Saturday, November 22, 2025
SitcomsOnline Digest: Disney+ Offers New Simpsons Streaming Channel; Final Eight Unaired Episodes of Joey on YouTube
Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! This week, we are hearing about a new streaming channel for an animated favorite, more about a media merger, and more. Let's get going!
HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB
- Disney+ is now offering a streaming channel featuring (almost) every episode of The Simpsons, though "Stark Raving Dad" (aka the Michael Jackson episode) is still missing. (ScreenRant)
- In today's journey in "media mergers gone mad," we're learning that Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast have all expressed an interest in acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery. (Hollywood Reporter)
- If you want to see the final eight episodes of the Friends spinoff Joey, which surprisingly never made it to even DVD (at least not in the US) despite airing in the prime era of TV on DVD, they are finally available for the first time ever on the official Friends YouTube channel. (Deadline)
- We're learning who'll host the final three episodes of Saturday Night Live for 2025, and one of them has the musical guest Cher (though it is disappointing that they couldn't have gotten her for the weekend that Daylight Saving Time ended so that she could sing her iconic "If I Could Turn Back Time" just before 1 AM). (Hollywood Reporter)
- HBO has renewed a pair of comedy series. (SitcomsOnline)
- As we previously mentioned, the entire series of Joey is available to stream on YouTube, and you can also catch the new channel for The Simpsons on Disney+.
- There is a Catchy Binge of Everybody Loves Raymond on Catchy Comedy tomorrow.
- That, of course, leads into Monday night's Everybody Loves Raymond: 30th Anniversary Reunion, that will air on CBS.
- Antenna TV has a Wings marathon that starts Wednesday and goes all weekend long.
- Like a kid torn between parents for a custody battle, Family Guy (which normally airs on Fox) has a new special, "Disney's Hulu's Family Guy's Hallmark Channel's Lifetime's Familiar Holiday Movie," which will debut Friday on Hulu.
- The final season of Bel-Air arrives Monday on Peacock.
- A new season of It's Florida, Man starts Friday on HBO.
Sitcoms Airing Tonight / Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows
Sunday, December 14
Universal Basic Guys - "Two Marks" (Fox, 8:00PM ET/PT)
Mark enrolls in a dangerous science experiment to win a Super Bowl ticket.
The Simpsons - "Parahormonal Activity" (Fox, 8:30PM ET/PT)
Set in the near future, Marge is competently coping with the hormonal onslaught hitting her now teenage kids.
Krapopolis - "Vengeance Will Be Nine" (Fox, 9:00PM ET/PT)
A determined child enlists Stupendous to track down her father's killer; Tyrannis agrees to pose as Viscera's boyfriend.
Bob's Burgers - "It's a Stunterful Life" (Fox, 9:30PM ET/PT)
The kids get caught up in a stunt competition at a Christmas tree farm; Bob decorates cookies for Santa; Linda tries to find every tree a home.
Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of December 8)
Friday, December 12
- Tim Allen (Shifting Gears/Last Man Standing/Home Improvement) - Watch Tim on a repeat of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
- Daniel Radcliffe (Miracle Workers) - Daniel is a guest on a repeat of Late Night with Seth Meyers at 12:36am on NBC.
- Taran Killam (Stumble/Single Parents) - Taran appears on a repeat of Late Night with Seth Meyers at 12:36am on NBC.
- Harland Williams (The Geena Davis Show/Simon) - Harland is a guest on a repeat of Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen at 12:37am on CBS.
- Samuel Arnold (Emily in Paris) and Bruno Gouery (Emily in Paris) - Samuel and Bruno talk about Emily in Paris on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am and on ABC's GMA 3: What You Need to Know at 1pm.
- Alia Shawkat (Search Party/Arrested Development) - Alia talks about Atropia on ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis at 7pm.
- John Stamos (Palm Royale/UnPrisoned/Fuller House/Grandfathered/Jake in Progress/Full House/You, Again?) - John talks about Palm Royale on NBC's Today sometime between 7-9am.
- Brooke Shields (Suddenly Susan) - Brooke co-hosts NBC's Today in the 10am hour.
- Zooey Deschanel (Physical/New Girl) - Zooey talks about Merv on NBC's Today in the 10am hour.
- Mario Lopez (Saved by the Bell/Saved by the Bell: The College Years) - Mario tells Sherri about his new holiday film The Christmas Spark on Sherri, so check your local listings.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
01/28 - Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
02/04 - The Wayans Bros. - The Complete Series (DVD)
03/11 - Frasier (2023) - Season Two (DVD)
04/01 - Abbott Elementary - The Complete Third Season (DVD)
05/13 - The Drew Carey Show - The Complete Series* (missing 4 episodes and some music has been replaced or altered)
06/06 - Shoresy - Season 2 (DVD)
06/17 - Looney Tunes - Collector's Vault - Volume 1 (Blu-ray)
07/22 - Bewitched - The Complete Series - 60th Anniversary Special Edition (Blu-ray)
08/26 - The Huckleberry Hound Show - The Complete Original Series (Blu-ray)
10/07 - Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage - The Complete First Season (DVD)
10/14 - Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) (DVD)
10/28 - St. Denis Medical - Season One (Blu-ray) (DVD)
11/04 - Happy's Place - Season One (Blu-ray) (DVD)
11/11 - Rick and Morty - Season 8 (Blu-ray) (DVD)
11/11 - SpongeBob SquarePants - The Complete Fifteenth Season (DVD)
11/11 - Two and a Half Men - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
12/02 - Tom and Jerry - The Golden Era Anthology (1940-1958) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
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