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Pilot Review: BETTER WITH YOU
ABC is not giving up on multicam-sitcoms and brings on the next sixpack
It should be obvious that I am not a friend of multicam-sitcoms anymore. The first one I liked was Friends, the last one I liked was Friends. In between, I had the hots for Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and I had to think a long time to get another lovable multicam-sitcom out of my head. ABC bombed their multicam-sitcom Hank last year – ten episodes were produced, five were aired, but ABC still does not give up to outstrip CBS, who seem to be the only network left to produce a bundle of multicam-sitcoms and make them successful. Surprisingly, Better With You (formerly titled Better Together) got almost 8 million viewers and some nice-looking ratings, though ABC wanted to see some better numbers, since this series has the honor to be aired alongside the smash hit Modern Family. And yet the ratings are not good enough to hope for a long survival of Better With You. Furthermore, the stories remind me of some other comedies, which didn’t survive for one season. I am already thinking that the series is going to be canceled, before Mia can give birth to her baby – something Billie managed to do in the last episode of Accidentally on Purpose.
for graphic language, sexual references and depiction of fictional violence
