Fox has set our dear Sir Stephen Fry as the lead of their new series THE INTERROGATOR which will follow him as Conrad Henry, former MI6 agent, and his elite team. When conventional methods have failed, Henry’s quirky charm, superior intellect, and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Fry himself has actually written the pilot for the series which has been ordered for a twelve episode season.
Gracing the small screens in three consecutive Sundays ahead of Easter, starting from March 22nd is Fox Biblical TV movie series THE FAITHFUL and we have the first teaser. The series will focus on The Bible’s most legendary women: Sarah, the wife of Abraham; Hagar, Sarah’s servant and the mother of Ishmael; Rebekah, Sarah’s great-niece and the wife of Isaac; Leah, Jacob’s wife and the mother of six of the twelve tribes of Israel; and Rachel, Jacob’s favored wife. James Purefoy, Alexa Davalos, Millie Brady, Tom Mison, Tom Payne, Jeffrey Donovan are just some of the names that will lead these three two hour holiday films.
Set to air as a two hour TV film on Fox and Hulu on Easter Sunday April 5th the third installment of Fox' Biblical three part series THE FAITHFUL told through five of The Old Testament’s most legendary women will center on Leah and Rachel, nieces of Rebekah who will, played by Alexa Davalos, be the focus of the second part a week before Easter. Millie Brady plays Leah,
Will Stevens, Millie Brady, James Purefoy will star in the third part
the eldest daughter of Laban. Blu Hunt is Rachel, the free-spirited and fiercely ambitious younger daughter of Laban and sister of Leah. James Purefoy is Laban,the patriarch of a complicated household and the older brother of Rebekah. Will Stevens portrays temperamental Birham, who, much like his father Laban, prefers fun over tending the flock. Tom Payne returns as Jacob, the son of Rebekah and Isaac (Tom Mison) and now betrothed to Rachel.
Set to air as a two hour TV film on Sunday March 29th the second installment of Fox' Biblical three part series THE FAITHFUL will center on Rebekah to be played by Alexa Davalos, with Tom Mison as her husband Isaac, and Tom Payne and Ben Robson portraying their adult sons Jacob and Esau. Rebekah is the woman who risked everything. When a mysterious stranger arrives with an invitation, she makes a decision that will define generations. Bold, compassionate, and courageous, she’s
This will be the second film in the three part series
tested in every imaginable way after a conversation with God sets her on an irreversible path.
Isaac is burdened by an inheritance he didn’t ask for and haunted by a faith he both fears and yearns to understand. The son of Abraham and Sarah, he’s a man deeply shaped by his near sacrifice from his father’s hand at God’s instruction.
Jacob is a survivor and a strategist who, mired by his position as the second-born son, learns to rely on cunning and determination for the blessing he seeks. In Jacob, we see not perfection, but transformation. Not divine purity, but divine persistence.
Esau is a hunter and a warrior who carries the weight of expectation placed on the firstborn son. He is loved deeply by his family, but becomes a pawn in a larger game that plays out between him and his brother. Fox will also air a film on Sarah on March 22nd and on Leah and Rachel on Easter Sunday April 5th.
Another book to be adapted into a TV series over at Fox is Toshikazu Kawaguchi's time travelling novel BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD with
The series is under production over at Fox
Gideon Raff as showrunner. In the heart of Japantown, San Francisco, a family owned café offers more than just coffee, it serves as a bridge between past and present. Visitors line up, drawn by the chance to relive a moment that changed their lives, knowing they must return before their coffee grows cold. Though the past cannot be rewritten, the act of letting go in the present can open the door to a future filled with hope. But this barista family, whose selfless gift has brought solace to so many, must now confront the shadows of their own mysterious past, one that may cost them everything.
According to Deadline, Fox has set Brooke Shields and David Spade as leads in their new multi camera sitcom ALMOST PARADISE from Danny Zuker. New comedy series is described as The Blue Lagoon meets Gilligan’s Island. Just your everyday, normal married couple facing all the everyday, normal challenges of being stranded on a desert Island for decades. Think Blue Lagoon, the family sitcom. Fox has apparently ordered scripts for two episodes. Shields previously led Suddenly Susan multicam.
