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SitcomsOnline Digest: Frankie Muniz Shares Photo Outside Studio for Malcolm in the Middle Reboot; Warner Bros. Discovery Still Looking for New Owner

 Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! The news isn't moving fast again this week, but we've got a little for you. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

• It may not be so much newsworthy, but Frankie Muniz has shared a photo of himself and two of his TV series brothers from outside the studio for the Malcolm in the Middle reboot, which will be arriving in December. (Hollywood Reporter)
• Paramount would like to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, but it seems that Warner Bros. Discovery is rejecting their offers. (Deadline)
• The Stranger Things series finale will air in theaters, simultaneously with the release on Netflix, on December 31. (Hollywood Reporter)
• Have you noticed local news has gotten a little less... local? Because it has. (Cord Cutters News)
• The wait time between theater to home video to broadcast TV for movies used to take years, but NBC is about to collapse that as they air last year's Wicked in primetime next month. (Variety)
• Here Come the Brides is headed to FETV. (SitcomsOnline)

• Catchy Comedy has a binge of The Flying Nun tomorrow.
• We repeat this every year (because it has become an annual thing), but for Halloween, Antenna TV has a Bewitched marathon and Rewind TV has a Sabrina, the Teenage Witch marathon.
• Similarly, COZI has their annual marathon of The Munsters on Friday evening, though a new one joining it is a marathon of the series Friday morning on FETV.

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Labels: Bewitched, Flying Nun, Here Come the Brides, Malcolm in the Middle, Paramount, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Stranger Things, The Munsters, Warner Bros

HBO's Harry Potter Series; Classic TV Comes to Life in NYC

The HBO Original Harry Potter series has cast six-time Emmy(R), two-time Tony Award(R), Olivier winner, and BAFTA and Oscar(R) nominee John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore; Tony Award(R), Golden Globe(R), and Olivier winner, and Oscar(R) and Emmy(R) nominee, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall; Emmy(R), Olivier, and BAFTA nominee Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape; and BIFA nominee Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid. All will serve as series regulars. Newly announced guest/recurring cast include Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell and five-time BAFTA winner Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch.

The series will be a faithful adaptation of the beloved Harry Potter book series by author and executive producer J.K. Rowling and will feature an exciting and talented cast to lead a new generation of fandom, full of the fantastic detail and much-loved characters Harry Potter fans have adored for over 25 years. Exploring every corner of the wizarding world, each season will bring Harry Potter and its incredible adventures to new and existing audiences and will stream exclusively on Max where it's available globally, including upcoming markets such as Turkey, the UK, Germany, and Italy, among others. The original, classic, and cherished films will remain at the core of the franchise and available to watch around the world.

Classic TV Comes to Life: Television Treasures from the Dr. Stewart Berkowitz Collection from Wednesday, April 16, 2025 – Sunday, May 25, 2025 at The Paley Museum, 25 West 52 Street, NYC. Long before the internet, smartphones, and personal computers, nothing captured our collective imagination and wonder like classic television series. Beloved shows like I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Happy Days were touchstones for several generations of Americans. From Lucy Ricardo to Ralph Kramden to Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, these characters helped shape our childhoods—and our lives. Now The Paley Museum invites you to experience your favorite classic TV shows with life-size figures in authentic costumes. PLUS the set from The Tonight Starring Johnny Carson.

This exclusive exhibit features rare treasures from the collection of the late Dr. Stewart Berkowitz, who turned his love for the TV shows from his youth into a passion for collecting. Dr. Berkowitz spent decades combing the country and lovingly assembling the costumes, props, and artifacts from his most-adored programs, including The Honeymooners (his favorite show of all time), The Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Love Boat, The Flying Nun, and Happy Days. As Dr. Berkowitz collected these rare and essential costumes of TV history, he helped bring them to life by commissioning stunning life-like mannequins from designer Greg Maraio.

