2018/19 SITCOMS: FOX REVIVES 'LAST MAN STANDING', ORDERS 'COOL KIDS'! CBS ORDERS NINA DOBREV, TONE BELL'S 'FAM', 'WELCOME TO NEIGHBOURHOOD', DAMON WAYANS JR SITCOM! NBC ORDERS 'ABBY'S'

  FRESHLY ORDERED COMEDIES

CBS ORDERS 'FAM' MULTICAM WITH NINA DOBREV, TONE BELL!

Last week was a black one for many shows as tons of them got cancelled, but this is also the time of the year when networks are ordering pilots into series.

Nina Dobrev and Tone Bell will be a couple in Fam!

CBS has cancelled Kevin Can Wait, Living Biblically, 9JKL and, sadly, our favourite Superior Donuts, as they're planning to fill Monday night with new comedies. They've ordered FAM multicam sitcom into series with Nina Dobrev as a young woman whose dreams of an upstanding life with her new fianc� are dashed when her younger train wreck half-sister comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father. Tone Bell, Odessa Adlon, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheryl Lee Ralph also star. It will air in midseason!

CBS ALSO ORDERS JOSH LAWSON AND DAMON WAYANS MULTICAMS

Beside Murphy Brown revival, CBS will also have Cedric the Entertainer's new multicam WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD about the nicest guy in the Midwest (Josh Lawson) who moves his family into a tough neighbourhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his

Cedric will not welcome Josh Lawson to his neighbourhood nicely!

extreme neighbourliness. That includes their new next-door neighbor Calvin (Cedric). Sheaun McKinney, Tichina Arnold, Dreama Walker, Marcel Spears and Hank Greenspan also star. CBS will also have the untitled Damon Wayans Jr. comedy which revolves around Peter (Wayans)

Damon Wayans Jr and Felix Mallard will lead new sitcom at CBS

and Claire (Amber Stevens West), a couple who are tired of their mundane life and start to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when an emerging pop star (Felix Mallard), who is drawn to their super-normal suburban life, moves in. Stephanie Weir and Chris Parnell also star. The two sitcoms will air from Autumn on Monday nights!
UPDATE The news is just in from CBS that they have replaced Josh Lawson with Max Greenfield in the sitcom! They have also revealed that Damon's sitcom will be titled HAPPY TOGETHER!

NBC SETS BAR AT 'S 'ABBY'S'  
NBC has picked up a multicam reminiscent of Cheers. ABBY'S is set at the best bar in San Diego, home to good prices, great company and, of course, Abby (Natalie Morales). This unlicensed, makeshift bar nestled in her

Natalie Morales will lead new NBC sitcom Abby's

backyard is the opposite of everything annoying about today�s party scene. There are no cell phones (not even to �look something up�), earning a seat at the bar takes time and losing a challenge means drinking a limey, sugary �not-beer� drink. As the oddball cast of regulars will tell you, hanging out at Abby�s is a coveted honour. But once you�re in, you�re family. Neil Flynn, Nelson Franklin, Jessica Chaffin, Leonard Ouzts and Kimia Behpoornia star.

FOX REVIVES LAST MAN STANDING AND PAIRS IT UP WITH COOL KIDS

Over at Fox the greatest news is that they are reviving Tim Allen's much adored LAST MAN STANDING which was shamelessly killed at ABC. With all the cast (Nancy Travis, Jonathan Adams, Amanda Fuller,

Revival is a glorious victory for Tim Allen and a kick in the face to ABC

Christoph Sanders and Jordan Masterson) returning it will be Fox's leading programme next season if it brings its massive ratings from ABC where it was their second most watched comedy. It will be joined at Fox by

The Cool Kids will join Last Man Standing at Fox

THE COOL KIDS! Starring Vicki Lawrence, Martin Mull, David Alan Grier and Leslie Jordan, it follows three guy friends in a retirement community who are the top dogs until they�re blown out of the water by the newest member of the community, a female rebel whose ready to challenge their place � it�s high school with 70 somethings. Stay tuned as I will be updating the post with new info as it arrives! The two comedies will air on Fridays from Autumn.

