With the $15 million weekend opening of Sex Tape serving
as exhibit A, it would be an understatement to say that romantic feature
comedies have been in a sling creatively and at the B.O. for sometime.
But for those TV creators who love the genre at Fox’s “Behind the
Laughs” TCA panel, if romantic comedies are alive, then it’s on the
small screen with such shows as Elizabeth Meriwether’s New Girl and Mindy Kaling’s The Mindy Project. Chalk
the death of romantic comedy movies up to the staling of set premises
like the sexy wedding planner who can’t get anybody or, as Kaling
pointed out, “Matthew McConaughey falling into a cake.“They are so predictable, but that’s why I love them so much. I think they can be good, but they’ve been suffering for so long. I think the easiest way to your voice out there (for romantic comedies) is TV,” said Kaling whose next season of The Mindy Project dotes on her character’s relationship with long-love Danny (Chris Messina).
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