I am more than sure that you will all agree with me that after the gloom of 2020 we all need some humour and laughter this year and the first new
Opening episode starts tonight at Fox!
comedy to grace the small screens in the freshly launched 2021 is CALL ME KAT multi camera sitcom which arrives to Fox tonight, Sunday, January 3rd together with the final season of TV's most popular sitcom Last Man Standing before moving, later this week, to their regular Thursday evening spots with second episodes. Which means, this week you get two episodes of both comedies. Based on the British sitcom Miranda by Miranda Hart, the series, the first big
The production of the sitcom might go on a hiatus this month due to corona
network sitcom set in Kentucky, is written by Darlene Hunt and stars Mayim Bialik in the title role, with Cheyenne Jackson, Kyla Pratt, Julian Gant, Leslie Jordan, and Swoosie Kurtz in supporting roles.
CALL ME KAT SITCOM
stars
Mayim Bialik as a woman who struggles every day against society and her
mother to prove that she can still live a happy and fulfilling life
despite still being single at 39. Which is why she recently spent her
entire savings to open
Mayim Bialik returns to the world of sitcoms after Big Bang Theory
a cat café in Louisville, Kentucky. It was
expected of Kat to be married with kids by now, but for many reasons,
she’s still single – and totally fine with it. Of course, Kat’s mother,
Sheila (Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe
Leslie Jordan returns to sitcoms after Cool Kids
nominee Swoosie Kurtz), views
her daughter’s single-hood as her own personal failure, but Kat remains
determined to live a fulfilling life, and charts her own course to
happiness. Working alongside Kat at the café are Randi (Kyla Pratt), a
confident millennial and self proclaimed “non” cat person;
Cheyenne Jackson will be the main heartthrob in the sitcom
and Phil
(Emmy Award winner Leslie Jordan), who recently broke up with his
longtime partner. Although Kat celebrates her independence, her
single-forever plans may begin to veer off-course, when her former crush
and good friend, Max (Cheyenne Jackson), returns to town and takes a
job as a
Comedy veteran Swoosie Kurtz returns to TV after Mike and Molly
bartender at the piano bar across the street, working with his
friend, Carter (Julian Gant). Vanessa Lachey will guest star as 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.
WILL BE YOUR FAVOURITE FESTIVE MOVIE OF THE SEASON
I mean how could it not be? It has two of the most gorgeous people ever Vanessa Lachey and Ryan McPartlin as leads and she plays a Christmas shop owner and he a chocolatier! Airing November 29th on Lifetime, ONCE UPON A MAIN STREET will really satisfy your all festive cravings:
The movie airs this Christmas on Lifetime
beautiful couple, festive sets, glitzy Christmas decor, and idyllic little town and lots of chocolate!
It's the Christmas season. Beyond the animosity they have for each other
stemming from their less than pleasant recent first encounter, Amelia
Lewis and Vic Manning seem always to be competing against each other,
most importantly for a commercial property each wants to purchase in
White Oak, Nevada for her/his dream store, hers a year 'round Christmas
store, and his a chocolate shop. As each bid has its merits - hers all
cash, his above asking - the real estate agent has to consult with the
property owner who has the final say. Individually, Amelia and Vic have
the same idea to discover the identity
Vanessa Lachey and Ryan McPartlin take the lead roles
of the property owner - he, Elder
Dubois, who lives an hour away in Castle Creek - and make a personal
plea directly to him. With Amelia and Vic arriving unannounced on
Elder's doorstep at virtually the same time to make their individual
pitches, Elder tells them that he is unable or unwilling to make a snap
decision concerning the property. As Elder is all alone for the first
time for Christmas they stay with him till he makes the decision in a
little city which is filled with Christmas magic.
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
you want yet still be happy. So she spends the
money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a cat café in
Louisville, Kentucky. With Swoosie as Kat's mother, Kat's coworkers at
the café include Phil, played by Leslie Jordan,
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.
While Independence Day 2 is playing in cinemas here are news from another movie in which humans are fighting off massive alien invasion: as 'Deadline' reports today Scott Eastwood is in talks to star in PACIFIC RIM 2 with the science fiction epic action sequel getting a February 2018 release date! Star Wars' John Boyega has already been announced as the new member of the cast playing the son of Idris Elba's character from the original movie. It isn't yet known if some of the stars from the first movie, such as Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman and Rinko Kikuchi, are coming back. SPARTACUS producer Steven S. DeKnight is helming the sequel titled MAELSTROM which sees people defending the Earth from aliens by using massive robot fighters. Eastwood is currently shooting FAST AND FURIOUS 8!
VANESSA LACHEY JOINS
'FIRST WIVES CLUB' TV REMAKE If you liked Better Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton in THE FIRST
WIVES CLUB you will be happy to hear that TV Land is making a single
camera comedy series about it with Vanessa Lachey joining the cast that
already has Alyson Hannigan and Megan Hilty. Set in present day San
Francisco, the story revolves around three women, friends and classmates
in the ’90s, who reconnect after their close friend from college dies
in a freak accident. When they discover that they are all at a romantic
crossroads, they band together to tackle divorce, relationships and
life’s other annoying challenges. VanessaLachey will play a lesbian chef and a restaurant owner in the
series adaptation of the book and the famous movie.