I have another new series starting this January for you today: hitting Fox January 7th is DOC series with Molly Parker in the lead role, a remake of an Italian original. The ten episode series
The series will also stream on Huly day after Fox
will also star Scott Wolf and Jon Michael Ecker. She stars as the fiercely determined Dr. Amy Larsen, the Chief of Internal Medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis. After a traumatic brain injury wipes out the last eight years of her memory, Amy finds herself in an unfamiliar life she can’t remember — patients she’s treated, colleagues she’s clashed with, the man she loves, and the heartbreak that caused her to shut people out. With only her estranged 17-year-old daughter, whom she still sees as a 9-year-old, and a few loyal friends to lean on, Amy must navigate this new reality. At the same time, she fights to maintain her career in medicine, despite losing nearly a decade of expertise and experience.
Fox is launching their new nine episode mini series with a not so original title MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN from September 24th starring Donald's son Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk as detective Karl
New series starts at Fox September 24th
Alberg and his partner librarian Cassandra Mitchell who deal with a surprising string of murders in a usually quiet Sunshine Coast community. Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore. The series will also air on Global in Canada as it is actually their series. Over at Fox in United States it will air on Tuesday nights this Autumn. Based on a series of mystery novels by late Canadian author L.R. Wright also stars James Cromwell and Stana Katic.
Fox has released first poster, cast photos and a teaser for their new half hour comedy series ANIMAL CONTROL which will move into their Thursday
Animal Control starts February 16th
nights from February 16th with our dearest Joel McHale in the lead role of Frank, a former cop whose effort to expose corruption led to his firing from the force, Frank now leads the charge as an Animal Control officer with a cynical and curmudgeonly outlook. While he may be a bit rough towards humans, Frank does know animals.
Joining him for the fun is new partner Fred “Shred” Taylor (Michael
Rowland), Emily Price (Vella Lovell), Amit Patel (Ravi Patel), Victoria
Sands (Grace Palmer), Dr. Summers (Alvina August), Dolores Stubb (Kelli
Ogmundson), and Templeton Dudge (Gerry Dee). The Animal Control workers
will face a variety of situations from life-threatening encounters with
dangerous apex predators, showdowns with swashbuckling and overly
equipped squads from other law enforcement agencies, and interventions
with pet owners who are too self-medicated or lacking in IQ to be the
owner of any creature. All while stumbling over the team’s own array of
unmanageable personal situations while out in the field.
So be prepared to see freaked-out tripping bunnies, an angry boxing
kangaroo, and a cow in a fraternity house.
FIRST PAIN HUSTLERS
PHOTOS WITH CHRIS EVANS AND EMILY BLUNT! PLUS AIR DATE
Netflix has released first photos from their October 27th movie PAIN HUSTLERS starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia. Emily plays Liza Drake, a high-school dropout, who, dreaming of a better life for her and her young daughter, lands a job with a failing pharmaceutical start-up in a yellowing strip mall in Central Florida. Liza's charm, guts and drive catapult the company and her into the high life, where she soon finds herself at the center of a criminal conspiracy with deadly consequences. The film is directed by David Yates more known for massive epic movies than small dramas.
I am more than sure that you will all agree with me that after the gloom of 2020 we all need some humour and laughter this year and the first new
Opening episode starts tonight at Fox!
comedy to grace the small screens in the freshly launched 2021 is CALL ME KAT multi camera sitcom which arrives to Fox tonight, Sunday, January 3rd together with the final season of TV's most popular sitcom Last Man Standing before moving, later this week, to their regular Thursday evening spots with second episodes. Which means, this week you get two episodes of both comedies. Based on the British sitcom Miranda by Miranda Hart, the series, the first big
The production of the sitcom might go on a hiatus this month due to corona
network sitcom set in Kentucky, is written by Darlene Hunt and stars Mayim Bialik in the title role, with Cheyenne Jackson, Kyla Pratt, Julian Gant, Leslie Jordan, and Swoosie Kurtz in supporting roles.
