EMILY BLUNT & DWAYNE JOHNSON TO PLAY A SUPERHERO COUPLE IN BALL AND CHAIN ADAPTATION? ABC MOVES UNITED WE FALL SITCOM TO AUTUMN?

'BALL AND CHAIN' ADAPTATION

TO REUNITE EMILY BLUNT WITH DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON

After we see them together in Disney's Jungle Cruise, it seems Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson will team up again in the movie adaptation of comic books BALL AND CHAIN, most likely for Netflix! The superhero romantic comedy would see them playing a bickering couple as they approach three years of a tumultuous marriage. The couple, Edgar and Mallory Bulson,

Their Jungle Cruise has been moved to July 2021 opening date

have made the difficult decision to throw in the towel and get divorced. But then a mysterious meteor bathes the battling couple in extraterrestrial energies, energies that give them super abilities. Abilities that only work when the couple is together. Will their newfound powers be enough to make their marriage work?

'UNITED WE FALL' SITCOM

TO FALL NOW IN FALL?

While CBS has renewed  Young Sheldon, Mom, Bob ♥ Abishola, The Neighborhood and The Unicorn for new seasons and cancelled Broke, Carol’s

United We Fall might move to Fall 2020

Second Act and Man with a Plan, ABC is looking to save their new sitcom UNITED WE FALL for Autumn even though it was originally planned for midseason as they will need already finished series in the middle of corona production lockdowns.  

UNITED WE FALL follows the trials and tribulations of Jo (Christina Vidal) and Bill (Will Sasso), parents of two young kids, as they try to make it day-to-day as a functioning family. Bill’s very judgemental live-in mother (Jane Curtin) and Jo’s large Latinx Catholic family will never hesitate to let our couple know

The eight episode first season has already been shot for midseason

they’re seemingly screwing up, but Bill and Jo will always have each other’s backs, united against everyone – other parents, teachers, doctors, specialists, coaches, co-workers, and especially their kids.

DELIGHTFUL NEW TV COMEDY ARRIVES NEXT WEEK AT CBS: CAROL'S SECOND ACT WITH PATRICIA HEATON, JEAN LUC BILODEAU, KYLE MACLACHLAN, LUCAS NEFF

  'CAROL'S SECOND ACT'

The new sitcom starts Thursday September 26th

NEW SITCOM AT CBS!

I shall cheer you up this boring Monday with a new sitcom that starts next week, September 26th, Thursday on CBS! CAROL'S SECOND ACT will star Patricia Heaton, Kyle MacLachlan, Baby Daddy's beloved star Jean  Luc Bilodeau, Lucas Neff and Sabrina Jalees! Patricia Heaton leads the comedy series as a woman who embarks on a unique second act after raising her children, getting divorced and retiring from teaching: pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor.

Patricia Heaton returns to CBS with new role

Following Your Dreams Is The Best Medicine
On Carol Kenney’s first day at work, she’s prepped with an abundance of life experience, people skills, talent and enthusiasm, advantages the chief resident and other newly minted interns don’t have – or immediately appreciate. Carol’s first-year partners on rounds are Lexie (Sabrina Jalees), who’s very nervous due to the pressure on her to succeed as the first in her family to go to college, and Daniel (Jean Luc Bilodeau), a 2018 Harvard Medical School grad who’s already

Ito Aghayere, Lucas Neff, Patricia Heaton, Jean Luc Bilodeau, Sabrina Jalees and Kyle MacLachlan from left to right

published in the New England Journal of Medicine … twice. Carol will need to win over their chief resident, Dr. Maya Jacobs (Ito Aghayere), an all business disciplinarian who doesn’t care for Carol’s chatty, outgoing nature.

Jean Luc  Bilodeau returns to sitcoms after Baby Daddy hit comedy

Fortunately, Carol has a couple of friendly faces at the hospital, including Dr. Frost (Kyle MacLachlan), the accomplished senior attending physician who

Patricia Heaton was the part of Everybody Loves Raymond sitcom

finds her charming, and her bubbly daughter, Jenny, a successful pharma sales rep who catches the eye of Carol’s fellow doctors. At age 50, Carol is a

In the pilot episode Carol disregards orders and saves a patient's life

medical intern who must sink or swim with peers who are half her age, and it’s her enthusiasm, perspective, and yes, even her age, that may be exactly what will make her second act a great success.

SITCOMS 2019: NBC ORDERS FRAN DRESCHER'S INDEBTED, CBS CAROL'S 2ND ACT WITH PATRICIA HEATON, JEAN LUC BILODEAU, FOX JASON BIGGS, MAGGIE LAWSON OUTMATCHED, ABC UNITED WE FALL! PLUS CANCELLED PILOTS!

   MULTICAM SITCOMS 2019

 WHICH ARE DEAD FOR GOOD?

United we Fall will air on ABC

It's been a bloodbath of a week for multicam sitcoms: CBS cancelled Murphy Brown, Fam, Happy Together, and Fox their Cool Kids. When it comes to this year's pilots, ABC has passed on Katey Sagal's Nana, CBS on Katherine Heigl's Our House and David Walton's The Story of Us and Briga Heelan's To Whom It May Concern, Fox on Patty's Auto, NBC on Zach Cregger's Friends in Law! 

