009 11:16:58 PDT

Written by Tempo
When it comes to half-hour comedies, ABC has tried everything: It has developed a show (“In the Motherhood”) that started a Web series, it has tried contrived single-camera sitcoms such as “Better Off Ted,” and now, with “Suburbia,” it is trying the more traditional multi-camera sitco...

Original story at Chicago Tribune .

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Review: Saget’s “Surviving Suburbia” really doesn’t deserve to ...

06 Apr 2009 09:38:58 PDT

Written by Chuck Barney
Saget plays Bob Patterson, husband to a sweet and mostly understanding wife (Cynthia Stevenson) and parent to a couple of precocious children (Jared Kusnitz and G Hannelius). Set up in a cozy house in an idyllic ... It was abysmal. And surprising since the cast are veteran sitcom folks, Cynthi...

Original story at San Jose Mercury News .

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TV Review: Bob Saget’s ‘Surviving Suburbia’ is Worst New Show of ...

06 Apr 2009 06:15:11 PDT

Written by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Reportedly planned as a male “Roseanne” (although the show features none of that show’s incredibly believable family dynamic or blue-collar relatability), “Surviving Suburbia” stars Saget as Steve Patterson, a grumpy old man with a ... ‘ Surviving Suburbia,’ which airs on ABC, stars Bo...

Original story at HollywoodChicago.com .

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Review | To survive 'Suburbia' just switch the channel

06 Apr 2009 00:01:00 PDT

Surviving Suburbia, 9:30-10 p.m. Monday, WPLG-ABC 10 Why writing about television never gets old: Every time you think you've discovered its most inexplicable mystery, you stumble upon something even more unfathomable. For instance, I've been stumped for some time now about how anybod...

Original story at Miami Herald .

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Opinion: 'Surviving Suburbia' -- you won't

05 Apr 2009 21:48:33 PDT

Written by Glenn Garvin
Why writing about television never gets old: Every time you think you've discovered its most inexplicable mystery, you stumble upon something even more unfathomable. For instance, I've been stumped for some time now about how anybody could think Bob Saget could out-act a compost heap. Y...

Original story at MiamiHerald.com .

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'Surviving Suburbia' offers scant charms, stale humor

05 Apr 2009 17:44:07 PDT

There are limits to the wisdom of recycling.ABC tested them last week with Cupid, a revival of an old flop that shows every sign of repeating history. And on Monday night, the network exceeds those limits with Surviving Suburbia, a CW castoff that would have been better left on the TV trash he...

Original story at usatoday.com .

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Five questions with: Lorna Scott of the new sitcom 'Surviving Suburbia’

02 Apr 2009 14:58:00 PDT

Lorna Scott Even if you don’t recognize Lorna Scott’s name, you’ve probably seen her face. According to the Internet Movie Database, the West Virginia native has appeared in more than 100 movies and TV-series episodes. She may be best-known as James McAvoy’s boss-from-hell in Wanted, or...

Original story at Star-Telegram.com .

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Top 55 TV Programs for April 5-11, 2009

01 Apr 2009 12:32:51 PDT

OK ◊“Surviving Suburbia” (8:30 pm on ABC): Bob Saget (“Full House”) and Cynthia Stevenson (“Men in Trees”) star in this new sitcom that takes a contemporary look at family life and the reasons one might have to question the system. ...

Original story at NewsOK.com .

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More pilots greenlighted at NBC, ABC, CBS

13 Feb 2009 00:44:35 PST

Written by DarkUFO(noreply@blogger.com)
Strauss penned the pilot and is exec producing with Acme's Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis. Hanel and Schultheis are already in the multicamera comedy business with ABC, which recently picked up the duo's MRC-produced comedy series "Surviving Suburbia," originally targeted for t...

Original story at Spoiler TV .

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TV Newsround: When's My Favourite Show Coming Back Update

05 Feb 2009 23:03:29 PST

Written by The Cathode Ray Choob
Surviving Suburbia, a traditional sitcom starring Bob Saget and Cynthia Stevenson, begins on Monday April 6 at 9:30pm on ABC. The show, about a cynical cynical father-of-two and his family, is said to be “in the family-centered tradition of Roseanne and Home Improvement”.

Original story at thecathoderaychoob (WordPress) .

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Random news update thingies

05 Feb 2009 09:35:22 PST

Written by Raked
So last summer, I go to my car and find a flat tire. So I take it to Goodyear, and as I’m waiting for them to plug it (at least I didn’t have to buy a new one), I was stuck in a small room with a TV. It’s Saturday afternoon, and of course, nothing’s on. I figured it’d be stuck on sports, but no, it’s The CW’s...

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The lonesome death of broadcast television, as manifested by the life cycle of a generic sitcom entitled "Surviving Suburbia"

04 Feb 2009 13:20:15 PST

Written by David Kronke
But wait! "Surviving Suburbia" just happened to star Bob Saget, who is actually very funny (see "The Aristocrats" if you don't believe it) when he's not actually on TV, and the ABC Television Network has a "relationship" with Mr. Saget, and the ABC Television Network was hurting for progr...

Original story at San Gabriel Valley Tribune .

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Bob Saget comedy 'Surviving Suburbia' sees light of day on ABC

03 Feb 2009 22:36:44 PST

After the CW canceled four Media Rights Capital shows -- "Easy Money," "Valentine," "4 Real" and "In Harm's Way" -- faster than you can say "Drew Carey reruns," it looked like a fifth show created by MRC, Bob Saget's "Surviving Suburbia," might not make it. But now ABC has picked up the show a...

Original story at blogs.pioneerlocal.com .

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Universal Revisiting The 'Thing' Thing [Trade Roundup]

29 Jan 2009 09:15:38 PST

Written by Seth
· Surviving Suburbia, a Bob Saget sitcom that was orphaned after The CW dropped its Media Rights Capital-produced programming, has found a second chance, with ABC potentially interested. The only potential loser in this situation? Laughter. [Variety]

Original story at Defamer .

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