The Steve Harvey Show the last videotaped sitcom on TV when it was cancelled

[James28]

Was the Steve Harvey Show the last videotaped sitcom that aired new episodes when it was cancelled in early 2002? All in the Family was the first 'taped sitcom when it premeired in 1971.

[jamesanthony]

Originally Posted by Jim856796

Was the Steve Harvey Show the last videotaped sitcom that aired new episodes when it was cancelled in early 2002? All in the Family was the first 'taped sitcom when it premeired in 1971.

Yes- at least videotaped in the style of the Norman Lear and Junger Witt and Carsey Warner series. I'm no expert on camera technology, but I think that there are still sitcoms that are taped (the CBS Monday night ones) but the tape quality is different from those older shows so they have a different look to them. Soap operas have switched over to a newer style of taping as well.

1996 seemed to have begun a phasing out of the old videotape technique- Cosby was the only sitcom on a major network to be videotaped after that season. A UPN comedy called Good News was videotaped when it began in 1997. After that the few videotaped sitcoms left were Boy Meets World, Home Improvement and UPN/WB shows like Steve Harvey, Jamie Foxx's show, Unhappily Ever After, Smart Guy, Sister Sister and Parent Hood.

[ryan423]

They tape on some kind of hd dvd format now