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Labels: Flying Nun, Happy Days, HBO, I Love Lucy, Paley Center, The Honeymooners, The Love Boat, Tonight Show

SitcomsOnline Digest: Premiere Date for Mid-Century Modern Set; Roseanne Remastered in High Definition

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! This week, we're hearing about a premiere date for a Hulu series, the remastering of Roseanne in high definition, and more. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

• A premiere date has been set for Mid-Century Modern. (Deadline)
• Roseanne has been remastered in high definition, and those episodes will begin appearing on TV broadcasts in the next few days. (MSN)
• Some Boy Meets World unsettled drama is apparently still unsettled decades later. (Entertainment Weekly)
• We've mentioned many times that NBC is spinning off most of their cable networks (aside from Bravo), but will this bring the networks back to their previous glory or is it just the next step toward the end of cable TV as we know it? (Variety)
• Lester Holt is leaving NBC Nightly News in the summer, but will remain with Dateline. (NBC )
• The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will remain on NBC for at least 10 more years. (Variety)
• There are a lot of former TV stars that we're remembering this week. (SitcomsOnline)

WEEKLY PLANNER (MARCH 1 - MARCH 7)

• Tomorrow's binge on Catchy Comedy is The Flying Nun.
• ABC's Thursday night programs return for new episodes next week.
• A new season of The Amazing Race arrives Wednesday on CBS.

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Labels: Boy Meets World, Flying Nun, Mid-Century Modern, NBC, Roseanne, SitcomsOnline Digest

SitcomsOnline Digest: Daytime TV Changes Again with Cancellation of Two Long-Running Judge Shows; Arrested Development Leaving Netflix

  Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! This week, we have more on the rapidly changing landscape of daytime TV (including the cancellation of the last two remaining major judge shows from the 90s), news of a new cohost for Kelly Ripa, and more. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

• A Starsky & Hutch remake at Fox? It is under development at the moment. (Hollywood Reporter)
• We have been talking about how daytime TV, which hasn't really had a whole lot of changes in decades, has been changing a lot lately, and now can officially say that the final vestiges of 90s daytime TV glory are gone, as Warner has canceled both Judge Mathis and The People's Court. (Variety)
• Meanwhile, even though the show has come a long way from where it started as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, Live with Kelly and Ryan is going through some changes too, as Ryan Seacrest is out and Ripa's husband, Mark Conseulos, will be replacing him. (Variety)
• Since Warner Bros. Discovery is too cheap to make anything new, they're going to try edited reruns of Silicon Valley and True Blood on TBS and TNT, starting today. (Deadline)
• Although the seasons fans truly liked will remain on Hulu, Arrested Development is leaving Netflix in March, and it is unclear what will happen with the seasons that were produced by and exclusive to Netflix. (Deadline)
• Amber Ruffin is headed to the NBC primetime lineup. (SitcomsOnline)

WEEKLY PLANNER (FEBRUARY 18 - FEBRUARY 24)

• Decades is having a "Field Day" this weekend with marathons of Sally Field series from the Screen Gems era, including Gidget, The Flying Nun, and The Girl with Something Extra.
• Magnum P.I. is back with a new network (NBC) tomorrow night.
• A new season of Bel-Air arrives Thursday on Peacock.
• Starz brings back Party Down on Friday.

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Labels: Arrested Development, Flying Nun, Gidget, Kelly Ripa, Silicon Valley, SitcomsOnline Digest, True Blood

SitcomsOnline Digest: HBO Max Acquires Young Sheldon; Simpsons Now Available in Original Aspect Ratio on Disney+

• No premiere date has been given yet, but HBO Max has acquired Young Sheldon. (Variety) 
• HBO Max launched this week, but it still isn't available for two of the most popular streaming devices. (Vulture)
• The Simpsons is now streaming in the original aspect ratio on Disney+, but if you want to watch the widescreen versions, they allow you to do that too as a new feature. (Deadline) 
• MyNetworkTV has announced their fall lineup, and if you don't feel like clicking, we can summarize it as "reruns of NBC's successful series." (Deadline)
• It may be 16 years old now and isn't talked about quite as much as it was in the first decade of the century, but Grey's Anatomy is still attracting big audiences. (Deadline)
• Marge Redmond, who played Sister Jacqueline on The Flying Nun, has died at age 95. (The Verge)
• Fraggle Rock is about to be rebooted on Apple TV+. (SitcomsOnline)

• The final season of Fuller House will wrap up this week on Netflix.
  
• Also on Netflix, you can watch the new Steve Carell comedy series Space Force, which is already streaming.
• Decades has a Matlock marathon going this weekend.