CALL ME KAT SITCOM
stars
Mayim Bialik as a woman who struggles every day against society and her
mother to prove that she can still live a happy and fulfilling life
despite still being single at 39. Which is why she recently spent her
entire savings to open
Mayim Bialik returns to the world of sitcoms after Big Bang Theory
a cat café in Louisville, Kentucky. It was
expected of Kat to be married with kids by now, but for many reasons,
she’s still single – and totally fine with it. Of course, Kat’s mother,
Sheila (Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe
Leslie Jordan returns to sitcoms after Cool Kids
nominee Swoosie Kurtz), views
her daughter’s single-hood as her own personal failure, but Kat remains
determined to live a fulfilling life, and charts her own course to
happiness. Working alongside Kat at the café are Randi (Kyla Pratt), a
confident millennial and self proclaimed “non” cat person;
Cheyenne Jackson will be the main heartthrob in the sitcom
and Phil
(Emmy Award winner Leslie Jordan), who recently broke up with his
longtime partner. Although Kat celebrates her independence, her
single-forever plans may begin to veer off-course, when her former crush
and good friend, Max (Cheyenne Jackson), returns to town and takes a
job as a
Comedy veteran Swoosie Kurtz returns to TV after Mike and Molly
bartender at the piano bar across the street, working with his
friend, Carter (Julian Gant). Vanessa Lachey will guest star as Tara,
Kat's BFF since kindergarten. Married with 3 children, Tara has a very
different life than Kat’s but their shared history has created a bond
that can’t be broken.
Thanks to corona, we had no comedies this season on the small screens, the first one to appear two weeks ago, B-Positive, hasn't been overly
Call me Kat will air over at Fox
successful (even I as a renowned fan of sitcoms couldn't stand the atrociously bad femalelead in it), but we have two popular sitcoms returning tomorrow and then Call Me Kat and Last Man Standing finale season coming two days after New Year's Eve!
CALL ME KAT AT FOX
Is
probably the most anticipated multicamera sitcom this season, the
expectations are high as it is based on popular British comedy Miranda and
it has a number of comedy legends in the cast from Mayim Bialik in the
lead to Swoosie Kurtz and everybody's favourite Leslie Jordan. There
will also besome eyecandy in it too as
Leslie Jordan is returning to sitcoms after Cool Kids
beautiful Vanessa Lachey and
sinfully handsome Cheyenne Jackson will also star. And as you can see
from the photos, the series will stay true to its title and will have a
cat as a part of the cast as well! The series will start on Sunday
January 3rd and will then move to its weekly spot on Thursday nights
Good news is that Mayim Bialik's Kat will have a pet cat!
which will become the strongest comedy night as Katwill be paired up on
Fox with Tim Allen's Last Man Standing. Should be a ratings heaven for
Fox. In the comedy, Bialik plays a 39-year-old woman called Kat who
struggles every day against society and her mother to prove that you can
not have everything
Mayim Bialik returns to sitcoms after Big Bang Theory
you want yet still be happy. So she spends the
money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a cat café in
Louisville, Kentucky. With Swoosie as Kat's mother, Kat's coworkers at
the café include Phil, played by Leslie Jordan,
Vanessa Lachey returns to sitcoms after Truth Be Told
who recently broke up
with his longtimepartner, and Randi (Kyla Pratt), a confident
millennial and self-proclaimed non-cat person. Cheyenne Jackson plays
Max, Kat's former crush and good friend who returns to town
The series will air on Thursday nights after the Sunday premiere
and accepts a
bartending job at a piano bar. Vanessa Lachey will be Tara, Kat's BFF
since kindergarten. Married with 3 children, Tara has a very different
life than Kat’s but their shared history has created a bond that can’t
be broken.
