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I personally think it is a cost thing. Panels shows are a cheaper quicker way of making comedy output and more easily produced by independent production companies. I think they gave replaced sitcoms more than reality shows. I'm not a fan of many reality shows but they do at least seem to have that collective watching experience where you can talk about watching it the following day at work/school. 
I don't get the 'cancel culture' explanation as the same could apply to any programme. Though it could be argued that the expense that goes into making a sitcom would require a longer lasting popularity.
 

The stories people come up with to avoid spending Christmas with David. 

The stories people come up with to avoid spending Christmas with David. 

The saw you coming. I would insist on seeing the test results.   

The stories people come up with to avoid spending Christmas with David. 

In terms of Americans ones, i loved Taxi and Cheers back in the day and Soap had its moments. Porridge, Steptoe and Son and Fawlty Towers for me are classics because they knew when to stop. 
 

Not one mention of Father Ted so far, what's up with you people?

£11 for the bottle on Angels. Practically as cost from Thornbridge 
Rather good, also had 3  pints of Porter and stour form 4 9% to 6 2% so the tea I was going to cook became a takeaway 
 
 
 

£11 for the bottle on Angels. Practically as cost from Thornbridge 
Rather good, also had 3  pints of Porter and stour form 4 9% to 6 2% so the tea I was going to cook became a takeaway 
 
 
 

What does he know?

Sat in my garden in a previous dwelling where the back garden ended in a serried wall of trees with wetlands beyond. Had all manner of wild animals come visit. Deer, foxes, hedgehogs, enormous dragonflies, rats and lots and lots of squirrels. Sat one afternoon in the sunshine chomping though a huge bag of pistachios whilst catching a few rays and reading a James Ellroy novel, when after a while, I became aware that I was being watched rather inquisitively by a very large and very clearly pregnant squirrel. She was pretty unusual as they're busy little creatures and typically quite timid, but she was sat really quite close, on her haunches with her paws entwined and for quite some time. She looked like she was praying.
So I chuck her a pistachio... It lands close to her feet and she doesn't flinch, not one iota, rather she scoops it up and shells it in one swift movement and chomps it straight down. Then she re-adopts her praying pose. I chuck her another, then another, then another. Pretty soon there's discarded shells flying all around her since as fast as I could land them near her, she could extract the tasty bits and wolf them down. Soon she begins stuffing them shell and all into her cheeks, then she starts running around and around a small apple tree, making a huge fuss of burying a few, only to dig them up and eat them mere minutes later. I'd had no idea that squirrels buried food and it was joyous watching her obvious delight at finding this funny looking massive hairless squirrel who was quite generous with his scoff. By late afternoon, she'd helped me polish off the entire bag and was literally sat no more than a few feet from me seemingly enjoying the late afternoon sunshine as much as I was.
This became a regular gig, so much so that I dubbed her Dyson as whenever I'd venture out with treats, she'd be there in a shot and would swiftly hoover up whatever I put down. Soon, she'd even sit on the window ledge while I was washing up or sitting in the kitchen too, even without the lure of nuts. My GF of the time of course hated it. 'You can't feed a squirrel pistachios' she'd moan. Why not I'd ask? 'Pistachios are expensive' she'd reply. Well I bloody feed you don't I, I'd think without saying. I didn't really like her very much. 
I'm not sure how many litters Dyson produced, but as is nature's way, a couple of years after our first encounter, she was eventually killed by one of her offspring (I assumed) after a prolonged and pretty vicious fight high up in the tree canopy. Don't mind admitting it saddened me quite a lot, even though I know that's how nature works and that it's nothing more than the cycle of things.
Anyway, next time you see a squirrel, instead of muttering about rat's with tails, chuck the little bugger a nut or two and think of Dyson, because one man's vermin is another's funny little furry mate. We're all God's creatures after all, assuming one believes in such things and we all share the same planet. 
And apologies for the huge digression from the core subject matter of this thread! 
As you were ?

In terms of Americans ones, i loved Taxi and Cheers back in the day and Soap had its moments. Porridge, Steptoe and Son and Fawlty Towers for me are classics because they knew when to stop. 
 

I meant in popularity and in terms of % of output
I would agree about Only Fools and Horses it was a good sitcom that seemed great due to it's longevity and went on a few years too long like Stuart Broad

What - the Covid passports that have not yet been implemented in the UK have failed against Delta? How do you know that?

That is a ridiculous statement.
From 1997 to 1999, myself and thousands of others spent millions of hours going line by line through billions of lines of code, checking and changing (where applicable) to expand date fields to take centuries into account where dates were applicable.
We were, for the most part, successful - equipment and systems, by and large, did not fail, aeroplanes did not fall out of the sky, nuclear power stations did not spontaneously melt down and microwave ovens still went 'ping' when you heated up last night's leftover slice of pizza.
Because the world did not grind to a halt (apart from me - I had 8 months off work after the rollover because companies had spent next year's IT budget and I was totally burned out), it was widely reported as 'pie in the sky'.
If the impending doom doesn't come to fruition, it will be largely because of the precautions taken.

More bloody tea puns. This forum is going to pot. 

All this waiting is too much of a strain and I'm also worried that the relationship between Rooney and Kirchner is too cosy 

All this waiting is too much of a strain and I'm also worried that the relationship between Rooney and Kirchner is too cosy 

I think you're milking it now sugar.