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Labels: Flying Nun, Grey's Anatomy, HBO Max, MyNetwork TV, SitcomsOnline Digest, The Simpsons, Young Sheldon

Saturday Summer-thons Return to Antenna TV; Comedy Central Orders More The President Show

It's back! Spend your summer weekends with Antenna TV's "Saturday Summer-thons," featuring a marathon of a classic TV sitcom every Saturday between June 3 and September 2. The marathons will air from 1pm to 10pm [Eastern Time] and will feature fan-favorite episodes from the Antenna TV sitcoms that viewers love. Shows featured include Mork & Mindy, What's Happening!!, Webster, One Day at a Time, 227 and the 50th anniversary marathon of The Flying Nun! The full lineup is below:

6/3: Mork & Mindy
6/10: The Monkees
6/17: Good Times
6/24: Sanford and Son
7/1: What's Happening!!
7/8: My Two Dads
7/15: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
7/22: One Day at a Time
7/29: Webster
8/5: Doogie Howser, M.D.
8/12: The Jeffersons
8/19: Newhart
8/26: 227
9/2: The Flying Nun (50th anniversary!)

In a sweeping victory, Comedy Central has extended the inaugural season of The President Show for an additional seven episodes. Created by Anthony Atamanuik who hosts as Donald J. Trump, and produced by Clone Wolf Productions and 3 Arts Entertainment, this weekly, topical late night series airs on Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT. In the world of The President Show, Trump is bypassing the crooked media by hosting a late-night show direct from the Oval Office. No unfair questions from reporters, no awkward photo ops with German ladies, and no bedtimes. Just a fun show where he can put his unique Trumpian spin on such late-night staples as desk segments, field pieces and guest interviews. Vice President Mike Pence is featured as his sidekick, played by Peter Grosz. The President Show airs weekly on Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT following The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and available to stream the following day on cc.com/thepresidentshow and the Comedy Central App.

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Labels: Antenna TV, Bob Newhart Show, Comedy Central, Doogie Howser MD, Flying Nun, Good Times, Mork & Mindy, My Two Dads, One Day at a Time, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, The Monkees, Webster, What's Happening

Antenna TV Kicks Off with Flying Nun on Super Bowl Sunday; Episodic Review: Parks and Recreation - "Ann and Chris" Airing Tonight on NBC

Why watch a football field when you can watch Sally Field? On Sunday, February 2, Antenna TV will "kick off" a Flying Nun 16-hour marathon (featuring 32 episodes of the classic '60s sitcom) beginning at 11am ET only on Antenna TV. The series airs regularly on Antenna TV every Sunday morning at 11am & 11:30am ET. Antenna TV, which airs on 84 affiliates across the U.S. reaching 70% of TV households, will air the following classic Flying Nun episodes on Super Sunday:

11:00 AM The Lottery
11:30 AM The Big Game
12:00 PM The Fatal Hibiscus
12:30 PM A Bell for San Tunco
1:00 PM Polly Wants a Crack in the Head
1:30 PM It's an Ill Wind
2:00 PM With a Friend Like Him, Who Needs...?
2:30 PM My Sister, the Sister
3:00 PM Sister Lucky
3:30 PM The Reconversion of Sister Shapiro
4:00 PM You Can't Get there From Here
4:30 PM Song of Bertrille
5:00 PM The Crooked Convent
5:30 PM Two Bad Eggs
6:00 PM All Alone by the Convent Phone
6:30 PM Great Casino Robbery (Pt.1)
7:00 PM Great Casino Robbery (Pt.2)
7:30 PM The Boyfriend
8:00 PM Guess Who's Coming to Picket?
8:30 PM A Convent Full of Miracles
9:00 PM Bertrille and the Silent Flicks
9:30 PM Ticket for Bertrille
10:00 PM Armando & the Pool Table
10:30 PM Papa Carlos
11:00 PM Candid Commercial
11:30 PM The New Carlos
12:00 AM Hector and the Brass Bed
12:30 AM The New Habit
1:00 AM Somnaviatrix
1:30 AM When Generations Gap
2:00 AM Operation Population
2:30 AM No Tears for Thomas
(All times Eastern)




On the next...Parks and Recreation (NBC, Thur 8:30pm):
By: Skees

NBC's Thursday night comedy starring Amy Poehler airs at 8:30pm and we have just watched the next episode that airs tonight (January 30). In the episode airing tonight, "Ann and Chris," on Ann (Rashida Jones) and Chris's (Rob Lowe) last night in Pawnee, Leslie (Amy Poehler) throws a grand farewell party and attempts to fulfill one last promise. Meanwhile, Tom (Aziz Ansari), Ben (Adam Scott), Ron (Nick Offerman) and Andy (Chris Pratt) struggle to find the perfect going away gift for Chris.

