After playing his loving wife in Last Man Standing, Nancy Travis will join Tim Allen in his new sitcom SHIFTING GEARS as well. The sitcom which became ABC's most watched premiere of all times with over 17 million viewers two weeks ago, will see Nancy guest star as a spirited widow named Charlotte, who connects with Allen’s character, Matt. This will basically be the first time for us to see Tim have a love interest in any of his sitcoms, since he always had a wife in them but in the new one his wife died from heart attack and he lives alone before his estranged daughter moves in back into the house with her kids. Shifting Gears airs Wednesdays on ABC and streams on Hulu.
ABC has issued an extended trailer for January 8th new Tim Allen's multicamera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS which reveals more about why his daughter moves in with his character with her kids and it looks
The series starts January 8th and will stream on Hulu too
like there will be quality heartfelt drama too beside the laughs. To air Wednesday nights, it will see Allen
starring as Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car
restoration shop Parker Customs. When Matt’s estranged daughter, Riley (Kat Dennings), and her teenage
kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.
WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?
Seann William Scott will play Gabriel, a family friend of Matt and Riley who works in the shop with Matt. Daryl “Chill” Mitchell stars as Stitch, a former Marine” and “a mechanic at the shop, Maxwell Simkins as Carter and Barrett Margolis as Georgia, Riley's kids. Also announced as guest stars are Brenda Song, as Caitlyn, a former high school classmate of Riley’s who is now the assistant principal of the school, and Jenna Elfman who has been announced as Eve Drake, a spirited choreographer and owner of the dance studio across from Parker Customs.
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ABC has given a January 8th start date to Tim Allen's new multicamera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS and today you can check out brand new cast photos and trailer. To air Wednesday nights, it will see Allen
starring as Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car
restoration shop Parker Customs. When Matt’s estranged daughter, Riley (Kat Dennings), and her teenage
kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.
WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?
Seann William Scott will play Gabriel, a family friend of Matt and Riley who works in the shop with Matt. Daryl “Chill” Mitchell stars as Stitch, a former Marine” and “a mechanic at the shop, Maxwell Simkins as Carter and Barrett Margolis as Georgia, Riley's kids. Also announced as guest stars are Brenda Song, as Caitlyn, a former high school classmate of Riley’s who is now the assistant principal of the school, and Jenna Elfman who has been announced as Eve Drake, a spirited choreographer and owner of the dance studio across from Parker Customs.
ABC has given a January 8th start date to Tim Allen's new multicamera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS. To air Wednesday nights, it will see Allen
starring as Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car
restoration shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter, Riley (Kat Dennings), and her teenage
kids move into his house, the real restoration begins. Seann William Scott will play Gabriel, a family friend of Matt and Riley who works in the shop with Matt. Daryl “Chill” Mitchell stars as Stitch, Maxwell Simkins as Carter and Barrett Margolis as Georgia. All of this seasons new multicams have got full season orders due to good ratings, Poppas House and Georgie and Mandy's First Wedding will have 18, and Reba's Happy's Place 16 episodes.
ABC has decided to replace the character of Nick, played by Froy Gutierrez, by a completely new character in Tim Allen's upcoming new multicamera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS. Seann William Scott will play Gabriel, a family friend of Matt (Tim Allen) and Riley (Kat Dennings) who works in the shop with Matt. To start shooting next month, it sees Allen starring as Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter, Riley, and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins. Nick, Matt’s son and Riley’s game coder younger brother, will not be part of the series and will be replaced by the character of Gabriel. Daryl “Chill” Mitchell stars as Stitch, Maxwell Simkins as Carter and Barrett Margolis as Georgia.
Tim Allen's new mutlicamera sitcom over at ABC titled SHIFTING GEARS in which he plays the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop whose estranged daughter Riley (Kat Dennings) and her teenage kids move into his house, and the real restoration begins, has added Froy Gutierrez as Nick, Matt’s son and Riley’s younger brother. He’s a game coder but put his life on hold to come home and help his father at the shop. Daryl Mitchell will star as Ed, described as “a former Marine. He’s a mechanic at the shop!
KRISTEN JOHNSTON IN NEW NETFLIX SITCOM
Kristen Johnston is returning to TV sitcoms
Kristen Johnston has joined new Chuck Lorre sitcom at Netflix in which
Leanne Morgan will play Leanne whose life takes an unexpected turn when
her husband of 33 years leaves her for another woman. Starting over when
you’re a grandmother and in menopause isn’t exactly what she had in
mind, but with the help of her family she will navigate this new chapter
with grace, dignity and jello salad. In the 16 episode sitcom Johnston
will play her completely opposite sister Carol who twice divorced with no kids, and if there’s a
choice between going to church and going to a bar, she will always
choose the latter. Despite their differences, Carol is fiercely loyal to
her sister and is her ride or die.
