Every night on French prime time television are two episodes, back-to-back and in English, of the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine. I'm not sure how long this will run, because I don't think enough episodes of this show have been made to keep this going at such a break-neck pace. TNAoOC is not a show I would watch on American television. It is about a woman who lives with her 10 year old son and her brother, while her ex-husband and his new girlfriend, also named Christine, come by for mostly pleasant visits every 10 minutes. In short, ALF had a more realistic premise.
This is the kind of show you watch on an airplane, when you have no choice regarding in-flight entertainment, but then find that it's actually not that bad. It's better than average. Then you go home and you never see the show again until you're on another plane.
When you're a visitor to France, though, and this is given to the French public as an ideal representation of the American sitcom, twice every night, (and you're desperate to watch something in English other than CNN International), it practically becomes appointment television.
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For more information on the much maligned TV masterpiece "ALF", please see the terrific, if not soul crushing, film "Permanent Midnight."
Welcome, David. I am personally not familiar with that particular work in the oeuvre of Ben Stiller, but if it involves ALF, I will have to check it out.
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