COMEDY FRIDAY: CAROL BURNETT, CANDICE BERGEN, KATHY BATES, STOCKARD CHANNING TO LEAD THEIR OWN NEW SITCOMS! 'GREAT INDOORS' SITCOM WITH JOEL MCHALE, STEPHEN FRY

CAROL BURNETT 

TO LEAD NEW ABC SITCOM!

This season really did not bring us many multi camera sitcoms, but networks are slowly picking up orders for possible new pilots and one of them, an untitled one, will have a legendary comedian returning to the small screens! As 'Deadline' reports Carol Burnett will star in ABC's pilot for a new sitcom, produced by Amy Poehler, about a family who gets a chance to buy the house of their dreams, a house they’d never be able to afford under normal circumstances, but is able to under extremely abnormal circumstances. They must live with the current owner, an older actress (Burnett) — until she dies.

STOCKARD CHANNING, CANDICE BERGEN, KATHY BATES' SITCOMS

She is not the only legendary female comedian to return to TV soon, NBC is developing a Stockard Channing sitcom pilot ME & MEAN MARGARET (about a fearsome faded film and Broadway legend and the unwitting boy lawyer who has to babysit her), Candice Bergen is to topline sitcom PEARL (as a larger than life family matriarch who finds out she has cancer, and becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating every aspect of her family's life before she dies), while Kathy Bates will lead sitcom DISJOINTED for Netflix as a mom who runs her own marijuana dispensary with the help of her three sons!

'THE GREAT INDOORS' 

OPENS ITS DOORS THURSDAY

But a multi camera sitcom to arrive to us as early as next Thursday is CBS comedy THE GREAT INDOORS which is set to premiere in primetime on October 27th with Joel McHale portraying Jack who has made a name for himself as an adventure reporter for the magazine Outdoor Limits. His days of exploring the world end when the magazine's founder, Roland, announces its move to web-only publishing and assigns Jack to supervise the Millennials who make up its online team.

Stephen Fry will appear as Roland: an outdoorsman in his own right and founder of the magazine! Christopher Mintz Plasse as Clark: a tech nerd who knows everything about surviving on Mars and a zombie apocalypse yet has not been out of the city! Christine Ko as Emma: the social media expert who views Jack as the human version of dial-up! Shaun Brown as Mason: a hipster who has not spent any actual time outside. Susannah Fielding as Brooke: Roland's daughter and Jack's ex-girlfriend and current boss. Chris Williams as Eddie: Jack's best friend, who runs the local bar and helps him understand his co-workers!

SITCOM SUNDAY: KEVIN JAMES' 'KEVIN CAN WAIT' AND JOEL MCHALE & STEPHEN FRY'S 'THE GREAT INDOORS' AT CBS, TIM ALLEN'S 'LAST MAN STANDING' 6 SEASON RETURN!

'KEVIN CAN WAIT'

 AT CBS WITH KEVIN JAMES!

To cheer up your Sunday, the spy is introducing you to the comedy shows we will be watching this new season, because, in case you haven't noticed, September has already crept upon us! Starting Monday, September 19th over at CBS is multi camera sitcom KEVIN CAN WAIT in which Kevin James stars as a newly retired police officer looking forward to spending carefree, quality time with his wife and three kids, only to find he faces tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets!  His dream is jeopardized when he discovers that Donna, his wonderful wife of 20 years, has shielded him from key family info while he worked overtime protecting the community.

'LAST MAN STANDING' 6TH

SEASON WITH TIM ALLEN!
Over at ABC our favourite multi camera sitcom for the sixth year now Tim Allen's LAST MAN STANDING returns to rule its Friday night slot from September 23rd, now well over the total of more than 100 episodes!  Allen's Mike Baxter is facing many changes in the family, from his older daughter who has bought her first house with his son in law, to his middle daughter who is getting married with his assistant, to his youngest daughter who will move out to pursue a music career. His wife (Nancy Travis) is, meanwhile, facing a teacher strike in Denver, while Jay Leno will guest star in the new season as well as the mechanic in Mike's company Outdoor Man. And you can, of course, expect Mike's political comments on presidential elections and everything that is bothering a simple man in a politically correct world!

