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Another unfunny dud. Its like they purposely make awful sitcoms.

You kind of feel bad for Kramer. Post Seinfeld was lackluster. Its a trend for all actors who come from a top notch show like Steve Urkle and the saved by the bell roster.

Last Words: Nothing to see here.

I was only able to get through two episodes of this new show. The talent is there but the script and the overall sitcom formula is very tired and old. Plus, this show has one of the most awful laugh tracks in the history of television. Nearly every line is follow by screams of laughter. The three principles each seem to be rehashing characters that made them famous in earlier shows.

The plot line of the loser and long lost son seems a bit sad as well. Most comedies exhibit a bit of family warmth but this one does not. It is a series of snappy one liners. Maybe these actors should each try the stage because,sadly,TV has passed them by. I fully expect this show to be gone after one season

I was so looking forward to Kirstie's new show getting better, but sadly it has not. The extremely weak and juvenile story lines, the lackluster performance by the actor playing her son, mixed with the lack of chemistry between the cast just makes for a recipe destined to flop. The actors look very uncomfortable as if they've put on a pair of shoes that don't quite fit. The episode with John Travolta was... well, I don't know because all I was able to concentrate on during the entire show was the bad jet black shoe polish toupee he had on his head. The best episode was with Kathy Griffin who added the ONLY comedic element to the show since it first aired. Maybe the show should be called "Kathy"?!!!

Can anyone believe with a fine comedic cast of Alley,Richards and Pearlman that this show was a real bust. watching episodes I cringed at how bad the writing was for this show. Did they get some interns from the film academy to write the sitcom. And how bad was the male playing Kirstie's son, just because you are overweight does not make you a funny person. Maybe some actors should look at themselves and see that while they were young,quirky and pretty in previous shows (cheers )age has a terrible way of sneaking up on people who should see that they are no longer young slim and pretty. TV has a way of showing actors they should get out of the business after their use by date. Michael Richards seems to have gotten into a rut and plays Kramer in anything he does.One dimensional acting will not suffice in this day and age.

I've watched most of the episodes and have NOT found ANYTHING funny in this over the top pathetic attempt to revive washed-up has-been actor's careers.

I loved Cheers & Seinfeld and was intrigued by all these actors getting together to get us laughing, but that NEVER happened.

Even the music was terrible. And the laugh track was just ridiculous, who laughs and claps hysterically at these "jokes"? Not me.

The decision to cancel it is the best decision they ever could have made.

No star power or quest stars like Travolta or Griffin or Jason Alexander (btw that episode was cringe worthy) could save this sinking ship.

There are PLENTY of TERRIBLE shows on TV already...

One less won't make much of a difference, but at least it will not ruin my love for these actors in much better roles.

They're all in their 60's...maybe it's time to stop?

Or maybe their agents should be fired.

When I first saw the Pilot episode and the episode after, I didn't think it was all that great. It made me laugh, but I felt that the acting was forced and that Kirstie Alley was especially stiff, but was overacting at the same time. But I have continued to watch it, because it still made me laugh, and it's gotten much better. The chemistry between the actors is more apparent and Kirstie seems to be getting more comfortable, so I think it will be a good show for TV Land.

I think what people forget about TV Shows nowadays, is that when a show first starts out...particularly a sitcom...it's most likely going to be not so great the first half of the first season. It needs to find it's groove. Because we now live in the world of Netflix and season DVDs and reruns on TV, we often watch old shows, knowing how much of a hit they were. So, we expect new shows to be like that as well...especially shows with sitcom veterans such as Kirstie, Rhea, and Richard from this show..same goes for Sean Hayes in NBC's "Sean Saves the World" & Michael J. Fox on "The Michael J. Fox Show"....because they're both sitcom veterans, we expect them to just jump right in and be great. But they're still new shows. Shows such as Seinfeld, Friends, The Office, and Cheers got horrible reviews in the first season...but now they're timeless classics. So keep that in mind when watching Kirstie...it's not "Cheers" or "Seinfeld"...it's a new show with new characters. Give it time to find it's groove.

There was a sitcom on tonight that was filled with aging comics who haven't done anything funny for 20 years on a network that ran out of steam at least 15 years ago. Now that sitcom I can barely stomach the commercial. Kirsties new show you ask? No Im referring to 'the Crazies' (my god, who put him back on TV?). Kirsties new show may not stray to far from a certain formula, but its a good formula and the pull it off. This is TVLand, Im not expecting Shakespeare. If its entertainment for a half an hour, they've done there job (pretty good I think too). And something has to be said to the nay sayers, you look as Kirstie when your 60.....

I honestly don't know where they dug Kirstie A up from...cause she's aged and should really go climb back into the closet. Her attempt at acting and humor is just awful. And the son...really...did they decide to get someone with absolutely no looks whatsoever to match the same skill set as Kirstie...common, after two episodes of this trollop...please just bench this series....it's really bad. Take some lessons from Mom, Trophy Wife or Brooklyn 99...fresh and different and funny....not Kirstie...common people...we want to be entertained and made to laugh....not feel sorry for aged has-beens. Go back to the drawing board.....no wait, just burn the drawing board.

