NBC TO PREMIERE NEW JON CRYER, DONALD FAISON SITCOM EXTENDED FAMILY TOGETHER WITH NEW SEASON OF NIGHT COURT AT CHRISTMAS

 EXTENDED FAMILY TO BE 

FIRST NEW SITCOM OF 2024

NBC has unveiled their MidSeason schedule and they will be the network with the first new sitcom of the new year. EXTENDED FAMILY will first have a premiere the same night as the second season of Night Court as an early Christmas gift December 23rd and then both comedies will settle into their Tuesday evening slot from January 2nd!

 

  IN EXTENDED FAMILY

Jon Cryer and Abigail Spencer are Jim and Julia, who, after an amicable divorce, decide to continue to raise their kids at the family home while taking turns on who gets to stay with them. Navigating the waters of divorce and child-sharing gets more complicated for Jim when Trey (Donald Faison), the owner of his favorite sports team, enters the picture and wins Julia’s heart.

 

.@mrjoncryer, @abigailspencer and @donald_faison are putting the ex in #ExtendedFamily — a brand-new comedy coming January 2 to NBC and @peacock! pic.twitter.com/aqBSvbQsMp

— NBC Entertainment (@nbc) November 21, 2023

JON CRYER, DONALD FAISON SITCOM EXTENDED FAMILY SET FOR AUTUMN AT NBC! IMELDA STAUNTON, HANNAH WADDINGHAM TO LEAD IRISH COMEDY MOVIE WEST THE ROAD! SEE SHIA LABEOUF AS A SAINT IN ABEL FERRARA'S HISTORICAL MOVIE PADRE PIO!

 EXTENDED FAMILY SITCOM 

TO START AUTUMN AT NBC

Faced with the current strike of writers which could continue for a long time, NBC at least won't have to worry about their comedy hour as they've just added EXTENDED FAMILY multicamera sitcom to their Autumn schedule and it has been ordered to series long time ago. It will join their break out hit Night Court on Tuesday nights. Starring Jon Cryer, EXTENDED FAMILY is a new multicam comedy centered around the shifting family dynamics following a good-natured divorce — and the surprisingly hilarious moments that come with co-parenting. The gags on this comedy will be messy, endearing, and packed with hilarity, and you won't want to miss them! After an amicable divorce, Jim and Julia (Abigail Spencer) decide to continue to raise their kids at the family home while taking turns on who gets to stay with them. Navigating the waters of divorce and child-sharing gets more complicated for Jim when Trey (Donald Faison), the owner of his favorite sports team, enters the picture and wins Julia’s heart. Episodes will also stream on Peacock a day after the premiere.

 

 WEST THE ROAD MOVIE 

CASTS IMELDA STAUNTON AND HANNAH WADDINGHAM

While you are enjoying her gorgeous self at Eurosong tonight, Hannah Waddingham has got herself a gig in WEST THE ROAD movie with our dearest Imelda Staunton. Directed by Ita Fitzgerald, it will follow a group of women brought together by the death of a childhood friend. When they discover that she was forced to give her daughter up for adoption at the age of 15, the group embarks on a journey from the west of Ireland up the Wild Atlantic coastline, accompanied by a donkey called Thatcher, in search of the child.

 PADRE PIO MOVIE TRAILER 

STARRING SHIA LABEOUF

The movie arrives to cinemas this summer

From Academy Award Winner Abel Ferrara comes powerful new historical drama movie PADRE PIO with Shia LaBeouf in the lead role. It is interesting that he converted to Catholicism during the shoot of the movie about the Roman Catholic Saint Padre Pio in his early years. After having a successful run at numerous movie festivals, the movie will slowly start opening in cinemas throughout the world with Russia in August and Northern American release scheduled for June 2nd. The story is set at the end of World War I, when Padre Pio begins his ministry at a remote monastery in southern Italy. Soon, his charisma and storied visions bring him fame.

NEWLY ORDERED MULTICAM SITCOMS WITH DAMON WAYANS AND SON, JON CRYER, DONALD FAISON, PLUS MELISSA RAUCH, JOHN LARROQUETTE IN NIGHT COURT REBOOT!

  NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOMS 

TO EXPECT ON TELEVISION

CBS has given a series order to a new multicamera sitcom that would star Damon Wayans and his son Damon Wayans Jr coming from Last Man Standing executive producer Kevin Hench. The comedy revolves around legendary talk radio host and happily divorced “Poppa” (Wayans), who has to

Wayans guest starred in his sons Happy Together sitcom

drag his grown son (Wayans Jr.), who has all his charm and none of his drive, kicking and screaming into adulthood before he turns 40. Earlier this month NBC has ordered an untitled multicam sitcom with Jon Cryer, Donald Faison and Abigail Spencer which will follow Jim and Julia, who, after an

Jon Cryer is also executive producing the new sitcom

amicable divorce decide to continue to raise their kids at the family home while taking turns on who gets to stay with them. Navigating the waters of divorce and child-sharing gets more complicated for Jim when the owner of his favorite sports teams enters the picture and wins Julia’s heart. 

 

NIGHT COURT SITCOM REBOOT

I previously already told you that NBC is also keeping NIGHT COURT sitcom reboot for next year following an unapologetic optimist judge Abby Stone (Melissa Rauch), the daughter of the late Harry Stone, who follows in

Night Court should arrive in season 2022-2023

her father’s footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to its crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette reprising his role from the original sitcom).

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MONICA POTTER'S SITCOM

EDDIE CIBRIAN, DONALD FAISON, JOSH HOPKINS AS EX HUSBANDS

We're in the middle of the casting season for future comedy pilots (the first episodes of possible new sitcoms) and the spy is bringing you the latest updates today on the stars who will take the roles in them. Definitely the most starstudded of them will be NBC's multi camera pilot (multi camera means with audience and laughter, single camera being without it) which is still untitled but I informed you previously that it will star Monica Potter as Bridget, a woman who juggles her busy family life as well as her three ex husbands, which proves to be difficult when she starts dating again. The names of her three husbands have been revealed: Eddie Cibrian will play Jason, Bridget’s first ex husband, a slick professional gambler. Donald Faison plays Bridget’s second ex husband, the very earnest Kevin, who is positive and upbeat at all times, and a staunch protector of the environment who is also “accidentally” extremely wealthy. Rory Scovel plays Robert, Bridget’s third ex husband. A pompous writer and college professor, Robert went to Harvard and can’t wait to let everyone know it. Josh Hopkins plays Tom, a veterinarian in the midst of mutual attraction with Bridget, an animal lover.

JOHN STAMOS' FOX SITCOM

CASTS JOSH PECK AS HIS SON
When it comes to Fox, according to 'Deadline', they have hired Josh Peck to lead the untitled new sitcom with John Stamos who plays Jimmy, a charismatic longtime bachelor whose life is upended when he discovers he’s a father — and a grandfather. Josh Peck will be the son Jimmy didn’t know he had – a sweet unemployed techie who is himself the proud and surprisingly capable father of a two-year-old daughter, the product of a one-night stand with the sexy Vanessa.

ABC'S NBA SITCOM PILOT

CASTS SKYLAR ASTIN AS LEAD

Another untitled comedy pilot, but at ABC, has cast Skylar Astin whose previous sitcom GROUND FLOOR has been cancelled. The new sitcom will be an NBA buddy comedy about an NBA rookie who doesn’t speak English and a translator who doesn’t speak basketball. Skylar Astin is the translator, Jason, a sweet and a little wimpy guy with no athletic prowess who is working as a teaching assistant and living in his parents’ basement when he is recruited by the NBA team. A munchkin among giants in the world of professional basketball, Jason soon discovers that he’s being paid to be a lot more than just a translator. He also must be the new player’s 24/7 guide, best friend, mentor and protector, and he also has to find a way to light a fire under this incredibly tall and talented athlete who seems to lack drive.

CBS'S 'LIFE IN PIECES' PILOT

THOMAS SADOSKI, COLIN HANKS, DIANNE WIEST, BETSY BRANDT
Over at CBS, one of their strongest new comedy pilots is LIFE IN PIECES about one family, the Shorts, as told through the separate stories of its different family members. Thomas Sadoski (THE NEWS ROOM) plays middle sibling Matt Short who can’t catch a break, the most recent being a failed career that has forced him back home with his parents. Colin Hanks and Betsy Brandt will play the other two siblings, while legendary Dianne Wiest will appear as their mother who adores her family and would do absolutely anything for them — as long she agrees with it. Zoe Lister Jones (FRIENDS WITH BETTER LIVES) plays Greg Short’s (Hanks) wife Jen, a woman used to being in control who now has a baby and finds for the first time she’s not.. Angelique Cabral (ENLISTED) will be Colleen, the woman Matt has just fallen in love with who is stuck in a messy breakup with her ex-fiancé.