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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tommie" data-source="post: 224160" data-attributes="member: 370"><p>I think it has to do with the same reason why The CW ended up abandoning sitcoms in the late 00s - since stations like to program in hour blocks it usually means that to effectively sell a comedy you usually need a companion piece. So either you'd have to have an effective plan to sell it as a companion piece to an existing sitcom (either a show that's successful in reruns or another syndicated sitcom) or create two shows and sell them as a package. While stations have half hour news broadcasts I imagine that pairing those together with sitcoms wouldn't be ideal and things like court shows just worked better for that purpose. I imagine scripted hour long shows just ended up being easier to sell.</p></blockquote><p></p>