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Fred Barron was born in the USA. He is known for My Family (2000), The Larry Sanders Show (1992) and Union Square (1997).
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Fred Barron is a writer and producer who has created both English and American television series, two English and one American. He began his career as a screenwriter, penning...
TitleCreditYearWriter, Creator, Executive Producer2000-2004 2006-2011Executive Producer, Writer2007Executive Producer1995-1999Executive Producer1997-1998- June 15, 1947
- What Inspired My Family?
- So Why Base It in The UK, Rather Than The States?
- Are There American Influences on My Family, though?
- How Did You Choose The Actors to Play The Lead Roles?
The idea came to me when my father passed away. Now he was this very irritable, grumpy and witty guy, a dentist in fact, who had a very low tolerance of just about everybody and would do things like smoke around his patients and so on. And when he died I just thought, I've got to write about him. And not just him, but the rest of my family - such a...
Basically, My Family is a very British sort of sitcom in tone and subject. For one thing, it's got a middle-aged dentist in the leading role, which isn't glamorous enough for most US networks. On top of that, the dentist in question is sullen, sulky, annoying, cynical and world-weary - again, jarring with the sort of sparky, feel-good characters yo...
Well I think the actual content, the tone of the jokes and interplay of the characters, is all very British in its sensibility. It doesn't have the hugging and "moral of the episode" stuff that you see in a lot of sitcom. However, I'd say the production of the series is quite American insofar as it uses teams of writers on each episode. The same wa...
Well obviously Robert Lindsay is so well-known and respected that I was aware of his work from way back, but I knew he had to be cast as Ben Harper when I saw him on Broadway in a production of Me And My Girl. His comic genius really struck me, as did his talent for physical humour - it was almost like seeing Norman Wisdom at his peak. As for Zoe W...
Dave's World is an American sitcom television series, created by Fred Barron, that aired on CBS from September 20, 1993, to June 27, 1997. The series is based on the writing of Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry .
Caroline in the City: Created by Fred Barron, Marco Pennette, Dottie Dartland Zicklin. With Lea Thompson, Eric Lutes, Malcolm Gets, Amy Pietz. Caroline Duffy is a successful cartoonist in Manhattan, whose eclectic friends are sometimes the subjects of her comic strip.
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May 15, 2019 · Screenwriter Fred Barron drew heavily on his days at the late, lamented Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper in creating the fictional Back Bay Mainline, which a Copley Square hawker (the...
Dave's World: Created by Fred Barron. With Harry Anderson, DeLane Matthews, Shadoe Stevens, Zane Carney. Newspaper columnist Dave Barry deals with everyday life in the suburbs.
