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It's time for another round of network notes! First on CBS, after canceled sitcom How To Be A Gentleman concludes its burn-off, CBS will air burn-off episodes of canceled drama NYC 22 on Saturday nights starting July 7. CBS only aired four episodes of the drama on Sunday nights at 10pm, and will now the remaining nine episodes will air this summer on Saturdays at 8pm and 9pm most weeks through August 18. CBS planned on airing these episodes this summer in the Sunday at 10pm slot, but now will likely go with repeats of dramas instead, as CSI: Miami repeats have already been scheduled for last Sunday (May 27) and June 3. See the schedule for NYC 22.
On ABC, the schedule update is for two summer series from ABC News. First, the previously announced Final Witness for Tuesdays at 10 starting July 10, is being moved to Wednesdays at 10 starting June 27 for 7 episodes. ABC had not announced anything in that time period after the initial Apartment 23 and Modern Family repeats and then two special Duets airings (June 13 and 20). Airing now in the Tuesday at 10 slot where Final Witness was going to air will now be the reality medical series NY Med. This series follows the doctors of NY Presbyterian Hospital, similar to Boston Med in summer 2010. NY Med will air Tuesdays at 10 starting July 10 for likely 8 episodes. See the full information on both of these schedule changes.
Moving on to NBC, America's Got Talent will air its last Monday episode on July 2. The reality staple will move to Wednesdays at 9pm starting July 11 and Tuesdays will expand to two-hours to 8-10pm. In addition, a special three-night event will air Monday, June 25 8-9pm; Tuesday, June 26 9-10pm and Wednesday, June 27 9-11pm. And finally on Fox, they will have Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef on Mondays and Tuesday from 8-10pm starting next week, but the two shows will be cut to one night by end of July. Hell's Kitchen will air back-to-back on Monday nights starting July 30 and MasterChef will air back-to-back on Tuesday nights starting July 31. For both shows, it will be an encore leading into a new episode. And finally, after the Thursday reality series (which premiere next week) conclude, Fox will go with comedy encores of Raising Hope and New Girl in the 8pm hour starting August 2, as Take Me Out concludes July 26. Glee repeats will air at 9pm beginning July 19, as The Choice will conclude July 12.

CBS is giving canceled sitcom How to Be a Gentleman another chance to air its remaining episodes. The sitcom launched on CBS this Fall and only last two weeks on Thursday nights before packing it to Saturdays, where it only lasted one episode there as well. CBS has produced nine episodes, so six episodes are left to air. As we broke yesterday on Twitter, CBS will air those six episodes this summer. Unless it gets pulls due to low ratings, it will air for five weeks from May 26 to June 23 on Saturday nights at 8:30pm. The first week on May 26, the sitcom will air at 8:00pm as well. The series will follow repeats of Rules of Engagement every Saturday night, exceot on May 26 (since there are double Gentleman episodes on that night).
Lead actor David Hornsby created the series, adapting the nonfiction book of the same name by John Bridges. The series chronicled two former high school classmates, an uptight columnist (Hornsby) and his more freewheeling, Iraq war veteran, trainer (Kevin Dillon), as they renew a friendship that never really existed before. It was sort of like a new take on The Odd Couple.
In other burn-off news, Fox has pulled their planned burn-off of I Hate My Teenage Daughter. The sitcom was set to air Sundays at 7 & 7:30pm on June 6, 13 and 20, but now instead those final six episodes are not scheduled and Fox will air animated encores instead. Will we ever see this show on the schedule again? It is looking less likely since even a summer burn-off was pulled. But stay with us for continued updates on both Gentleman and Daughter.