UNITED WE FALL  
ABC has, however, ordered UNITED WE FALL multicam to series. Starring Will Sasso, Christina Vidal, Jane Curtin and Jason Michael Snow, it is a profoundly realistic, multicultural family sitcom that shows how, when two people with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.

FRAN DRESCHER'S INDEBTED

formerly known as Uninsured has been ordered to series by NBC and it is the one I was most happy about, personally. It marks her return to the network together with  Adam Pally, Abby Elliott, Steven Weber and Jessy

Indebted will hit NBC in the MidSeason!

Hodges! Young parents Dave and Rebecca are ready to reclaim their life after years of diapers and sleepless nights. However, things take an unexpected turn when Dave’s parents show up unannounced and broke, leaving Dave with no

Fran Drescher will play Adam Pally's mother in Indebted

 choice but to open the door to the people who gave him everything. But these boomerang parents aren’t great with boundaries and the question of who’s parenting who quickly become blurred!

CAROL'S SECOND ACT 
 has been ordered to series at CBS. Starring  Patricia Heaton
, Kyle MacLachlan, and our dearest Jean-Luc Bilodeau, it revolves around Carol
Chambers (Patricia Heaton), who, after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: becoming a doctor.


Lucas Neff, Jean Luc Bilodeau and Patricia Heaton will lead Carol's Second Act

Hilarious new multicamera sitcom CAROL'S SECOND ACT will air on Thursday evenings at CBS from Autumn! They've also ordered Jaime Camil's BROKE to series.

OUTMATCHED AKA GENIUSES

has been ordered to series by Fox and will probably be Last Man Standing's sidekick next season. It is a family comedy about a blue-collar couple (Maggie

Jason Biggs and Maggie Lawson are parents of geniuses in Outmatched

Lawson and Jason Biggs) in South Jersey trying to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses. The sitcom will air on Thursday nights with LMS from January!

SITCOM PILOTS 2019: FRAN DRESCHER JOINS NBC'S UNINSURED, JEAN LUC BILODEAU, KYLE MACLACHLAN JOIN CAROL'S SECOND ACT, JANE CURTIN IN UNITED WE FALL, BRIGA HEELAN, MICHAEL ANGARANO IN TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

2019 NEW MULTICAM SITCOMS

FRAN DRESCHER IN UNINSURED!

Rejoice, spylings, some of our favourite comedians are returning to the small screens! I've informed you recently that Adam Pally and Abby Elliott will

Fran Drescher will play the Uninsured mother

lead the pilot for NBC's new multicam sitcom UNINSURED and now the queen of comedy herself Fran Drescher is joining them as well! The story revolves around young parents Dave (Pally) and Rebecca (Elliott), who end up having to take care of Dave’s parents who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizeable debt. Fran Drescher will play Linda, described as a woman who loves her kids and grandkids as much as she loves reminding people she’s from Brooklyn.This will be our dearest Fran's return to sitcoms after The Nanny, Living with Fran and Happily Divorced.

JEAN LUC BILODEAU CAST IN CAROL'S SECOND ACT AT CBS
Over at CBS, they've cast another of our beloved sitcom stars. Baby Daddy's sweetest heartthrob Jean Luc Bilodeau has joined the pilot of Patricia

Jean Luc Bilodeau will be one of the interns!

Heaton's sitcom CAROL'S SECOND ACT in which she will play Carol Chambers who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor. Bilodeau will play Daniel, the second member of Carol’s quartet of interns. He graduated from Harvard in 2014 and from Harvard Medical School in 2018 and already is published in The New England Journal of Medicine — twice. Kyle MacLachlan has also joined as Dr. Frost, the Senior Attending Physician on the ward (as well as the Department Chair) who thinks he’s funnier than he is. Considerably more empathetic than

Kyle MacLachlan has also joined Carol's Second Act

Dr. Maya (Ito Aghayere), Dr. Frost takes an immediate shine to Carol. Bonnie Dennison will play Jenny, Carol’s big hearted daughter who became a pharmaceutical rep because, as a pretty and charming young woman, it’s an easy job.

MICHAEL ANGARANO & BRIGA HEELAN IN NEW CBS SITCOM

CBS is also bringing back gorgeous Briga Heelan to the world of sitcoms together with Michael Angarano in  TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN a hybrid sitcom which centres on Evan (Angarano) who, with the help of his

Michael Angarano and Briga Heelan will lead the new sitcom pilot

group of friends, sets out to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life. Briga will play one of his friends, the entrepreneurial co-owner of  Pittsburgh's coolest pierogi shop.