'THE GREAT INDOORS'

STEPHEN FRY & JOEL MCHALE

Another new multicamera sitcom to start over at CBS this season, October 27th, is THE GREAT INDOORS! Joel McHale stars in this insightful and timely comedy about a renowned adventure reporter who has spent his life exploring the edges of the earth. Now that he’s taken a desk job in the digital department of the magazine, he must adapt to the times and his new world. He’s struggling to grasp the lingo of online click-bait and listicles, but his real challenge is in understanding his staff of millenials who write about the great outdoors but never actually set foot outside. Acting legend Stephen Fry will play Roland: an outdoorsman in his own right and founder of the magazine! 

FIRST TRAILERS FOR FRESHLY ORDERED NEW SITCOMS AT CBS 'THE GREAT INDOORS' WITH JOEL MCHALE, STEPHEN FRY, 'KEVIN CAN WAIT' WITH KEVIN JAMES!

'THE GREAT INDOORS' TRAILER

FOR NEW SITCOM WITH JOEL MCHALE AND STEPHEN FRY

Trailers for new CBS sitcoms are in, and you can first check out the one for THE GREAT INDOORS! The multi camera comedy series will revolve around an adventure reporter (Joel McHale) who must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine. British legend Stephen Fry is starring too!

'KEVIN CAN WAIT' TRAILER

KEVIN JAMES NEW SITCOM

And continuing our look into freshly ordered new shows, check out the first trailer for new CBS multi camera sitcom KEVIN CAN WAIT starring Kevin James as a newly retired police officer looking forward to spending carefree, quality time with his wife and three kids, only to discover he faces tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets.

STEPHEN FRY JOINS 'GREAT INDOORS' SITCOM, TYLER RITTER 'YOUNG & HUNGRY'! BBC ORDERS 'QUACKS' VICTORIAN MEDICAL COMEDY WITH RUPERT EVERETT! MEDALION RAHIMI JOINS 'STILL STAR CROSSED', SOFIA PERNAS 'TRANSYLVANIA' EPIC SHOWS

'YOUNG AND HUNGRY' 

TYLER RITTER JOINS THE CAST

TV news today, starting with infos from the TV comedy world: FreeForm's YOUNG & HUNGRY sitcom, which has just been renewed for the 5th season will have THE MCCARTHYS star Tyler Ritter guest starring as Adam, a handsome and funny man who is nursing a broken heart after being left at the altar. He and Gabi (Emily Osment) bond over their similar relationship problems and the fact that they are both budding entrepreneurs.

STEPHEN FRY IN 'GREAT INDOORS'

Meanwhile, British legend Stephen Fry will star in NBC's new sitcom THE GREAT INDOORS in which  Joel McHale plays an adventure reporter who must adapt to the times when he becomes boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of their magazine. Fry will be the charismatic founder of  THE GREAT INDOORS magazine, and a world traveller, explorer and adventure! 

BBC ORDERS 'QUACKS' 

VICTORIAN COMEDY SERIES
Over in UK, BBC has ordered 6 half hour episode period series set in the 1840s titled QUACKS about four young pioneers in the daring and wild days of Victorian medicine!  The comedy takes place at a time when doctors were just as likely to kill their patients as cure them, when they experimented on themselves and each other. It was an era when the O.R. — or operating theatre in British parlance — was full of spectacle and showmanship (and screw-ups). Rory Kinnear will play one of those showmen, an arrogant surgeon; Mathew Baynton is a fledgling psychiatrist; Tom Basden a hedonistic dentist turned anaesthetist and Lydia Leonard a headstrong social campaigner. Rupert Everett will guest star.

'STILL STAR CROSSED' 

 CASTS PRINCESS ISABELLA

ABC has cast Medalion Rahimi to play intelligent, outspoken and practical princess Isabella in their upcoming new STILL STAR CROSSED 16th century Verona set series that picks up where William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet left off charting the treachery, palace intrigue and ill-fated romances of the Montagues and Capulets in the wake of the young lovers’ tragic fate. She joins Torrance Coombs in the cast.

SOFIA PERNAS IN 'TRANSYLVANIA'

Over at CW, Sofia Pernas has joined their historical adventure series TRANSYLVANIA replacing Amrita Acharia as Coriander, an exotic gypsy queen of the matriarchal clan that runs the fleshpots of the Old City, the haunted spot where Vlad the Impaler once killed thousands of their tribe. Set in 1880 TRANSYLVANIA centres on Victoria (Laura Brent), a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from NYC to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective (Luke Allen-Gale), and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.