LAST MAN STANDING FINALE
Finally getting a good Thursday evening sidekick at Fox in Call Me Kat is America's best watched sitcom LAST MAN STANDING which will also roll its final, ninth season on January 3rd! After breaking tons of records in first seven years, the sitcom had a massive drop in ratings last year with the arrival
Tim Allen and Nancy Travis are retiring in Last Man Standing
of television's most annoying character Jen and a change in scripts which made the show less funny to the point of it being even unwatchable. Hopefully, the final season will bring the sitcom to its old glory. Tim Allen's sitcom will have 194 episodes in total and will have a time jump at the beginning of the final season, as we will meet the characters a few months after the events in
The final season will have a lower number of episodes due to corona
the catastrophic season 8. When we see the Baxters again, Kristin (Amanda Fuller) will have welcomed the baby, Mandy (Molly McCook) will be further along in her pregnancy, and Mike and Vanessa will be contemplating next steps. For Mike, that means retirement and choosing a successor.
BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA AND NEIGHBOURHOOD RETURN TOMORROW AT CBS
But
if you cannot wait till January for your weekly comedy fix, the good
news is that CBS's most watched sitcoms BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA, with the
second season, and NEIGHBOURHOOD, with the third season, are returning
as of tomorrow evening! The second season of Bob Hearts Abishola
Bob Hearts Abishola comes from comedy legend Chuck Lorre
will
start with Bob (Billy Gardel) enlisting Uncle Tunde's help to buy an
engagement ring for Abishola! However, his plans are upended because
Abishola does not believe in a traditional marriage. Meanwhile, in the
third season of NEIGHBORHOUD, the Johnson and Butler families had
already
The Neighborhood returns with its third season tomorrow
overcome the awkwardness that arose at the time of the first
meeting, they found a lot in common, but prejudice and pride sometimes
still prevail over common sense. Max Greenfield and Beth Behrs return as
the lovely and kind Johnsons, with Cedric the Entertainer as their
racist neighbour Calvin Butler.
Well, when Kim Cattrall sets a whole lavish mansion on fire, the scene certainly promises a very juicy show, doesn't it? The first full trailer has been
The show starts September 21st on Fox
released for new soap opera FILTHY RICH which will bring its rich filth to Fox on Monday nights from September 21st with what promises to be the lead new drama of the Autumn season.
FILTHY RICH described as a "Gothic family drama in which wealth, power and
religion collide with outrageously soapy results", the series centres on
a mega rich Southern family who made their money with a Christian
television network, and whose sudden passing of its founder (Gerald
McRaney) in a plane crash (just when the man of God was planning to shag
a young lover up in the air) brings out three more family members (who
he had written in his will due to having affairs with different
The series is based on a New Zealand show of the same name
women),
who will inherit the empire for their own reasons. Beside Kim Cattrall
(as an Oprah-like host and co-founder of the Sunshine Network, who is
determined to control the business by all means necessary) the cast also
Originally slated for spring, the show was pushed to Autumn as the possible lead drama in the sad corona aftermath TV landscape
includes Aubrey Dollar and Corey Cott as the Monreaux family official
heirs, Melia Kreiling, Benjamin Levy Aguilar and Mark L. Young as the
illegitimate kids, Olivia Macklin as Kim Cattrall's daughter in law,
Steve Harris (as the family's lawyer) and Aaron Lazar as a
televangelist.
While the future of most sitcom pilots hangs in the air (almost none got shot or were cut in the middle of production) and the ones that are airing on
Leslie Jordan has just joined the cast
TV currently are facing shorter seasons this and next month (Fran Drescher's Indebted ends April 15th and Will and Grace final episode EVER also airs this month, April 23rd) due to cease of production in the midst of corona outbreak, there are some new sitcoms that already got a full season orders. CALL ME KAT at Fox is one of them and it just got Leslie Jordan (from Cool Kids and Will and Grace) as a regular!
Call Me KatIs A
new multi camera sitcom which centres around Kat (Big Bang Theory's
Mayim Bialik), a 39 year old woman who struggles every day against
society and her mother Sheila (Mike and Molly's Swoosie Kurtz) to prove
that you CANNOT have everything you want — and still be happy. Which is
why she spent the money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a
Cat Café in Louisville, KY.
