Hawaii Five-0 vet Chi McBride is headed back to the Eye network, with a role opposite Pete Holmes in an untitled CBS comedy pilot, our sister site Deadline reports. In the project, based on professional bowler Tom Smallwood’s life, a seemingly ordinary man named Tom (Holmes) decides to provide for his family by following his dream […]
Tag: Sitcom
WandaVision Boss on the Mystery of Who’s Broadcasting Wanda’s Sitcom
RELATED STORIES WandaVision‘s most recent outing at last answered some of our burning questions… then swiftly introduced another major one. In Episode 4, which revealed how S.W.O.R.D. and other agencies on the outside are handling what’s happening in Westview, Darcy Lewis and Jimmy Woo noticed an odd censorship of Wanda and Vision’s sitcom: For example, […]
BBC Dad’s Army row: Hysterical Remainers claimed TV sitcom caused Brexit
Su Pollard fondly remembers Dad’s Army writer Jimmy Perry Fans of the classic sitcom were left baffled after the broadcaster issued a “discriminatory language warning” before replaying the Dad’s Army film from 1971. The film, which stars the likes of Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, follows the ageing Home Guard platoon’s formation, and subsequent trials […]
ABC Orders Siblings Sitcom Starring Topher Grace, Karla Souza, Sasheer Zamata, Caitlin McGee and Jimmy Tatro
RELATED STORIES ABC is preparing to give viewers a Home Economics lesson, with a Spring 2021 comedy series starring and executive-produced by Topher Grace, TVLine has learned. The single-camera comedy explores “the heartwarming, yet super uncomfortable and sometimes frustrating relationship between three adult siblings: one in the 1 percent, one middle-class, and one barely holding […]
The Masked Singer: Find Out Which of the Latest Castoff’s Sitcom Co-Stars Were In On His Big Secret
In hindsight, hints to the identity of The Masked Singer‘s Squiggly Monster — who was booted from the reality singing competition Wednesday — were everywhere you looked. The reference to being a “patchwork of personas,” including “the father-figure” (hello, Full House‘s Danny Tanner!) and “the scoundrel” (hello, Saget’s often blue stand-up comedy leanngs!). The penguins, a reference […]
New Disney Family Singalong, Sitcom Specials Lead ABC Holiday Lineup
RELATED STORIES ABC will spread some much-needed holiday cheer in November and December, starting with a third installment of its Disney Family Singalong series. The Disney Holiday Singalong, airing Monday, Nov. 30 at 8/7c, will once again feature celebrities putting their own spins on classic Disney tunes. Previous editions of the special aired in April […]
Man With a Plan Season 4, New Sitcom Broke Get CBS Premiere Dates
RELATED STORIES Something old and something new will come to CBS’ schedule this spring. The network announced Tuesday that Man With a Plan‘s fourth season will commence on Thursday, April 2 at 8:30/7:30c, taking over The Unicorn‘s time slot. Freshman sitcom Broke, starring Pauley Perrette (NCIS) and Jaime Camil (Jane the Virgin), will debut that same […]
Young Rock: NBC Orders Sitcom About Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Formative Years’
RELATED STORIES NBC is expanding its partnership with Titans Game host Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, placing a straight-to-series order for a sitcom about the wrestler-turned-actor’s tumultuous childhood, TVLine has learned. Titled Young Rock, the project — which has snagged an 11-episode Season 1 order — will serve as an exec producer as well as a cast […]
Night School Sitcom Based on 2018 Film Snags NBC Pilot Order
Kevin Hart is re-enrolling in Night School at NBC’s behest. The Peacock net has placed a pilot order for a multi-cam sitcom based on the 2018 Universal comedy pic that starred Hart and Tiffany Haddish, neither of whom will appear in the TV adaptation. Hart, however, is on board as an exec producer. The Community-esque project […]
TVLine Items: Iliza’s CBS Sitcom, Homecoming Casts Cusack and More
Stand-up comic Iliza Shlesinger has lined up a gig at CBS: She’s set to star in a multi-camera comedy that’s in development at the Eye network, according to our sister site Deadline. The untitled comedy stars Shlesinger as a young woman who comes back to her hometown of Austin, Texas to help her mom and […]