Jerry Seinfeld promises no-gimmick TV

October 06, 2009 "The Marriage Ref" will offer a quirky look at modern relationships, featuring in-home footage of a series of couples, as a nominated marriage referee adjudicates on their persistent domestic niggles. The nature of marriage and the character quirks that husbands and wives are doomed to confront in one another will give the show universal appeal, the comedian hopes. Despite restricting his own TV viewing to baseball playoffs, Letterman monologues and "Mad Men," Seinfeld said that even in an environment of fragmenting audiences and technological upheaval, network television was holding up.

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