You know your trusted Dezzy loves nothing more than a good multi camera comedy series on the telly, so today we're only talking new sitcoms! Starting with the lovely photos of what seems to be the prettiest cast ever seen in a sitcom from brand new comedy TRUTH BE TOLD (previously known as PEOPLE ARE TALKING) which brings laughs to NBC Friday, October 16th with the delightful cast lead by Mark Paul Gosellaar, Vanessa Lachey and Tone Bell.
THE FEARLESS FOURSOME The sitcom revolves around two diverse couples - Mitch (Mark-Paul
Gosselaar) and Tracy (Vanessa Lachey), and Russell (Tone Bell) and Angie
(Bresha Webb) - a fearless foursome who are both neighbours and best
friends. As they navigate through life side by side, they can't help but
analyse and obsess about everything. From sex and race to anything else
your parents told you never to talk about, absolutely no topic is out
of bounds for this wildly outspoken group.
Mitch is a college ethics professor, which might explain why he goes through life with a heightened attention to justice. He knows he can't change the world but is quite determined to change his corner of it. At his side is his beautiful wife of five years, Tracy, who by day is a tough attorney, and by night a nurturing mom to their four year old daughter.
Their best friends, Russell and Angie, live next door. Russell is Mitch's male voice of reason. A stand-up comic, Russell has absolutely no fear when it comes to talking to someone or making a scene in public to prove his point. His new bride Angie is that spirited, special kind of woman, who while married to a guy that's quite a handful, is able to go toe to toe with him at a moment's notice.
FRESHLY ORDERED SITCOMS
HOUSESITTERS, TALK NERDY TO ME, HYPOCHONDRIAC In other sitcom news, pop legend Michael Bolton will star in ABC
sitcom HOUSESITTERS which is being described as sort of modern day
Three’s Company meets Two Broke Girls. Meanwhile, Fox has ordered
HYPO- CHONDRIAC sitcom from Julie Bowen about a hypochondriac who receives
a fatal diagnosis. She then sets herself, and her friends and family, on a path of comedic destruction in pursuit of her “authentic self”.
And CBS has bought TALK NERDY TO ME sitcom about four smart, ambitious
women, two computer programmers, a musician and a doctor, who share a
house on the canals in Venice, CA, and support one another as they reach
for their dreams professionally and personally.
TV LAND'S 'I SHUDDER'
Over at TV Land, Megan Hilty, John Behlmann and Brooklyn Shuck will star opposite Hamish Linklater in the new sitcom I SHUDDER about Elyot Vionnet (Linklater), an advocate of manners, style and most importantly, common decency. Observing people committing heinous crimes of etiquette, he tries to counsel them from afar, inserting himself into their lives most unwelcomely. When the individuals he deems classless choose not to take his advice, they are met with terrible consequences. Elyot joins forces with his young neighbor Stella (Shuck) to try to make the world better, one tactless person at a time. Hilty and Behlmann play Stella's parents.
After you see him as the evil pirate Blackbeard in epic adventure PAN, our favourite Australian super hunk Hugh Jackman will star in the new film from Allan Loeb the director of ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL. COLLA- TERAL BEAUTY will see him star with Rooney Mara in the story which revolves around a New York advertising executive who experiences a deep personal tragedy. When his colleagues devise an unconventional plan to break him out of his depression, the plan works, but not in a way that anyone imagined.
'PEOPLE ARE TALKING' SITCOM
VANESSA LACHEY IS MARK PAUL GOSSELAAR'S WIFE!
Earlier last month I announced most of the sitcoms that have been
ordered into whole seasons by the major networks and now some of them
are in the process of recasting before the shooting starts. One of them,
NBC's PEOPLE ARE TALKING has just done it by putting gorgeous Vanessa
Lachey in the lead female role instead of Meaghan Rath. This might lead
to one of the most beautiful couples we've ever seen on TV since she
will play the wife of Mark Paul Gosselaar! PEOPLE ARE TALKING is an
unabashed comedy about two diverse couples — one played by Mark Paul
Gosselaar and Lachey and the other by Tone Bell and Bresha Webb — who
are neighbours and best friends.
'QUEEN OF THE DESERT' FIRST PICTURES AND CLIP
NICOLE KIDMAN & DAMIAN LEWIS
And your visual treat for today are the first pictures from Werner Herzog's upcoming new epic drama QUEEN OF THE DESERT bringing us the first look on Nicole Kidman, Damian Lewis, James Franco and Robert Pattinson in the sprawling epic story. The film had its premier at this year's Berlin Film Festival (where it received mostly negative reviews) and should hit European cinemas this Autumn although it still doesn't have a USA opening date.
EXPLORER AND WRITER Filmed in Morocco QUEEN OF THE DESERT is a historical biopic and a
chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveller, writer, archaeologist,
explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at
the dawn of the twentieth century who is credited with helping to
catalyse the creation of the Middle East. Damian Lewis is Lt. Colonel Charles Doughty Wylie, an unhappily married
British soldier who starts a turbulent affair with Bell between 1913
and 1915, before he was killed in active duty at Gallipoli.
