COMEDY MONDAY: 'MARLON' SITCOM SEASON 2 STARTS NEXT MONTH ON NBC WITH MARLON WAYANS, ESSENCE ATKINS! 'YOUNG AND HUNGRY' KICKS OFF FINAL SEASON AT FREEFORM WITH EMILY OSMENT, AIMEE CARRERO, JONATHAN SADOWSKI

   'MARLON' SEASON 2

STARTS NEXT MONTH ON NBC!

A little bit of comedy for you today to cheer up your boring Monday! Last year's best viewed summer sitcom and also best viewed summer scripted

Marlon returns June 14th!

series in USA, MARLON is returning to NBC with the second season June 14th with a double episode!

Loosely inspired by the real life of  the amazingly hilarious star Marlon Wayans, this update to the classic family comedy centres on a loving (but sometimes inappropriate) father committed to co-parenting his two kids with his very together ex-wife. While his misguided fatherly advice, unstoppable larger than life personality and unpredictable Internet superstardom might get in the way

Marlon was the best viewed new scripted series on all Networks last summer

sometimes, for Marlon family really always does come first � even if he�s the biggest kid of all. Essence Atkins returns as his wife, Bresha Webb as her funny best friend, with Notlim Taylor and Amir O�Neil as their two kids.

   'YOUNG AND HUNGRY'

 ENDS ITS TV LIFE NEXT MONTH

Speaking of our beloved multi camera sitcoms, one of them is ending this summer! YOUNG AND HUNGRY will return with the second part of its

Y&H was most viewed Wednesday sitcom with Baby Daddy

fifth season June 20th and those last ten episodes will be the final ones. The series in which Emily Osment plays a young cook who falls for her billionaire boss will kick off its final season with back-to-back episodes on Freeform. The final season sees Gabi and Josh (Jonathan Sadowski) happily together and in love, but now navigating their new status as a full fledged couple. Meanwhile, the rest of Josh�s staff, house keeper Yolanda (Kym Whitley) and his PR Elliot, are grappling with the change in work dynamic with Gabi as the �woman of the house.� Sofia (Aimee Carrero), Gabi�s best friend, who begins to feel like a third wheel with the new couple, sets out on her own path to find love.

TV FRIDAY: SARAH J. MAAS' FANTASY SAGA 'A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES' TO BECOME A MOVIE! TOM MADEN JOINS EMILY OSMENT IN '25' SITCOM, AMBER STEVENS WEST CAST IN DAMON WAYANS JR. NEW SITCOM AT CBS

  'COURT OF THORNS & ROSES'

TO BECOME FANTASY FILM

Although Hulu was supposed to turn Sarah J. Maas' fantasy saga Throne of Glass into TV series, it did not happen, but now German Constantin Film

The four part saga has become a huge hit

has bought rights on her fantasy novel A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES! The company which is famous for Resident Evil movies and Shadowhunters series, will make a movie out of this fantasy story about Feyre, who finds herself entwined with faeries after unknowingly killing one. When the young huntress kills a wolf in the woods, a beastlike creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. Feyre must find a way to stop it or doom Tamlin and his world forever.

  NEW CBS MULTICAM SITCOMS

TOM MADEN JOINS '25' 

Tom starred in 13 Reasons Why without the beard

Meanwhile in the world of comedies, Tom Maden has been cast by CBS as lead opposite Emily Osment in 25 multicam sitcom about twenty something Kyle (Matt Shively), who comes to Austin to finally convince his old best friend from camp, Kate (Osment), that they are perfect for each other. Unfortunately, she just got engaged. A lot of guys would give up; Kyle is not one of those guys. But to Kyle�s surprise, even though he came to town looking for �the one,� he might end up with much more than that. Maden will play her sincere and nice fiancee who welcmes Kyle to town with open arms, unaware that Kyle is angling to steal his fianc�e away from him.
AMBER STEVENS WEST JOINS DAMON WAYANS JR SITCOM PILOT

You've watched Amber in The Carmichael Show

CBS has also find a female lead in gorgeous Amber Stevens West for the pilot of their untitled Damon Wayans Jr. multicam sitcom  in which he plays Peter and she will be Claire, a thirty something couple who are tired of their mundane life and start to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when one of his clients, an emerging pop star (Felix Mallard), who is drawn to their super-normal suburban life, moves in.

COMEDY FRIDAY: JAKE MCDORMAN JOINS 'MURPHY BROWN' REVIVAL AS HER SON! JOSH LAWSON TO LEAD 'WELCOME TO NEIGHBOURHOOD' SITCOM! DAX SHEPARD JOINS ASHTON KUTCHER'S 'RANCH'

  JAKE MCDORMAN JOINS 

'MURPHY BROWN' CBS REVIVAL AS HER GROWN UP SON

Jake McDorman will be Murphy's son Avery

TV comedy news today as we are in the middle of the casting season for new sitcom pilots! I've announced recently that MURPHY BROWN is returning to the small screens at CBS thirty years after its end, and now we have Jake McDorman cast as her grown up son! Candice Bergen returns as news anchor to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate, with all of the old cast returning too, from Faith Ford and Joe Regalbuto to Grant Shaud! McDorman will play her millennial adult journalist son Avery, who is following in his mother�s footsteps, perhaps too closely, and has his mother�s competitive spirit and quick wit. Nik Dodani joins the old cast as Pat, the director of social media for the news show who is tasked with bringing Murphy and the gang into the 21st century.