This June, viewers are advised to fasten their seatbelts for the return of everyone's favorite intergalactic pizza delivery boy from the future. Fry, Bender, Leela and their alien friends are back on Comedy Central to premiere a brand-new season of the Emmy(R) Award-winning series Futurama. The season kicks off with a two-episode premiere on Wednesday, June 20. For the first time ever, Comedy Central and the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival are joining forces to produce an original compilation stand-up special. Select performances from Bonnaroo's Comedy Theatre will be filmed and edited into the one-hour special, debuting on Saturday, June 23. Celebrate the Workaholics' favorite holiday, Half Christmas, with the gang and watch holiday themed episodes of network favorite series, movies and specials on Monday, June 25. Make sure to give Dad the gift he's been dreaming of - spend quality time together watching dad-centric episodes of South Park and Futurama on Father's Day weekend. In addition, check out all-new episodes of the The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Tosh.0, Workaholics and The Half Hour.
As for Futurama, Comedy Central has ordered 26 episodes and it will once again be split into half. 13 episodes are likely to air this summer on Wednesdays at 10PM. In addition, the network is taking Futurama fans on a 50 day multi-platform journey leading up to the series' seventh season premiere on Wednesday, June 20 at 10:00 p.m. The "Countdown To Futurama" launches on Facebook on Tuesday, May 1 and for 50 consecutive days will provide fans with exclusive content including preview clips, character designs, episode stills, story boards and more each day. For the countdown kick-off, Comedy Central will post a sneak peek clip from the season premiere episode, "The Bots and the Bees." Futurama's Facebook page has over 20 million fans and ranks among the top five animated television show pages.

We first broke the story on Twitter that CBS has pulled the Saturday burn-off of canceled comedy How To Be A Gentleman after just one week. The series was pulled from the original Thursday schedule, as we mentioned, and now has been pulled from Saturdays after just one week. The sitcom only posted a 0.7 18-49 rating on Saturday, going down from its Two and a Half Men repeat lead-in. Only three total episodes have been aired and six still remain in the can to air, as production was stopped after the ninth episode. No word on if and when CBS will air these six episodes. I get the feeling you have seen the last of this sitcom, though. Lead actor David Hornsby created the series, adapting the nonfiction book of the same name by John Bridges. The series chronicled two former high school classmates, an uptight columnist (Hornsby) and his more freewheeling, Iraq war veteran, trainer (Kevin Dillon), as they renew a friendship that never really existed before. It was sort of like a new take on The Odd Couple.
CBS will replace this sitcom with comedy repeats, with the Comedytime Saturday hour now a full-hour of repeats from 8-9pm ET/PT.

MeTV Network has announced an affiliation agreement with KOFY-TV in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose market. Granite Broadcasting Corporation's KOFY-TV20/Cable 13 is a local, independent station that covers the nine Bay Area counties. MeTV Network will launch soon and be carried over the air on channel 20.2. Discussions are underway to return MeTV to cable systems in the market. The launch of the Network on KOFY-TV will increase MeTV's market clearance to 62% of the US on primary and digital subchannel affiliates. As you know, MeTV features a wide range of programming that audiences and advertisers find comfortable and engaging. MeTV's library includes series from Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, CBS Television Distribution, NBCUniversal Television as well as independent series owners and producers. MeTVs' line-up include some of the best television programs ever produced, such as: M*A*S*H, Perry Mason, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Bob Newhart Show, the original Star Trek and Hawaii Five-O series, in addition to many other shows. MeTV Network, memorable entertainment television, launched nationally in December 2010, is owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting Co. and distributed by MGM Television. Stay with us for continued MeTV coverage as usual.

Last Man Standing - Tuesdays 8:00PM ET/PT on ABC
Premieres Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:00 & 8:30PM ET/PT

You can't get manlier than Mike Baxter. He loves to have adventures while he's traveling for work and, of course, he drives a pick-up truck. But Mike is about to find out that it's not a man's world anymore. While he might be king of the hill at work at an iconic outdoor sporting goods store, he's the odd man out in a home dominated by his wife and three daughters (ages 13, 17 and 20). Today it's a woman's world, and this man's man is on a mission to get men back to their rightful place in society.


