Returning with the second season tonight over at CBS is GEORGIE & MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE multi camera sitcom with Montana Jordan and Emily Osment. Season two picks up after the season 1 finale, which found Mandy keeping the truth about working with an ex-boyfriend from Georgie. When he learns the truth, he's moved to buy her father Jim's (Will Sasso) auto shop and go into business with Ruben (Jessie Prez). It's all leading up to a hilarious season with some big changes in store. Rachel Bay Jones and Dougie Baldwin are back as Mandy's mother and brother Audrey and Connor. The episodes will also stream on Paramount Plus.
CBS has given us the first trailer for their new multicam sitcom GEORGIE AND MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE which starts October 17th following the couple from Young Sheldon comedy (played by
New comedy series starts next month
Montana Jordan and Emily Osment) as they raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting and marriage. In the series premiere Georgie and Mandy get fed up staying with Mandy’s parents Jim and Audrey (played by Will Sasso and Rachel Bay Jones) and reconsider their living situation after a conflict with Mandy’s mom. Dougie Baldwin stars as Mandy’s brother Connor, Jessie Perez as tire store employee Ruben, with Zoe Perry and Annie Potts also appearing in the sitcom that will also stream on Paramount Plus.
CBS has unveiled Fall schedule and with it first teasers for new multicamera sitcoms. Young Sheldon spin off GEORGIE & MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE will air from Fall on Thursday evenings. Coming from Chuck Lorre it follows Georgie (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment) as they raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting and marriage.
POPPA'S HOUSE FROM WAYANS CO
Replacing Bob Hearts Abishola on Monday evenings after Neighbourhood is POPPA'S HOUSE. It follows legendary talk radio host and happily divorced “Poppa” (Damon Wayans) who has his point of view challenged at work when a new female co-host (Essence Atkins) is hired, and at home where he finds himself still parenting his adult son (Damon Wayans Jr.), a brilliant dreamer who is trying to pursue his passion while being a responsible father and husband.
After the massive successes with Home Improvement and Last Man Standing, Tim Allen and producers Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Scully are returning to ABC who has just ordered a pilot for their new multi camera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS. Allen will play Matt, described as a stubborn widower who owns a classic car shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration will begin though. Meanwhile, CBS has ordered a multicam pilot for Chuck Lorre's Young Sheldon spin off following Georgie (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment) as they raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting and marriage. Rival NBC has ordered SOMETHING WICKED mutlicam sitcom pilot with June Diane Raphael as lead. It is described as a comedy with a Bewitched-type premise and an homage to TV sitcom classics. It examines the condition of modern adult womanhood and how even with witchcraft, balancing everything is impossible.
Comedy all the way today, starting with the trailer for new Netflix multicam sitcom PRETTY SMART which arrives October 8th! After getting unexpectedly dumped by her boyfriend, Chelsea (Emily Osment) a high-brow, Harvard educated intellectual and aspiring novelist is forced to move in
Pretty Smart will stream in ten episodes at Netflix
with her bubbly, carefree, not so intellectual West Coast sister, Claire (Olivia Macklin), and her three lovably eccentric, not so intellectual roommates: Grant (Gregg Sulkin), a distractingly handsome personal trainer, Solana
Emily Osment and Gregg Sulkin lead the cast
(Cinthya Carmon), a former lawyer turned healer, and Jayden (Michael Hsu Rosen), a social media influencer. But Chelsea's tough, sometimes judgemental exterior starts to soften as she gets to know her new friends, and they begin to form an unlikely found family.
GHOSTS SITCOM AT CBS
UR HOUSE COMES WITH GHOSTS
Ghosts arrive October 7th to CBS
Meanwhile, CBS will launch their own new sitcom, though not a multicam, a day before. GHOSTS sees Utkarsh Ambudkar and Rose McIver playing ayoung couple, whose dreams come true when they inherit a beautiful country house, only to find it's both falling apart and inhabited by many of the deceased previous residents. It is a remake of the British comedy of the same name. But do not fool yourself, it looks to be missing any of the quality the original has.
GRAND DUKE OF CORSICA
TIMOTHY SPALL TRAILER IS OUT!
Grand Duke is out November in USA
Over in the movie world, check out the trailer for Timothy Spall's comedy movie THE GRAND DUKE OF CORSICA which arrives November 3rd written and directed by Daniel Graham. In 1221 a young man is set on his path to becoming St. Francis of Assisi (Matt Hookings). A thousand years later an architect (Timothy Spall) must build a mausoleum for a dying billionaire (Peter Stormare). Separated by history, these men's lives will be forever changed by a pandemic. As a deadly epidemic slowly begins to sweep Malta, a brilliant but cantankerous architect embarks
Grand Duke was both written and directed by Daniel Graham
upon an unusual commission for an eccentric billionaire who calls himself 'The Grand Duke of Corsica'. A state of emergency creates chaos but Alfred Rott, ever the professional, remains to finish the job.
