CBS & NBC ORDER NEW MULTICAM SITCOM PILOTS 'HISTORY OF THEM', 'I MOM SO HARD', 'LIKE FAMILY', 'SO CLOSE' , 'ABBY'S', 'PANDAS IN NEW YORK', 'FAM' AND 'FRIENDS IN LAW'! 'MURPHY BROWN' TO RETURN WITH NEW EPISODES! 'ALEXA & KATIE' SITCOM 1ST PICS

  2018 MULTICAM SITCOM PILOTS

 CBS ORDERS 5 NEW COMEDIES

It's that part of the year when networks are starting to order pilots for potential new multicamera sitcoms, and here's what got ordered this week: CBS will do HISTORY OF THEM about how two friends, Luna (Ana

Lisa Vidal is mother of the family in History of Them

Villafane) and Adam (Brett Dier), meet and fall in love using their social media as a guide! Felix Solis, Lisa Vidal and Amit Shah also star. They've also ordered a pilot for I MOM SO HARD starring Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, in which two moms illustrate how their friendship gets them through being wives and mothers. CBS has also announced a 13 episode return of MURPHY BROWN with Candice Bergen! Pilot for PANDAS IN NEW YORK follows a family of Indian doctors in New York whotry to arrange their youngest son’s life, unaware he’s made plans of his own. Aaron Kaplan's FAM follows a woman’s younger half-sister who comes to live with her and her fiancé to escape their train wreck of a father.

Felix Solis is father of the family in History of Them

FOUR NEW AT NBC
NBC has ordered pilots for multicam sitcoms LIKE FAMILY from Will & Grace Sean Hayes, about Aubrey and Artie who formed the tightest of sibling like bonds growing up together in foster care, but are discovering that such closeness makes adulthood even more complicated. SO CLOSE, from Will & Grace and Friends Greg Malins, centres on two hopeless romantics who, at crossroads in their separate lives, are close to settling for the wrong partner, unaware that they live only blocks apart and may be each other’s soul mates. ABBY'S, from New Girl and Superstore writers, is set at an unlicensed bar in San Diego where the regulars

Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley from I Mom So Hard!

enthusiastically enforce a unique set of rules that give them a sense of community and allow them to avoid the frustrating behaviour found at other establishments. Coming from Cosby Show and Roseanne producer Tom

Gorgeous Brett Dier takes the male lead in History of Them sitcom

Werner FRIENDS IN LAW follows two men who are polar opposites and must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends decide to get married.

NETFLIX'S 'ALEXA & KATIE' PICS

Netflix has revealed 1st photos from their own new multicam sitcom ALEXA & KATIE which will start airing its 13 episodes from March 23rd! Created by Heather Wordham (Hannah Montana, Reba), it follows best friends Alexa

Tiffani Thiessen plays Alexa's caring mother.

(Paris Berelc) and Katie (Isabel May), who are eagerly anticipating the start of their freshman year of high school. Despite the fact that Alexa is

Heartwarming new sitcom starts March 23rd on Netflix

undergoing cancer treatment, her outgoing personality and enthusiasm for life never falter, especially with her loyal, quirky and awkwardly adorable best friend Katie by her side.Netflix has also renewed their best viewed comedy FULLER HOUSE for season 4!

HAYLEY ATWELL IS THE WIFE OF EWAN MCGREGOR'S CHRISTOPHER ROBIN IN LIVE ACTION 'WINNIE THE POOH' MOVIE! JACK GRIFFO JOINS NETFLIX SITCOM 'ALEXA AND KATIE'

  LIVE ACTION 'WINNIE THE POOH'

HAYLEY ATWELL JOINS EWAN MCGREGOR IN THE CAST

Earlier this year I told you that Ewan McGregor is to play a grown up Christopher Robin in Disney's live action movie version of WINNIE

Hayley played Cinderella's mother for Disney before

THE POOH and now they've found him a wife in Hayley Atwell!

