I am a bit late with this one, but whenever he arrives I'm sure SANTA CLAUS brings joy: earlier this weekend Disney Plus has released first poster and
Santa Claus is back November 16th
trailer for new holiday TV series, a follow up to the classic film with Tim Allen, with Elizabeth Mitchell as Carol Calvin/Mrs. Claus, and David Krumholtz back as Bernard the Elf, the head elf of Santa’s workshop in the original films.
IN THIS MINI SERIES Scott Calvin (Allen) is ready to step down from his
Santa duties and provide his family a new life south of the North Pole.
With his 65th birthday on the horizon, Scott — whose Santa magic is
beginning to fade — searches for a replacement Santa Claus suitable
enough to manage the workshop and take care of the elves. After
announcing his plans to retire in the teaser, Santa interviews NFL hall
of fame quarterback Peyton Manning for the position. The two episode
premiere will be on November 16th! The team behind Last Man Standing is
also behind this one.
Our dearest boy James Norton, whom you are currently watching in The Nevers series, will be joined by Gemma Arterton and Shazad Latif in FREEGARD thriller movie, which he is also producing under the helm of
James Norton will be joined by Gemma Arterton in Freegard
Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson! The movie is based on the true story of British conman Robert Hendy Freegard, who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people into going underground for fear of assassination by the IRA.
NEW COMEDY TV SERIES
UNCOUPLED & NIGHT COURT & SMALLWOOD GET SERIES ORDERS
With Mom, Bob Hearts Abishola and Last Man Standing ending next week (Mom and LMS for good), the comedy landscape on the telly will be sad till
Melissa Rauch will lead new Night Court sitcom
next season, but some new series have been ordered already. UNCOUPLED is among them, over at Netflix. Coming from Darren Star, the 8 part sitcom will follow Michael, who thought his life was perfect until his husband blindsided him by walking out the door after 17 years. Overnight, Michael has to confront two nightmares - losing what he thought was his soulmate and suddenly finding himself a single gay man in his mid-40s in New York City. NBC has ordered a sequel to classic multicam sitcom NIGHT COURT which will now follow the unapologetic optimist judge Abby Stone (Melissa Rauch), daughter of the late Harry Stone, who follows in her father’s footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to its crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette reprises his role from the original 80's series). Stay tuned for more sitcom news as most
Pete Holmes will lead Smallwood sitcom at CBS
networks will have their upfronts (the time when they announce projects for next season) next week! CBS has ordered SMALLWOOD multicam with Pete Holmes as a guy who gets laid off from the assembly line of the GM factory and decides to follow his dream of becoming a professional bowler.
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.
Just some comedy for you this prefestive Monday! If you miss always wonderful Tone Bell on the small screens after his latest multicam
Tone Bell will also produce the new comedy
sitcom Fam wasn't renewed over at CBS, do not despair because he is returning with a new one! And he is returning to CBS where he will also executive produce the comedy which he will also write based on a real story. In the untitled multi camera sitcom, he will play a carefree thirty something who, after a pregnancy scare, decides he’s ready to settle down and tries to change his life so he can go from Mr. Right Now to Mr. Right. As you might remember, although he was brilliant in them, Tone's other two sitcoms Disjointed with Katy Bates at Netflix and Truth Be Told at NBC were also cancelled after first seasons.
New New Year Sitcoms
Don't
forget that television is about to get funnier with the New Year with
Tim Allen's hourlong Last Man Standing returning from January 2nd followed by new
Jason Biggs sitcom
New Jason Biggs and Maggie Lawson sitcom starts next month
Outmatched from January 23rd and Fran Drescher's new
multi camera sitcom Indebted arriving in February to NBC.
