For a variety of weird reasons, I didn’t get to see any of last night’s sitcoms in full, and due to the demands of a three-day work week, I’m not going to have time to get back to them today. So time to trot out something I used to do quite a bit in the early days of the old blog: an open thread. If you have specific thoughts on last night’s comedies on FOX, ABC or NBC – whether it’s something I regularly cover like “New Girl” or “Happy Endings,” or something I’ve long since moved past like “The New Normal” – have at it. (I’m actually kind of curious about whether “New Normal” has gotten any better or fallen deeper into its own bad habits.) Did you like seeing Jamie Lee Curtis and Rob Reiner back in the sitcom world? Do you wish that “The Real World Sacramento” had actually happened? Did you find it amusing that, on the day it was announced that Anna Camp was stepping back from “The Mindy Project” regular to a recurring guest star, the show (from what I saw of it) finally remembered to give her something to do?
Additional housekeeping on Thanksgiving getaway day: I’ll have a review of “Parenthood” (which I did see in full) coming later this morning, another post tonight around 9 Eastern (and maybe something sooner if there’s breaking news, like another cancellation on a classic Take Out the Trash kind of day), another post on Friday morning, and then back Sunday with posts on my usual four Sunday dramas. Because only two of the four (the HBO shows) were available to me through yesterday, they may not all be full-length reviews, but it’ll at least be an opportunity to discuss them.
Back on something resembling a full schedule next week. If you’re about to head to the airport, happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the turkey coma.