How Your Favorite TV Shows Are Handling The Recession (VIDEO)

While veteran shows struggle to incorporate the ailing economy into their story lines, networks are launching new shows born of the recession. In addition to new series in the slideshow below, Fox is developing a comedy called "Two-Dollar Beer" that follows a group of friends living in Detroit and trying to cope with the city's economy, while ABC Studios is developing "Canned" that focuses on a group of friends who all get fired on the same day.

	1 / 7		"Hank" Kelsey Grammer stars in this new ABC comedy about a wealthy CEO who is ousted from his company. He is forced to give up his lavish lifestyle and move back home to Virginia with his spoiled family.

Comments

[liberal user]

04:05 PM on 09/09/2009

It seems our efforts to achieve actual results with regards to reform in the banking & finance sectors are futile. In addition, the disconnect between reality and wall street keeps widening. The situation is frustrating.
hat tip: to http://www.iamned.com

[bramapanzer]

02:10 PM on 09/09/2009

Where is Leverage? The modern day robin hood of corporate america? That show is absolutely awesome, and I love how they stick it to crooked white collar criminals.

[Samalabear]

10:30 PM on 09/08/2009

The only show of this batch that is handling this depression in some fashion that is real but at the same time funny is "Hung." It's a good show with a terrific cast and it gets better every week. I wasn't sure what to expect and I was pleasantly surprised.

[liberal user]

06:02 PM on 09/08/2009

Obama isn't doing enough with regards to executive pay and bank & wallstreet regulation

good articles: http://www.iamned.com ...

[BJBirdie]

12:36 PM on 09/08/2009

How long has The Simpsons been on the air?

This is their third recession.

[MetalCanuck]

10:52 PM on 09/07/2009

Truesense

Clinton stuck the stake in our heart when it comes to the banking system. This is not a "blame Clinton" thing either..its a fact. Obama has all the Clinton guys running everything too.

[land2341]

09:21 AM on 09/09/2009

While W did a whole lotta damage, it is a fact that this disaster lies at the feet of Reagan and Clinton.

One laid the groundwork and the other made it all nice and legal.

[TJCole]

08:50 PM on 09/07/2009

The media in truth is not covering this huge greatest displacement of Americans in our nations history at all...!

6 Corporations own all the media, and they are owned by the world's richest families and corporations owned by those families...who also own or control The Central Banks...wake up America...before it's too late...

All your news comes from either Reuters or The AP and Reuters in fact owns The AP and who owns Reuters....The Rothschilds'...so you get to see what they'll allow only, when they allow it..!

[land2341]

09:23 AM on 09/09/2009

Again, laid at the feet of Clinton, who allowed huge media conglomeration in the face of earlier laws designed to prevent just this scenario.....

[bipolarbear]

04:18 PM on 09/07/2009

Why does this downsized house they live in look like a McMansion? Why not put them in a tract house in a 70 yr. old subdivision? It would be more believable.

[PBMac]

12:45 PM on 09/08/2009

Truly, compared to what I live in, what they have looks pretty good to me. I live in 1.50 small rooms in an aging neighborhood, i.e., the 70 year old subdivision.

[TrueSense]

03:55 PM on 09/07/2009

Actually, Clinton was the worse on trade ! A complete sellout ! However, Reagan started our out of control deficits and debt and the attack on labor.

He broke unions, weakend laws, and had that immigration amnesty that has us at this out of control point we are now. That and NAFTA and other trade agreements destroying the US and Mexico and central america.

[1sparrow]

03:10 PM on 09/07/2009

that new kelsey grammer show has some dangerously lame moments. i mean compared to steve lawrence and edie gormet doing a duet on bono's, "new year's day".

[RJII]

03:06 PM on 09/07/2009

yes, but i always remember that in reality tv stars make goobs of money.