COMEDY WEDNESDAY: LILY COLLINS TO LEAD DARREN STAR'S EMILY IN PARIS DRAMEDY! ZACH CREGGER, MICHAEL URIE TO LEAD NBC'S SITCOM FRIENDS IN LAW!

  'EMILY IN PARIS'

LILY COLLINS SET AS LEAD!

Lily Collins is moving to Paris!

Comedy Wednesday today, people! After Sex and the City, Darren Star is preparing new half hour dramedy for the small screens and has just cast Lily Collins (who absolutely amazed us this winter in BBC's Les Miserables with her deeply haunting portrayal of Fantine) as the lead lady in EMILY IN PARIS

Paramount Network's new comedy series will see her playing Emily, a driven twenty something American woman from the Midwest, who moves to Paris for an unexpected job opportunity, tasked with bringing an American point of view to a venerable French marketing firm. Cultures clash as she adjusts to the challenges of life in a foreign city, while juggling her career, new friendships and love life. Paramount's Kevin Costner series Yellowstone was last year's most watched cable series so they're looking to score success with this one as well.

  'FRIENDS IN LAW' SITCOM

Zach Cregger will be Jake in Friends in Law

TO BE TOPLINED BY ZACH
CREGGER AND MICHAEL URIE

Meanwhile, NBC has rounded up the cast for their new multicam sitcom FRIENDS IN LAW and it is rather superfun! Our beloved Wrecked and Guys with Kids star Zach Cregger will lead the cast with always lovely Michael Urie, Vella Lovell and Gil Ozeri. The story centres on Brian (Urie) and Jake (Cregger), polar opposites who must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends Margaret (Lovell) and Randy (Ozeri) decide to get married. Urie’s Brian fears that his best friend Margaret’s potential marriage to Randy will leave him left out. He forms an unlikely partnership with Randy’s best friend, Jake, to disrupt their union. Cregger’s

Michael Urie will be Brian in Friends in Law!

Jake is handsome and a little too arrogant. Jake has been best friends with Randy since kindergarten, and he rejects the unwanted additions of Margaret and Brian in his life.

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.

COMEDY SATURDAY: 'ROSEANNE' REVIVAL TRAILER! NEW SITCOMS 'FRIENDS IN LAW', 'DADDY ISSUES', 'SINGLE PARENTS' SET CAST! 'LAST MAN STANDING' TIM DOYLE'S NEW ABC SITCOM

NEW SITCOM PILOT CASTINGS

John Gemberling will star in Friends in Law

NBC HAS 'FRIENDS IN LAW'

Comedy updates this Saturday: NBC is rounding up the cast for their multicam sitcom FRIENDS IN LAW. It will centre on Brian (Devere Rogers) and Jake who are polar opposites and must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends, Margaret (Nicole Parker) and Randy (John Gemberling), decide to get married.

FOX HAS 'DADDY ISSUES'

Fox has hired Frasier and Hot in Cleveland star Jane Leeves to star in their comedy DADDY ISSUES  opposite Erin Foster and Don Johnson about Andi (Foster), who refuses to settle down, and her friendship with her playboy

Always divine Jane Leeves will be the mother in Daddy Issues

dad, Roman (Johnson). Andi’s world is turned upside down when she discovers her dad’s fallen in love with her best friend. Jane Leeves will be his trendy ex wife and her mother.

Jake Choi will be a fresh single dad in Single Parents

ABC HAS 'SINGLE PARENTS

ABC is developing a pilot for comedy series SINGLE PARENTS written by New Girl creator which revolves around a group of dysfunctional single parents who lean on one another as they raise their kids, look for love and ultimately realize survival is only possible with the help of one another. Kimrie Lewis will play a hippie single mother, while Jake Choi will be a sleep deprived dad whose wife leaves for college and he has to raise their son alone. Taran Killam is a single day with a daughter who forgot how to be a man, Leighton Meester a

Taran Killam will forget how to be a man overly devoted to his daughter

single mom of an overly attached son, while Brad Garrett will be a rich, old school type of parent with traditional views.

