If anything, the more serious direction expanded the audience, said its star, Sarah Jessica Parker.
However without any serious direction from US markets, the FTSE once again couldn't sustain its momentum.
In 2009, Twitter changed its home-page greeting from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" This shift, which Evan Williams has said that he instigated, was part of an effort to push Twitter in a more topical, serious direction.
The two men who took over CBS News early this year — the "60 Minutes" producer Jeff Fager, who is chairman, and the former Fox News executive David Rhodes, who is president — have steered the news division in a more serious direction.
The comedy may have generated fewer hearty laughs this season as its cast confronted issues like unwanted pregnancy and cancer, but the more serious direction expanded the audience, said its star, Sarah Jessica Parker.
This chatter starts out as a funny sideshow, but gradually Mr. Bishop takes it in a more serious direction and gives it an unexpected focus: Wyatt is a soldier, and "Still the River Runs" turns out to be one of the stranger antiwar plays around.
Olson will join the ranks of Clay Bavor, who has been fiddling with VR under the Google umbrella since 2013, officially becoming the head of that department in early 2016, as the company looked to shift the department in a more serious direction following the release of Cardboard.
Does Wilder believe his wife's death propelled his career in its new, more serious direction?
Shifting towards a more serious direction, If I Ruled the World, a collaborative zine by a series of Baltimore-based artists and creatives, explores the possibility of a brighter future in light of last year's protest and uprising.
"Rich Dolan and I have tried to craft what we hope can become the precedent-setting petition language that is needed to turn the national conversation on this subject of UAP in a more serious direction," Zabel told HuffPost.