Leslie Jordan will
Mayim Bialik and Cheyenne Jackson will lead the cast
play Phil, who works for Kat and bakes all the
pastries at the cat cafe. Kat is helping Phil get a new lease on life
after his recent breakup with his longtime partner. Cheyenne Jackson
will play Kat's super hunky love interest.
Julie Bowen will be Frankie Wolfe in new CBS sitcom
Continuing with the updates on new multi camera sitcom pilots that we started yesterday (Click for Part One here, Part Two here and Part Three here), we move today over to CBS who have just cast Modern Family's Julie Bowen as the lead in their RAISED BY WOLVES multi camera sitcom. Coming from Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan it will follow Frankie Wolfe (Bowen), a very successful and fiercely independent crisis manager whose world is turned upside down when she decides to let someone into her life for the first time — an 11-year-old girl who she adopts and raises with the occasional help of her fragile, nervous wreck of a sister.
Bowen’s Frankie is a totally put-together powerhouse whose aggressive, blunt-talking style belies the damage incurred by literally being raised by Wolfes (Barbara and Arnie).
Josh Segarra has joined Night School at NBC
Josh Segarra Joins Night School at NBC NBC has meanwhile hired Josh Segarra as charming salesman Teddy
Walker in their new multicam NIGHT SCHOOL from Marlon creators, which
revolves around a unique mix of adults at a night school GED prep class
who unexpectedly bond over their shared experience and find themselves
helping one another both inside and outside of the classroom. Together
with Shanola Hampton, Segarra will lead the cast that also includes
alongside Ian Gomez, Collette Wolfe, James Earl and Joe Massingill!
Cheyenne Jackson Cast As Lead In Call Me Kat Sitcom At Fox
Cheyenne Jackson has been cast at Fox
Fox, on the other hand, has cast a handsome hunk of their own: Cheyenne Jackson has joined Mayim Bialik in CALL ME KAT multi camera sitcom which is actually an American version of Miranda comedy which was very popular in United Kingdom and in which Tom Ellis played the male lead. It revolves around Kat (Bialik), a 39-year-old woman who struggles every day against society and her mother Sheila (Swoosie Kurtz) to prove that you cannot have everything you want — and still be happy. Which is why she spent the money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a Cat Café in Louisville, KY.
Jackson will play her high school crush, Max, who recently returned from teaching English overseas and now works as a bartender across the street from the cat café. He’s getting over a long-term relationship with an ex that Kat imagines to be the most beautiful woman in the world — but Max values personality and humour over physical attractiveness.
What better way to cheer you up on Monday than with some comedy: we finish our announcements of new TV comedies with OUTMATCHED which starts airing January 23rd as the new sidekick to Tim Allen's Last Man
Outmatched starts January 23rd on Fox
Standing at Fox on Thursday evenings. It is a multi camera sitcom about a blue collar couple in Atlantic City trying to raise four kids - three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses.
It's Dumb Luck They've Got Such Smart Kids For most parents, parenting is hard. But for Kay (Maggie Lawson), a
caustic, take-no-prisoners casino pit boss, and husband Mike (Jason
Biggs), a handyman and uncultivated guy's guy, parenting may as well be
advanced calculus. Dealing with the demands and egos of three high-IQ
children would be tricky for any parent,
The sitcom will join Last Man Standing on Thursday Evenings
but it's especially hazardous
for two working stiffs who barely got through high school. Mike and Kay
are committed to bringing some normalcy to their kids' hectic,
unconventional childhoods, but these geniuses don't make it easy.
Leading the charge is Brian (Connor Kalopsis), a condescending and pretentious 16-year-old math whiz, who thinks he already knows more about the world than Mike and Kay ever will, even though he's never actually been out of New Jersey. His 15-year-old sister, Nicole (Ashley Boettcher), is a
Jason Biggs leads the sitcom as the dad of the family
deceptive and fiercely competitive language prodigy who can manipulate her parents into getting anything she wants. The youngest and most recently anointed child prodigy is Marc (Jack Stanton), a 10-year-old music savant. Introverted and idiosyncratic, he just wants everyone to leave him alone, so he can become the next Beethoven in peace. The only child not driving their
Maggie Lawson leads the sitcom as the mother of the family
parents crazy is eight-year-old Leila (Oakley Bull), who is decidedly not a genius. In fact, she might be kind of dumb. She's the only kid Mike and Kay even remotely understand. Additionally, the couple's childhood friends, Rita (Tisha Campbell) and Irwin (Finesse Mitchell), provide a sounding board for their daily parenting struggles.