STARZ ORDERS 'SPANISH PRINCESS' WHITE QUEEN & WHITE PRINCESS FOLLOW UP EPIC SERIES! 'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE' TRAILER WITH BILL NIGHY, MATTHEW GOODE, ELEANOR TOMLINSON! 'YOUNG & HUNGRY' CANCELLED EMILY OSMENT TO LEAD '25' SITCOM! TONE BELL, NINA DOBREV TO LEAD 'FAM' SITCOM

  'THE SPANISH PRINCESS' 

STARZ ORDERS NEW EPIC SAGA

TV day today, starting with an amazing piece of news for all of you who loved Starz' brilliant epic series White Princess last year! The follow up to

This will be third series based on Gregory's books

BBC's White Queen will now get its own follow up in THE SPANISH PRINCESS based on Philippa Gregory�s best selling books The Constant Princess and The King�s Curse.

THE SPANISH PRINCESS will follow Catherine of Aragon, the beautiful young princess of Spain who was promised the English throne since she was a child. She arrives in a grey, rain lashed England with her glorious and diverse court including her lady in waiting Lina � an African Moor. She is Princess of Wales now, but when her husband Prince Arthur dies suddenly, the throne seems lost to Catherine. Until she claims her marriage was never consummated and that as a virgin she may set her sights on the new heir, the charismatic and headstrong Prince Harry who will one day rule as King Henry VIII.

  MULTICAM SITCOM PILOTS 

EMILY OSMENT TO LEAD '25' 

Emily Osment is moving to 25 at CBS

Good and bad news from the TV comedy world. Sad news is that Freeform is ending its sitcom Young and Hungry with the remaining ten episodes of the fifth season which will air from June 20th. The good news is that its star Emily Osment has booked a lead role in new CBS multicam sitcom pilot 25 which follows 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.

TONE BELL AND NINA DOBREV TO LEAD 'FAM' SITCOM AT CBS
Another of our favourite comedians Tone Bell, whose Disjointed has just been cancelled, will take the lead in CBS multicam sitcom FAM next to Nina

Tone Bell also starred in Truth Be Told sitcom

Dobrev who plays a woman whose dreams of an upstanding life with her new fianc�, Jay (Tone Bell), and his upstanding family are dashed when her train wreck younger half sister (Odessa Adlon) comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father. Bell's Jay is a sophisticated NYU history professor who comes from old money but is refreshingly unaffected and down-to-earth despite his refined background. Deeply in love with Clem (Dobrev), he proposes to her � much to the delight of his parents, Walt (Brian Stokes Mitchell) and Rose (Sheryl

Nina Dobrev will take the female lead in Fam CBS sitcom pilot

Lee Ralph), who think Clem is a real catch. But he learns that Clem has not been completely honest about a few key elements in her life: For example, her father isn�t actually dead � and it drives a wedge of mistrust between them that might not be easily mended.

  'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE' 

BBC MINI SERIES TRAILER!

Over across the pond, BBC has released trailer for Agatha Christie's ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE three part mini series which was postponed so that Edd Westwick's scenes could be reshot with Christian Cooke! Also

Click on the photo to see the whole cast in bigger size

starring Bill Nighy, Matthew Goode, Eleanor Tomlinson, Luke Treadaway, it is set at Christmas 1954. Wealthy philanthropist Rachel Argyll is murdered at her family estate Sunny Point. Her adopted son Jack Argyll is

Bill Nighy leads the stellar cast in the new mini series

arrested for her murder. He vehemently protests his innocence. The mysterious Dr Arthur Calgary returns from a trip to the Arctic claiming he has proof Jack is innocent. And if Jack was not the killer, then it must have been somebody else at Sunny Point. But who?