NEW 2019 SITCOMS: BRENT MORIN JOINS DENNIS QUAID IN MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER, DAVID WALTON & ELIZABETH ALDERFER IN THE US PROJECT, KATHERINE HEIGL TO LEAD OUR HOUSE, WILL SASSO, CHRISTINA VIDAL IN UNITED WE FALL, STEVEN WEBER IN FRAN DRESCHER'S UNINSURED, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ADS CAST

2019 NEW MULTICAM SITCOMS

BRENT MORIN JOINS QUAID'S MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER

Our dearest Brent Morin returns to TV sitcoms!

In one of our previous reports on new multicam sitcom pilot orders I told you that Netflix has placed an eight episode order for the first Christmas season of MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER comedy in which Dennis Quaid will play Don Quinn, a strong willed patriarch who must balance the demands of his complicated family with the stress of the Christmas season when his youngest daughter comes home for the holidays with a new boyfriend. Now one of our most favourite comedians Brent Morin has joined the cast together with Bridget Mendler. They've already played a couple in one of the best sitcoms ever Undateable, and now he will play her boyfriend, a struggling musician from LA who will have his hands full as he meets his girlfriend’s imposing father and close knit family over a stressful and emotional Christmas break. Ashley Tisdale, Adam Rose and Hayes MacArthur will also star, Tisdale as the other daughter, Rose as her husband and Hayes as the only son in the family.

DAVID WALTON TO LEAD THE US PROJECT AT CBS
CBS has found leads for their new hybrid sitcom THE US PROJECT in which Elizabeth Alderfer and David Walton will star opposite Parker Young, Vanessa and Laura Marano! It will be a comedy told through

Elizabeth Alderfer (Disjointed) and David Walton (9JKL)

interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years, about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family. Alderfer plays a woman who is not sure her current boyfriend is the right one just when she meets Walton's Kevin, a divorced father of two teens who will transform the next decade of her life.

KATHERINE HEIGL IN OUR HOUSE!

In the slate of new multicam sitcoms with biracial couples as leads, the biggest one is OUR HOUSE also over at CBS which has just cast Katherine

This will be Katherine's first sitcom ever!

Heigl as lead opposite Malcolm Barrett. The story follows a devoted dad, Shawn (Barrett), and mom, Bridget (Heigl), who are committed to raising their children with the love and support the mom never got as a kid but discover how difficult that is with her insane parents and siblings back in the picture. Heigl’s Bridget tries her best to be a laid back, progressive parent like her therapist husband, but often finds herself reverting to the old school style of her parents. Now that she’s moved back into her childhood home, surrounded by her parents and crazy siblings, finding a balance between these wildly different parenting styles is going to be more difficult than she imagined.

UNITED WE FALL AT ABC
Rival ABC has tied Will Sasso and Christina Vidal as leads of their new sitcom UNITED WE FALL a profoundly realistic, multicultural comedy that shows how, when two people, Bill (Sasso) and Jo (Vidal) with young children

Will Sasso will be married to Christina Vidal!

and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible. I've already told you that Jane Curtin will play Bill's difficult mother and Jason Michael Snow Bill's brother!

STEVEN WEBER 2BE UNINSURED

Steven Weber will be Fran's husband!

Definitely one of the most exciting news of the season is that Fran Drescher is returning to the small screens in NBC's UNINSURED sitcom which revolves around young parents Dave (Adam Pally) and Rebecca (Abby Elliott), who end up having to take care of Dave’s parents, Elliot and Linda (Drescher) who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizable debt. Now they've cast Steven Weber as Dave's father Elliot! Weber will still play in three other series in which he has regular roles!

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN 
I've also told you that CBS has cast Briga Heelan and Michael Angarano in TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN a hybrid sitcom which centres on Evan (Angarano) who, with the help of his group of friends, sets out to accomplish a

Michael Cassidy and Raymond Ablack have joined new sitcom at CBS

list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life. Raymond Ablack, Michael Cassidy, Taylor Dearden and Ana Villafañe have joined the comedy as his friends. This one will also have a biracial couple as Ablack will play Briga's boyfriend.

SITCOM PILOTS 2019: FRAN DRESCHER JOINS NBC'S UNINSURED, JEAN LUC BILODEAU, KYLE MACLACHLAN JOIN CAROL'S SECOND ACT, JANE CURTIN IN UNITED WE FALL, BRIGA HEELAN, MICHAEL ANGARANO IN TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

2019 NEW MULTICAM SITCOMS

FRAN DRESCHER IN UNINSURED!

