SitcomsOnline Digest: NBC Sets Summer Plans; Saturday Night Live to Live Up to Its Name From Coast to Coast

Saturday, March 18, 2017

SitcomsOnline Digest: NBC Sets Summer Plans; Saturday Night Live to Live Up to Its Name From Coast to Coast

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! We've got a busy news week this week as everybody is preparing for pilot season (including Amazon), we're hearing about summer plans from NBC, and more. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

NBC has their summer plans set, which includes the debut of a new sitcom starring Marlon Wayans and the third season of The Carmichael Show. (Deadline)
Saturday Night Live is seeing ratings soar to levels it hasn't seen in decades this season, and to milk those ratings for all that they're worth, NBC is doing two big things in the next few months, including airing all of the remaining episodes for the season live in all continental US time zones beginning in April and airing a Weekend Update primetime spinoff (which has been done before) in the summer. (Vanity Fair)
Amazon's pilot season, where Prime members can see pilots of potential new series to be added to the Prime streaming service and decide which ones get picked up as a full series, kicked off yesterday. (Entertainment Weekly)
Yvette Nicole Brown has been cast in a new ABC pilot, which leaves a few questions unanswered about the fate of the yet-to-be-renewed Odd Couple. (Deadline)
John Larroquette is looking to make a comeback in a comedy for CBS, which would also star Bobby Moynihan (who would almost certainly need to leave Saturday Night Live if the series is picked up) playing the same character that Larroquette is playing at a younger age. (TV Guide)
Logo, which used to be a channel devoted to LGBT viewers and has somehow evolved into a station that airs reruns of RuPaul's Drag Race one week after they debut on VH-1 (after previously being the home for original episodes of the series) and airing more classic sitcoms than TV Land, continues to become a classic sitcom destination with the addition of One Day at a Time. (SitcomsOnline)

TUESDAY (MARCH 21) HOME MEDIA RELEASES

Master of None - Season One (DVD, $22.98): The Netflix comedy staring Aziz Ansari arrives on DVD in this release.

FOLLOW ME

Who to Follow: John Larroquette (Twitter), "An actor by trade. A clown by vocation."

Claim to Fame: John Larroquette has had an extensive sitcom career, and this week, it was announced that he is part of a CBS pilot that may be airing in the fall if the network chooses to pick it up. His first role was on the series Black Sheep Squadron, but he really shined in his second series, Night Court, where he played district attorney Dan Fielding. Following that series, he starred in the somewhat less remembered (though it did air for four seasons) sitcom The John Larroquette Show. His next role came on the not-so-successful sitcom Happy Family. In the late 2000s, he moved away from sitcoms to appear in several episodes of Boston Legal, and currently he can be seen on The Librarians.

Pick of the Tweets: "Good to have my library card renewed. #TheLibrarians rides again. Voodoo donuts for all my friends." (February 12, 2015)

Sitcoms Airing Tonight

Wednesday, July 17

grown-ish - "Nice for What" (Freeform, 8:00PM ET/PT)
Zoey, Ana and Nomi each take a small stand for their own happiness.

Florida Girls - "Sunday Chunky Sunday" (Pop, 10:00PM ET/PT)
Jayla ditches the girls to attend a fancy business luncheon; Kaitlin, Shelby and Erica's insecurities begin to cause problems at a neighborhood barbecue.

Florida Girls - "Are We on a Church Trip?!" (Pop, 10:30PM ET/PT)
Shelby launches a plan to get the girls to turn their lives around by tricking them into attending a church trip before they blow their newly won scratcher money.

Just Roll with It - "Karate Wars IV: Dawn of the Karate Wars" (Disney Channel, 8:00PM ET/PT)
When Owen and Blair compete against each other in a karate tournament, Byron and Rachel face the awkward situation of supporting both kids without choosing sides in their new family dynamic.

Younger - "Stiff Competition" (TV Land, 10:00PM ET/PT)
Liza and Charles use competiton to spice up their relationship. Kelsey and Diana question Liza’s loyalty. Josh reaps the perks of going viral.

Complete TV Listings

Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of July 15)

Wednesday, July 17

Lenny Clarke (Are You There, Chelsea?/The Winner/It's All Relative/The John Larroquette Show/Lenny) - Watch Lenny on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
Joel McHale (Community/The Great Indoors) - Joel visits The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:34pm on NBC.
Marc Maron (GLOW/Maron) - Marc stops by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:34pm on NBC.
Sofia Vergara (Modern Family/The Knights of Prosperity/Hot Properties) - Sofia appears on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at 11:35pm on CBS.
David Cross (Arrested Development/Running Wilde/Oliver Beene) - David drops by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at 11:35pm on CBS.
Rebel Wilson (Super Fun Night) - Rebel is a guest on a repeat of The Late Late Show with James Corden at 12:37am on CBS.
Jemima Kirke (Girls) - Jemima appears on a repeat of Last Call with Carson Daly at 1:35am on NBC.
Avan Jogia (Victorious) - Avan is a guest on a repeat of Last Call with Carson Daly at 1:35am on NBC.
Bill Hader (Conan) - Bill stops by Conan at 11pm on TBS.
Kristin Chenoweth (Trial & Error/Kristin) - Kristin chats on a repeat of The Talk on CBS at 2pm ET/1pm CT-PT.
The Cast of The Big Bang Theory - Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik are guests on a repeat of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, so check your local listings.
Gabriel Iglesias (Mr. Iglesias/Cristela) - Gabriel appears on a repeat of The Real, so check your local listings.
Rob Riggle (Rob Riggle's Ski Master Academy/Golan the Insatiable/Gary Unmarried) - Rob talks about ABC's Holey Moley! on Access Live, so check your local listings.