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Article: Bonny `Bonnie Hunt,' A Charming Second City Sitcom
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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Bonnie Hunt's comedy seems somehow to have escaped being
homogenized in the Hollywood mediocrity machine. "The Bonnie Hunt
Show," premiering tonight on CBS (at 8 on Channel 9) isn't going to
make anyone forget "Cheers" or, more to the point, "The Mary Tyler
Moore Show," but it has an unspoiled, rough-edged quality that is
welcome and buoyant.
Like Mary Richards, whom Moore played, Hunt's character of Bonnie
Kelly has come to a big city (in this case, Chicago, looking
summertime-dreamy in the opening credits) to work at a TV station.
And like Moore's television classic, "Hunt" is generally on much
safer if not saner ground in scenes set at the workplace rather than
those at home.
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