Isn't that the cutest news of the week? Emily Osment will return to the world of sitcoms after Young and Hungry in an currently untitled new multi camera sitcom which just got a ten episode order over at Netflix and Gregg Sulkin will take the male lead. This is not the first time two of them are working together. With Jack Dolgen and Doug Mand as the show creators, the new comedy revolves around a snooty, self proclaimed intellectual (Osment) forced to move in with her carefree sister and her sister’s lovably eccentric friends, one of them played by Gregg Sulkin.
Emily Osment’s character in the new comedy series at Netflix, Chelsea, is an Ivy league educated intellectual who is
book smart and quick witted but lacks the real world skills she needs to
have a functional life. She finds herself living in LA without any
options other than her bubbly sister, Claire, and Claire’s roommates.
Meanwhile, Gregg Sulkin’s character in the new series, Grant, is romantic, genuinely sweet, and an often shirtless personal trainer. He has a childlike
Gregg Sulkin will play one of the male leads in the new sitcom
curiosity about the world and is the kind of guy women love and men… also love! He used to date Claire, but now they’re “just friends.”
EOIN MACKEN
TO LEAD NBC'S LA BREA SERIES
NBC is moving on with the producton on the pilot for their catastrophe series LA BREA but they've replaced the male lead (and a few other roles)
When a massive sinkhole mysteriously opens in Los Angeles, it tears a
family in half, separating mother (Zea) and son (Martin) from father
(Macken) and daughter (Gorecki). When part of the family find themselves
in an unexplainable primeval world, alongside a disparate group of
strangers, they must work to survive and uncover the mystery of where
they are and if there is a way back home.
Macken will play Gavin Harris, Eve’s recently estranged husband, full of
swagger and charm. Jack Martin is Josh Harris, Gavin’s son who coasts
through life on his wit, has great sense of humor and an undeniable
charisma. Jon Seda will play Dr. Sam Velez, the father of a teenage girl
(St. Clair), he carries himself like the general of an Army.
A little bit of comedy for you today to cheer up your boring Monday! Last year's best viewed summer sitcom and also best viewed summer scripted
Marlon returns June 14th!
series in USA, MARLON is returning to NBC with the second season June 14th with a double episode!
Loosely inspired by the real life of the amazingly hilarious star
Marlon Wayans, this update to the classic family comedy centres on a
loving (but sometimes inappropriate) father committed to co-parenting
his two kids with his very together ex-wife. While his misguided
fatherly advice, unstoppable larger than life personality and
unpredictable Internet superstardom might get in the way
Marlon was the best viewed new scripted series on all Networks last summer
sometimes, for
Marlon family really always does come first — even if he’s the biggest
kid of all. Essence Atkins returns as his wife, Bresha Webb as her funny
best friend, with Notlim Taylor and Amir O’Neil as their two kids.
'YOUNG AND HUNGRY'
ENDS ITS TV LIFE NEXT MONTH
Speaking of our beloved multi camera sitcoms, one of them is ending this summer! YOUNG AND HUNGRY will return with the second part of its
Y&H was most viewed Wednesday sitcom with Baby Daddy
fifth season June 20th and those last ten episodes will be the final ones. The series in which Emily Osment plays a young cook who falls for her billionaire boss will kick off its final season with back-to-back episodes on Freeform. The final season sees Gabi and Josh (Jonathan Sadowski) happily together and in love, but now navigating their new status as a full fledged couple. Meanwhile, the rest of Josh’s staff, house keeper Yolanda (Kym Whitley) and his PR Elliot, are grappling with the change in work dynamic with Gabi as the “woman of the house.” Sofia (Aimee Carrero), Gabi’s best friend, who begins to feel like a third wheel with the new couple, sets out on her own path to find love.
Although Hulu was supposed to turnSarah J. Maas' fantasy saga Throne of Glass into TV series, it did not happen, but now German Constantin Film
The four part saga has become a huge hit
has bought rights on her fantasy novel A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES! The company which is famous for Resident Evil movies and Shadowhunters series, will make a movie out of this fantasy story about Feyre, who finds herself entwined with faeries after unknowingly killing one. When the young huntress kills a wolf in the woods, a beastlike creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. Feyre must find a way to stop it or doom Tamlin and his world forever.
CBS has also find a female lead in gorgeous Amber
Stevens West for the pilot of their untitled Damon Wayans Jr. multicam sitcom in
which he plays Peter and she will be Claire, a thirty something couple
who are tired of their mundane life and start to reconnect with their
younger, cooler selves when one of his clients, an emerging pop star (Felix Mallard), who is
drawn to their super-normal suburban life, moves in.