  In the movie directed by Mark Forster, we will see Christopher Robin as an adult man, a business man who has lost all of his sense of imagination and has also neglected his wife and kids busy with work. While his home is falling apart, his childhood friends from the Hundred Acre Woods, Winnie, Tiger, Eeyore and others, reappear in his life to help him discover his lust for life and adventure again. Christopher will have to save his family with the help of his friends or he risks loosing everything. Dumbo, Aladdin, Mulan and Lion King live action versions are already in production!

  'ALEXA & KATIE' SITCOM

JACK GRIFFO JOINS THE CAST OF NEW NETFLIX COMEDY

There won't be many multi camera sitcoms on the telly in the new season, but one of them will see the light of the day next year on Netflix! I've already told you earlier this summer that Tiffany

Griffo starred in teen series The Thundermans

Thiessen will play a mother in ALEXA & KATIE, and now Jack Griffo and Kerri Medders have also joined the cast. It follows two best friends Alexa (Paris Berelc) and Katie (Isabel May), who are eagerly anticipating the start of their freshman year of high school. The friends confront a crisis that leaves them feeling like outsiders at a time when what seems to matter most is fitting in. Jack Griffo will play Dylan, a smart, cute friend of Alexa's brother Lucas (Emery Kelly). Slightly more mature than the average 16-year-old, Dylan sees Alexa’s strengths as well as her insecurities. To Alexa, Dylan is her brother’s annoying friend, but when he becomes her math tutor, Dylan’s teasing makes Alexa see him in a new way. While Alexa worries that Dylan’s flirtation might come from pity, underneath she is developing a crush on him that she’s not ready to admit. Medders will play Alexa's very competitive rival!

FAMILY WEDNESDAY: BEAUTIFUL NEW IMAGES OF EMILY BLUNT AS 'MARY POPPINS'! TIFFANI THIESSEN JOINS 'ALEXA & KATIE' NETFLIX SITCOM

TIFFANI THIESSEN RETURNS TO

SITCOMS IN 'ALEXA & KATIE'

Tiffani Thiessen also hosts her own cook show

We're family friendly today! News from Netflix say that they have just hired Tiffani Thiessen to star in their new multi camera sitcom ALEXA & KATIE which is to premiere on Netflix next year with a 13 episode first season.

ALEXA & KATIE is about two lifelong best friends Alexa (Paris Berelc) and Katie (Isabel May), who are eagerly anticipating the start of their freshman year of high school. The friends confront a crisis that leaves them feeling like outsiders at a time when what seems to matter most is fitting in. Thiessen will be Alexa’s determined and protective mother Lori. After starring in Saved By the Bell as a teen and then in BH90210, Thiessen has hosted her own cooking show Dinner at Tiffani's last three years on the Cooking Channel. She will soon publish a cook book as well.

'MARY POPPINS RETURNS' 

 ON THE BRAND NEW 'EW' COVER!

Sandy Powell is doing the costumes for the film

The cover of the latest EW features a gorgeous new photo of Emily Blunt from MARY POPPINS RETURNS which hits cinemas Christmas next year set  25 years after the events of the first film, now in London’s mid-1930s economic slump!  Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane has become the warm, loving home that banker and artist Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) shares with his wife and three children. But after the sudden death of Michael’s wife, the Banks family is shattered — even

Emily Blunt and Lin Manuel Miranda on the set of the movie

enthusiastic aunt Jane (Emily Mortimer), now a fervent union organizer, and long-time housemaid Ellen (Julie Walters) can’t help

Mary Poppins Returns arrives into cinemas Christmas 2018

lift spirits — and so in time, the once blossoming home is on the verge of foreclosure. Cue the arrival of prim and peculiar Mary Poppins (Emily

This will be Emily Blunt's second musical with Rob Marshall

Blunt), who leads Michael’s wayward children (and Jane and Michael

themselves) on a series of unbelievable adventures — to the top of Big

A concept art of the Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane

Ben, the bottom of the ocean, into magical encounters with animated dancing penguins and upside-down cousins (Meryl Streep). Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Dick van Dyke, also star!