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The revival of the 1980s sitcom Punky Brewster has officially gotten the axe at NBCUniversal s Peacock streaming service, it emerged this Thursday in The Hollywood Reporter.
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80s Sitcom Stars You May Not Know Have Died Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
By Brian Boone/April 9, 2021 7:26 pm EDT
Of all the wonderful eras of television, the 1980s might have been the golden age of the situation comedy, or at least a certain kind of sitcom. The TV landscape was still by and large dominated by three broadcast networks, who presented programming that appealed to as broad an audience as possible. Most comedies of the era could be safely consumed by adults and little kids alike, because they were generally clean, understandable, and offered jokes that were easily digested. They also all kind of looked the same, shot on a set with multiple cameras and a laugh track-sweetened studio audience telling viewers at home when to laugh.
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Glancing back through the annals of television history, it seems a little odd that only four seasons of the 1980s sitcom
Punky Brewster were produced. Perhaps because of the tendency of Australian networks to repeat shows, those four years felt like a decade.
The showâs tonal notes too â perky child actors, women with big hair, and a polyester-led wardrobe department suffering from non-primary colour blindness â were very much of the time. It offered little to the art of television, but it found its own strangely enduring popularity, with an animated spin-off