Cast Details:

* Tim Allen as Mike Baxter
* Nancy Travis as Vanessa Baxter
* Alexandra Krosney as Kristin Baxter
* Molly Ephraim as Mandy Baxter
* Kaitlyn Dever as Eve Baxter
* Christoph Sanders as Kyle
* Hector Elizondo as Ed

Tim Allen (Mike Baxter) was last heard on the big screen reprising his role as Buzz Lightyear in Disney/Pixar's 2010 smash hit, Toy Story 3. That year he also made his feature film directorial debut with the independent comedy Crazy on the Outside, in which he also stars alongside Jeanne Tripplehorn, Sigourney Weaver, J.K. Simmons and Ray Liotta. Allen honed his talents as a stand-up comic throughout the '80s, providing the lead-in to his highly successful ABC series Home Improvement, in which he garnered a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy nomination, and was honored with the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a Television Series an unprecedented eight years in a row. In 1999, in the final season of Home Improvement, Allen was honored with the TV Guide Award for Favorite Actor in a Comedy Series. He made his film debut in 1994 in the blockbuster hit The Santa Clause, earning another People's Choice Award. The film turned into a franchise with two more installments made in recent years. He gave voice to Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story, and starred in Jungle 2 Jungle with Martin Short and For Richer or Poorer with Kirstie Alley. Allen then reprised his role as Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 2, and in addition starred in Galaxy Quest, opposite Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman. Some of Allen's other film credits include 20th Century Fox's Joe Somebody, opposite Jim Belushi, Christmas with the Kranks, opposite Jamie Lee Curtis, Zoom, opposite Courntey Cox, and in 2007 Allen starred opposite John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy in Wild Hogs. In a brief return to television in April 2003, Allen's Tool Time pals, Debbe Dunning and Richard Karn, joined him on stage for the live event ABC special, Tim Allen Presents: A User's Guide to Home Improvement.

Nancy Travis (Vanessa) starred on TBS' hit comedy The Bill Engvall Show for three seasons and was recently seen in several television movies, including Hallmark Channel's Safe Harbor, NBC's A Walk in My Shoes and Lifetime's original movies Pregnancy Pact and The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker. She has also guest-starred on an episode of Numb3rs. Travis made her feature film debut in the blockbuster comedy Three Men and a Baby, and has added to her film credits with roles in The Jane Austen Book Club, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Internal Affairs, Air America, Three Men and a Little Lady, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Vanishing, Greedy, Fluke, Destiny Turns on the Radio and Bogie. On the small screen, she starred in the long running series Becker with Ted Danson, Almost Perfect for CBS, and in the television movies My Last Love and Fallen Angels.

Alexandra Krosney (Kristin) fell in love with acting at musical theater camp as a child. After doing several independent films, plays and working as a model, she got her first role on the Fox sitcom The Grubbs, starring alongside Randy Quaid, Carol Kane and Michael Cera. Krosney went on to work on such TV shows as ER, Bones, Without a Trace (appearing twice, as two different characters), NCIS, Criminal Minds, CSI, Lost and Nikita. She also recently appeared on the ABC comedy Surviving Suburbia, with Bob Saget and Cynthia Stevenson, and can currently be heard as the voice of Sierra on The Hub's animated hit series, Transformers: Prime.

Molly Ephraim (Mandy), who is best known for playing Ali in Paranormal Activity 2 and Wendy Greenhut in the 2008 film College Road Trip, was born in Philadelphia and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Ephraim performed in shows at the Bucks County Playhouse as a child and as a teenager, and in professional productions at the Prince Music Theater and Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia. In 2008 she graduated from Princeton University, where she was a member of the Triangle Club. She performed in and choreographed various shows for Princeton University Players and Theatre Intime. On television, Ephraim has had roles in episodes of Royal Pains, Law & Order and the ABC TV pilot Hench at Home. She made her Broadway debut in 2002 as Little Red Riding Hood in the Broadway revival of Into the Woods, receiving a Drama League Award nomination. Ephraim was later seen as Bielke in the 2004 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof.