The current TV season is definitely one of the strangest ones, not just because it hasn't had any major hit so far, but also because none of the major comedies or new pilots have started in September being scheduled, almost all
Last Man Standing returns January 2nd next year
of them, for midseason! Tim Allen's LAST MAN STANDING always started in September, as America's best watched multi camera sitcom for seven years in a row, but this year the eight season will start January 2nd. Which isn't all that bad as it will have a continued run with all 22 episodes unbroken by holiday breaks. To make things more interesting it will air double episodes on Thursday nights all until January 23rd when it will go to an episode per week joined by Fox' new comedy Outmatchedwith Jason Biggs. And to make things even more interesting, Thursday nights will become a night of comedy gold as Tim's sitcom will be joined on Thursdays by Fran Drescher's Indebted (from February) at NBC followed by the final season of Will and Grace! Comedy heaven indeed! In LAST MAN STANDINGTim Allen plays America's favourite conservative family man Mike Baxter who pokes fun with modern
The sitcom has been the best viewed one in America for eight years now
times, politics and his family members and friends in a warm and friendly way. As you can see from the first teaser Mike's and Vanessa's (Nancy Travis) youngest daughter Eve (Kaitlyn Dever) will be present in the eight season as well, with Susan Sullivan (as Vanessa’s mom Bonnie), Tisha Campbell (as Chuck’s wife Carol), Bill Engvall (as Reverend Paul) and Jay Leno (as Outdoor Man mechanic Joe) returning as well. The sitcom now has well over 150 episodes!
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'FULLER HOUSE' FINAL SEASON
TO END WITH THREE WEDDINGS?
Meanwhile, Netflix has set December 6th as the starting date for their sitcom FULLER HOUSE's 18 episode final ever run! Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber return as the lead female trio with the story now focused on Stephanie's new baby, DJ's kids all growing up
The final season starts December 6th on Netflix
and her getting engaged to Steve (Scott Weinger) which might mean the series could end with their wedding. And that won't be the only one as Stephanie is set to marry Jimmy (Adam Hagenbuch) who proposed to her in the final episode of the previous season. It is also quite possible that
The season will be split into two eight episode parts
Kimberley will marry Fernando (Juan Pablo Di Pace) again too! Episode 11 is titled Three Weddings and a Musical so that gives us a major hint. Beth Crosby, Julian Gooberman and Leda Hoepfner will be the new cast members in the final season. Michael Campion (Jackson), Elias Harger (Max), Soni Nicole Bringas (Ramona) all return as the kids in the house.
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.
Comedy Sunday this weekend! NBC has revealed some of the celebrities who will guest star in the second returning season of their WILL AND GRACE
Will and Grace returns this October
sitcom which is back on the small screens from October 4th with 18 new episodes! Matt Bomer will guest star as McCoy Whitman, a smooth talking, self satisfied TV news anchor who dates Will (EricMcCor- mack), while Minnie Driver is back as Lorraine Finster, Karen's (Megan Mullally) nemesis and stepdaughter. Olympic scater Adam Rippon is also appearing in one of the new episodes, while Friends star David Schwimmer will have a multiple episode arc as Grace's (Debra Messing) new love interest. Alec Baldwin will be back as Karen's multi millionaire lover.
'LAST MAN STANDING'
CASTS KRISTA MARIE YU
Krista Marie Yu will play the Chinese exchange student
Over at Fox, where one of our dearest ever multicam sitcoms has moved
this season, they also have new cast members. Tim Allen's LAST MAN
STANDING will see Mike Baxter left in the house alone with his wife
Vanessa (Nancy Travis), since his two older daughters are now both
married and youngest Eve is at academy. This will inspire Vanessa to
take a young scholar from China under her wing letting her stay with
them while she completes her schooling in the States. Krista Marie Yu
will play Jen who Vanessa feels particularly tied to because she’s
interested in geology and Vanessa’s always wanted to encourage
The Baxters are back September 28th, this time on Fox!
young
women to go into the sciences. Since she comes from a different
political system this will open some new fun discussions and conflicts
with Mike. Seventh season is back September 28th!
'THE SANCHEZ WAY'
NEW SITCOM FROM KELLY RIPA AND MARK CONSUELOS
ABC is developing new half hour comedy produced by Kelly Ripa and her husband MarkConsuelos. THE SANCHEZ WAY will follow a loud, proud, Mexican American family that lives by a very strict working class code.
No word whether Kelly and Mark will also star in the new sitcom!
Show centres on Pedro Sanchez, the patriarch of the family, whose code is threatened when his “fresa” brother-in-law (a Mexican yuppie) moves to town and wants to be part of the family. No word whether Kelly and Mark will star in the sitcom.
TV news all day today, people! Wonder Woman's Gal Gadot is negotiating to lead Showtime's new series about famous Hollywood actress and super intelligent inventor HEDY LAMARR! Beside being the star of Hollywood's greatest hits in the 40's, for example Samson and Dalilah, she was also an inventor whose inventions led to WiFi and GPS. As 'Deadline' reports, Austrian born Lamarr started her career in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s before leaving her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and moving to Paris and London where she got signed by Metro Goldwyn Meyer. When it comes to her scientific works, at the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency.
