Forward of subsequent week’s upfront presentation to Madison Avenue advert patrons, NBC has solidified its comedy lineup for the 2024-25 broadcast season.
The community has handed out a sequence order to the multicamera comedy Joyful’s Place, starring Reba McEntire, and renewed George Lopez’s half-hour Lopez vs. Lopez for a 3rd season. Moreover, NBC has canceled rookie comedy Prolonged Household, starring Jon Cryer.
Joyful’s Place, which was picked as much as pilot in late January, revolves round Bobbie (McEntire), who inherits her father’s restaurant and is lower than thrilled to find that she has a brand new enterprise accomplice within the half-sister she by no means knew she had. The sequence reunites McEntire with the staff behind her eponymous 2001 sitcom, together with showrunner Kevin Abbott, and co-star Melissa Peterman. Belissa Escobedo, Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk and Rex Linn spherical out the forged of the sequence, which is produced in-house at Common Tv. Exec producers embrace Abbott, Michael Hanel, Mindy Schultheis, Julie Abbott and McEntire.
Lopez vs. Lopez, additionally produced in-house at Common TV, not too long ago wrapped its second season and stars Lopez alongside his real-life daughter, Mayan Lopez. The sequence reached almost 10 million whole viewers throughout all platforms, with NBC noting it’s the highest-indexing broadcast program amongst English-dominant Hispanic households. The sequence is exec produced by co-creator and showrunner Debby Wolfe alongside The Connors’ Bruce Helford, 3 Arts’ Michael Rotenberg and Katie Newman.
Prolonged Household, for its half, was ordered to sequence in September 2022. The multicamera comedy, from producers Lionsgate Tv and Common TV, was created by Mike O’Malley and starred broadcast favourite Cryer alongside Donald Faison and Abigail Spencer.
With the order for Joyful’s Place, NBC now has 4 new sequence on faucet for the 2024-25 broadcast season and with the McEntire automobile becoming a member of the Zachary Quinto-led medical drama Good Minds (previously Dr. Wolf), Wendi McClendon-Covey mockumentary St. Denis Medical and procedural The Looking Social gathering. These will assist fill the voids created by the cancellations of Prolonged Household and the conclusions of La Brea and Magnum P.I. (Regulation & Order: Organized Crime will transfer to Peacock as an unique.)
Drama pilots Fits L.A. and Grosse Level Backyard Society have but to movie, with selections on the fates of each made after subsequent week’s displays.
For her half, McEntire is a confirmed star and TV draw, an necessary factor as broadcast networks and streamers alike search for broad programming that may not solely break by way of a crowded panorama but in addition journey globally.
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