Kaitlyn Dever (Eve) is one of Hollywood's fastest rising young talents. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona and, at age 14, she already has several high profile films and television credits under her belt. Dever knew she wanted to act when she was just 5 years old and continually asked her parents to go to acting school. Dever recently wrapped a season-long role on the FX drama Justified, for which she received critically acclaim. She appeared in the HBO movie Cinema Verite with Diane Lane, Tim Robbins and James Gandolfini, and played a lead role in the 2009 HBO movie, An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong. On the Starz comedy series Party Down, she played Megan Mullally’s daughter, and she guest starred on the 2011 season premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Film credits include the Cameron Diaz comedy Bad Teacher for Sony Pictures and the Warner Bros. film, J. Edgar, directed by Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood.

Christoph Sanders (Kyle) booked his first professional role at the age of 11, playing Tiny Tim in the Flat Rock Playhouse production of Dicken's A Christmas Carol in Flat Rock, North Carolina. By the age of 16, Sanders made his transition from the stage to the small screen when he booked his first commercial for General Mills. The following year he landed a small role in the Will Ferrell comedy Talladega Nights. Sanders’ most recent work includes a series regular role on Ghost Whisperer and starring opposite Dakota Fanning in the film Hounddog, which was accepted to the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition.

Hector Elizondo (Ed) has enjoyed a successful and prolific career in film, television, theatre and radio. Nominated for both a Golden Globe and an American Comedy Award for his depiction of the hotel manager in the classic Pretty Woman, Elizondo was recently featured in Garry Marshall's Valentine's Day and in the highly anticipated follow-up film, New Year's Eve. Other film credits include The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love, Runaway Bride, and Princess Diaries (I & II). In 1997 Elizondo won an Emmy for an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Dr. Phillip Watters on CBS' Chicago Hope. In six years on the show he earned four Emmy nominations, an ALMA Award and a Screen Actors Guild nomination. He also starred in the two-character drama Mrs. Cage for PBS' American Playhouse, receiving another Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His numerous television appearances began with guest starring roles on Colombo, All in the Family, Hill Street Blues, Kojak and The West Wing. More recent guest appearances include recurring roles on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, as the father of Sara Ramirez's Callie, and Monk.


Pilot Plot:

We reviewed both episodes premiering on October 11.

#1 "Pilot" (Airs October 11, 2011)
Mike's job has been downsized and he can no longer travel for work. At the same time, his stay-at-home wife, Vanessa, is returning to the workplace, so Mike finds himself pulled into more hands-on parenting with their three daughters. There's 13-year-old tomboy, Eve; the outspoken Mandy, 17; and Kristin, a 20-year-old single mom living at home with her toddler son, possibly Mike's only ally. In the premiere, Mike plays Cupid for Mandy (his 17 year-old daughter) by setting her up on a blind-date with Kyle, one of his employees who he thinks would be the perfect guy for her. But Mike's set-up gets off track when Kyle accidentally meets Kristin (his 20-year-old daughter, who is a single mom living at home with her toddler son). Meanwhile at work, Mike's long-time boss and friend, Ed, announces that he's grounding Mike from their catalog's international photo shoots and putting him in charge of the company's webpage. In this new role, Mike discovers that the Internet might actually provide him just the outlet he needs, a platform that gives him a voice to appeal to those who agree that manliness is under assault, and a pulpit for his opinions about feeling like the last real man in a woman's world.

"Pilot" was written by Jack Burditt and directed by John Pasquin.

#2 "Last Baby Proof Standing" (Airs October 11, 2011)
Mike is outnumbered by his wife Vanessa and three daughters when they all agree that baby proofing the house is a good idea. But soon Vanessa has second thoughts when she finds herself home by herself babysitting her grandchild, Boyd, and can't release the toilet seat's complicated childproof latch. Meanwhile, Mike thinks it's time for Mandy to earn her own money and gets her a job delivering pizzas -- without first consulting his wife, Vanessa.

