SitcomsOnline Digest: NBC Developing Serendipity Series; Designing Women Making Streaming Media Debut

Saturday, August 24, 2019

SitcomsOnline Digest: NBC Developing Serendipity Series; Designing Women Making Streaming Media Debut

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! We've made it to the last week of August and it already feels like fall in some places, which means that an exciting new fall TV season is coming (or it could be a bust, who knows?). It's a slow news week, but we've got news of a new series under development at NBC, a Dancing with the Stars contestant that even the host publicly disapproves of, and more. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

NBC has been interested in creating series based upon movies from decades ago lately, and this now under consideration is a series based upon the 2001 movie Serendipity. (Deadline)
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer is going to be on Dancing with the Stars, but it probably isn't going to be a good experience for him since even the host of the show, Tom Bergeron, has chosen to publicly speak out against including him. (BuzzFeed News)
Netflix has ordered a new series called The Brews Brothers, a comedy about two estranged brothers who come together again to start their own brewery. (Variety)
Antenna TV has acquired several new series that will begin airing in January, including Diff'rent Strokes and Who's the Boss? (coming fall 2020). (SitcomsOnline)

WEEKLY PLANNER (AUGUST 24 - AUGUST 30)

Every episode of Designing Women arrives on Hulu on Monday.
Decades has 77 Sunset Strip all this weekend, for a second weekend in a row.
On Becoming a God in Central Florida, a new comedy starring Kirsten Dunst, debuts Sunday on Showtime.

Posted by Skees -- SitcomsOnline.com at 1:00 PM

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