Outmatched Takes An Honest
and heightened look at every parent's
worst fear - that they're "ruining" their kids. When you have children
with the type of gifts that can change the world,
Mike and Kay usually find a refuge from their progeny by fleeing to basement
the pressure is really
on. Raise them right, and these kids could cure cancer, stop global
warming or invent time travel. But screw it up, and you could unleash
three new super villains into the universe - good luck!
It was definitely one of the greatest victories in the history of television. Two years ago when ABC decided to kill its best watched comedy LAST MAN STANDING after six years of running (during which the sitcom continuously kept winning Friday night ratings each week and each year, even though it received almost no marketing from the network), for rather obvious political reasons, more than half a million of Last Man's most faithful fans have demanded its return in an online petition, and now the sitcom is returning to the small screens: new network, Fox, same time, Friday evenings, starting September 28th! Although people who never watched it like to unjustly call it conservative, LAST MAN
The beloved cast returns September 28th to the small screens!
STANDING is everything but. The most wholesome family show on the television has always put focus on a dialogue between opposing opinions, ages and classes, ending each of its love filled episodes with a message of tolerance and compromise. Message of peace wrapped in decent, always fresh and mature, humour while tackling the current social, political and all other issues. So here's a big hooray for the return of television's most beloved multi camera comedy!
LAST MAN STANDING
stars Tim Allen as Mike Baxter, a happily married
father of three daughters, who finds himself the odd man out as he tries
to maintain his manliness in a home surrounded by women.
Mike tries to escape all the female energy at
Tim Allen and Nancy Travis as Mike and Vanessa Baxter
home in the warm, manly
embrace of his job at the Outdoor Man store, a sporting goods emporium
where he is marketing director. He also revels in his Outdoor Man vlog,
which he uses as a pulpit for his opinions – and which
Christoph Sanders and Molly McCook are Kyle and Mandy
often have
nothing to do with the store’s merchandise. When he’s supposed to be
selling mountain bikes or kayaks, he somehow ends up spouting off about
the environment, health care, international politics or any other topic
occupying his mind.
OLD AND NEW CHARACTERS
The new season also brings back Nancy Travis as Mike’s wife, Vanessa; Amanda Fuller as their oldest daughter, Kristin and Jordan Masterson as Kristin’s delightfully liberal husband, Ryan. Christoph Sanders will
Jonathan Adams and Hector Elizondo are Chuch and Ed
again appear as Mike’s charmingly naïve co-worker, Kyle, who is now also his son in law after marrying Mike's daughter fashion designer Mandy, now played by a new actress Molly McCook (I'm very excited to see her in the sitcom as the producers decided to replace Mandy with a tall, blond actress,
Jet Jurgensmeyer and Kaitlyn Dever are Boyd and Eve
exactly opposite of the old one)! Jonathan Adams will again be Mike’s frenemy/neighbor, Chuck Larabee, and Hector Elizondo the owner of Outdoor Man, Ed Alzate. The youngest Baxter daughter Eve (Kaitlyn Dever) has gone to pilot academy and will be guest starring throughout the season. It
Amanda Fuller and Jordan Masterson are Kristin and Ryan
will be also lovely seeing the warm radiance of little Jet Jurgensmeyer as their grandson Boyd, now a 12 year boy at the brink of puberty. The kid was really adorable and delightful playing Jack's grandson in Will And Grace last season. Krista Marie Yu will play a young scholar from China who is staying at the Baxters' house while she completes her schooling in the States.
quirky charm, superior intellect, and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Fry himself has actually written the pilot for the series which has been ordered for a twelve episode season. 
quirky charm, superior intellect, and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Fry himself has actually written the pilot for the series which has been ordered for a twelve episode season. 
