COMEDY SATURDAY: ABC SETS WILL SASSO'S SITCOM UNITED WE FALL FOR JULY! RAMS AUSTRALIAN COMEDY TRAILER WITH SAM NEILL, MICHAEL CATON, MIRANDA RICHARDSON

   'UNITED WE FALL'

GETS A JULY AIRING DATE

Here is something else we will be able to watch this summer: although rumours said ABC would probably save it for the barren Autumn TV

United We Fall launches July 15th

landscape, they've given their new multi camera sitcom UNITED WE FALL a July 15th start date, which is Wednesday nights. It will premiere with two back to back episodes which will also be available next day on Hulu. Parenting can be tough. Throw some overzealous extended family members into the mix and chaos will undoubtedly ensue for Will Sasso, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Guillermo Diaz and Jane Curtin who lead the cast.

  They Got This! Almost!
The profoundly realistic family sitcom follows the trials and tribulations of Jo and Bill, parents of two young kids, as they try to make it day to day as a functioning family. Bill’s very judgmental live-in mother and Jo’s large Latinx

The series was originally prepared for 2019 season

Catholic family will never hesitate to let our couple know they’re seemingly screwing up, but Bill and Jo will always have each other’s backs, united against everyone – other parents, teachers, doctors, specialists, coaches, co-workers and especially their kids.

   'RAMS' TRAILER

NEW SAM NEILL MOVIE COMEDY

Rams will soon hit the cinemas in Oz

And since we are making it a comedy day today, check out the trailer and posters for Australian flick RAMS starring Sam Neill, Michael Caton and  Miranda Richardson. Coming soon to cinemas, it is set in remote Western Australia, where two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), are at war. Raising separate flocks of sheep descended from their family’s prized bloodline, the two men work side by side yet are worlds apart. When Les’s prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley. While Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be, Les opts for angry defiance. But can the warring brothers set aside their differences and have a chance to reunite their family, save their herd, and bring their community back together?

EMILY BLUNT & DWAYNE JOHNSON TO PLAY A SUPERHERO COUPLE IN BALL AND CHAIN ADAPTATION? ABC MOVES UNITED WE FALL SITCOM TO AUTUMN?

'BALL AND CHAIN' ADAPTATION

TO REUNITE EMILY BLUNT WITH DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON

After we see them together in Disney's Jungle Cruise, it seems Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson will team up again in the movie adaptation of comic books BALL AND CHAIN, most likely for Netflix! The superhero romantic comedy would see them playing a bickering couple as they approach three years of a tumultuous marriage. The couple, Edgar and Mallory Bulson,

Their Jungle Cruise has been moved to July 2021 opening date

have made the difficult decision to throw in the towel and get divorced. But then a mysterious meteor bathes the battling couple in extraterrestrial energies, energies that give them super abilities. Abilities that only work when the couple is together. Will their newfound powers be enough to make their marriage work?

'UNITED WE FALL' SITCOM

TO FALL NOW IN FALL?

While CBS has renewed  Young Sheldon, Mom, Bob ♥ Abishola, The Neighborhood and The Unicorn for new seasons and cancelled Broke, Carol’s

United We Fall might move to Fall 2020

Second Act and Man with a Plan, ABC is looking to save their new sitcom UNITED WE FALL for Autumn even though it was originally planned for midseason as they will need already finished series in the middle of corona production lockdowns.  

UNITED WE FALL follows the trials and tribulations of Jo (Christina Vidal) and Bill (Will Sasso), parents of two young kids, as they try to make it day-to-day as a functioning family. Bill’s very judgemental live-in mother (Jane Curtin) and Jo’s large Latinx Catholic family will never hesitate to let our couple know

The eight episode first season has already been shot for midseason

they’re seemingly screwing up, but Bill and Jo will always have each other’s backs, united against everyone – other parents, teachers, doctors, specialists, coaches, co-workers, and especially their kids.

SITCOMS 2019: NBC ORDERS FRAN DRESCHER'S INDEBTED, CBS CAROL'S 2ND ACT WITH PATRICIA HEATON, JEAN LUC BILODEAU, FOX JASON BIGGS, MAGGIE LAWSON OUTMATCHED, ABC UNITED WE FALL! PLUS CANCELLED PILOTS!

   MULTICAM SITCOMS 2019

 WHICH ARE DEAD FOR GOOD?

United we Fall will air on ABC

It's been a bloodbath of a week for multicam sitcoms: CBS cancelled Murphy Brown, Fam, Happy Together, and Fox their Cool Kids. When it comes to this year's pilots, ABC has passed on Katey Sagal's Nana, CBS on Katherine Heigl's Our House and David Walton's The Story of Us and Briga Heelan's To Whom It May Concern, Fox on Patty's Auto, NBC on Zach Cregger's Friends in Law! 