TV day today, starting with an amazing piece of news for all of you who loved Starz' brilliant epic series White Princess last year! The follow up to
This will be third series based on Gregory's books
BBC's White Queen will now get its own follow up in THE SPANISH PRINCESS based on Philippa Gregory’s best selling books The Constant Princess and The King’s Curse.
THE SPANISH PRINCESS will follow Catherine of Aragon, the beautiful
young princess of Spain who was promised the English throne since she
was a child. She arrives in a grey, rain lashed England with her
glorious and diverse court including her lady in waiting Lina – an
African Moor. She is Princess of Wales now, but when her husband Prince
Arthur dies suddenly, the throne seems lost to Catherine. Until she
claims her marriage was never consummated and that as a virgin she may
set her sights on the new heir, the charismatic and headstrong Prince
Harry who will one day rule as King Henry VIII.
MULTICAM SITCOM PILOTS
EMILY OSMENT TO LEAD '25'
Emily Osment is moving to 25 at CBS
Good and bad news from the TV comedy world. Sad news is that Freeform
is ending its sitcom Young and Hungry with the remaining ten episodes
of the fifth season which will air from June 20th. The good news is that
its star Emily Osment has booked a lead role in new CBS multicam sitcom
pilot 25 which follows twenty something Kyle (Matt Shively), who comes
to Austin to finally convince his old best friend from camp, Kate
(Osment), that they are perfect for each other. Unfortunately, she just
got engaged. A lot of guys would give up; Kyle is not one of those guys.
But to Kyle’s surprise, even though he came to town looking for “the
one,” he might end up with much more than that.
TONE BELL AND NINA DOBREV TO LEAD 'FAM' SITCOM AT CBS Another
of our favourite comedians Tone Bell, whose Disjointed has just been
cancelled, will take the lead in CBS multicam sitcom FAM next to Nina
Nina Dobrev will take the female lead in Fam CBS sitcom pilot
Lee Ralph), who
think Clem is a real catch. But he learns that Clem has not been
completely honest about a few key elements in her life: For example, her
father isn’t actually dead — and it drives a wedge of mistrust between
them that might not be easily mended.
'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE'
BBC MINI SERIES TRAILER!
Over across the pond, BBC has released trailer for Agatha Christie's ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE three part mini series which was postponed so that Edd Westwick's scenes could be reshot with Christian Cooke! Also
Click on the photo to see the whole cast in bigger size
starring Bill Nighy, Matthew Goode, Eleanor Tomlinson, Luke Treadaway, it is set
at Christmas 1954. Wealthy philanthropist Rachel Argyll is murdered at her family estate Sunny Point. Her adopted son Jack Argyll is
Bill Nighy leads the stellar cast in the new mini series
arrested for her murder. He vehemently protests his innocence. The mysterious Dr Arthur Calgary returns from a trip to the Arctic claiming he has proof Jack is innocent.
And if Jack was not the killer, then it must have been somebody else at Sunny Point. But who?
In today's casting news, one of our favourite television faces, British hunk DanStevens (who is the Beast in Disney's upcoming BEAUTY AND THE BEAST movie) will star with Rebecca Hall in romantic movie PERMISSION as a couple who decide to sleep with other people for the sake of their relationship. Jason Sudeikis, Gina Gershon and Francois Arnaud are also in the cast.
SF ROBIN HOOD Meanwhile, the team standing behind Spartan epic 300 lead by Gianni
Nunnari (IMMORTALS) will make a futuristic ROBIN HOOD 2058 movie with
the story set in a futuristic, dystopian version of London, following a
rogue MI5 agent on a mission to avenge injustice.
FREEFORM'S HIT SITCOMS
'BABY DADDY' & 'YOUNG & HUNGRY' RETURN WITH THE NEW SEASONS
Are you ready for the return of our favourite TV sitcoms? ABC Family, which has been renamed into FreeForm this year, is opening their Wednesday evening comedy block again tomorrow with the return of their most beloved comedies BABY DADDY and YOUNG ANDHUNGRY! Both sitcoms have ended their previous episodes with love cliffhangers! BABY DADDY is returning for its fifth season and the audience is awaiting to see if Danny (DerekTheler) will finally get Riley (Chelsea Kane) to whom he proposed crashing his mother Bonnie's (Melissa Peterman) wedding. But it turns out she fainted and doesn't remember the proposal! Meanwhile, his brother and Riley's previous fling Ben (Jean Luc Bilodeau) is getting a new love interest in new neighbour to be played by Jonna Walsh!
STILL YOUNG & HUNGRY Returning for the third season, YOUNG AND HUNGRY also has a love
triangle with two brothers after Gaby (Emily Osment) who still loves her
boss Josh (Jonathan Sadowski) falls for his gorgeous younger brother (Jayson
Blair). She will be in a dilemma while on a desert road trip!