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
Friday, October 30
Happy's Place - "Skeletons in the Closet" (NBC, 8:00PM ET/PT)
Unresolved feelings about their late father arise when Bobbie and Isabella put a photo of Happy on their ofrenda for Día de los Muertos; Emmett tries to avoid Gabby's Halloween pranks at all costs.
Newlyweds - "My Place or Yours" (NBC, 8:30PM ET/PT)
A free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up professor shake up their lives when they unexpectedly get married after a whirlwind courtship.
Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of October 26)
Friday, October 30
- Kate Berlant (Ghosted/Search Party) - Watch Kate on a repeat of Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
- Kristen Bell (Nobody Wants This/Central Park/The Good Place) - Kristen appears on a repeat of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
- Joe Manganiello (Mythic Quest/How I Met Your Mother) - Joe is a guest on a repeat of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
- Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) - Quinta appears on a repeat of Late Night with Seth Meyers at 12:36am on NBC.
- Natasha Leggero (Broke/Dice/Another Period/Free Agents) and Tommy Davidson (The Varnell Hill Show/The Proud Family/Malcolm & Eddie/Between Brothers) - Natasha and Tommy will be on a repeat of Funny You Should Ask at 12:37am on CBS.
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep/The New Adventures of Old Christine/Watching Ellie/Seinfeld/Day by Day) and Allison Janney (Mom/Mr. Sunshine) - Julia and Allison talk about Broadway's Other Desert Cities on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am.
- Jerry O'Connell (We Are Men/Do Not Disturb/Carpoolers/My Secret Identity) - Jerry appears on Live with Kelly and Mark, so check your local listings.
- Sophia Bush (Partners) - Sophia talks about And I Will Tell You Mine: Notes from a Life in Progress on ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis at 7pm.
- Sherri Shepherd (Mr. Iglesias/Trial & Error/Sherri/Less Than Perfect/Suddenly Susan) - Sherri talks about Broadway's Aladdin on CBS Mornings sometime between 7-9am.
- Karyn Parsons (The Job/Lush Life/The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) - Karyn discusses her new novel, Blue Beach, and her iconic role as Hilary Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on Tamron Hall, so check your local listings.
- Marilu Henner (Taxi/Evening Shade) - Marilu is a guest on New York Living on WPIX in New York.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
01/20/26 - The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Golden Age Collection (Blu-ray)
01/27/26 - The New Fred and Barney Show - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
02/11/26 - Tom and Jerry - The Complete CinemaScope Collection (Blu-ray)
03/24/26 - Looney Tunes Collector's Vault - Volume 2 (Blu-ray)
04/11/26 - Abbott Elementary - The Complete Fourth Season (DVD)
04/21/26 - Famous Studios Champion Collection (Blu-ray) (DVD)
05/19/26 - I Love Lucy - The Complete Series - 75th Anniversary Edition (DVD)
05/19/26 - Looney Tunes Cartoons - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) (DVD)
06/16/26 - Difficult People - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
06/30/26 - Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
07/14/26 - The Office - The Complete Series - Superfan Extended Episodes (Blu-ray)
07/28/26 - The Bill Dana Show - The Complete Series (DVD)
07/28/26 - I Love Lucy - The Complete Series - 75th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray)
07/28/26 - The Paper - Season One (Blu-ray) (DVD)
08/25/26 - Perfect Strangers - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) (DVD)
09/08/26 - Looney Tunes Collector's Vault - Volume 3 (Blu-ray)
09/22/26 - Bridget Loves Bernie - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
10/20/26 - The Quick Draw McGraw Show - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
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