A Comparative Study Between China And American Sitcom

With the constantly update and development of science and technology, television hasbecome almost every necessary household appliances, it seems to have gradually become anindispensable part of family life, with the popularity of TV in family life, television as aproduct of TV became popular, began quietly into the life of the people, it seems that now TVhas become people’s amateur cultural life of one of the most popular entertainment activities,in1965, China’s first TV broadcast of the piece of food cake, bring boring people’s spiritualand cultural life at that time the one bright spot, in the nearly50years of development,Chinese TV play no matter from the technical means, theme, narrative methods have madereal progress, but with the development of the TV series in the field of broadening, a new typeof TV model has been widely recognized of audience, it is more is fundamental key withrelaxed, humor, with a witty and there is no lack of classic lines and almost every episode asindependent sitcoms of the story.Star TV broadcast on every domestic TV series, each year not less than10, and failed tobroadcast television after innumerable, Chinese TV series each year to the number ofproduction and of the, but the development of Chinese TV play in such a big mark time in theprocess of the birth of outstanding works in comparison with the production quantity of is rare,and a small branch of sitcom as a TV series type, able to bear or endure look good work israre, in fact, most can attract audience’s attention in our country is from slave society to feudalsociety’s long history and culture, it is a pity, such a profound historical culture backgroundand not with the sitcom good mutual confluence, sitcoms in our country is more funny, humor,although after the watch can laugh, but also only stay in all the audience happy, no morecultural core values in them, not to mention also cause the audience in-depth thinking afterwatching.In China in recent years more popular sitcom to watch, it’s not hard to see there are a lotof the imitation and reference to the American sitcom, for example, in the sitcom "the homehas children" to a certain extent, draw lessons from American sitcom "growing pains","loveapartment" has obviously with reference to the trace of the friends, American TV seriesdevelopment and experience a longer time than in China, compared to the local culture andour country in the United States is more open, as a result, the American sitcom fromproducing method or subject matter have we worthy of reference and learning, while we haveto admit, reference and imitation is a relatively simple way to create melodrama way, but ifonly blindly reference and imitation will make our country lose original sitcoms creation,when the audience watching the first idea is to compare two sitcoms, actually there are manydifferences between the traditional culture of our country and the United States, in the processof reference drama adapted to Chinese local culture must be made, otherwise works will lookneither fish nor fowl, can not be mechanical copy.