PATRICK WILSON TO LEAD
STEPHEN KING'S 'IN THE TALL GRASS' FILM AT NETFLIX!
Patrick Wilson will be the father!
In other TV news today, it seems that Netflix' movie adaptation of Stephen King's IN THE TALL GRASS won't be toplined by James Marsden, but by another of our beloved actors Patrick Wilson together with Laysla De Oliveira and Harrison Gilbertson.
It follows brother and sister Cal and Becky Demuth! When Becky finds
out she's pregnant during her second year at college, their parents
decide to send her to live with her aunt and uncle until the baby is
born, and Cal comes along with her during the spring break. After
visiting a number of tourist destinations along the way they come across
a vast field, where they hear a boy named Tobin crying out for help.
The twins decide to venture into the field to help young Tobin, but soon
realize that they may never get to leave and that something evil lurks
within the tall grass!
'LAST MAN STANDING'
CASTS NEW MANDY AND BOYD!
A week ago when I gave you new poster for the seventh, returning, season of TV's most popular family sitcom LAST MAN STANDING, which returns,
Molly McCook is the new improved Mandy Baxter
this time on Fox, last Friday in September, I also told you that, although most of the cast is back, including Tim Allen and Nancy Travis, as Mike and Vanessa Baxter, two actors will be replaced and now we have the names of their replacements! Molly McCook (Good Trouble) will play their middle daughter Mandy replacing Molly Ephraim who signed other contracts while the sitcom was on hiatus, and Jet Jurgensmeyer (he played Jack's grandson in Will & Grace) will play their grandson Boyd as they're jumping a bit in time and showing him as a 12 year boy at the brink of puberty. Hector Elizondo, Jonathan Adams,
Little Jet Jurgensmeyer who was amazing in Will And Grace is new Boyd
Amanda Fuller, Christoph Sanders and Jordan Masterson all return to the beloved sitcom about Allen's Mike, a married father of three girls who tries to maintain his manliness in the house dominated by women.
Continuing our presentation of new multicam sitcoms coming to the small screens this Autumn, today you can check out new photos and trailer for the return of MURPHY BROWN which comes back to CBS September 27th with new episodes decades after the original series was ended!
MURPHY HAS A SON! The revival of the ground-breaking comedy about the eponymous
broadcast news legend and her biting take on current events, now in a
world of 24-hour cable, social media, and a vastly different
political climate will see Candice
Jake McDorman will play Candice Bergen's son in the new episodes
Bergen taking the lead which made
her famous.
Amid a divided nation and chaotic national discourse Murphy decides to
return to the airwaves and recruits her FYI team: lifestyle reporter
Corky Sherwood (Faith Ford), investigative journalist Frank Fontana (Joe
Regalbuto), and her former
Faith Ford and Grant Shaud also return to the news business
wunderkind news producer Miles Silverberg
(Grant Shaud).
Joining them is social media director Pat Patel, who is tasked with
bringing Murphy and the team into the 21st century. Murphy's millennial
son, Avery (Jake McDorman), shares his mother's competitive spirit and
quick wit, and is
Joe Regalbuto returns, the series will have a bar owner too in the cast
following in her journalistic footsteps — perhaps too
closely.
The team still lets off steam at Phil's Bar, now run by his sister,
Phyllis. Now back in the game, Murphy is determined to draw the line
between good television and honest reporting, proving that the world
needs Murphy Brown now more than ever.
'LAST MAN STANDING' TRAILER
I THINK I'VE SEEN A FOX!
Another beloved classic that returns victorious to TV after a year and a half long political exile from ABC, LAST MAN STANDING has a rather
Mike Baxter returns September 28th! On Fox!
delightful teaser announcing its move to Fox where it will start airing its brand new seventh season September 28th, Friday! Tim Allen returns as Mike Baxter, a sole man in the house with a wife and three daughters. Beside Allen and Nancy Travis as his wife, most of the old cast returns from Amanda Fuller, Christoph Sanders, Jordan Masterson, Jonathan Adams, to Hector Elizondo. There are news that Molly Ephraim and Flynn Morrison, who played Mandy and Boyd, will not be returning. But I also heard
that Eve, who has gone to air force academy, will be back but only as occasional guest star. Mandy will be
LMS ruled Friday evenings for six years and it returns to Friday evenings
recast. Which means that Mike has married off two of his daughters and sent the youngest to college, so he can now enjoy his wife alone in the house in their empty nest :) The Baxters will be joined, though, by a foreign exchange student from China!
