SATURDAY JANUARY 27
HISTORY OF THE SITCOM
How we’ve laughed
Screening: TVNZ 1, 8.05pm
An eight-part docuseries on the evolution, meaning and cultural heft of the TV situation comedy, originally produced for CNN in 2021. Overwhelmingly, that means the American sitcom, although The Office and Fleabag get a look-in, and the definition is applied broadly enough to include South Park and Ted Lasso. The first episode