Review: NBC's 'Abby's' brings a 'Cheers' vibe with a dash more flavor
"'Abby's' is filmed in front of a live outdoor audience" are the first words spoken in, well, "Abby's," a new multi-camera sitcom premiering Thursday on NBC. The network has not been much invested in filmed-before-a-live-audience multi-camera comedy of late; it prefers the single-camera kind, where the only laughs come from the room you're in. But they do have a history: Counting backward, it was the home of "Friends," "Seinfeld," "Frasier" and, significantly for our present discussion, "Cheers," of which "Abby's," which is also set in a bar and begins when an uptight