NEW 70'S SET SITCOM FROM LAST MAN STANDING CREATOR
If you miss one of the best sitcoms ever Last Man Standing, its creator Tim Doyle is preparing a new one at ABC set in the 1970s and revolving around an

Sam Straley will be the oldest son of the family

Irish family with a working class dad (Walking Dead's Abraham - Michael Cudlitz), traditional mom (Mary McCormack) and eight boisterous sons who navigate changes big and small during one of America’s most turbulent

Gorgeous Caleb Foote will be one of the sons

decades. The sons will be played by Sawyer Barth, Caleb Foote, Christopher Paul Richards, Jack Gore and Sam Straley as the oldest son.

'ROSEANNE' REVIVAL

CHECK OUT THE NEW TRAILER!

Roseanne returns this month to ABC

Meanwhile, you can check out a trailer for ABC's comeback series ROSE- ANNE which returns March 27th with nine episodes and double opening! Starring Roseanne Barr and John Goodman and the entire old cast, it will explore life, death and everything in between through the relateable, hilarious and brutally honest lens of the Conner household. With the inimitable Roseanne at its epicentre, fresh stories

The entire old cast is returning to the popular sitcom

that tackle today’s issues and even more laughs from a cast and crew that haven’t missed a beat, audiences old and new will celebrate the homecoming of America’s favourite working-class family.

CBS & NBC ORDER NEW MULTICAM SITCOM PILOTS 'HISTORY OF THEM', 'I MOM SO HARD', 'LIKE FAMILY', 'SO CLOSE' , 'ABBY'S', 'PANDAS IN NEW YORK', 'FAM' AND 'FRIENDS IN LAW'! 'MURPHY BROWN' TO RETURN WITH NEW EPISODES! 'ALEXA & KATIE' SITCOM 1ST PICS

  2018 MULTICAM SITCOM PILOTS

 CBS ORDERS 5 NEW COMEDIES

It's that part of the year when networks are starting to order pilots for potential new multicamera sitcoms, and here's what got ordered this week: CBS will do HISTORY OF THEM about how two friends, Luna (Ana

Lisa Vidal is mother of the family in History of Them

Villafane) and Adam (Brett Dier), meet and fall in love using their social media as a guide! Felix Solis, Lisa Vidal and Amit Shah also star. They've also ordered a pilot for I MOM SO HARD starring Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, in which two moms illustrate how their friendship gets them through being wives and mothers. CBS has also announced a 13 episode return of MURPHY BROWN with Candice Bergen! Pilot for PANDAS IN NEW YORK follows a family of Indian doctors in New York whotry to arrange their youngest son’s life, unaware he’s made plans of his own. Aaron Kaplan's FAM follows a woman’s younger half-sister who comes to live with her and her fiancé to escape their train wreck of a father.

Felix Solis is father of the family in History of Them

FOUR NEW AT NBC
NBC has ordered pilots for multicam sitcoms LIKE FAMILY from Will & Grace Sean Hayes, about Aubrey and Artie who formed the tightest of sibling like bonds growing up together in foster care, but are discovering that such closeness makes adulthood even more complicated. SO CLOSE, from Will & Grace and Friends Greg Malins, centres on two hopeless romantics who, at crossroads in their separate lives, are close to settling for the wrong partner, unaware that they live only blocks apart and may be each other’s soul mates. ABBY'S, from New Girl and Superstore writers, is set at an unlicensed bar in San Diego where the regulars

Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley from I Mom So Hard!

enthusiastically enforce a unique set of rules that give them a sense of community and allow them to avoid the frustrating behaviour found at other establishments. Coming from Cosby Show and Roseanne producer Tom

Gorgeous Brett Dier takes the male lead in History of Them sitcom

Werner FRIENDS IN LAW follows two men who are polar opposites and must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends decide to get married.

NETFLIX'S 'ALEXA & KATIE' PICS

Netflix has revealed 1st photos from their own new multicam sitcom ALEXA & KATIE which will start airing its 13 episodes from March 23rd! Created by Heather Wordham (Hannah Montana, Reba), it follows best friends Alexa

Tiffani Thiessen plays Alexa's caring mother.

(Paris Berelc) and Katie (Isabel May), who are eagerly anticipating the start of their freshman year of high school. Despite the fact that Alexa is

Heartwarming new sitcom starts March 23rd on Netflix

undergoing cancer treatment, her outgoing personality and enthusiasm for life never falter, especially with her loyal, quirky and awkwardly adorable best friend Katie by her side.Netflix has also renewed their best viewed comedy FULLER HOUSE for season 4!