Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Jenna Elfman Cast in New NBC Mid-Season Comedy; ABC Family's 5th Annual Summer Crush Event
Jenna Elfman is staying at NBC. She has been cast in the upcoming NBC comedy Growing Up Fisher (formerly titled as The Family Guide). Elfman will play the role of Joyce Fisher (replacing the previously cast Parker Posey), the wife of Mel Fisher (J.K. Simmons) - the proud family patriarch who does not let his blindness affect him as a father, husband and breadwinner. Elfman recently appeared on NBC's 1600 Penn this past season as the First Lady and is best known for her role on Dharma and Greg, for which she garnered a Golden Globe Award, three Emmy Award nominations. Elfman also starred on two short-lived CBS sitcoms: Courting Alex and Accidentally on Purpose. Growing Up Fisher is from Universal Television and Aggregate Films. It is executive produced by DJ Nash, Jim Garavente and Jason Bateman, who also serves as narrator. The series will premiere in midseason 2014 for NBC.
On Monday, July 29th, ABC Family launches "Summer Crush," the network's fifth annual 10-day long summer programming event filled with all-day marathons, movies and all-new episodes of its original series Switched At Birth, The Fosters, Pretty Little Liars, Twisted, The Vineyard, Melissa & Joey, Baby Daddy and upcoming series Spell-Mageddon. Plus, the network television premieres of films Prom and So Undercover and the ABC Family premiere of 17 Again. Among the storylines we will see are a new crush fo Mel on Melissa & Joey: When his apartment needs to undergo emergency renovations, Mel invites her new boyfriend Noah (guest star Justin Hartley) to temporarily move in with her, accelerating their relationship. While on Baby Daddy, Ben is doing whatever his girlfriend says: Ben dog-sits for his girlfriend, and the dog is stolen on his watch. Both of those episodes will air on the final day of the ABC Family event on Aug. 7.
Sitcoms Airing Tonight / Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows
Tuesday, June 10
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Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of June 9)
Tuesday, June 10
- Will Arnett (Murderville/Arrested Development/Flaked/The Millers/Up All Night/Running Wilde), Jason Bateman (Arrested Development/George and Leo/Chicago Sons/Simon/The Hogan Family/It's Your Move/Silver Spoons) and Sean Hayes (Will & Grace/The Millers/Sean Saves the World) - Catch Will, Jason and Sean on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
- Yakov Smirnoff (What a Country!/Night Court) - Yakov appears on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
- Affion Crockett (First Wives Club) and Milana Vayntrub (Other Space) - Affion and Milana are guests on After Midnight at 12:37am on CBS.
- Bryan Cranston (Malcolm in the Middle/The Louie Show) - Bryan is a guest on Comedy Central's The Daily Show at 11pm. He also talks about Everything Is Going to Be Great on NBC's Today sometime between 7-9am.
- George Takei (Supah Ninjas) - George talks about his new graphic novel It Rhymes With Takei on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am and on ABC's GMA 3: What You Need to Know at 1pm.
- Jenny Slate (The Great North/Big Mouth/Married/Bob's Burgers) - Jenny stops by to talk FX's Dying for Sex on Live with Kelly and Mark, so check your local listings.
- Nick Kroll (Big Mouth/The League/Cavemen) and Andrew Rannells (Girls/The New Normal) - Nick and Andrew talk about I Don’t Understand You on NBC's Today in the 10am hour.
- Keke Palmer (Scream Queens/True Jackson, VP) - Keke is telling Drew all about her new book, Master of Me, on a repeat of The Drew Barrymore Show, so check your local listings.
- Jim Jeffries (Legit) - Jim talks about Fox's The Snake on Access Daily with Mario & Kit, so check your local listings.
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