Perhaps the most popular, proliferate, enduring and uniquely American of all entertainment formats, the traditional multi-camera family sitcom has been chased to near extinction, whittled to only a few time-period blocks on the current, post-strike midseason schedules of the major broadcast networks.
Those that survive are mostly spinoffs and reboots of proven half-hour shows, notably NBC's successful Night Court, ABC's The Conners and Paramount's surprisingly spry Frasier.
