Channel Ten has the upright thought with The inaccurate Girl,the TV adaptation of Foster Blake’s tremendously fun novel of the same nameAs the television landscape expands and forms its myriad (a very large number) cult clusters, there is one genre that has flourished among the many small-screen niches: the humble romcom.
On film the romantic comedy is all but dead and buried – at least according to many an entertainment article mourning the loss of the 80s and 90s neo-romantic comedies, or your When Harry Met Sallys and You’ve Got Mails. Of late the only romantic films that work in the cinema are those with a melodramatic edge,sick-lit dramas like Me Before You or teen romances adapted from John Green novels. Romcoms, once sure-fire hits, and fill become box office poison. Related: How TV made us fall back in love with romcoms Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com