This show is excellent! The cast has really jelled and their chemistry is awesome. I love Kirstie Alley's character and how she really is growing to love her son. Eric Peterson as Arlo could very well be the show's breakout star. Eric Peterson is a good actor as well as a nice singer.

I especially love the episodes that featured Cloris Leachman and Kathy Griffith. The Christmas episode was very touching. Rhea Perlman and Michael Richards really add the perfect comedic touch to the series.

I expect TVLand to renew this series.

All of you haters really need to check yourselves.

Kirstie Alley plays a self absorbed Broadway actress named Madison Banks. Her son, Arlo, who she gave up decades ago comes to New York City and reunites with her. It sounds cliché but I'm actually enjoying it. Kirstie makes Maddie likable. Eric Petersen is perfectly cast as Arlo Barth, an awkward adult. The supporting cast is first rate with Rhea Perlman and Michael Richards. The Christmas episode was a hoot with Cloris Leachman as her mother. Arlo had a great relationship with his adoptive mother who was completely selfless and a second mother figure to his friends. Maddie tries to overcompensate for giving him up. Eric Peterson who plays Arlo does hold his own against his veteran costars. The John Travolta episode was ridiculous but all in good fun.

So much of what makes any form of entertainment work is down to pure luck; it's about so much more than talent. E.g. As timeless as Frasier feels, a show gleaning chuckles from narcissistic pomposity and bottomless wealth will ring hollow in times of economic disparity and the endemic, insidious culture of self-promotion in the era of the "Influencer". Frasier worked well in its era, so much so that the planned reboot is destined to fail; an aged Kelsey hosting a podcast whilst surrounded by (and, as their likely banking on, perplexed and hilariously flummoxed by) a tedium of pierced, tattooed, overly-coiffed and fashionable ,Twittering tech-savvy genderless youngsters of every race, mocking his lack of awareness and his reluctance to replace his beloved sherry, "eclectic" mid-century modern earth-toned African-baubled decor and classical music with craft ales, artisan chilli, West Coast free-styling, and open-planned Scadi-chic container living. No doubt guest-starring a frail-looking Niles, anorexic, fillered, Botox'd, stretched and prickly Daphne, and an embittered, tired-looking Roz wearing too much eyeliner.

Side-splitting.

Because Seinfeld is "about nothing", it'll likely never come off as entirely dated; no matter how fathomless the characters' lack of humanity. Most can relate to the annoyance of daily living. However, no one should attempt to remake it because it needed every single element, in that particular era, to work. Jerry likely knows this, but he also doesn't keep marrying the same awful demanding entitled narcissistic blonde, so no alimony either.

Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld got very lucky. They nailed a combo of cringe, schadenfreude, and humour with a good balance of successful characters with abject failures. Somehow the results are more warm than mean, more friendly than cynical. And NO politics or current issues; just the minutiae associated with being alive.

Cheers isn't everyone's bag of chips-including mine-but there's obviously comfortable nostalgia to be found there for legions of fans, and the premise would work well in any era as long as the writers weren't forced to shoehorn any political agendas into the scripts. It worked because it was a true escape.

I've chosen these three shows because they were fairly decent-budgeted and non-formulaic sitcoms that are not just beloved classics, they're also cast with a few good examples of "nailed then failed" one-note actors who got lucky.

Smooth your hackles. As previously stated, it's all about the right writers, premise, material, performers, setting, directing and overall mood-at the right time. So much of life revolves around luck, or happenstance, but never so prevalent as it is in the entertainment industry.

There are a few actors who have worked steadily within the television industry, namely Ted Danson and Julia Louise Dreyfus (the former had a few cringe-worthy big screen roles that are best forgotten), and one whose laid back, down home country persona seems to appeal to the masses; Woody Harrelson plays Woody Harrelson in every film role. Nevertheless, he gets bums on seats. He's relatable and has acting chops.

However, none of the others has seen much success beyond the characters they are known for, and this is mainly due to the fact that they aren't particularly multi-faceted.

Kristie Alley, reprising her role as Rebecca-again-incessantly whines in her squeaky-sultry voice, is forever acting with her black fingernails scrabbling at the air, clutching them in front of her as she flaps about in her attempts at making us believe that she's a naughty, waifsy, saucy little imp. I don't care that she's overweight, but all of the flirty flustering about in stilettos, as if she's just learned to walk in them, the giggling, the flapping, indicates that she's attempting to channel her inner pixie; it's not attractive. Kirstie seemed to have a low enough opinion of herself that she wrote less of an autobiography than a list of sexual conquests, and I suspect that the constant jabs at her love of food (e.g. Eating cookies "like a hyena on a zebra"), are attempts to mask the pain that forced her to overeat in the first place. We know how one gets fat. It's too bad her children, good fortune, fame, or sultry beauty couldn't make her care enough about herself to tackle why she wasn't able to overcome her self-destructive tendencies.

