Wednesday, March 13, 2024
CBS Renews Ghosts and Fire Country; Apple TV+ Orders Owen Wilson Comedy
CBS announced the comedy series Ghosts and drama Fire Country have been renewed for the 2024-2025 season. Ghosts streaming viewership is up +64% year over year and ranked as the #1 comedy on Paramount+ in February. The season three premiere of Ghosts was the series' most-watched episode ever on a Live+SD basis. Ghosts airs on Thursdays at 8:30-9:00 PM, ET/PT. Streaming viewership has more than doubled for Fire Country and is a top six series on Paramount+ and ranked as the #4 drama on the service in the month of February. The series is a time period winner and a key part of CBS' Friday night lineup. Fire Country airs on Fridays at 9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT. Both seriies air on the CBS Television Network and are available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after it airs). Both series are produced by CBS Studios.
Ghosts stars Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar as a couple that inherits a rundown mansion in upstate New York that they decide to convert into a bed & breakfast. Brandon Scott Jones, Richie Moriarty, Danielle Pinnock, Asher Grodman, Román Zaragoza, Sheila Carrasco, Rebecca Wisocky and Devon Chandler Long also star. Fire Country stars Max Thieriot, as Bode Donovan, a young convict seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining a prison release firefighting program in Northern California, where he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires across the region. Billy Burke, Kevin Alejandro, Diane Farr, Stephanie Arcila, Jordan Calloway and Jules Latimer also star.
Apple TV+ announced it will expand its award-winning comedy slate with a new 10-episode comedy starring and executive produced by Owen Wilson (Loki, The Royal Tenenbaums, Midnight in Paris) and created, written by and executive produced by Jason Keller (Ford v Ferrari). Starring Wilson in the lead role, the comedy follows Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago. After he gets fired from his job at an Indiana sporting goods store and his wife walks out on him, Pryce hedges his bets entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom.
Hailing from Apple Studios, the untiled series will be directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Fleishman is in Trouble, Little Miss Sunshine, Battle of the Sexes), and executive produced by Propagate Content's Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens and Rodney Ferrell, Entertainment 360's Guymon Casady, Piece of Work's Lee Eisenberg and Natalie Sandy, Chris Moynihan, Keller and Wilson. The new series joins an expanding offering of global hit, Apple Original comedies including the multi Emmy Award-winning phenomenon Ted Lasso, as well as Emmy Award-nominated Shrinking, acclaimed returning series Platonic and Loot, and the highly anticipated, star-studded Palm Royale.
Sitcoms Airing Tonight / Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows
Wednesday, March 11
Scrubs - "My Poker Face" (ABC, 8:00PM ET/PT)
To relive their glory days, J.D. plans a poker night with Turk. Elsewhere, competition brews between the medical and surgical interns, while Elliot decides how to handle a social media-obsessed patient.
Abbott Elementary - "Safety Day" (ABC, 8:30PM ET/PT)
An antidrug campaign visits the school, and Jacob is outraged by an unfair district election.
Tyler Perry's House of Payne - "The Package" (BET, 8:00PM ET/PT) (Repeat)
Kaleb is putting extreme pressure on Jazmine to have sex with him for her first time but Calvin comes in and rains on their parade.
Tyler Perry's Assisted Living - "The Secret Ingredients" (BET, 8:30PM ET/PT)
Leah becomes increasingly jealous of Sandra and Anastasia's relationship; the residents compete for the crown in a special baking competition.
Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of March 9)
Wednesday, March 11
- Pete Holmes (How We Roll/Crashing) - Watch Pete on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at 11:35pm on CBS.
- Max Amini (Real Rob) - Max is a guest on Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen at 12:37am on CBS.
- Jamie Lee Curtis (The Sticky/Anything But Love/Operation Petticoat) - Jamie Lee talks about Scarpetta on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am.
- Jennifer Lopez (South Central) - Jennifer discusses her Las Vegas residency with Juju Chang on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am and on ABC's GMA 3: What You Need to Know at 1pm.
- Valerie Bertinelli (Hot in Cleveland/Cafe Americain/Sydney/One Day at a Time) - Valerie talks about her new book Getting Naked with the ladies of The View on ABC at 11am ET/10am CT-PT.
- Lauren Graham (The Z-Suite/M.Y.O.B./Conrad Bloom/Townies/Good Company) - Lauren talks about Reminders of Him on NBC's Today sometime between 7-9am.
- Adam DeVine (The Righteous Gemstones/Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin/Workaholics/Modern Family) - NBC's Today catches up with Adam in the 10am hour.
- Marcus Scribner (grown-ish/black-ish) - Marcus tells Sherri about his new film In Starland on Sherri, so check your local listings.
- Will Forte (The Four Seasons/HouseBroken/MacGruber/The Last Man on Earth/The Cleveland Show) and D'Arcy Carden (Barry/The Good Place) - Will and D'Arcy talks about Stan's Sunny Nights on Access Daily with Mario & Kit, so check your local listings.
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