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ABC comes up with another new comedy
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ABC has had a run of good luck this season with its “comedy
Wednesday”
slate of “The Middle,” “Modern Family” and
“Cougar Town.”
Now that the 2009-2010 season is winding down, ABC and the other
networks are rolling out some potential candidates for their
fall schedules. One of these shows is “Romantically Challenged,”
a half-hour comedy about four friends who are trying, as ABC’s
press release puts it, “to find love and happiness while
navigating their way through today’s tricky world of dating.”
The focus of the show is on series star Alyssa Milano (”Who’s
The Boss,” “Charmed” and guest stints on numerous
other series), who plays Rebecca, a recent divorcee with a teenage
son. Since she has been out of the dating game for 15 years,
she looks to her
kindergarten-teacher sister Lisa (Kelly Stables) for dating advice.
Rounding out the cast are Perry (Kyle Bornheimer) a successful
financial planner and his best friend and roommate Perry (Josh
Lawson), a would-be novelist.
It’s rather difficult for me to imagine that these attractive,
smart people are “romantically challenged,” but the
agonizingly long premiere episode proves they are.
When one of the three “best” things I can say about
the show is that when you start looking forward to the commercial
breaks you know the show is in trouble; the second “best”
thing is the laugh track -- whatever those folks on the laugh
track were watching must have been pretty funny to crack them
up so much and so loudly because it sure could not have been
“Romantically Challenged.”
And the third “best” thing I can say about the show: just skip it.
©2010 by Donna J.
Plesh. The photo of Alyssa MiIlano is courtesy of ABC. This column
first posted April 19, 2010.
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