AMAZON SITCOM 'DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS' TRAILER WITH ERINN HAYES! 'LIVING BIBLICALLY' CBS SITCOM! DAVID FYNN, FREDDIE PRINZE JR, SEAN KLEIER, DAMON WAYANS CAST IN NEW SITCOMS 'SO CLOSE', 'I MOM SO HARD'! GEMMA ARTERTON, JAMES PUREFOY IN 'MARILYN MONROE AND BILLIE WILDER'

NEW TV SITCOM PILOTS UPDATES

GEMMA ARTERTON AND JAMES PUREFOY ARE MARILYN & WILDER

The episode will be a half hour comedy

Tons of comedy updates today: Gemma Arterton will play the lead role in one-off TV comedy MARILYN MONROE AND BILLY WILDER which will, as Deadline writes, cover hard drinking Monroe’s inability to land the famous ‘it’s me, sugar’ line in Some Like it Hot, although some suggest it was actually a deliberate ploy by Monroe to get Wilder to rewrite the movie. James Purefoy will play Billy Wilder and this is to be a part of Sky Art's Urban Myths comedy series which will also include When Bowie Met Bolan  with Jack Whitehall as Bolan and Luke Treadaway as Bowie, The Dali and The Cooper with David Suchet!

DAMON WAYANS JR AT CBS

Damon Wayan's new sitcom is still untitled!

While we're waiting for the 2nd season of Marlon with his older brother, Damon Wayans Jr will topline an untitled multicam sitcom at CBS about Peter and Claire, a thirty something couple who are tired of their mundane life and start to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when an emerging pop star, who is his client and is drawn to their super-normal suburban life, comes to live with them. The pop star will be played by young

Felix Mallard will play the cheerful and naive pop star.

Australian actor Felix Mallard! His pop star is a very positive guy who sees the good in everyone and everything, as well as being effortlessly cool and youthfully naïve.

SEAN KLEIER IN 'SO CLOSE'

Over at NBC Sean Kleier and Sasheer Zamata will lead SO CLOSE multicam sitcom from Will & Grace's Greg Malins about hopeless romantics Riley and Kyle. At crossroads in their separate lives, they are close to settling

Sean Kleier and Sabrina Carpenter will be roommates in So Close

for the wrong partner, unaware that they live only blocks apart and may be each other’s soul mates. Girl Meets World's Sabrina Carpenter will play Kyle's  crazy roommate, while Punam Patel will also star.

Faith Ford returns as Corky Sherwood

MURPHY BROWN CAST RETURNS 
CBS has, meanwhile, managed to get all of the stars of the original MURPHY BROWN to come back in the 13 episode return of the classic sitcom! Joining Candice Bergen, who will again play the famous journalist and news anchor Murphy Brown, are lovely Faith Ford as  perky anchor Corky Sherwood, Joe Regalbuto as investigative reporter Frank Fontana and Grant Shaud as their executive producer Miles Silverberg! Deadline reports that Charles Kimbrough, who played anchorman Jim Dial, will guest star as he is now over 80.

'I MOM SO HARD' GETS DADS!

I've already reported that Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley will lead CBS’ multicam comedy pilot I MOM SO HARD and now they got Undateable's David Fynn and Freddie Prinze Jr as their male leads. The story follows

David Fynn and Freddie Prinze Jr are the dads in I Mom So Hard

two moms who show how their friendship gets them through being wives and mothers! Fynn will be Kristin's affable  school teacher husband and Prinze Jr Jen's athlete husband with a dry sense of humour.

'LIVING BIBLICALLY' SITCOM

STARTS TOMORROW AT CBS!
I also want to remind you to tune in tomorrow night at CBS where they're launching new sitcom LIVING BIBLICALLY about a modern day man (Jay R. Ferguson) at a crossroads in his life who decides to live strictly in accordance with the Bible!

'DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS'

NEW SITCOM AT AMAZON!

Enchanting new sitcom starts next month!

After she was kicked out of Kevin Can Wait in such a vile way, lovely Erinn Hayes is returning to comedy in  THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYSwhich starts at Amazon March 30th! It follows the McKenna family as they cope with the untimely passing of Patrick (Chris Diamantopoulos), their patriarch and a whimsical inventor who touched the lives of everyone who knew him. His death has left the family reeling, but hope appears in the form of a book called THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS that Patrick created as a handbook to help his three sons. The book is a how-to guide for childhood that inspires fantasies for his youngest son, Wyatt (Gabriel Bateman). While in his fantasy world, Wyatt reconnects

Erinn Hayes returns to sitcom world as the mom of the family

with his father and learns life skills that help him navigate the real world. Swoosie Kurtz plays the grandmother, with Diamantopoulos also in the role of Patrick’s twin brother.

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!