Shelley Long News

Conclusion. Shelley Long and Bebe Neuwirth reprise their "Cheers" roles, confronting a troubled Frasier in dreamlike sequences.

The opening moments of " Irreconcilable Differences " are not promising. A lawyer is advising his client about divorce -- and when we see the client, she turns out to be a little girl.

I used to be a regular visitor to the Web site "Jump the Shark," which dealt with the deathless question about whether a television show had "Jumped the Shark." To "Jump the Shark" is a term that became popular in the late 1990s to signify that a TV series has reached a point where its best days are over, and it is now heading down hill in quality.

The barman made famous for keeping the bar 'where everybody knows your name' by the television series Cheers has become a casualty of the global economic crisis.

Comedies about married couples have been common for generations; marriage is the basic building block of the family sitcom.