Guest starring are Luke & Evan Kruntchev as Boyd and Paul F. Tompkins as Chester McAllister.
"Pilot" was written by Linda Videtti Figueiredo and directed by John Pasquin.


Analysis:

It's really good to have Tim Allen back on television and on ABC Tuesdays at that! I'm a big fan of Tim Allen's not just for his sitcom Home Improvement, but I like his film work and I get sucked in every holiday season to his The Santa Clause film franchise. Tim is an excellent comedic actor and was always great in the traditional sitcom. This sitcom is a traditional comedy and Tim also is very good in it. Now I saw rough cut of the first two episodes, which had muted some of the studio audience laughing for some reason and also badly edited lines that were cut off at times it seems. That made me not enjoy this series as much as I would have liked, so I'll be watching the ABC premiere tomorrow night to see if anything changed. I like what I saw as a set-up, but the chemistry just isn't there yet. Tim's character Mike Baxter is living in a home with all females, his wife and three daughters. Well, there is one male besides Mike, and that is the oldest daughter's son, Boyd, who is just a toddler. His daughters are Kristin, Mandy and Eve. It took me some time to get used to who is who, but it is a good set-up and I like the setting of this series. The men on this show are Kyle, who is an employee of Mike's, and Ed, who is Mike's boss and friend. Mike works for an outdoor sporting goods store (named Outdoors Man) that seems a bit out of date. Ed realizes that and puts Mike in charge of the store's website and Mike rants away in a vlog (video blog). The rants are hilarious! Real men don't play fantasy football!

Nancy Travis isn't used that much in the pilot but when she is present, she is good. She is used much more in the second episode airing on premiere night. She has a hilarious scene in the second episode where she tries to remove the baby-proof items. It's too bad the rough cut messed it up with the muting of the studio audience and weird cutting. I'm sure it will be presented better when it airs. The second episode seems like they are about to start a groove, so I think by episode three or four we should known where the show is headed. Just give it a chance, even if you don't like the first episode or even the second episode. Tim Allen deserves a chance. He knows how to run and perform in this type of sitcom and is a proven success! Tim works well with all the women in the house and also the men at work. He just needs a sidekick like he had on Home Improvement, maybe the employee Kyle will turn into that?


Conclusion:

Tim Allen returns! I just wish the first two episodes were a bit better. Granted, it might have been because of the rough cut I saw, but I was expecting a bit more. Sitcoms take some time to get going, especially traditional sitcoms, so I think this will eventually become a good show. It may not be Home Improvement yet, but it is familiar and will generate an audience. It is a "backwards" Home Improvement (it was all sons and his wife on that series). This isn't anything groundbreaking or critically acclaimed, but it is a meat and potatoes comedy, and I think America will embrace it because something like this is needed. As for the characters, the daughters are unique. Each one offers something different to the table and I think that will make way for some good comedy in future episodes. I like how that the oldest daughter has a baby, making the household into three generations. I hope in a future episode we learn the back-story on how she got pregnant.

I am expecting a big tune in for Tim Allen's return. That is almost a given. I just hope people will tune in every week because I think the show will get better. Jack Burditt from 30 Rock is the creator, so it will be good. Tim Allen is just perfect for the traditional comedy and I am glad he agreed to return to this format! He was on top of his game for the two episodes I saw and it reminds me of John Ritter's return to TV in 2002 on 8 Simple Rules (though that premiere is way better), also on ABC Tuesday at 8/7 central. That show opened huge in the ratings, so this should, too.


