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Saturday, September 27, 2025

SitcomsOnline Digest: Scrubs Cast Comes Together for First Table Read for Reboot; Monopoly Game Show Moving Ahead

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! This week, we're seeing progress on the Scrubs reboot, a late night talk show is back on the air (everywhere), and more. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

The Scrubs cast is back together for their first table read for the upcoming reboot. (Entertainment Weekly)
The competition to get the opportunity to produce a Monopoly themed game show is heating up. (Deadline)
Jimmy Kimmel Live is now back on the air for all ABC affiliates, as it appears that the two ownership groups who pulled the show ended up getting more backlash than support for their decision. (Variety)
Speaking of Jimmy Kimmel, he will be in Brooklyn this week, and will appear as a guest on on The Late Show, and Colbert will also appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live on the same night. (Deadline)
MTV has cancelled Catfish. (Deadline)
We have our first look at the upcoming CBS comedy DMV. (SitcomsOnline)

WEEKLY PLANNER (SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 3)

New episodes of series on the Fox Sunday night lineup, including The Simpsons, Universal Basic Guys, Krapopolis, and Bob's Burgers arrive tomorrow night.
ABC's Wednesday night comedy lineup, featuring Abbott Elementary and Shifting Gears, is back with new episodes next week.
A new Hulu comedy, Chad Powers, debuts on Tuesday.
Antenna TV has a Sunday Special of Family Ties tomorrow.
There is a My Three Sons binge on Catchy Comedy tomorrow.
The Munsters is coming to FETV on Monday.
The new broadcast tv network WEST debuts on Monday.

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Weigel's Newest Diginet WEST Launches Monday, September 29; New Baywatch Coming to Fox in 2026-27

Weigel's newest diginet launches on Monday (September 29) and it is called WEST. WEST, Western Entertainment Series Television, is the home of the greatest TV western series ever made. Their robust library of over 30 marquee series celebrates the epic journeys, adventurous spirit and timeless stories brought to life in the great American TV western art form. When you look for entertainment, look WEST.

It will be available in 15 of the Top 20 broadcast TV markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Atlanta, Tampa, Phoenix, Detroit and Orlando. At launch, WEST will air in 46 TV markets nationwide covering 55.7% of the U.S. WEST will also be available on TDS cable systems and on DISH channel 372. Series at launch include classics Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Waltons, The Virginian, Rawhide, and The Wild Wild West. View the full schedule here.

Baywatch

FOX Television Network is diving into shimmering blue coastal waters with greenlight for a reimagined Baywatch, the legendary lifeguard action-drama series that concluded its epic, 11-season run 25 years ago. The revival is a straight-to-series order with 12 episodes in its first season. Sporting signature red swimsuits, an all-new cast of Baywatch lifeguards is set to make waves on FOX's 2026-27 season schedule with Fremantle and FOX Entertainment co-producing this original take on the massively popular global phenomenon.

First hitting screens in 1989, Baywatch became the most-watched show in the world, airing in over 200 countries, and at its peak, reaching more than a billion viewers every week. The unforgettable original series starred heartthrob David Hasselhoff and helped launch the careers of international superstars from Pamela Anderson and Carmen Electra to Jason Momoa and Yasmine Bleeth. The series reboot will celebrate the franchise's enduring legacy, while re-energizing it for today's global audience. Fans can expect all the adrenaline-fueled rescues, tangled relationships, complicated chemistry and beachside heroics that defined the original - now with an entirely new cast, contemporary trappings, tensions and challenges, and a renewed mission to protect Southern California's shoreline.

Saturday, June 21, 2025

SitcomsOnline Digest: Night Court Officially Dead After Not Finding New Home; Weigel Announces New WEST Network

Welcome to SitcomsOnline Digest! It's not a busy week, but we have news about Night Court and a new digital broadcast network, and more. Let's get going!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SITCOMSONLINE.COM AND AROUND THE WEB

Night Court is officially dead, after being unable to find a new home. (Variety)
Jimmy Kimmel is about to take his summer break, and we have a preview of who some of the hosts will be during that break. (Deadline)
Streaming has been surpassing both cable and broadcast individually for a while, but in May, it finally passed both of them combined. (Deadline)
Gailard Sartain, of Hee Haw fame, has died. (Hollywood Reporter)
Weigel is going WEST (literally) with their new western themed network. (SitcomsOnline)

WEEKLY PLANNER (JUNE 21 - JUNE 27)

Catchy Comedy has a binge of The Andy Griffith Show tomorrow.
The fourth season of The Bear debuts Wednesday on FX.
The final season of Squid Game debuts Friday on Netflix.

