Several executives said that audiences seemed eager to return to familiar characters in long-running comedies.

NBC also at the last minute renewed its long-running comedy "Scrubs," leaving it on Thursday night.

Maybe, for any long-running comedy, tiredness is inevitable.

Holmfirth (and the surrounding countryside) is the setting for the BBC's long-running comedy Last of the Summer Wine.

ABC is not bringing back two of its long-running comedies, "Spin City" and "Dharma & Greg."

Asked if the long-running comedy - currently in its seventh season and renewed for an eighth - has an end .

In 2006, she appeared in the long-running British comedy, Vicar of Dibley, (2 episodes 2006-07).

Arlene Singer-Gross has been a studio teacher for 15 years, 8 of them on the long-running comedy "Who's the Boss?"

"Matlock" joins ABC's crowded bench, along with the long-running comedy "Perfect Strangers."