UNITED WE FALL  
ABC has, however, ordered UNITED WE FALL multicam to series. Starring Will Sasso, Christina Vidal, Jane Curtin and Jason Michael Snow, it is a profoundly realistic, multicultural family sitcom that shows how, when two people with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.

FRAN DRESCHER'S INDEBTED

formerly known as Uninsured has been ordered to series by NBC and it is the one I was most happy about, personally. It marks her return to the network together with  Adam Pally, Abby Elliott, Steven Weber and Jessy

Indebted will hit NBC in the MidSeason!

Hodges! Young parents Dave and Rebecca are ready to reclaim their life after years of diapers and sleepless nights. However, things take an unexpected turn when Dave’s parents show up unannounced and broke, leaving Dave with no

Fran Drescher will play Adam Pally's mother in Indebted

 choice but to open the door to the people who gave him everything. But these boomerang parents aren’t great with boundaries and the question of who’s parenting who quickly become blurred!

CAROL'S SECOND ACT 
 has been ordered to series at CBS. Starring  Patricia Heaton
, Kyle MacLachlan, and our dearest Jean-Luc Bilodeau, it revolves around Carol
Chambers (Patricia Heaton), who, after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: becoming a doctor.


Lucas Neff, Jean Luc Bilodeau and Patricia Heaton will lead Carol's Second Act

Hilarious new multicamera sitcom CAROL'S SECOND ACT will air on Thursday evenings at CBS from Autumn! They've also ordered Jaime Camil's BROKE to series.

OUTMATCHED AKA GENIUSES

has been ordered to series by Fox and will probably be Last Man Standing's sidekick next season. It is a family comedy about a blue-collar couple (Maggie

Jason Biggs and Maggie Lawson are parents of geniuses in Outmatched

Lawson and Jason Biggs) in South Jersey trying to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses. The sitcom will air on Thursday nights with LMS from January!

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.

2019 SITCOMS: MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER WITH DENNIS QUAID AT NETFLIX, THE UNICORN, OUR HOUSE AT CBS, NANA & UNITED WE FALL AT ABC, UNINSURED AT NBC, GENIUSES, PATTY'S AUTO AT FOX

2019 MULTICAM SITCOM PILOTS

 NETFLIX'S NEW MERRY HAPPY

Dennis Quaid will try his luck in sitcoms

WHATEVER SITCOM

Netflix has ventured into multicam sitcom waters again with MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER a holiday themed comedy with an eight episode order for the first Christmas season (potential new seasons would follow other holidays). 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.

UNICORN IN OUR HOUSE AT CBS
CBS has ordered a pilot for a multicam sitcom from Will & Grace executive producer which would have Latin star Jaime Camil as an outrageously

Jaime Camil will lead an untitled CBS sitcom

wealthy trust fund baby who is cut off by his father, and he and his wife are forced to move into her estranged sister’s Reseda condo! CBS also has a pilot for THE UNICORN which, inspired by a true story, follows a widower who is eager to move on from the most difficult year of his life, only to realize he’s utterly unprepared to raise his two daughters on his own and equally unprepared for the dating world — where, to his shock, he’s suddenly a hot commodity. Their third new multicam sitcom pilot is for OUR HOUSE following a devoted mom and dad 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.

NANA & UNITED WE FALL AT ABC

ABC has ordered a pilot for multicam sitcom NANA which will see Josh Cooke play an obsessive dad, who after the death of his wife, is forced to invite his brash and bawdy mother-in-law Nana (Katey Sagal) into his home

Josh Cooke and Katey Sagal will lead Nana pilot at ABC

to help raise the two granddaughters she barely knows. They also have a pilot for UNITED WE FALL a profoundly realistic, multicultural family sitcom that shows how, when two people with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.

NBC IS UNINSURED 
NBC has, meanwhile, found stars for their multicam sitcom UNINSURED in which Adam Pally and Abby Elliott will play young parents Dave and

Abby Elliott and Adam Pally will lead Uninsured pilot at NBC

Rebecca, 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.

Maggie Lawson will be the mom of Geniuses

MAGGIE LAWSON AT FOX!

Over at Fox, they've cast Maggie Lawson to lead multicam sitcom pilot GENIUSES as the mom of a blue collar family in South Jersey trying to get by while raising four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses. Jason Biggs will play the father of the family. Fox has also rounded up cast for another of their new multicamera sitcom pilots hiring Carra Patterson, Sarah Levy, Paola Lázaro and Joanna Adler to all star in PATTY'S AUTO a comedy 

Sarah Levy will be one of Patty's female mechanics!

set in an Pennsylvania-based auto repair shop with only female mechanics. It revolves around Patty (Patterson) and the eclectic women who work for her. Don't forget to check out our previous report on 2019 sitcoms here!