Well it did not take long for Tim Allen to find himself a daughter for his new ABC multicam sitcom SHIFTING GEARS in which he will play Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter Riley (Kat Dennings) and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.
Riley butted heads with her father growing up and left to marry the boyfriend he hated. Now divorced, Riley’s forced to move back home with two kids, hoping she and her dad can make it work this time.
After the massive successes with Home Improvement and Last Man Standing, Tim Allen and producers Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Scully are returning to ABC who has just ordered a pilot for their new multi camera sitcom SHIFTING GEARS. Allen will play Matt, described as a stubborn widower who owns a classic car shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration will begin though. Meanwhile, CBS has ordered a multicam pilot for Chuck Lorre's Young Sheldon spin off following Georgie (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment) as they raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting and marriage. Rival NBC has ordered SOMETHING WICKED mutlicam sitcom pilot with June Diane Raphael as lead. It is described as a comedy with a Bewitched-type premise and an homage to TV sitcom classics. It examines the condition of modern adult womanhood and how even with witchcraft, balancing everything is impossible.
We are all festive today, starting with a poster and trailer for holiday comedy movie SPIRITED with Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell which arrives to Apple TV Plus on November 18th! Written and directed by Sean Anders and John Morris, it is a musical version of the classic Christmas story by Charles Dickens.
A miserly man who treats everyone around him with terrible selfishness
finds himself on a fantastical adventure into the three phases of time:
past, present, and future, in order to discover how he ended up so
miserable and alone. Aimee Carrero, Octavia Spencer, also star in the third collaboration of Will Ferrell and Sean Anders & John Morris, after the two Daddy's Home movies.
SANTA CLAUSES TRAILER
FOR TIM ALLEN TV SERIES
The Santa Clauses start this November
Disney Plus has released a new trailer for holiday TV series THE SANTA CLAUSES, a follow up to the classic film with Tim Allen, with Elizabeth Mitchell asCarol Calvin/Mrs. Claus, and David Krumholtz back as Bernard the Elf, the head elf of Santa’s workshop in the original films.
THE STORY
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 on Disney Plus! The team behind Tim's beloved sitcom Last Man Standing is
also behind this one. Check out the trailer below:
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.
Coming this March to Netflix is new polar adventure thriller AGAINST THE ICE starring Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Charles Dance, Ed Speleers and Joe Cole. In 1909, Denmark's Alabama Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen was attempting to disprove the United States' claim to North Eastern Greenland, a claim that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving their crew behind with the ship, Mikkelsen sleds across the ice with his inexperienced crew member, Iver Iversen. The two men succeed in finding the proof that Greenland is one island, but returning to the ship takes
Against the Ice is Netflix' first original from Iceland
longer and is much harder than expected. Battling extreme hunger, fatigue and a polar bear attack, they finally arrive to find their ship crushed in the ice and the camp abandoned.
SANTA CLAUS MINI SERIES
WITH TIM ALLEN AT DISNEY +
The film series had three movies
Great news coming from Disney + today is that Tim Allen will star in a mini series, a sequel to his famous THE SANTA CLAUS with Last Man Standing's Jack Burditt as the showrunner. Here is the logline: Scott Calvin is on the brink of his 65th birthday and realizing that he can’t be Santa forever. He’s starting to lose a step in his Santa duties, and more importantly, he’s got a family who could benefit from a life in the normal world, especially his two kids who have grown up at the Pole. With a lot of elves, children, and family to please, Scott sets out to find a suitable replacement Santa while preparing his family for a new adventure in a life south of the pole.
MAGPIE MURDERS TRAILER
FOR NEW BRITBOX SERIES
Speaking of trailers, check out the first one for Britbox original series MAGPIE MURDERS which will stream its six episodes February 10th on the British streamer! Based on Anthony Horowitz’s novel it stars Lesley
Magpie Murders will stream on Britbox from February
Manville as Susan Ryeland, editor to best-selling writer Alan Conway (Conleth Hill). But, when the infamous mystery writer hands over his latest manuscript, the last chapter is missing. Before Susan can get her hands on the
The murder mystery within murder mystery will have six episodes
missing chapter, Conway is murdered. Naturally, she sets off on a quest to figure whodunnit. In his last novel he turned everyone he knew into the characters of this murder mystery within the murder mystery.
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
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.
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.
basically be the first time for us to see Tim have a love interest in any of his sitcoms, since he always had a wife in them but in the new one his wife died from heart attack and he lives alone before his estranged daughter moves in back into the house with her kids. Shifting Gears airs Wednesdays on ABC and streams on Hulu. 
basically be the first time for us to see Tim have a love interest in any of his sitcoms, since he always had a wife in them but in the new one his wife died from heart attack and he lives alone before his estranged daughter moves in back into the house with her kids. Shifting Gears airs Wednesdays on ABC and streams on Hulu. 
