RitaRocks-related stories
Posted Oct 5th 2009 10:25AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Early Looks, Reality-Free
Rita Rocks is premiering its second season on Lifetime tonight, along with
Sherri Shepherd's new sitcom, Sherri. For those of you who haven't seen the show before,
Rita stars
Mad TV's
Nicole Sullivan, who plays Rita, a suburban mom of two daughters who plays in a rock band on the side. Rounding out her garage band are her friends Owen (
Ian Gomez), Patty (
Tisha Campbell-Martin) and Kip (
Ricky Ullman), Rita's daughter Hallie's (
Natalie Dreyfuss) boyfriend.
The second-season premiere doesn't really focus on Rita's music so much. While we do still see her at practice, she's mainly dealing with mom stuff, specifically in relation to Hallie, her oldest daughter. In fact, what we have is a perennial family-sitcom classic-- the parent having to give the child "The Talk."
Continue reading Rita Rocks season two -- An early look
Posted Sep 21st 2009 1:02PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Reality-Free, Press Kits Unwrapped
I feel sorry for the poor intern who had to put this thing together. I understand that Lifetime is a cable network and all, but they've become pretty high-profile lately. I would think that if they were going to send out press kits, then maybe they could spring for more than some confetti and crappy stickers printed out on the office ink jet.
Even
Sit Down, Shut Up, which is last press kit I did, at least had a t-shirt. It was actually a super-comfy American Apparel shirt, and I still wear it around the house. The
Rita Rocks/Sherri press kit, on the other hand, is a do-it-yourself lunchbox-type thing, filled with confetti, containing the DVDs, a bunch of crappy candy, and some un-inflated balloons. It's kind of the saddest thing I've ever seen.
Continue reading Press Kits Unwrapped: Rita Rocks and Sherri
Posted Aug 14th 2009 1:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show, Pickups and Renewals, Casting, Reality-Free
Last week on
The View, Sherri Shepherd showed off her new body, clad in a bathing suit, and now it seems there was more to her remake than just good health and looking better. Shepherd's Lifetime sitcom,
Sherri, will premiere on October 5, and you just know it's her intention to score a big time success.
Lifetime has had this in the works for months. This is the network's first fully-owned sitcom, so you gotta believe the net has a lot of faith in Sherri.
The show is based on Shepherd's stand-up, which is the same formula that worked for Roseanne, Ray Romano (
Everybody Loves Raymond), Tim Allen (
Home Improvement) and a half-dozen other comics, and the exposure Sherri gets from
The View won't hurt at all.
The same demographic that watches
The View tunes in to Lifetime shows like
Drop Dead Diva and
Army Wives. Oh, and don't forget the Lifetime movies. Ladies love Lifetime.
Continue reading Sherri Shepherd's splashdown set for October
Posted Jun 11th 2008 7:00PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Casting, Reality-Free
When I interviewed Susanne Daniels, the President for Entertainment at the Lifetime Network, she was high on the success of
Army Wives, and anxious to bring more comedy to the network.
"Viewers tell us that they love our comedies, our movies,
Army Wives. I would argue that more people identify
Reba and
Will and Grace with our network now than the networks that launched them. And I was at the WB when
Reba launched!" she said in
TV Week. Well, now she's launching a new comedy, this time for Lifetime.
Lifetime has ordered 13 episodes of a new sitcom called Rita Rocks for this fall and cast Nicole Sullivan as Rita. The show will be part of a one-hour comedy block with
Reba. "We've assembled a fantastic team in front of and behind the camera," said Ms. Daniels in a statement today.
Continue reading Lifetime greenlights a new sitcom
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