It’s not common for a major network to air a pilot of a show it didn’t order to series, but its 1990s-set Goldbergs spin-off is a lucky exception. According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC will air the pilot episode of the series, titled Schooled, later this month during The Goldbergs’ regular Wednesday night time slot. […]
Continue ReadingCBS wants more Young Sheldon. According to Variety, the network has officially renewed the spin-off prequel series for a second season to debut sometime during the 2018-2019 broadcast season. The show was given a series order back in March 2017, debuted in late September, and currently airs Thursday nights at 8:30pm. The show has been a […]
Continue ReadingCBS wants more Young Sheldon. According to Variety, the network has officially renewed the spin-off prequel series for a second season to debut sometime during the 2018-2019 broadcast season. The show was given a series order back in March 2017, debuted in late September, and currently airs Thursday nights at 8:30pm. The show has been a […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. I was such a big fan of The Complete Woman, Amanda Lund’s brilliant satire of 1950s and 1960s-style institutional misogyny and cultural repression, that I not only wrote about it for this column, but I wrote about its sequel Complete Joy as […]
Continue ReadingABC is developing a spin-off of its hit comedy Black-ish, and today a new round of casting news was announced. According to Deadline, Chris Parnell, Matt Walsh, and Trevor Jackson (American Crime) have joined the cast of the spin-off, which is co-created by Kenya Barris and Larry Wilmore and will follow Yara Shahidi’s character Zoey […]
Continue ReadingABC is developing a spin-off of its hit comedy Black-ish, and today a new round of casting news was announced. According to Deadline, Chris Parnell, Matt Walsh, and Trevor Jackson (American Crime) have joined the cast of the spin-off, which is co-created by Kenya Barris and Larry Wilmore and will follow Yara Shahidi’s character Zoey […]
Continue ReadingAs season 10 of the CBS hit sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, nears its conclusion (with the cast in final negotiations for another two-year contract extension), the Peacock Network is confident enough in the future (or hedging its bets with a plan B) to order a spin-off prequel, Young Sheldon, before even making the pilot. […]
Continue ReadingCBS’s Big Bang Theory spin-off about Sheldon Cooper is officially happening. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has given the project, titled Young Sheldon, a series order, and it will debut on the network sometime during the 2017-2018 broadcast season. Originally put into development back in November, the series Iain Armitage as the titular […]
Continue ReadingA ’90s spin-off of The Goldbergs is moving forward at ABC. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has given a pilot order to an untitled, single-cam Goldbergs spin-off from Adam Goldberg and Mark Firek, which centers on “two high school teachers who become unlikely father figures to the kids at their Philadelphia school.” The […]
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