TV NEWS: 1ST 'FRONTIER' EPIC SERIES PHOTO WITH JASON MOMOA! CANDICE BERGEN RETURNS IN 'PEARL' SITCOM, JOEL MCHALE TO LEAD 'GREAT INDOORS' SITCOM. MARK PAUL GOSSELAAR IN BASEBALL 'PITCH' SHOW, FREDDIE STROMA LEADS 'TIME AFTER TIME' SF SERIES

MARK PAUL GOSSELAAR

TO LEAD 'PITCH' BASEBALL DRAMA

Bunch of short TV news today, people and not much else! Starting with Mark Paul Gosselaar who after finishing job in charmingly adorable but undeservedly short lived TRUTH BE TOLD sitcom at NBC will star in FOX new drama PITCH about an outstanding female baseball player (Kylie Bunbury) who makes it all the way to the major leagues. She'll have to share the field with legendary catcher Mike Lawson (Gosselaar), whose initial scepticism gives way to a romantic spark.

TELEVISION UPDATES

FREDDIE STROMA TO LEAD 'TIME AFTER TIME' SF SERIES
ABC has cast young GAME OF THRONES star Freddie Stroma to lead their new adventure series pilot TIME AFTER TIME which will chronicle the epic adventures of young H.G. Wells and his Time Machine. The time travelling series is based on Karl Alexander book.
CANDICE BERGEN IS 'PEARL'
In sitcom news, yet another 80's TV star to return to the small screens, Candice Bergen, is to topline ABC comedy pilot PEARL! She will play a larger than life family matriarch who, after she finds out she has cancer, becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating every aspect of her family’s life before she dies
JOEL MCHALE TO LEAD 'GREAT INDOORS'
Over at CBS, they've cast Joel McHale to lead THE GREAT INDOORS sitcom as a magazine editor for 'The Great Outdoors' who, after an injury, has to leave mountain climbing for a desk job where he is in charge of a group of millenniums at the magazine's social media department, leading a much younger staff without driving himself nuts.

FIRST JASON MOMOA PHOTO

FROM 'FRONTIER' EPIC TV SERIES

You can also check out the first photo from Netflix and Discovery historical mini series FRONTIER lead by Jason Momoa. The story of the six episode epic drama follows the chaotic quest to command North America’s 18th century fur trade, where business fast turns violent. The series is shooting in Canada.

NETFLIX ORDERS 'GILMORE GIRLS' FINAL SEASON, CW EPIC 'TRANSYLVANIA' AND MARS SET SERIES. CBS ORDERS 'THE GREAT INDOORS' SITCOM, SKY ONE 'LAST DRAGONSLAYER' EPIC TV MOVIE

'GILMORE GIRLS' GET

FAREWELL SEASON AT NETFLIX

An avalanche of TV news today, lead by the main info that Netflix will officially do a final season of GILMORE GIRLS in the form of four 90 minute TV movies (each set in a different season of the year) with almost all of the original cast returning (lead by Lauren Graham, Scott Patterson and Alexis Bledel)!

NEW CW PILOTS

EPIC 'TRAN SYLVANIA'

CW has ordered two high concept TV series pilots. The first one is one I mentioned before TRANSYLVANIA. Set in the 1880, it centres on a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from NYC to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective, and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history. 
SF MARS SERIES
They have also ordered an untitled MARS sf series pilot written by REIGN's Doris Egan, following a team of explorers who arrive on Mars to join the first human colony on the planet, only to discover that their predecessors have vanished. Led by a woman whose husband is among the missing, the colonists are forced to change their mission from exploration and settlement to investigation and survival, while navigating the hostile planet and their own personal demons!

CBS ORDERS 'THE GREAT INDOORS' TV COMEDY PILOT

CBS has meanwhile ordered a pilot for new multi camera sitcom THE GREAT INDOORS about an adventure reporter who must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine

SKY 1 ORDERS 'THE LAST DRAGON SLAYER' EPIC TV MOVIE

Meanwhile, across the sea, British Sky 1 will turn Jasper Fforde's epic fantasy novel THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER into a TV movie set in a world where magic exists in a weakened form, and has been replaced with modern technology - for instance magic carpets are used to deliver pizzas. Better than drones. The story focuses on 15-year-old Jennifer Strange, who runs an employment agency for magicians and finds out that the last dragon is being hunted.