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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 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