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SitcomsOnline Digest: Not Suitable for Work Not Renewed for Second Season; I Love Lucy to Receive Inaugural Legacy Award

   Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! This week, we are hearing about the cancelation of a streaming series, an action for the Beavis and Butt-Head creator to take control of his work, and more. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

• Not Suitable for Work won't be returning for a second season. (Hollywood Reporter)
• Mike Judge does not own the rights to the Beavis and Butt-Head characters, and he is now giving note Paramount that he intends to get the rights to those characters under a quirk in copyright law. (Cosmic Book News)
• The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is debuting a new Legacy Award, and it probably shouldn't be shocking that the first inductee will be I Love Lucy. (Deadline)
• Stephen Colbert, who has been nominated for an Emmy, is encouraging the voters to vote for Jimmy Kimmel. (TV Insider)
• The death of Dolly Parton has brought audiences to summer linear broadcast TV that wouldn't normally be there. (Deadline)
• There have been many celebrity deaths this past week, including Shelley Fabares. (SitcomsOnline)

Posted by Skees -- SitcomsOnline.com at 1:00 PM

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Labels: Beavis and Butt-Head, Chad Powers, I Love Lucy, Not Suitable for Work, SCTV, SitcomsOnline Digest, The Simpsons, The Varnell Hill Show

SitcomsOnline Digest: Fox Agrees to Purchase Roku; Mickey Mouse Set to Star in Home Alone Remake

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! This week, we're hearing of another media merger, (unfortunately) more deaths of classic TV icons we all love, and more. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

• The media mergers just never end, and now Fox says it is buying Roku. (NPR)
• Disney is bringing us some more "synergy" from their acquisition of 20th Century Fox, as they're preparing for a Home Alone redo of sorts starring Mickey Mouse. (Deadline)
• Iconic director James Burrows, who worked on TV series from The Mary Tyler Moore Show all the way up through the recent Netflix series Mid-Century Modern, has died at 85. (Variety)
• Anne Schedeen, known for her role of playing Kate Tanner on ALF, has died at 77. (People)
• We've got details on Jimmy Kimmel's summer guest hosts. (SitcomsOnline)

Posted by Skees -- SitcomsOnline.com at 1:00 PM

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Labels: ALF, Fox, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mid-Century Modern, Not Suitable for Work, Roku, SitcomsOnline Digest, The Bear

Mindy Kaling's Not Suitable for Work Drops June 2; Lisa Ann Walter: It Was An Accident Premieres May 15 on Hulu

Welcome to Murray Hill! Hulu released an official first look at the new comedy from hitmaker Mindy Kaling, Not Suitable for Work. The series will premiere with three episodes on June 2, then two episodes weekly until finale on June 23, only on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.

From comedy hitmaker Mindy Kaling, Not Suitable for Work centers around five work-obsessed twenty-somethings striving for professional success and, if they have time, personal happiness in Manhattan’s most glamorous neighborhood, Murray Hill. Kaling created Not Suitable for Work and executive produces with showrunner Charlie Grandy (The Sex Lives of College Girls, The Mindy Project) and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Howard Klein. The series is produced by Kaling International in association with Warner Bros. Television, where both Kaling and Grandy are under overall deals.

The series stars Ella Hunt, Avantika, Will Angus, Jack Martin, Nicholas Duvernay, Jay Ellis. Victor Garber, Greg Germann, Judy Gold, Ego Nwodim, Harry Richardson, Constance Wu, Laura Bell Bundy, May Hong, Bhavesh Patel, Emilia Suárez and Michael Benjamin Washington are recurring guest stars.

Lisa Ann Walter: It Was An Accident will premiere Friday, May 15 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S., and on Disney+ internationally. Lisa Ann Walter's long-awaited debut comedy special takes on feral Gen-Xers, self-loathing, and navigating a backsliding America, via the no-filter lens of a grown-ass woman who has been paying attention. She is currently starring as fan favorite Melissa Schemmenti in ABC's highest rated comedy show, the Emmy-Nominated, SAG AWARD Best Comedy Ensemble Winning, Abbott Elementary.

Lisa Ann Walter: It Was An Accident is written, performed, executive produced and directed by Lisa Ann Walter, and produced by Art & Industry. Sheryl Lee Ralph, Michelle Caputo, and Shannon Hartman also executive produce. Walter joins comedians as part of "Hularious" including Ralph Barbosa, Bill Burr, Chris Distefano, Jim Gaffigan, Zarna Garg, Ilana Glazer, Jessica Kirson, Matteo Lane, Sebastian Maniscalco, Kumail Nanjiani, Atsuko Okatsuka, Frankie Quiñones, Andrew Santino, Roy Wood Jr., and upcoming specials from Nikki Glaser, Hannah Berner and Bobby Lee.

Posted by Pavan -- SitcomsOnline.com at 12:00 PM

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Labels: Abbott Elementary, Hulu, Not Suitable for Work