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Weigel Broadcasting Announces WEST Network with Classic TV Westerns; Hulu's Season 2 of Such Brave Girls

Weigel Broadcasting Co. announced a fall 2025 launch of WEST (Western Entertainment Series Television), its 10th over-the-air national broadcast television network. WEST will showcase the greatest Western television series ever made, with a library of more than 30 marquee series including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Maverick, Rawhide, The Virginian, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Have Gun – Will Travel, The High Chaparral, Wagon Train, The Big Valley, The Wild Wild West and more.

The network will be available across the nation on the broadcast television stations of Weigel Broadcasting Co., with additional carriage and distribution partners to be announced. The network joins MeTV, MeTV Toons, Start TV, Heroes & Icons, Catchy Comedy, MeTV+, Story Television, Dabl and MOVIES! in the Weigel family of national broadcast networks.

Such Brave Girls

Hulu has announced that season two of the BATFA-winning Hulu Original series Such Brave Girls will debut on July 7, 2025. Season one premiered in 2023 to rave reviews and maintains a 100% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The series follows Josie (Kat Sadler), her sister, Billie (Lizzie Davidson), and their mother, Deb (Louise Brealey), risking everything they've got for a single scrap of love and adoration. Still desperately trying to escape the reality of their cramped, crumbling, debt-ridden home, it's a good thing Dev (Paul Bazely) and Seb (Freddie Meredith) are coming to the rescue.

The series stars Kat Sadler, Lizzie Davidson, Louise Brealey, Paul Bazely and Freddie Meredith.

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Wednesday, June 24

Shifting Gears - "Restoration" (ABC, 9:00PM ET/PT) (Repeat)
Matt, the widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop, is confronted with his most unexpected and challenging project yet when his estranged daughter and her adolescent children come crashing back into his life.

Shifting Gears - "Accommodations" (ABC, 9:30PM ET/PT) (Repeat)
Matt joins Riley at Carter's high school open house.

Shifting Gears - "Job" (ABC, 10:00PM ET/PT) (Repeat)
Riley, desperate for work, reluctantly takes a job at Matt's shop; Gabriel and Stitch secretly stray from Matt's vision on a high-stakes restomod project.

Shifting Gears - "Grief" (ABC, 10:30PM ET/PT) (Repeat)
When Riley discovers a closet filled with her late mother's clothes, she insists Matt hasn't processed her death and urges him to see a grief counselor; Gabriel faces a crisis of confidence when he's put in charge of the shop for a day.

Complete TV Listings

Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of June 22)

Wednesday, June 24

Tim Allen (Shifting Gears/Last Man Standing/Home Improvement) - Watch Tim on a repeat of Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
Olivia Rodrigo (Bizaardvark) - Olivia is a musical guest on a repeat of Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
Britt Lower (Ghosted/Man Seeking Woman/Big Lake) - Britt appears on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
Alan Cumming (Schmigadoon!) - Alan is a guest on a repeat of Late Night with Seth Meyers at 12:36am on NBC.
June Diane Raphael (Big Mouth/Grace and Frankie/New Girl) - Andy Cohen interviews June on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen at 10:15pm on Bravo. NBC's Today catches up with June in the 9am hour.
Jay Pharoah (White Famous/Champaign ILL) - Jay talks about The Quiz with Balls and his album The Odyssey on Comedy Central's The Daily Show at 11pm.
The Cast of The Bear - ABC News’ Linsey Davis interviews the cast of The Bear on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am.
Chloe Bailey (grown-ish) - Chloe talks about Strung on NBC's Today in the 10am hour.
Halle Berry (Living Dolls) and Valerie Bertinelli (Hot in Cleveland/Cafe Americain/Sydney/One Day at a Time) - Drew is joined by Halle Berry, Valerie Bertinelli, viral sensation Melani Sanders and Nate Burleson for a Fearless After 50 roundtable discussion on a repeat of The Drew Barrymore Show, so check your local listings.
Issa Rae (Insecure) - Issa is telling Drew all about her new book I Should Be Smarter By Now, and two-part docuseries, Seen & Heard, on a repeat of The Drew Barrymore Show, so check your local listings.
Tia Mowry (Family Reunion/The Game/Sister, Sister) - Tia talks about Single Black Tenant on ABC's GMA 3: What You Need to Know at 1pm.
Natalie Alyn Lind (The Goldbergs) - Natalie talks about Paramount+'s Dutton Ranch on Access Daily with Mario & Kit, so check your local listings.
Sherry Cola (Shrinking/Nobody Wants This) - Sherry talks about Netflix's Little Brother on Access Daily with Mario & Kit, so check your local listings.