Emmys Certify CBS's Tiffany-Net Comeback

摘要

When Everybody Loves Raymond premiered in 1996, executive producer Phil Rosenthal was chid-ed for making a sitcom that was so, well, so much like a sitcom, a throw-back to the days when comedy on television was not necessarily bawdy or exclusively populated by swinging, single twen-tysomethings. It may have sounded radically retro, but Raymond, introduced in the first full year that Leslie Moonves controlled the network's prime time schedule, was crucial. He spent years chiding critics for overlooking it even as viewers were finding it. Eventually, though, that thoroughly normal sitcom and a weird little show named Survivor became the cornerstones in rebuilding the beaten-down and Tisched-out CBS.