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Can't wait for this to be produced. Could be very, very good if it's done right.

 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus to play a VP for HBO comedy | Inside TV | EW.com

 

This and the new series of The Thick of It (with new added coalition) are both high on my "Fucking hurry up and make it" list. Iannucci working for HBO has to be good news, especially when Tony Hale from Arrested Development is also involved.

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Only got halfway through before deciding I didn't like it. I get it, an' all, but I think this sort of 'everybody is dumb and says awkward stuff' thing is overdone.

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US serious shows are generally done to a high standard,The Wire,Sopranos,Breaking Bad etc but their comedy shows are usually shite.

 

30 Rock is abysmally unfunny as is almost everything with a female lead character.

 

I'd say American comedy has a higher funny to unfunny percentage than British comedy

 

Americans gave us The Simpsons, Seinfeld & Arrested Development, for that i'll always be eternally grateful.

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I'd say American comedy has a higher funny to unfunny percentage than British comedy

 

Americans gave us The Simpsons, Seinfeld & Arrested Development, for that i'll always be eternally grateful.

 

Bollocks!

 

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British,

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No matter what they come out with they will always owe a debt for everything that British comedic pioneers came out with first.

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I have watched 4 of the 10 now. Its quite sharp in places and very lame in others. It needs a malcolm tucker character, someone to completely lose it and blow up not just say fuck a few times.

 

It is to safe for a uk audience, but far to close to the edge for dumb arse Yanks

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It has the potential, it certainly isnt close to the likes of Arrested Development, Parks and recreation or even 30 rock (which is more slapstic of course) but it is good.

 

I must be missing something with P&D, watched the first episode and just didn't enjoy it at all.

 

"The League" is an interesting one I've just got on to. It's like if you crossed "The Hangover", "Knocked up" and well "The League" as I don't know any other shows about men who fuck up their lives and those around them over an NFL fantasy football draft.

 

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