SitcomsOnline Digest: Amazon Gets Streaming Rights to Mad Men; Too Close for Comfort on Pluto TV

Saturday, July 04, 2020

SitcomsOnline Digest: Amazon Gets Streaming Rights to Mad Men; Too Close for Comfort on Pluto TV

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! It's a bit of a slow news week due to the holiday, but we have a few things for you, including Amazon picking up Mad Men streaming rights, Too Close for Comfort on Pluto TV, and more. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

Amazon has picked up the steaming rights to Mad Men. (Deadline)
Once again, current events are affecting classic TV series, with Hulu removing a Golden Girls episode with a blackface joke that wasn't exactly blackface. (Vulture)
Don't worry about Days of Our Lives, the series is set to return to production on September 1. (Deadline)
The first guest hosts for Jimmy Kimmel's vacation have been announced. (TVLine)
Hugh Downs, who is known for sitting next to Barbara Walters throughout the 90s on 20/20 (right after TGIF), has died at age 99. (CNN)
Carl Reiner died this past week, and there are plenty of tributes to him planned (including one that aired on CBS last night). (SitcomsOnline)

WEEKLY PLANNER (JULY 4- JULY 10)

Syfy may have abandoned their tradition of showing Twilight Zone during Independence Day weekend, but Decades has you covered if you want that.
Too Close for Comfort is available to watch now on TV Land Sitcoms, but not the cable channel, but the free streaming version on Pluto TV.

Sitcoms Airing Tonight / Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows

Sunday, October 26

Krapopolis - "Ty Died" (Fox, 7:00PM ET/PT) (Repeat)
Ty is tired of his family thinking he's not important enough to be assassinated.

The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XXXV" (Fox, 7:30PM ET/PT) (Repeat)
Giant monsters created by political rage threaten to tear the town apart; a Victorian Mr. Burns is jump-scared on Thanksgiving by the ghosts of his abused workers; Homer bonds with a pair of extra-terrestrial jeans.

The Simpsons - "Men Behaving Manly" (Fox, 8:00PM ET/PT)
Springfield's men are in crisis.

Universal Basic Guys - "Down the Shore" (Fox, 8:30PM ET/PT)
The Hoagies go down the shore; Tammy tries to make amends with her estranged sister.

Krapopolis - "There's Something About Viscera" (Fox, 9:00PM ET/PT)
Shlub's Endless Wine, Cheese, and Pita Festival causes a famine; Stupendous and Deliria have a girls weekend.

Bob's Burgers - "The Skids in the Hall" (Fox, 9:30PM ET/PT)
Louise and Gene try to help Tina clear her name after she is fired as a hall monitor.

Electric Bloom - "How We (Sorta) Got Our First Big Break: Part One" (Disney Channel, 8:00PM ET/PT)
The girls get a potentially life-changing audition, but get asked to perform at a wedding at the exact same time; what do they do?

Electric Bloom - "How We (Sorta) Got Our First Big Break: Part Two" (Disney Channel, 8:30PM ET/PT)
Electric Bloom gets the opportunity of a lifetime, to meet with a famous music producer; the experience is not at all what they expected.

Complete TV Listings

Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of October 20)

Sunday, October 26