2018/19 SITCOMS: FOX REVIVES 'LAST MAN STANDING', ORDERS 'COOL KIDS'! CBS ORDERS NINA DOBREV, TONE BELL'S 'FAM', 'WELCOME TO NEIGHBOURHOOD', DAMON WAYANS JR SITCOM! NBC ORDERS 'ABBY'S'

  FRESHLY ORDERED COMEDIES

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.

WILLIAM MILLER IS THE NEW VILLAIN IN 'THE 100' SF SERIES! DIANE GUERRERO JOINS CBS SITCOM 'SUPERIOR DONUTS' SECOND SEASON!

  'THE 100' SF SERIES

WILLIAM MILLER IS NEW VILLAIN

It is an extremely slow Monday in Hollywood news, so the only thing I have for you today are just some small screen casting news! Earlier this

William will be the new baddie in The 100

year I announced that William Miller has been cast in CW's Searchers epic TV series but since that project fell apart, they've cast the handsome actor in their sf series THE 100 which ended its apocalyptic last season with the arrival of strange new ships to Earth. Miller will be Robert McCreary, a mysterious prisoner aboard the long distance mining mission sent from our time. A former enforcer from a powerful crime syndicate, his ruthless, violent methods make him a formidable antagonist to our heroes.  Jordan Bolger, Ivana Milicevic, Lola Flanery have also joined the cast.

  CBS' 'SUPERIOR DONUTS'

CASTS DIANE GUERRERO 
Our favourite new multi camera sitcom also has a new cast member: returning October 30th at CBS, SUPERIOR DONUTS, in which

Diane starred in Orange is the New Black

Judd Hirsch plays a grumpy donut shop owner who hires a young black man played by Jermaine Fowler, to work for him, will now also have Diane Guerrero guest starring!  Guerrero will play Sofia, a young Uptown gentrifier who parks her food truck, which serves healthy, socially conscious breakfast foods, in front of Arthur’s (Judd Hirsch) old-school donut shop. Although Arthur assumes she’s an entitled millennial, Sofia is actually a hard working, enterprising, self made woman who has poured every penny into her food truck business, which she plans to turn into an empire!

NEW TV COMEDIES: 'SUPERIOR DONUTS' WITH JUDD HIRSCH, KATEY SAGAL, SUPERHERO SITCOM 'POWERLESS' WITH VANESSA HUDGENS, ALAN TUDYK

'POWERLESS' SITCOM

 HEROES NEED NO POWERS

Two comedies are starting their small screen life soon, people! February 2nd will bring POWERLESS to NBC! In a world where humanity must cope with the collateral damage of Super Heroes and Super Villains, Emily Locke (Vanessa Hudgens) begins her first day as Director of Research & Development for Wayne Security, a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises that specializes in products that make defenceless bystanders feel a little safer. Full of confidence and big ideas, Emily quickly learns that her expectations far exceed those of her new boss (Alan Tudyk) and officemates, so it will be up to her to lead the team toward their full potential and the realization that you don’t need superpowers to be a hero.

'SUPERIOR DONUTS' SITCOM

JUDD HIRSCH RETURNS TO TV
The same day, but over at rival CBS, marks the beginning of multi camera sitcom SUPERIOR DONUTS about the owner (Judd Hirsch returning to sitcoms decades after Dear John) of a small donut shop that’s located in a quickly gentrifying Chicago neighbourhood. Arthur is a gruff, to the point Chicagoan who refuses to sell newfangled cronuts and macchiatos or renovate his dated shop that hasn’t changed since it opened in 1969. That all changes when enterprising go-getter Franco (Jermaine Fowler) fast talks his way into Arthur’s life as his new (and only) employee, and convinces him that he can bring the shop – and Arthur – into the 21st century. Arthur’s supportive regulars include loyal patron Randy (Katey Sagal) a cop whose late father was Arthur’s best friend; her overeager rookie partner, James; Tush, a colorful customer who uses the shop counter as a makeshift office, where he keeps tabs on a variety of odd jobs via fax machine; Maya, a privileged grad-school student working on her Ph. D; and Sweatpants, Franco’s long time friend who’s willing to dress as a donut to help drum up more business. Looking to cash in on the urban renewal is Arthur’s over caffeinated neighbour, aspiring real estate capitalist Fawz, who pushes Arthur on a daily basis to sell the building to him. With his business in jeopardy, Arthur grudgingly realizes that he had better embrace the change around him and that Franco could be exactly what he – and the donut shop – need to thrive. After the premiere, the sitcom will move to Monday evenings!