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In the last few years we have said goodbye to some of our favorite characters on television. We said goodbye to Frasier, we said goodbye to the "Friends" gang and we said good bye to the girls of Sex and the City. I know that most television fanatics would say that the sitcom, as we know it, is dead. However, I have welcomed some new friends into my television life and I am happy to say that they are filling the void left by these magnificent shows.

How I Met Your Mother is an excellent ensemble show that has utilized all of the sitcom ideas and reintroduced the world to Neil Patrick Harris. This show is funny, well acted and enjoyable to watch. The concept is fun and the catch-phrases that come out of Harris's Barney keep me laughing well after the show is over. In my opinion, the sign of a good sitcom is whether you want to watch the re-runs and I do with this show because you always find something else to chuckle about.

Another new sitcom that is fun and different is NBC's My Name is Earl. The concept of the show is a wonderful twist on a man trying to better his life and the supporting characters are as funny as Earl himself. The everyman way about Earl is endearing and easy to cheer for, even when he is doing something wrong. I especially love the flashbacks to Earl's "bad seed" days because it gives the viewer an even better idea about the man who is "Earl".

I am still trying to get into 30 Rock and have just started watching a new show called Samantha Who? but neither one has become a show that I love just yet. It does take longer for some of these shows to take off these days because the attention span of the viewer is minuscule but the networks are still working on putting out quality television. Sitcoms are not dead, they are just harder to discover. That's what Tivo is for.

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