Sitcoms. Show us what you know about sitcoms. Tell us what their key features are and how the genre has changed over time. Dont forget to give us plenty of examples.

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Sitcoms were started on January 12 1926, they were first aired on radio, they then erupted onto television screens in the late 1940s, most of them were half-an-hour long and were aired weekly. Many of the early sitcoms were adaptations of existing radio shows.

As time went on, Sitcoms began to divide themselves into two groups. The domestic comedy (which focused on a family or married couple in there home) and the workplace comedy (which focused on employees at work).

The 1970s is seen as the “Golden Era” of British sitcoms. Many of the sitcoms made in 70s are still going strong today. The decade gave the public smash hit sitcoms such as “Open All Hours”, “Some Mothers Do Av ‘Em” and “To the Manor Born”. To The Manor Born was an extremely popular sitcom, even 25+ years after the original version ended it is seen as one of the greatest ever British sitcoms. Another sitcom from the 70s era is “Last of the Summer Wine” and this show is still running on the BBC today.

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“Love Thy Neighbour” is another popular sitcom from the 70’s, it was released simultaneously to the time when large amounts of black immigrants had come to Britain. The sitcom is based about a white couple that find themselves living next door to a black couple, and their attempts to come to terms with this. The sitcom is full of racial abuse, as the jokes are nearly always racially motivated; the black man is referred to as nig-nog on many occasions. However the racial abuse is not one sided as the whites are referred to as Honky, Snowflake etc. This ...

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