| Sometimes, it takes a few years before an old | | | | were already stricken with a number of setbacks |
| favorite gets revived into something new and | | | | that would be enough to keep other productions |
| more contemporary. There are certainly more | | | | off of satellite TV, including cancer diagnoses of |
| than enough television series that are remakes of | | | | one of the main actresses and the network's |
| those favorites from the past, but lately, it | | | | decision to hold off on the show indefinitely. Now |
| seems as though there might be more of a trend | | | | that things are on track, however, it seems as |
| towards actually going ahead and making a | | | | though success is imminent. |
| television series based on a popular film that | | | | Audiences who are looking for a realistic depiction |
| hasn't been in theaters for a couple of decades. In | | | | of the numerous stresses of daily life will find that |
| the case of the latest series to grab audiences by | | | | "Parenthood" puts a humorous and often poignant |
| the heartstrings, NBC's new offering "Parenthood," | | | | spin on what most of us are experiencing during |
| is managing to take the theme behind one of the | | | | the work week. Adam Braverman, played by |
| finest films about family in the 1980s and extend | | | | Peter Krause, is a 40-year old father of two who |
| it into a series that actually manages to function | | | | is currently working in a difficult and strenuous |
| quite well. | | | | corporate environment, cleaning up after the |
| For those HBO viewers who were glued to their | | | | various messes of his adult siblings, and |
| HD TV sets each time a new episode of "Six | | | | attempting to have a better family and be a |
| Feet Under" aired, there is incentive to tune into | | | | better father than he feels his own father was. |
| "Parenthood" simply to see acclaimed actor Peter | | | | You have his younger siblings, Sarah Braverman |
| Krause give yet another wonderful performance | | | | who is looking to improve her own life and do |
| that would fit on the big screen or a stage just | | | | better by her children though in a nontraditional |
| as well as it does in your living room. And while | | | | job sort of way, and a younger brother in his 30s |
| the first attempt at a "Parenthood" television | | | | whose girlfriend is starting to put in the pressure |
| series in the early 1990s might not have fared as | | | | for settling down and having a family. |
| well as everyone was hoping, this time around it | | | | With such a large fictional family on "Parenthood," |
| seems that audiences are captivated by the | | | | satellite TV viewers will find that at least one of |
| story of three generations of the fictional | | | | the plot arcs manages to hit surprisingly close to |
| Braverman family and their numerous triumphs | | | | home. Whether you are raising a family, navigating |
| and tribulations. | | | | the growing up process of one's late 30s, or |
| If there's a sign that your television show might | | | | something in between, there is a little bit of |
| be about to do very well, it is that Ron Howard is | | | | something to recognize in the wickedly funny and |
| willing to be a producer. Hopefully some of the | | | | also surprisingly heartfelt new adaptation of this |
| success of "Arrested Development" will manage | | | | seminal 1989 classic about what it means to be a |
| to continue over for the "Parenthood" crew, who | | | | family. |