Television
Roller-coaster relationships

Rules of Engagement is about the complexities of romance, commitment and marriage

It is a sitcom that examines three stages in a person’s life—single status, committed status and married status. Rules of Engagement on Tuesdays at 9.30 P.M. on Star World shows how two couples and their single friend, deal with different stages in their relationships, with hilarious results. The comedy follows the friendship between a long-married couple Jeff (Patrick Warburton) and Audrey (Megyn Price), an engaged pair, Adam (Oliver Hudson) and Jennifer (Bianca Kajlich) and a single guy on the prowl, Russell (David Spade). The three males and two females soon find out that the various stages in their lives are akin to being on a roller coaster. People can describe them to you, but to really know what it’s like you have to take a ride yourself and learn from your own mistakes. The show, scripted by the Emmy award-winning team, has been produced by Hollywood superstar Adam Sandler.

A comedy that cuts across a generation, the show is about is a soon-to-be married pair, who moves close to a veteran couple, wedded for over 25 years. The comedy showcases how things change for the better—and worse—as people progress in marriage. ’Til Death on Fridays at 9 P.M. on Zee Caf`E9 is a sitcom about the high and low moments of marital life. It discusses the changing relationships between husbands, wives, parents, children, siblings, neighbours and friends as life progresses on. The story revolves around Eddie (Brad Garrett) and Joy (Joely Fisher), who are close to celebrating their silver jubilee anniversary. Over the years he has become cynical and overly critical but she still happily puts up with the eccentricities of her husband. However, beneath it all they both love each other deeply. Their daughter Ally is in a serious relationship with Doug whom the parents consider unworthy of her. Ever since they returned from a Ecuadorean holiday, Ally and Doug have decided to stay in a makeshift camp in the backyard. And this gives rise to both heartburns, heartaches and bellyaches of laughter. Watch this comedy as much for its good performances as for its witty script. — NF

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