Rejoice, spylings, some of our favourite comedians are returning to the small screens! I've informed you recently that Adam Pally and Abby Elliott will

Fran Drescher will play the Uninsured mother

lead the pilot for NBC's new multicam sitcom UNINSURED and now the queen of comedy herself Fran Drescher is joining them as well! The story revolves around young parents Dave (Pally) and Rebecca (Elliott), who end up having to take care of Dave’s parents who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizeable debt. Fran Drescher will play Linda, described as a woman who loves her kids and grandkids as much as she loves reminding people she’s from Brooklyn.This will be our dearest Fran's return to sitcoms after The Nanny, Living with Fran and Happily Divorced.

JEAN LUC BILODEAU CAST IN CAROL'S SECOND ACT AT CBS
Over at CBS, they've cast another of our beloved sitcom stars. Baby Daddy's sweetest heartthrob Jean Luc Bilodeau has joined the pilot of Patricia

Jean Luc Bilodeau will be one of the interns!

Heaton's sitcom CAROL'S SECOND ACT in which she will play Carol Chambers who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor. Bilodeau will play Daniel, the second member of Carol’s quartet of interns. He graduated from Harvard in 2014 and from Harvard Medical School in 2018 and already is published in The New England Journal of Medicine — twice. Kyle MacLachlan has also joined as Dr. Frost, the Senior Attending Physician on the ward (as well as the Department Chair) who thinks he’s funnier than he is. Considerably more empathetic than

Kyle MacLachlan has also joined Carol's Second Act

Dr. Maya (Ito Aghayere), Dr. Frost takes an immediate shine to Carol. Bonnie Dennison will play Jenny, Carol’s big hearted daughter who became a pharmaceutical rep because, as a pretty and charming young woman, it’s an easy job.

MICHAEL ANGARANO & BRIGA HEELAN IN NEW CBS SITCOM

CBS is also bringing back gorgeous Briga Heelan to the world of sitcoms together with Michael Angarano in  TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN a hybrid sitcom which centres on Evan (Angarano) who, with the help of his

Michael Angarano and Briga Heelan will lead the new sitcom pilot

group of friends, sets out to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life. Briga will play one of his friends, the entrepreneurial co-owner of  Pittsburgh's coolest pierogi shop.

 JANE CURTIN IN UNITED WE FALL

Yet, another of sitcom legends, 3rd Rock From the Sun's Jane Curtin is returning to TV comedies in UNITED WE FALL a profoundly realistic, multicultural sitcom that shows how, when two people, Bill and Jo, with

Jason Michael Snow will play Jane Curtin's other son in the ABC sitcom

young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible. Curtin will play Bill’s extremely judgemental mother who joined their house during a health scare till she recovered, but she never left! She makes it her business to tell them everything they do is wrong! Jason Michael Snow will play Bill's cosmopolitan, glamorous brother.

SITCOM PILOTS 2019: NBC, CBS, FOX ORDER GENIUSES, PATTY'S AUTO, FRIENDS IN LAW, UNINSURED, CAROL'S SECOND ACT, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN MULTICAM PILOTS! ABBY'S STARTS THIS MARCH AT NBC

NEW 2019 COMEDY PILOTS

GENIUSES & PATTY'S AUTO AT FOX

Elizabeth Banks is producing Patty's Auto

It's that time of the year when networks are ordering sitcom pilots which may or (usually) may not get turned into regular series later on. Fox has ordered a pilot for multicam sitcom GENIUSES that might become a companion for their hit show Last Man Standing. It will follow a blue collar couple in South Jersey trying to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses. They've also ordered PATTY'S AUTO pilot about an auto repair shop with all female mechanics from Roseanne's producer Darlene Hunt and Elizabeth Banks.

UNINSURED FRIENDS IN LAW AT NBC
NBC has given a green light to FRIENDS IN LAW comedy pilot (which was in the run last year as well) about two men, who are polar opposites but who must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends decide to get married. They've also ordered UNINSURED multicam pilot about young couple with kids who end up having to take care of his parents who have mishandled their

Patricia Heaton gets another chance!

finances and need help to pay down a sizeable debt.

PATRICIA HEATON RETURNS TO CBS!

CBS is doing the same by also giving a second chance to one of their last year's pilots which never got into production - CAROL'S SECOND ACT in which Everybody Love's Raymond and cooking star Patricia Heaton plays a woman who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor. They also have a pilot for TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN which follows Evan who sets out with his group of 20-something friends to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life.

ABBY'S AT NBC THIS MARCH
NBC has also set a date for their new multicam sitcom ABBY'S which will hit the midseason with its ten episodes from March 28th revolving around an unlicensed, makeshift establishment in Abby’s (Natalie Morales) backyard, the perfect gathering place for locals to find camaraderie and sanctuary. To

Abby's will replace one of this season's biggest failures Will &Grace on Thursdays

maintain the perfect bar ecosystem, all patrons must abide by a specific set of rules. This includes no cell phones, understanding that earning a seat at the bar takes time to rise through the hierarchy and knowing that losing a challenge may have some unpleasant and unpalatable drink-related repercussions.