COMEDY SUNDAY: CAST PHOTOS FOR NEW TV COMEDIES 'MARLON' WITH MARLON WAYANS, ESSENCE ATKINS, '9JKL' WITH MARK FEUERSTEIN, ELLIOTT GOULD, DAVID WALTON

'MARLON' NBC SITCOM

FROM MARLON WAYANS

Marlon starts later this month on NBC

Some comedy today to lighten up your scorching hot summer Sunday: two of the multi camera sitcoms we are looking forward to this season! NBC's new comedy series MARLON is ready to start as soon as Wednesday, August 16th with a double opening of two half hour episodes! This delightful family comedy is sort of a story of Marlon Wayans' own life and the cast also includes Essence Atkins as his ex wife, Bresha Webb as her best friend, Diallo Riddle, Notlim Taylor and Amir O’Neil!

SHE'S RAISING TWO KIDS AND ONE... MARLON

Loosely inspired by the real life of star Marlon Wayans, this update to the classic family comedy revolves around a loving (but inappropriate) father committed to co-parenting his two kids with his very together ex-

In the first episode Marlon ex wife wants to start to date again

wife. While his misguided fatherly advice, unstoppable larger than life personality and unpredictable Internet super stardom might get in the way sometimes, for Marlon family really always does come first — even if he’s the biggest kid of all.

'9JKL' CBS SITCOM

FROM MARK FEUERSTEIN

You will have to wait a bit longer to watch the second multi camera sitcom we're presenting today: 9JKL will launch on Monday, October 2nd, following The Big Bang Theory! This new comedy was created and

New comedy kicks its first season this October at CBS

executive produced by Dana Klein and Mark Feuerstein, loosely based on the life of the couple, who are married in real life.

 SANDWICHED BY THE FAMILY
The series chronicles Feuerstein's life as an actor when he lived in an apartment (residing in 9K), alongside his family who also lived in the same building, sandwiching him: his parents (in 9J) and his married

He moves back to New York after the divorce to regroup

brother, sister-in-law, and newborn baby (in 9L). This unique situation prompts him to set boundaries while bonding with his family members. In the sitcom Mark Feuerstein stars as freshly divorced actor Josh Roberts with Elliott Gould as his father Harry Roberts and Linda

Josh's mother often pays their porter to spy on her son for her

Lavin as his mother Judy Roberts!  David Walton plays his younger brother surgeon Andrew Roberts with Liza Lapira as Eve Roberts his wife with whom he has kids. Matt Murray plays the porter in the luxurious building they live in.

Personal boundaries mean nothing to this family! Here's your first look at the new comedy #9JKL, coming to @CBS this fall. pic.twitter.com/haPPCpz29J

— 9JKL (@9JKLCBS) May 31, 2017

COMEDY WEDNESDAY: KATHY BATES GROWS WEED IN 'DISJOINTED' TEASER! ELLIOTT GOULD, LINDA LAVIN JOIN MARK FEUERSTEIN, DAVID WALTON IN '9J, 9K, 9L' SITCOM! JOSE MORENO BROOKS JOINS 'YOUNG AND HUNGRY'

 'YOUNG AND HUNGRY'

 CASTS JOSE MORENO BROOKS

Comedy news today, people, beginning with the new casting addition to FreeForm's popular sitcom YOUNG AND HUNGRY which has just added Jose Moreno Brooks, whom you've watched last year in Eva Longoria's Hot and Bothered sitcom and also in Baby Daddy, to the cast! Here he will play Juan Carlo, a Mexican street vendor and Casanova that Sofia (Aimee Carrero) falls for while on vacation. In the fifth season, Gabi and Josh try to prove to everyone that they won’t let feelings get in the way of their new friends with benefits arrangement, Sofia continues on the path to a career in journalism, and Josh faces an unexpected reunion with his estranged father.

 '9J, 9K AND 9L' CBS SITCOM

ELLIOTT GOULD AND LINDA LAVIN MOVE IN AS PARENTS
Talking about cast additions, two comedy veterans Elliott Gould and Linda Lavin will play the parents of  Mark Feuerstein and David Walton's characters in CBS new multi camera sitcom 9J, 9K AND 9L! The story is inspired by Feuerstein’s real life experience of living in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, right between his parents’ apartment, 9J, and his brother, sister in law and their baby’s apartment, 9L, and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well meaning family. They will be Judy and Harry, parents of Josh (Mark Feuerstein) and Andrew (David Walton). Lavin’s Judy is stylish, social and obsessed with her sons. Her best day would be spent just staring at and smelling Josh. Harry knows no boundaries. A pillar of the community, he’s warm and loving and lives life to the fullest.

 'DISJOINTED' TEASER

KATHY BATES IN POT SMOKE

There's also the first teaser for Netflix' new comedy series DISJOINTED in which Kathy Bates is an owner of an Los Angeles cannabis dispensary who works with three charismatic “budtenders” (Dougie Baldwin, Elizabeth Ho, Elizabeth Alderfer), her entrepreneurial twenty something son (Aaron Moten) and a very troubled security guard (Tone Bell). 20 episodes are coming August 25th! 

ENCHANTING 'THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC' TRAILER AND POSTER WITH JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY, TOM WILKINSON, JEREMY IRVINE! ABC & CBS 2017 MULTI CAMERA SITCOM PILOT ORDERS!

'THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC' 

LIFE CAN BLOOM INTO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL 

We're all light and fun today, spylings, beginning with the new trailer and poster for THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC cheerful drama starring Jessica Brown Findlay as a young woman who dreams of being a children's author and makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower played by British acting legend Tom Wilkinson. Dashing British lad Jeremy Irvine plays her love interest in this enchanting big screen tale ready to delight you this spring in cinemas after already playing in Russia and parts of Europe. 

2017 PILOT ORDERS FOR

CBS MULTI CAMERA SITCOMS

It is that time of the year when networks are ordering comedy pilots, so here are the latest multi camera sitcom picks: CBS has set David Walton and Matt Murray to lead 9J, 9K AND 9L, about a man who lives in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, sandwiched between his parents’ apartment, 9J, and his brother, sister in law and their baby’s apartment, 9L, and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well meaning family. CBS also has BROTHERED UP pilot about an emotionally guarded black cop who is partnered with an emotionally available Pakistani cop and they are forced to find a way to connect as they patrol a Detroit neighbour hood.

ABC SITCOMS
ABC has, meanwhile, ordered an untitled comedy about an intellectual but emotionally challenged single dad who moves to Queens with his two young daughters and forms an unlikely family with the other residents in their apartment building. They've also ordered a pilot for Carol Burnett's HOUSEHOLD NAME about a family who gets a chance to buy the house of their dreams but under extremely abnormal circumstances: They must live with the current owner, an eccentric, larger than life actress (Burnett), until she dies.