In "Ann and Chris," a bittersweet day has arrived in Pawnee. Ann and Chris are about to leave Pawnee for good and head north to Michigan. But before this can happen, Leslie is determined to make sure that they get the proper send-off. After all, Ann is Leslie's best friend and she can't let her best friend leave without doing something special for her. It is at this point that we're reminded of how Ann and Leslie met, through flashbacks to the pilot episode, when Ann wanted a giant hole next to her home filled, and Leslie promised to build a park on that land. Now, all these years later, that hole is still there, and Leslie is determined to make good on that promise in the few hours remaining before Ann leaves. Meanwhile, at the farewell party, Chris is leaving and has great gifts for everybody... unfortunately, the gifts that are given to him are woefully disappointing in comparison, leaving everybody scrambling to do something better for him before it is too late.



It is a bit sad to see these two characters leaving the series. Ann has been an important part of the series since the very beginning, and although Chris didn't come in until the end of the second season, he has also become a very important part of the series. It is one thing to see one major character leave a series, but much more for two to leave at the same time. Sadly, I feel like the exit of these two characters from the series came with an episode that wasn't quite up to the Parks and Recreation standards. The episode seemed to somewhat drag on without much of a story aside from "Ann and Chris are leaving." I did, however, enjoy how they brought the series back to the promise that Leslie made to Ann in the very first episode. It seems that story somewhat faded into our memories over the years, but Leslie finally did make good on that promise. As for the series itself, if it can withstand the ratings slump it has been in (and it appears that NBC has given it a vote of confidence that it will, something that I'm very happy to hear), I think that the series can carry on just fine with the remaining cast and perhaps some new players, but I hope that they don't try to artificially fill the roles of Ann and Chris with Ann and Chris clones (as so many series do when a cast member leaves). B-

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Labels: Antenna TV, Episodic Review, Flying Nun, Hot in Cleveland, NBC, Parks and Recreation, TV Land

Antenna TV Fall 2011 Schedule; OWN and TLC Acquires Undercover Boss Repeats for Fall 2012

Welcome to the 2011 edition of our annual look at the fall schedules for cable and digital TV! We are launching this schedule barrage with the digital network Antenna TV! We have Antenna TV's Fall 2011 schedule and they will be expanding the comedy line-up to feature more sitcoms every weekday! The line-up of comedies will return to start at 1pm ET, like the original launch schedule had. However, this time the comedies will last longer into the night, too! The comedies will run until 5am Sun-Thurs nights, instead of 3am. Antenna TV will also be launching a new logo come this fall. You can take peek at what it looks like below. It is subject to change.


On to the schedule, the new fall 2011 schedule will begin on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. From Mon-Fri, Antenna TV Theater will air from 5am-1pm with movies from all eras. Then every weekday from 1pm-6pm will feature classic sitcoms with an hour each of Burns & Allen, Father Knows Best, Dennis the Menace, Hazel in new time periods and the return of The Partridge Family to weekdays. Hazel is also returning to the daytime line-up, as currently it is airing every night at 2:00am. Mon-Thurs in the 6pm hour will continue to feature the Antenna TV staple Three's Company with the spin-offs of the series mixed in the rotation. In fact, The Ropers will join the second half-hour (6:30pm and 12:30am) for about seven weeks starting Monday, Aug. 29! This will be the second time The Ropers will be featured on Antenna TV, so catch all 28 episodes before it goes back to Three's Company for the full hour! On Fridays, the 6pm hour will continue to feature the DLT Entertainment sitcom Too Close for Comfort. Weekdays in the 7pm hour will also still have Good Times, but the sitcom will not be seven days a week anymore, though it will remain Sundays at 7pm. Moving on to primetime, Sanford & Son returns to its original 8pm hour replacing Maude, which will be moving to weekends only (Saturdays 7-8pm and Sundays 6-7pm, more on that below). The block of All in the Family, Married...with Children, Mad About You and Three's Company remains in primetime from 9pm-1am. From 1am-3am we have a schedule change though. Mon-Thurs nights will feature one episode each of weekend staples The Partridge Family, The Monkees, The Flying Nun and Gidget as they move from weekend afternoons to weekday late nights! These will replace the late night hours of Sanford & Son and Hazel. Antenna TV will replace another movie with a black & white overnight block from 3am-5am with an episode each of their signature black & white series: Hazel, Dennis the Menace, Father Knows Best, and Burns & Allen.
Fridays will be the same as Mon-Thurs essentially, except as I mentioned above the 6pm hour is Too Close for Comfort still and the continued Three Stooges Friday night prime block from 8pm-11pm, followed by Benny Hill from 11pm-2am in late night. One other change is the 2am hour will now feature Totally Tooned In, replacing Hazel. Antenna TV Theater remains from 3am-5am, so we don't get a black & white block on Friday nights (or Saturday nights either).
Moving on to Saturdays, Antenna TV Theater will still kick it off at 5am and another movie has been added at 7am, replacing Totally Tooned In (as these two hours are moving to Fri-Sat 2am). The classic animated shorts will remain in the Saturday 9am hour, though. From 10am-1pm will be the E/I block which will see some new additions starting Saturday, Sept. 3. Antenna TV Theater will now run on Saturday afternoons from 1pm-5pm, since Gidget, Flying Nun, The Monkees and The Partridge Family are moving to weeknights. Antenna TV Theater will air on Sundays from 1pm-5pm, too, replacing those four comedies. The 5pm hour on both Saturdays and Sundays will still be Too Close for Comfort and in the 6pm hour, All in the Family will now air in the hour leading into spin-off Maude in the 7pm hour. This is unique scheduling and it will be unique on Sundays well as the 6pm hour will feature Maude leading into spin-off Good Times in the 7pm hour. Love that!
Weekends in primetime will still have Benny Hill on Saturdays from 8pm-11pm followed by late night The Three Stooges from 11pm-2am. The 2am hour on Saturday nights will now be Totally Tooned In, like on Friday nights (as we mentioned) leading into a movie at 3am. And Sundays in primetime will have Sanford & Son join the 8pm hour, like on Mon-Thurs, followed by All in the Family and Soap remaining in the 9pm and 10pm hours. However, Soap will lose its 11pm hour on Sunday nights as NewsRadio joins the Antenna TV line-up airing every Sunday night! Hopefully they are saving the plays on Soap so maybe in the winter it could move to weekdays? Anyway, Too Close for Comfort will remain Sunday nights at 12am, as well Burns & Allen in the 1am hour on Sunday nights but also it gains the 2am hour creating a two-hour block of Burns & Allen. Then the black and white overnight block that will air Mon-Thurs will also air Sunday nights, so it will be airing five nights a week!