Final Numbers (out of 5 stars):

Watchability: 3.5/5
Funniness: 3.5/5
Overall: 3/5

-- Reviewed by Pavan on 10/10/11

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It's now premiere date change #4 for veteran CBS comedy Rules of Engagement. The sitcom will return to Thursdays at 8:30 PM, ET/PT beginning Thursday, Oct. 20 with its sixth season premiere, as it never even aired in the planned Saturday timeslot, which was announced back in May at upfront. As a result of the Thursday return, new comedy How To Be A Gentleman will relocate to Saturdays at 8:30 PM, ET/PT effective Saturday, Oct. 15. A rebroadcast of The Big Bang Theory will air in the 8:30 PM time period next Thursday (Oct. 13), as CBS will need over a week to promote Rules of Engagement's new premiere date. Rules of Engagement's previously announced sixth season premiere, on Saturday, Oct. 15 at 8:00 PM, ET/PT, will be replaced with a rebroadcast of Two and a Half Men, which will lead into a new episode of How To Be A Gentleman in its new time period.
So what does this mean for How To Be A Gentleman? Well, only two episodes have aired and CBS has now halted production at nine episodes. So this means seven episodes still left to be aired and will be burned-off on Saturday nights. Yes, this means CBS has canceled How To Be A Gentleman, but will still burn off the remaining episodes, as the other canceled new programs The Playboy Club, Free Agents, and H8R are not doing that yet.

• Kevin Dillon as Bert Lansing

• Dave Foley as Jerry

• Mary Lynn Rajskub as Janet

• Rhys Darby as Mike

David Hornsby (Andrew) is the star of the series, the columnist who writes about "how to be a perfect gentleman." He has appeared in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Joe Schmo Show, and Six Feet Under. In addition to his role in the series, he is also the creator of the series.

Kevin Dillon (Bert) plays the guy who is going to teach Andrew how to be a man in the series. If the last name sounds familiar, it should: he is the younger brother of actor Matt Dillon. But Kevin Dillon has also had success of his own, playing the role of Drama in the recently ended HBO series Entourage, as well as roles in movies such as Platoon.

Dave Foley (Jerry) plays Andrew's boss at the magazine, a boss who is resistant to the changes, but is too close to retirement to fight them. Canadian-born Foley played the starring role of Dave Nelson in the 90s NBC series NewsRadio, and has had countless guest-starring roles in series such as The New Adventures of Old Christine, Will & Grace, Brothers & Sisters, and many more.

Mary Jane Rajskub (Janet) plays the role of Andrew's sister in the series. Rajskub is well-known for her starring role as Chloe O'Brien on the series 24. She has also had roles in The Larry Sanders Show, NewsRadio, and Veronica's Closet. Additionally, she was one of the original cast members of Mr. Show.

Rhys Darby (Mike) plays Janet's husband and Andrew's quirky brother-in-law. The New Zealand born actor is best known to viewers in the United States as Murray from the HBO series Flight of the Conchords.


Pilot Plot:

In the pilot episode, we are introduced to Andrew Carlson, the author of a magazine column about how to be a perfect gentleman. We see how he is the perfect Mr. Manners. But this all comes crashing down during a meeting with his boss Jerry, who informs Andrew that changes are about to come to the magazine. A new owner of the magazine doesn't see profits in the magazine as it is, and wants to retool the magazine to a more hip and edgier magazine for modern men.

During an incredibly depressing birthday dinner with his sister and brother-in-law, where Andrew recounts all of his failures in life and his disdain over the new changes, Andrew receives a gift of a training session at a gym. Andrew doesn't really like this gift, but a perfect gentleman always uses a gift, whether he likes it or not. When he goes to the gym, he runs in to Bert. Bert used to bully Andrew in high school, but this encounter begins a new relationship between the two when Andrew begins to use Bert's wisdom to help him adapt to the changes in the magazine, as well as his life in general.

Analysis:

Can anybody say Felix Unger and Oscar Madison forty years later? I think that is a fair assessment of what this series is, and this series takes on a lot of the classic series The Odd Couple. Now sometimes, imitation is bad, but in this series, it seems to be rather well executed, and unlike many pilots out there, this puts a fresh perspective on an old idea.

