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'Big Lake,' 'Melissa & Joey' attempt family humor in distinct ways.Though last income has be administered more than once, the situation comedy is the the majority elastic of television format. Time-honored plus stable, it is also extremely adaptable, range easily in approach from the genuine to the ironic, in shape from the classical to the postmodern. The sitcom too has the practical value of life form comparatively inexpensive and easy to create (which does not mean, of route, easy to make well), as well as after having be largely driven from the monitor by reality show and law enforcement procedurals, it is creep back in around the edges. Two novel series premiering Tuesday on top of basic cable network build on the tradition in dissimilar ways, to different ends.

Considering that it's has its shingle out for 20 years, Comedy Central has fielded remarkably few straight-up sitcoms. But with "Big Lake" the network kicks it old school — I believe that's the phrase — with a multi-camera, filmed-before-a-live audience and/or laugh-tracked series in which the characters occupy the usual three-walled spaces of situation comedy: a living room, a kitchen, a workplace and a place where people go to eat and/or drink.