1/3/2021
On the award-winning BBC sitcom
Miranda, which premiered in 2009, British comic Miranda Hart used her prodigious height to grand comedic effect. Her six-foot-one protagonist, a joke shop owner, was lumbering and awkward and loveable: With vaudevillian ungainliness, she towered over nearly every other person on screen while never missing an opportunity to flaunt her unconventionality. The actress endearing brashness paired flawlessly with her corporeal bounty, leading to the show s success and propelling Hart into international stardom.
Fox s
Call Me Kat, a multi-cam American adaptation of this British hit, plays with scale in a different way. The show inverts its predecessor s conceit, instead showcasing a protagonist whose bodily compactness
Winter TV 2021: Premiere dates for new and returning midseason shows
Updated Jan 03, 2021;
Posted Dec 30, 2020
Ted Danson and Bobby Moynihan in the new comedy, Mr. Mayor. (Photo: Mitchell Haddad/NBC)Mitchell Haddad/NBC
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Back in the foggy mists of early 2020, looking ahead to upcoming winter TV shows was a pleasant exercise in predicting which series might be good. Within a few short months, as we all now know, everything changed. Just as normal routines and rituals were transformed, so was TV, which makes the 2021 winter TV premiere schedule look a bit different than usual.
During the past year, series that we expected to return were put on pause, as the coronavirus pandemic forced productions to shut down. Shows that kept on going eventually adapted as best they could, turning to “bubbles,” frequent testing and other expensive, time-consuming measures intended to create a safe working environment.