 JANE CURTIN IN UNITED WE FALL

Yet, another of sitcom legends, 3rd Rock From the Sun's Jane Curtin is returning to TV comedies in UNITED WE FALL a profoundly realistic, multicultural sitcom that shows how, when two people, Bill and Jo, with

Jason Michael Snow will play Jane Curtin's other son in the ABC sitcom

young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible. Curtin will play Bill’s extremely judgemental mother who joined their house during a health scare till she recovered, but she never left! She makes it her business to tell them everything they do is wrong! Jason Michael Snow will play Bill's cosmopolitan, glamorous brother.

SITCOM PILOTS 2019: NBC, CBS, FOX ORDER GENIUSES, PATTY'S AUTO, FRIENDS IN LAW, UNINSURED, CAROL'S SECOND ACT, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN MULTICAM PILOTS! ABBY'S STARTS THIS MARCH AT NBC

NEW 2019 COMEDY PILOTS

GENIUSES & PATTY'S AUTO AT FOX

Elizabeth Banks is producing Patty's Auto

It's that time of the year when networks are ordering sitcom pilots which may or (usually) may not get turned into regular series later on. Fox has ordered a pilot for multicam sitcom GENIUSES that might become a companion for their hit show Last Man Standing. It will follow a blue collar couple in South Jersey trying to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses. They've also ordered PATTY'S AUTO pilot about an auto repair shop with all female mechanics from Roseanne's producer Darlene Hunt and Elizabeth Banks.

UNINSURED FRIENDS IN LAW AT NBC
NBC has given a green light to FRIENDS IN LAW comedy pilot (which was in the run last year as well) about two men, who are polar opposites but who must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends decide to get married. They've also ordered UNINSURED multicam pilot about young couple with kids who end up having to take care of his parents who have mishandled their

Patricia Heaton gets another chance!

finances and need help to pay down a sizeable debt.

PATRICIA HEATON RETURNS TO CBS!

CBS is doing the same by also giving a second chance to one of their last year's pilots which never got into production - CAROL'S SECOND ACT in which Everybody Love's Raymond and cooking star Patricia Heaton plays a woman who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor. They also have a pilot for TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN which follows Evan who sets out with his group of 20-something friends to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life.

ABBY'S AT NBC THIS MARCH
NBC has also set a date for their new multicam sitcom ABBY'S which will hit the midseason with its ten episodes from March 28th revolving around an unlicensed, makeshift establishment in Abby’s (Natalie Morales) backyard, the perfect gathering place for locals to find camaraderie and sanctuary. To

Abby's will replace one of this season's biggest failures Will &Grace on Thursdays

maintain the perfect bar ecosystem, all patrons must abide by a specific set of rules. This includes no cell phones, understanding that earning a seat at the bar takes time to rise through the hierarchy and knowing that losing a challenge may have some unpleasant and unpalatable drink-related repercussions.

BECOMING ASTRID TRAILER ON PIPPI LONGSTOCKING AUTHOR! CBS ORDERS NEW MULTICAM SITCOMS: HALFWAY THERE, EMPEROR OF MALIBU, THE FOLKS, SIBLINGS, CAROL'S SECOND ACT, LIFE LESSONS, QUINTA & JERMAINE

   NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOMS

FRESHLY ORDERED BY CBS

Iliza Shlesinger will lead HalfWay There

A slate of new multicam sitcoms ordered by CBS: Iliza Shlesinger will star in HALFWAY THERE, which she also wrote, as a comic who prides herself on “guiding women” in her act. She is forced to put that to practical use when her half-sister moves in with her! CBS has also ordered a pilot for a comedy series from Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan THE EMPEROR OF MALIBU about two very different families, one from Shanghai with new money and one from the U.S. East Coast with old money, who learn to co-exist when their children get married.

They also bought a Gail Berman multicam THE FOLKS which tells what happens when a momma’s boy marries a daddy’s girl, and their respective parents can’t let go. SIBLINGS multicam is also in development from Ranch and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia producers, which centres on two very different siblings who decide to live together and raise their kids

Patricia Heaton is returning to sitcoms in Carol's 2nd Act

after one of them gets divorced. Meanwhile, The Middle star Patricia Heaton will both topline and produce CBS new multicam sitcom CAROL'S SECOND ACT playing a woman who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor. They're also doing a sitcom LIFE LESSONS from Eric Christian Olsen about a guy who is a professional failure at life and finds advice and friendship in the most unlikely of places… a class of first graders. Meanwhile, Superior Donuts star Jermaine Fowler will do another comedy for them: QUINTA & JERMAINE in which he and Quinta Brunson will star as childhood best friends who find themselves expecting a child while navigating adulthood.

   'BECOMING ASTRID' TRAILER

ON PIPPI LONGSTOCKING AUTHOR

We've seen movies on Winnie the Pooh creator, the Tolkien one is coming soon too, but from Finland comes a movie on the creator of famous children

Becoming Astrid arrives this Autumn

character Pippi Longstocking! BECOMING ASTRID already played in their domestic cinemas last September as well as in Scandinavia, but will hit rest of Europe and USA in limited release this month and November. Alba August is playing the lead role in the biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking who found inspiration in being a very young mother herself. The movie was directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen who also wrote the film together with her husband who is also a children's book author.