It was a one hour forty five minutes family comedy.
The tendency is to draw away from family comedies and toward news programs.
Critics of both the right and the left have been attacking the family comedies lately, as they will do when something is extraordinarily successful.
She wrote many types of children's book including fantasies, family comedies, historical novels and poetry.
The network had been looking for family comedies to help it emerge from a ratings slump.
"It's not very often that we hear a fresh take on a family comedy," he said.
Last season, only 3 family comedy shows finished among the top 30 in the big-money category of viewers 18 to 49.
Their stomping ground is the cartoon or the gentle family comedy.
Historically, what plays well in the holiday season are family comedies.
