Basketball Was Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience
TV scholar Michael Z. Newman reflects on the similarity between the NBA bubble at Disney World and the classic form of the sitcom.
Michael Z. Newman is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the Department of English and the Program in Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies, and the author most recently of Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America (MIT). He writes about cinema, television, video, games, and new media. He is @mznewman on twitter.
TV scholar Michael Z. Newman reflects on the similarity between the NBA bubble at Disney World and the classic form of the sitcom.
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