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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)

• 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.

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

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Labels: Abbott Elementary, Catfish, Chad Powers, DMV, Family Ties, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Show, Monopoly, My Three Sons, Scrubs, SitcomsOnline Digest, The Munsters, The Simpsons, WEST

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.

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.

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

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Labels: Baywatch, Bonanza, Fox, The Waltons, WEST

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)

• 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.

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

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Labels: Hee Haw, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Night Court, SitcomsOnline Digest, The Bear, WEST

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.

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.

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

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Labels: Hulu, ME-TV, Such Brave Girls, WEST