View the FULL Antenna TV Fall 2011 schedule, so you get the full details. So to recap, Antenna TV is not dropping any shows this fall, while we get more sitcoms on weekdays (1pm-5am), and the addition of NewsRadio to Sunday nights! If there are any changes to this, we will let you know. Stay with us the rest of the summer every weekday for updates on other fall schedules for cable. Coming up will be WGN America, TBS, FX and much MUCH more!
And if that is not all, the TCA Summer 2011 Press Tour starts tomorrow with cable up first and will run through Aug. 8, so even more of a reason to stay with us everyday! Dog days of summer are over here on the blog now! It's time to think about the Fall, as the summer speeds by!

Moving on, we have one story that we saved for a week or two to bring you today. OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and TLC have acquired the off-network rights of Undercover Boss from CBS Television Distribution. TLC and OWN will each have access to the library and will determine their independent scheduling strategies with regularly scheduled episodes of the hit series set to begin airing Fall 2012. However, TLC will being airing the series once a week starting Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 airing Mondays at 8PM with and encore at 11PM. It is unclear if OWN will air the series once a week until it is available for regular airings in Fall 2012.
Undercover Boss is a one-hour reality series that follows high-level corporate executives as they slip anonymously into the rank and file of their own companies. Each week, a different executive will leave the comfort of their corner office for an undercover mission to examine the inner workings of their corporation. While working alongside their employees, they will learn about themselves, the effects their decisions have on others, where the problems lie within their organization, the perception of their company, and discover the unsung heroes of their work force.
We will have more on this when we get near Fall 2012, but for now TLC will be airing it Mondays at 8pm & 11pm starting next week. Stay tuned for more!

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Labels: Antenna TV, Flying Nun, Gidget, Maude, NewsRadio, Partridge Family, Sanford and Son, Soap, The Monkees, The Ropers

Antenna TV Launch Schedule Starting January 2011; Chiller Acquires Buffy

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Labels: All in the Family, Antenna TV, Dennis the Menace, Father Knows Best, Flying Nun, Gidget, Good Times, Maude, Partridge Family, Sanford and Son, The Monkees, Three's Company, Too Close for Comfort

Day 32: WGA's Strike; Classic TV Sitcom Holiday Episodes in Toledo!

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Labels: Bewitched, Dennis the Menace, Father Knows Best, Flying Nun, Fox, I Dream of Jeannie, NBC, Partridge Family, The Monkees