JOSH LAWSON TO LEAD 'WELCOME TO  NEIGHBOURHOOD' 

Josh Lawson will lead new CBS sitcom

After casting Cedric The Entertainer, CBS has added another lead to their multicam sitcom pilot WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOUR HOOD. Josh Lawson will play Dave, the nicest guy in the Midwest who moves his family into a tough neighbourhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighbourliness. Cedric will play his next door neighbour who regards the new family with disdain and as a pack of interlopers, while Tichina Arnold will play his wife who judges them  by their knowledge of Scripture (non existent) and their church attendance record (shockingly poor!).

  DAX SHEPARD TO JOIN 

ASHTON KUTCHER'S 'THE RANCH'

Dax Shepard will guest star in about five episodes

And the third blond hunk for today will move to a ranch! You've probably heard that Danny Masterson will no longer be a part of Netflix's multicam sitcom THE RANCH and he will now be replaced by Dax Shepard in the comedy revolving around the dysfunctional Bennett family on their Colorado ranch! He will join the second part of the 20 episode third season as a former soldier who has come to town with some history concerning the Iron River Ranch. He meets the Bennetts and forms an immediate bond with Colt (Ashton Kutcher) and his father Beau (Sam Elliott), but his past has a way of catching up with him. Dax won't be a regular, however, as he will be the lead in another sitcom, BLESS THIS MESS at Fox in which he and Lake Bell play a NY couple which moves to Nebraska to live a simpler life. It doesn�t work out like they planned.

COMEDY SATURDAY: 'ROSEANNE' REVIVAL TRAILER! NEW SITCOMS 'FRIENDS IN LAW', 'DADDY ISSUES', 'SINGLE PARENTS' SET CAST! 'LAST MAN STANDING' TIM DOYLE'S NEW ABC SITCOM

NEW SITCOM PILOT CASTINGS

John Gemberling will star in Friends in Law

NBC HAS 'FRIENDS IN LAW'

Comedy updates this Saturday: NBC is rounding up the cast for their multicam sitcom FRIENDS IN LAW. It will centre on Brian (Devere Rogers) and Jake who are polar opposites and must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends, Margaret (Nicole Parker) and Randy (John Gemberling), decide to get married.

FOX HAS 'DADDY ISSUES'

Fox has hired Frasier and Hot in Cleveland star Jane Leeves to star in their comedy DADDY ISSUES  opposite Erin Foster and Don Johnson about Andi (Foster), who refuses to settle down, and her friendship with her playboy

Always divine Jane Leeves will be the mother in Daddy Issues

dad, Roman (Johnson). Andi�s world is turned upside down when she discovers her dad�s fallen in love with her best friend. Jane Leeves will be his trendy ex wife and her mother.

Jake Choi will be a fresh single dad in Single Parents

ABC HAS 'SINGLE PARENTS

ABC is developing a pilot for comedy series SINGLE PARENTS written by New Girl creator which revolves around a group of dysfunctional single parents who lean on one another as they raise their kids, look for love and ultimately realize survival is only possible with the help of one another. Kimrie Lewis will play a hippie single mother, while Jake Choi will be a sleep deprived dad whose wife leaves for college and he has to raise their son alone. Taran Killam is a single day with a daughter who forgot how to be a man, Leighton Meester a

Taran Killam will forget how to be a man overly devoted to his daughter

single mom of an overly attached son, while Brad Garrett will be a rich, old school type of parent with traditional views.

NEW 70'S SET SITCOM FROM LAST MAN STANDING CREATOR
If you miss one of the best sitcoms ever Last Man Standing, its creator Tim Doyle is preparing a new one at ABC set in the 1970s and revolving around an

Sam Straley will be the oldest son of the family

Irish family with a working class dad (Walking Dead's Abraham - Michael Cudlitz), traditional mom (Mary McCormack) and eight boisterous sons who navigate changes big and small during one of America�s most turbulent

Gorgeous Caleb Foote will be one of the sons

decades. The sons will be played by Sawyer Barth, Caleb Foote, Christopher Paul Richards, Jack Gore and Sam Straley as the oldest son.

'ROSEANNE' REVIVAL

CHECK OUT THE NEW TRAILER!

Roseanne returns this month to ABC

Meanwhile, you can check out a trailer for ABC's comeback series ROSE- ANNE which returns March 27th with nine episodes and double opening! Starring Roseanne Barr and John Goodman and the entire old cast, it will explore life, death and everything in between through the relateable, hilarious and brutally honest lens of the Conner household. With the inimitable Roseanne at its epicentre, fresh stories

The entire old cast is returning to the popular sitcom

that tackle today�s issues and even more laughs from a cast and crew that haven�t missed a beat, audiences old and new will celebrate the homecoming of America�s favourite working-class family.