There weren't really that many moments in the pilot that I disliked, and unlike many pilots that I have seen, the action seemed to move pretty fast in the pilot. It seems that many pilots are very slow to develop the main plot of the series, and get annoying by the end of the first episode, often setting a bad tone for the entire series. This one didn't.

As for the comedy of the series, it seemed a bit subdued in the pilot, but that isn't to say that the series is unfunny. A series like this one, on how to be manly, is a perfect setup for some good comedy. The pilot didn't fully take advantage of those capabilities, but I'm hoping that as the series goes on, it will take advantage of them a bit more. Luckily, though, the pilot seemed to be well-written, and good writing can often make up for other areas that may be lacking.

My only criticism of the series is the casting of Kevin Dillon in the role of Bert. That isn't to say that I dislike Kevin Dillon. In fact, I like his acting, and enjoyed him in Entourage. But to me, he seems (and I'll add, is) too old to be playing one of Andrew's classmates from high school. He is about ten years older than Hornsby, and at least in my opinion, the difference really was evident. However, with the series set to air already, this is, lamentably, something that is going to have to remain as is, and despite that age difference, he does well in the role--he just isn't the right person.


Conclusion:

I actually liked the pilot of the series, and I'm hopeful that this could be a great series to add to my weekly viewing schedule. Even though it really is just a modern-day take on The Odd Couple (and I think you'll see that in the first few seconds of the series), it brings that type of show to the modern era. I feel like the odds are against this series from the beginning, as CBS still hasn't established a level of success for the 8:30 Thursday slot, even though they were able to transfer viewers of The Big Bang Theory to the Thursday night slot. But maybe this series will work in the slot after The Big Bang Theory, as viewers will be able to relate the character of Andrew to some on The Big Bang Theory. I hope that this series at least goes for a full season, and perhaps longer. It has potential that I rarely see in new sitcoms these days.

Final Numbers (out of 5 stars):

Watchability: 4/5
Funniness: 3/5
Overall: 3.5/5

-- Reviewed by skees53 on 09/28/11

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Effective this week, Doug and Clarissa Explains It All returned to The '90s Are All That block on TeenNick, but that's not all! More shows are coming. For now, Rocko's Modern Life and Hey Arnold! are off the line-up after three weeks, but they could return at some point. All That and Kenan & Kel are still scheduled to stay on the air to kick off the weeknight late night block in the 12-1am hour (encores 2-3am). Onto the new series, replacing Clarissa Explains It starting next week (Monday, Oct. 3), will be Hey Dude! The early '90s comedic western will air at 1am with an encore at 3am. As of now, it is scheduled for two weeks. Then starting October 17, the half-hour will be the Amanda Bynes series The Amanda Show. Then starting Oct. 31, just in time for Halloween it is Are You Afraid of the Dark? at 1am and 3am! It looks like a rotating wheel of classic Nick series is airing in this timeslot. Doug is remaining put in the 1:30am half-hour.
That's not all! Fridays starting next week (Oct. 7) will see the return of someone familiar. Stick Stickly! Every Friday night will now be: "The 90s Are All That! U Pick with Stick." Yes, Stick Stickly returns to host a special viewer's choice night of The '90s Are All That with options for some rarely seen Nick gems. There are eight choices for the first week: 1. Clarissa Explains It All: The "Normal" Episode, 2. My Brother and Me: Dee Dee Can't Dance, 3. Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: The Snorch Episode, 4. Salute Your Shorts: The Bunk Chief Episode, 5. Rugrats: The Chocolate Milk Football Episode, 6. The First Angry Beavers' Episode, 7. Legends Of The Hidden Temple: The Talking Rock and 8. Doug's Golden Toe Episode.
Vote for your favorite on the official website! It's a two-hour block, so I think four of these eight will air. This is a nice way to air the rarely seen classics! Friday nights just got better!