And is there a large audience for easy women? When did trashy become synonymous with sexy?

Anyone can copulate; making sex, and/or the conquest of it, the core of your existence is as tiresome as it is troublesome-and troubling.

It ain't love, honey.

Michael Richards will forever be Kramer. He's rubbery, awkward and prone to pratfalls, but he isn't particularly funny. You can see that he's trying not to be Cosmo, but he's simply not good at it. He got VERY lucky.

One can see Rhea Perelman's so-called script could've been written on a set of cocktail napkins. It's so painfully obvious, and she simply couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. Carla was never fleshed-out as a character; she was truly awful, and that's it. No one in their right mind would've employed her. She also got lucky. Really lucky.

Jason Alexander is probably a nice guy who knows he got lucky, but that doesn't make him good at his job. I have the feeling that if he isn't George, he's forgettable. Why did he, for the love of God, have an English accent and a ponytail in his episode??

The less said about the detestable Kathy Griffin, the better, but I'm having a go nonetheless. Was Repugnant and ugly inside and out. Bitchiness is best left to ageing drag queens, not talentless miseries desperate to be seen as "pretty". Her insecurities and self-hatred are on full display as in lieu of humour or cleverness, she does little apart from cutting others to pieces, which, thankfully, will only serve to propel her decent into inevitable obscurity.

I fast forward any scene containing the grating, tanning-bedded, quack-faced, baby-voiced, platinum extension-flipping void that is Kristen Chenoweth. Hollywood has been trying to pull her off of Broadway and plant her on our screens for decades, but she belongs firmly rooted with her ilk of tightly-wound, over-acting, hyper, fellow scenery-chewers that seem to crowd the landscape of musical theatre. She possesses all of the sensuality, subtlety, softness and femininity of a Bedazzled, oily, mahogany-veneered stripper's pole. Again, who finds this sexy?

The son and the cook could've been played by literally anyone. The former actor is lucky that he's so unappealing, otherwise we'd focus on how boring he is. His donut shop co-worker has more presence. The stock hot Latina actress could be any number of busty lusty women who populate Telemundo or the multitude of "novelas" seen via satellite TV (likely streaming now; I'm old).

I actually own the only season of Kirstie. I'm always on the prowl for a good, cosy sitcom, but I've only viewed this a few times. As mesmerisingly beautiful as she was (I'd give up an arm to have ¼ of the hair she still has, even if much of it is extensions), it's a wonder she couldn't find some sort of successful vehicle for herself. This definitely wasn't it.

I'm so tired of these new TVLand sitcoms. This is not why I come to TVLand. I come for comfort. Most of these TVLand sitcom's feel contrived. Give me I Love Lucy's, Roseanne's and Cosby's. There are plenty of other new sitcom's out there As you can tell, I'm not a fan of these new TVLand sitcoms but I have to say Kirstie was pretty good or at least good enough not to make me change the channel. Kirstie stars as a Broadway actress who is reluctantly reunited with her son that she gave up for adoption. Kirstie doesn't have a mothering instinct in her body and it will be interesting to see how this show develops. Rhea Pearlman and Michael Richardson co-star but the #1 draw to tune in is Kistie Alley.

what more can I say. All of the actors are hilarious and the writers magnificent. Don't mess with this show! It is on my #1 list of programs. Keep me coming! I am laughing and and it so refreshing to having actual humor to watch on TV. The story line is contemporary and relevant. Kirstie, as always, is so beautiful, adorable, and quirky. rehearsal pearl is on time, quick, and ageless. Again, the script is quick, funny, and expertly delivered. I give it as many stars as allowed. Love the celebrities that grace the show with cameo appearances, further testifying to how beloved all of the stars are. Now, all leads must be on dancing with the stars.....even Kramers. :)

I really liked the show and where it went there are certain parts where certain people lack at acting! but not many parts! i really thought this show was going to suck bad because of the reviews and how many people hated on it but i got to say it's not bad! I like cheers diffidently better but its still a Fantastic show! Michael richards was one of the best in Kirstie and i am pretty shocked that i gave him another chance after what he did, but he seemed pretty sincere about his apology also everyone deserves a second chance there is still stuff i regret doing that i wish i could take back , but no matter what i cant, i kind of feel for the guy, so i guess it was a good choice giving him another chance and this show a chance Rhea perlman Was also one of the funniest i think her and Michael were my favorite and Kirstie and the other dude were my least favorite in the show , but at some parts they were funny all in all i think the show is kick ass when you're sober or high on some good sticky bud yea dig

Loved this show when it aired is it on dvd or has anyone got a copy. Thsnks