CBS ORDERS 'FAM' MULTICAM WITH NINA DOBREV, TONE BELL!
Last week was a black one for many shows as tons of them got cancelled, but this is also the time of the year when networks are ordering pilots into series.
Nina Dobrev and Tone Bell will be a couple in Fam!
CBS has cancelled Kevin Can Wait, Living Biblically, 9JKL and, sadly, our favourite Superior Donuts, as they're planning to fill Monday night with new comedies. They've ordered FAM multicam sitcom into series with Nina Dobrev as a young woman whose dreams of an upstanding life with her new fiancé are dashed when her younger train wreck half-sister comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father. Tone Bell, Odessa Adlon, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheryl Lee Ralph also star. It will air in midseason!
CBS ALSO ORDERS JOSH LAWSON AND DAMON WAYANS MULTICAMS
Beside Murphy Brown revival, CBS will also have Cedric the Entertainer's new multicam WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD about the nicest guy in the Midwest (Josh Lawson) who moves his family into a tough neighbourhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his
Cedric will not welcome Josh Lawson to his neighbourhood nicely!
extreme neighbourliness. That includes their new next-door neighbor Calvin (Cedric). Sheaun McKinney, Tichina Arnold, Dreama Walker, Marcel Spears and Hank Greenspan also star. CBS will also have the untitled Damon Wayans Jr. comedy which revolves around Peter (Wayans)
Damon Wayans Jr and Felix Mallard will lead new sitcom at CBS
and Claire (Amber Stevens West), a couple who are tired of their mundane life and start to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when an emerging pop star (Felix Mallard), who is drawn to their super-normal suburban life, moves in. Stephanie Weir and Chris Parnell also star. The two sitcoms will air from Autumn on Monday nights! UPDATE The news is just in from CBS that they have replaced Josh Lawson with Max Greenfield in the sitcom! They have also revealed that Damon's sitcom will be titled HAPPY TOGETHER!
NBC SETS BAR AT 'S 'ABBY'S' NBC has picked up a multicam reminiscent of Cheers. ABBY'S is set at
the best bar in San Diego, home to good prices, great company and, of
course, Abby (Natalie Morales). This unlicensed, makeshift bar nestled
in her
Natalie Morales will lead new NBC sitcom Abby's
backyard is the opposite of everything annoying about today’s
party scene. There are no cell phones (not even to “look something up”),
earning a seat at the bar takes time and losing a challenge means
drinking a limey, sugary “not-beer” drink. As the oddball cast of
regulars will tell you, hanging out at Abby’s is a coveted honour. But
once you’re in, you’re family. Neil Flynn, Nelson Franklin, Jessica
Chaffin, Leonard Ouzts and Kimia Behpoornia star.
FOX REVIVES LAST MAN STANDING AND PAIRS IT UP WITH COOL KIDS
Over at Fox the greatest news is that they are reviving Tim Allen's much adored LAST MAN STANDING which was shamelessly killed at ABC. With all the cast (Nancy Travis, Jonathan Adams, Amanda Fuller,
Revival is a glorious victory for Tim Allen and a kick in the face to ABC
Christoph Sanders and Jordan Masterson) returning it will be Fox's leading programme next season if it brings its massive ratings from ABC where it was their second most watched comedy. It will be joined at Fox by
The Cool Kids will join Last Man Standing at Fox
THE COOL KIDS! Starring Vicki Lawrence, Martin Mull, David Alan Grier and
Leslie Jordan, it follows three guy friends in a retirement community who are the top dogs until they’re blown out of the water by the newest member of the community, a female rebel whose ready to challenge their place – it’s high school with 70 somethings. Stay tuned as I will be updating the post with new info as it arrives! The two comedies will air on Fridays from Autumn.
to retire in the teaser, Santa interviews NFL hall
of fame quarterback Peyton Manning for the position. The two episode
premiere will be on November 16th! The team behind Last Man Standing is
also behind this one.
to retire in the teaser, Santa interviews NFL hall
of fame quarterback Peyton Manning for the position. The two episode
premiere will be on November 16th! The team behind Last Man Standing is
also behind this one.
