TELEVISION PRODUCER, WRITER CREATED SITCOM ‘FAMILY TIES’ Gary David Goldberg, a television producer and writer who created the sitcom “Family Ties,” which made a star of Michael J. Fox as a briefcase-toting Republican teenager in frequent and affectionate confrontation with his hippie parents, died Saturday in Montecito. He was 68.
June 26, 2013 - U-T San Diego
Wendy Richard in Telegraph.co.uk Sir Terry Wogan said: "In the 1960s and 1970s, she was the queen of the sitcom and I'm sorry to hear she's gone."
Barack Obama in AFP This is not a reality show, no offense to any of you,Obama said to laughter. "This is not a sitcom."
Kelsey Grammer in Washington Post It does exactly what you want a sitcom to do. Granted, there are new trends in viewing and it's edgy to watch something with no laugh track,Grammer said. "But when the old form is firing it's the funniest form in the world."