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.
With the news that Mad About You classic sitcom might be renewed as well with the couple now living through their grown up daughter preparing for college (apparently both Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt are up for it), new photos and clips have been released for already ordered and produced return of ROSEANNE which is back March 27th on ABC!
ROSEANNE IS ALREADY BACK! Featuring the complete original cast including Roseanne Barr and John
Goodman, it will explore life, death and everything in between through
the
New season will have nine episodes with an hour long premiere
relatable, hilarious and brutally honest lens of the Conner
household. With the inimitable Roseanne at its epicenter, fresh stories
will tackle today’s issues and bring even more laughs with America’s
favorite working-class family.
NETFLIX'S 'DISJOINTED'
RAISE YOUR JOINTS!
Meanwhile, Netflix has released a hilarious trailer for Season 1B of their DISJOINTED sitcom, with Kathy Bates as the owner of a marijuana dispensary, which returns January 12th! In part 2, Ruth and her team,
which includes three budtenders, her 20 something son and deeply
troubled security guard, are back in business and celebrating this new chapter in their lives after DEA shut them down in the last episode!
'LIVING BIBLICALLY'
STARTS FEBRUARY AT CBS Over at CBS, they've announced the start of their new multicam sitcom LIVING BIBLICALLY for Monday February 26! Jay R. Ferguson plays a modern day man at a crossroads in his life who decides to live strictly in accordance with the Bible. He's the film critic for a New York newspaper and a soon-to-be father who wants to be a better man following the loss of his best friend. As he begins his sincere spiritual journey toward a more moral life with the help of his wife and friends, he wonders if he’ll be able to take a page – or every page – out of the Good Book, and if the effect will be of Biblical proportions.
Comedy day this Wednesday, starting with the news from NBC where they're developing NATURAL HISTORY museum set multicam sitcom from Chris
Chris Hardwick will produce new NBC sitcom
Hardwick about a young woman who returns home to become director of a beloved local natural history museum, only to find it has gone to hell in her absence. She must wrangle her well intentioned but less than reliable staff while battling slashed budgets, rude patrons and collapsing dinosaur skeletons.
ROSEANNE & BALDWIN AT ABC
Over at ABC (beside the first photo from the return of ROSEANNE which
hits small screens next year) they gave a straight to series order to a
multicam sitcom which will probably star Alec Baldwin, about a
dysfunctional family led by a stuck-in-his-ways, opinionated, fading TV
star who moves in with his progressive daughter, her girlfriend and the
child they are raising together. And speaking of returns, Joe Lawrence
who played the brother in famous 90s comedy BLOSSOM has revealed earlier
this week that serious talks are being led on the possible return of
the
First look at the return of Roseanne sitcom at ABC
family comedy which also starred Mayim Bialik. She now stars in The
Big Bang Theory while Lawrence starred in Melissa and Joey sitcom.Blossom's creator is doing The Ranch at Netflix.
Roseanne will return with new episodes to ABC next March!
NBC is to release the first trailer for the comeback of their WILL & GRACE sitcom, which will return to Thursday nights with This Is Us this Autumn with 12 and possibly even more new episodes. Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Eric McCormack and Sean Hayes, are all returning in their original roles. I will replace the US only trailer below as soon as the non geoblocked one appears.
CBS ORDERS '9JKL' SITCOM CBS has ordered new multicamera sitcom 9JKL. Starring
Mark Feuerstein it is inspired by the time he lived in apartment 9K in
the building he grew up in, right between his doting parents’ apartment
9J, and his brother, sister-in-law and their baby’s apartment 9L, and
his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well-meaning
family. Linda Lavin, Elliott Gould, David Walton play his parents and
his brother.
FOX ORDERS 'ORVILLE' SETH MACFARLANE SF COMEDY
Fox has ordered 13 episodes of Seth MacFarlane's sf comedy THE ORVILLE in which the story is set 300 years in the future. It follows the adventures of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar Fleet. Facing cosmic challenges from without and within, this motley crew of space explorers will boldly go where no comedic drama has gone before. MacFarlane stars, writers, creates and executive produces the series which will air on Thursdays this Autumn.
FOX ORDERS 'THE RESIDENT'
STARRING MANISH DAYAL AND MATT CZUCHRY
Fox has also ordered Manish Dayal's medical series THE RESIDENT which follows a tough, brilliant senior resident who guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine. Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp and Bruce Greenwood also star.
LATEST SITCOM CANCELLATIONS! ABC has put Carol Burnett's sitcom HOUSEHOLD NAME to a 'rework' stage
but it did order the return of ROSEANNE after cancelling their six year
long, 2nd best watched, sitcom LAST MANSTANDING! CBS has ordered BY
THE BOOK (aka Living Biblically) multi camera sitcom while cancelling 2
BROKE GIRLS after 6 years and THE ODD COUPLE! CBS has also passed on DISTEFANO and
BROTHERED UP sitcom pilots. FreeForm has cancelled their own 6 year
long sitcom BABY DADDY last weekend to the shock of fans since it was
their best watched comedy ever and will end on its 100th episode.
