NEW 2019 SITCOMS: BRENT MORIN JOINS DENNIS QUAID IN MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER, DAVID WALTON & ELIZABETH ALDERFER IN THE US PROJECT, KATHERINE HEIGL TO LEAD OUR HOUSE, WILL SASSO, CHRISTINA VIDAL IN UNITED WE FALL, STEVEN WEBER IN FRAN DRESCHER'S UNINSURED, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ADS CAST

2019 NEW MULTICAM SITCOMS

BRENT MORIN JOINS QUAID'S MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER

Our dearest Brent Morin returns to TV sitcoms!

In one of our previous reports on new multicam sitcom pilot orders I told you that Netflix has placed an eight episode order for the first Christmas season of MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER comedy in which Dennis Quaid will play Don Quinn, a strong willed patriarch who must balance the demands of his complicated family with the stress of the Christmas season when his youngest daughter comes home for the holidays with a new boyfriend. Now one of our most favourite comedians Brent Morin has joined the cast together with Bridget Mendler. They've already played a couple in one of the best sitcoms ever Undateable, and now he will play her boyfriend, a struggling musician from LA who will have his hands full as he meets his girlfriend’s imposing father and close knit family over a stressful and emotional Christmas break. Ashley Tisdale, Adam Rose and Hayes MacArthur will also star, Tisdale as the other daughter, Rose as her husband and Hayes as the only son in the family.

DAVID WALTON TO LEAD THE US PROJECT AT CBS
CBS has found leads for their new hybrid sitcom THE US PROJECT in which Elizabeth Alderfer and David Walton will star opposite Parker Young, Vanessa and Laura Marano! It will be a comedy told through

Elizabeth Alderfer (Disjointed) and David Walton (9JKL)

interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years, about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family. Alderfer plays a woman who is not sure her current boyfriend is the right one just when she meets Walton's Kevin, a divorced father of two teens who will transform the next decade of her life.

KATHERINE HEIGL IN OUR HOUSE!

In the slate of new multicam sitcoms with biracial couples as leads, the biggest one is OUR HOUSE also over at CBS which has just cast Katherine

This will be Katherine's first sitcom ever!

Heigl as lead opposite Malcolm Barrett. The story follows a devoted dad, Shawn (Barrett), and mom, Bridget (Heigl), who are committed to raising their children with the love and support the mom never got as a kid but discover how difficult that is with her insane parents and siblings back in the picture. Heigl’s Bridget tries her best to be a laid back, progressive parent like her therapist husband, but often finds herself reverting to the old school style of her parents. Now that she’s moved back into her childhood home, surrounded by her parents and crazy siblings, finding a balance between these wildly different parenting styles is going to be more difficult than she imagined.

UNITED WE FALL AT ABC
Rival ABC has tied Will Sasso and Christina Vidal as leads of their new sitcom UNITED WE FALL a profoundly realistic, multicultural comedy that shows how, when two people, Bill (Sasso) and Jo (Vidal) with young children

Will Sasso will be married to Christina Vidal!

and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible. I've already told you that Jane Curtin will play Bill's difficult mother and Jason Michael Snow Bill's brother!

STEVEN WEBER 2BE UNINSURED

Steven Weber will be Fran's husband!

Definitely one of the most exciting news of the season is that Fran Drescher is returning to the small screens in NBC's UNINSURED sitcom which revolves around young parents Dave (Adam Pally) and Rebecca (Abby Elliott), who end up having to take care of Dave’s parents, Elliot and Linda (Drescher) who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizable debt. Now they've cast Steven Weber as Dave's father Elliot! Weber will still play in three other series in which he has regular roles!

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN 
I've also told you that CBS has cast Briga Heelan and Michael Angarano in TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN a hybrid sitcom which centres on Evan (Angarano) who, with the help of his group of friends, sets out to accomplish a

Michael Cassidy and Raymond Ablack have joined new sitcom at CBS

list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life. Raymond Ablack, Michael Cassidy, Taylor Dearden and Ana Villafañe have joined the comedy as his friends. This one will also have a biracial couple as Ablack will play Briga's boyfriend.

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

'WLL & GRACE' RETURN TRAILER! CBS ORDERS '9JKL', 'BY THE BOOK' SITCOMS. FOX ORDERS 'ORVILLE' SF COMEDY SHOW & MEDICAL 'RESIDENT' WITH MANISH DAYAL, MATT CZUCHRY. 'BABY DADDY', 2 BROKE GIRLS' CANCELLED

 'WILL & GRACE'

RETURN THIS AUTUMN TO NBC

NBC is to release the first trailer for the comeback of their WILL & GRACE sitcom, which will return to Thursday nights with This Is Us this Autumn with 12 and possibly even more new episodes. Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Eric McCormack and Sean Hayes, are all returning in their original roles. I will replace the US only trailer below as soon as the non geoblocked one appears.

CBS ORDERS '9JKL' SITCOM
CBS has ordered new multicamera sitcom 9JKL. Starring Mark Feuerstein it is inspired by the time he lived in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, right between his doting 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. Linda Lavin, Elliott Gould, David Walton play his parents and his brother.

FOX ORDERS 'ORVILLE' SETH MACFARLANE SF COMEDY

Fox has ordered 13 episodes of Seth MacFarlane's sf comedy  THE ORVILLE in which the story is set 300 years in the future. It follows the adventures of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar Fleet. Facing cosmic challenges from without and within, this motley crew of space explorers will boldly go where no comedic drama has gone before. MacFarlane stars, writers, creates and executive produces the series which will air on Thursdays this Autumn.

 FOX ORDERS 'THE RESIDENT'

STARRING MANISH DAYAL AND MATT CZUCHRY

Fox has also ordered Manish Dayal's medical series THE RESIDENT which follows a tough, brilliant senior resident who guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine. Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp and Bruce Greenwood also star.

LATEST SITCOM CANCELLATIONS!
ABC has put Carol Burnett's sitcom HOUSEHOLD NAME to a 'rework' stage but it did order the return of ROSEANNE after cancelling their six year long, 2nd best watched, sitcom LAST MAN STANDING! CBS has ordered BY THE BOOK (aka Living Biblically) multi camera sitcom while cancelling 2 BROKE GIRLS after 6 years and THE ODD COUPLE! CBS has also passed on DISTEFANO and BROTHERED UP sitcom pilots.  FreeForm has cancelled their own 6 year long sitcom BABY DADDY last weekend to the shock of fans since it was their best watched comedy ever and will end on its 100th episode.

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!