Is The Apprentice the new, ultimate New York sitcom?
Kohan: I have to confess: I’ve never seen it. Rosenthal: I like that The Apprentice is Survivor in New York. All those shots of the city look terrific, and when you see them on the street, you remember when you were out on the streets trying to get a job. If you look at Survivor, [Mark Burnett] does the same thing there with the shots of the island. King: It’s another island. There’s been a lot of talk about whether Friends can be duplicated—and about the death of the sitcom. Will there be another show like it set in the city? King: New York is always going to be an exciting backdrop. I mean, when you think about groups of people who are not married living in a place where they can sort of bump into each other, it’s always going to be New York. Rosenthal: But there’s also something that feels kind of exclusive, or exclusionary about that—like the entire universe takes place in New York, you know what I mean? Ray Romano’s family actually lived in Queens, and eight years ago, we were tol
