There have been many attempts to integrate social media conversations with live TV, often through a “second screen” experience (basically, a smartphone app). But ABC News just announced something that ...

Google has updated Google+ Hangouts to include sound effects that range from laugh tracks, to chirping. Get ready to be annoyed by constant laughing after jokes, clapping after singing, and plenty of ...

A funny thing happened this pilot season. Or rather, a funny thing didn’t. The networks turned out a handful of multi-cams with laugh tracks — or sweetened live studio audience recordings, as they ...

Charles Rolland Douglass, who invented the TV laugh-track technology that either (a) allowed television to preserve a crucial comedic tradition or (b) condemned the sitcom to an atmosphere of ...

Next week, network and cable TV channels will debut their fall line-ups in the hope of snagging advertising money. But some story lines are already emerging: Comedy is king. USA Network has paid more ...