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The comedy is lazy on "Men At Work"

Watching "Men At Work" (10 tonight, TBS) made me think about TNT's "Men of a Certain Age," a show I adored.

But I wasn't thinking fondly. I was thinking how "Men of a Certain Age" was funny and nuanced and sophisticated and had grown men in it. "Men At Work" however, wasn't all that funny, is as subtle as a hammer to the head, and while the men involved are grown, they act like overgrown kids.

The manchildren in question work at a magazine; Milo (Danny Masterson) has been dumped and his friends are trying to help him get his groove back. There's Gibbs, (James Lesure), a photographer and ladies man; Tyler (Michael Cassidy), a somewhat more refined features writer; and Neal (Adam Busch), their nerdy friend with a girlfriend.

Matthew Perry's "Mr. Sunshine" warms a nostalgic heart

Maybe I've just missed Chandler Bing, but I'm kind of loving Matthew Perry in this new sitcom debuting tonight on ABC (9:30pm).

In "Mr. Sunshine," Perry plays Ben Donovan, the manager a large San Diego sports arena called the Sunshine Center. The premise of the show is that Ben is selfish, self-centered and alone, but that with the help of his friends and coworkers, he'll mature and learn to be a better person, all to the backdrop of wacky happenings at the arena.

But let's hope he doesn't get too much better or too quickly, because the snarky, sarcastic Ben is a lot of fun, too.

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