in the motherhood-related stories
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 7:01PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Casting, Reality-Free
Now this is some casting news I can get behind. After the
disastrous In the Motherhood,
Megan Mullally is returning to television-- on a show that's actually funny! Mullally is set to
join the cast of the amazing Party Down, a Starz original from
Veronica Mars creator,
Rob Thomas.
Mullally is replacing
Jane Lynch, whose role as Sue Sylvester on
Glee has been bumped up from recurring character to series regular. She plays "Lydia Dunfree, who leaves her small town and her failed marriage to help her 13-year-old daughter Escapade achieve her dream of becoming an actress. In addition to working as a cater-waiter for Party Down, Lydia is looking for Mr. Right."
Continue reading Megan Mullally gets ready to Party Down
Posted Jul 2nd 2009 4:07PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
USA has a Burn Notice marathon all night (but no new episode).- Sci-Fi has a Twilight Zone marathon all night.
- At 8, ABC has a new Samantha Who?, followed by a new In The Motherhood.
- TCM has The Wizard of Oz at 8.
- G4 has a new X-Play at 8.
- At 9, FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance.
- Larry King Live broadcasts from inside Neverland Ranch on CNN at 9.
- Spike has a new TNA Impact at 9.
- At 10, NBC has a new episode of The Listener.
- Showtime has a new Penn & Teller: Bullshit at 10.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Samantha Who, Wizard Of Oz, The Listener
Posted Jun 25th 2009 4:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, ABC has a new Samantha Who?, followed by a new In The Motherhood and a Michael Jackson Tribute.
- Cartoon Network has a new Chowder at 8.
- At 9, FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 9.
- USA has a new Burn Notice at 9, then a new Royal Pains.
- TLC has a new American Chopper at 9.
- ESPN2 has a FIFA Confederations Cup soccer semifinal match at 9.
- At 10, ABC has Farrah Fawcett: Her Life, Her Loves, Her Legacy.
- NBC has a new episode of The Listener at 10.
- Showtime has the season premiere of Penn & Teller's Bullshit at 10 (two episodes).
- Comedy Central has a new Tosh.0 at 10.
- At 10:30, Current has a new Rotten Tomatoes Show.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Samantha Who, Burn Notice, American Chopper
Posted Jun 1st 2009 2:27PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Programming, Reality-Free
ABC has
given an air date to
Samantha Who?'s swan song. The network will begin burning off the seven remaining episodes of the show Thursdays at 8 p.m. starting June 25.
As we mentioned last week, even a
petition set up by star Christina Applegate couldn't save
Samantha Who? from the axe. It's a shame. Applegate has turned into such a magnetic and charming comedic actor. Here's hoping she gets another shot at her own show or, like Jason
already suggested, a long-running guest stint on
HIMYM or maybe
The Big Bang Theory.
ABC is also making room on its summer schedule for the final eps of
Cupid and
In the Motherhood. The sole remaining ep of
Cupid, which shared the same fate as the 1998 show it was based on, will air June 16 -- if the NBA Finals don't make it to Game 6! (That's another slap in the face from the network to
Cupid creator Rob Thomas).
In the Motherhood's final three eps will begin airing June 25 at 8:30 p.m.
Posted Apr 9th 2009 4:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
- Sci-Fi has a Moonlight marathon all night.
- At 8, ABC has a new In The Motherhood, followed by a new Samantha Who?
- CBS has a new Survivor at 8, then a new CSI and the series premiere of Harper's Island.
- NBC has a new Office at 8, then the series premiere of Parks and Recreation, another new Office, a new 30 Rock, and then the series premiere of Southland.
- FOX has new episodes of Bones and Hell's Kitchen.
- At 9, TLC has a new American Chopper.
- Spike has TNA Wrestling at 9.
- At 10, A&E has a new episode of The Beast.
- Comedy Central has the series premiere of Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire at 10.
- At 12:15AM, Cartoon Network has a new Xavier: Renegade Angel.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Bones, Parks and Recreation, Southland, Krod Mandoon
Posted Mar 27th 2009 1:46AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
I just had a baby six months ago, so like all new moms, all I do is talk about him. I'm quite boring, really. So when I started seeing ads for
In the Motherhood, a new series based upon stories from real mothers, I got excited. A comedy that centers directly around my new focus in life? Sweet!
I was hoping for a show that shared funny, ridiculous stories about pregnancy, after-baby relationships and parenting mishaps. While
In the Motherhood had plenty of ridiculous stories about these topics, they were a little short on the funny. I wanted to like this show, I
should have liked this show, but ... I just didn't.
For a series that is supposed to be based on real stories, it just seemed ridiculously inauthentic. The characters and storylines were hyperbolic versions of real-world situations, and while I accept hyperbole in the pursuit of comedy,
In the Motherhood took it to such an extreme that nothing about it was in any way relatable.
Continue reading In the Motherhood: It Takes A Village Idiot (series premiere)
Posted Mar 25th 2009 11:03AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Interviews, Celebrities, Reality-Free
There aren't many actresses out there that you could affectionately call a "broad," but Megan Mullally's one of them. Ever since she came on the scene a decade ago as the caustic and spoiled Karen Walker on
Will & Grace, Mullally has shown that she can be bawdy with the best of them.
Now, after a foray into the talk show world and a turn as a disabled and ugly -- but desirable -- chief of medicine on Rob Corddry's web series
Children's Hospital, Mullally is back on series TV, on ABC's new comedy
In The Motherhood (premiering Thursday at 8 PM ET), which was based on a
web series that took episode ideas from submissions by real moms. In the series, Mullally plays Rosemary, a "bad ass," as Mullally calls her, who has raised the perfect son even though she's an imperfect mom.
In this quickie interview, Mullally talks about the new show, about a rumor that she was in a catfight with her co-star Cheryl Hines, about how Rosemary and Karen could be the new Odd Couple, and running her Kerry Weaver-esque
Children's Hospital character past Laura Innes.
Continue reading Megan Mullally: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Jan 26th 2009 5:02PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Scrubs, Reality-Free
Fans of
Samantha Who? have been wondering what would happen to their favorite amnesiac as ABC, who first said it would resume the show's second season in January, decided to shelve the series until it finds a slot for it. Well,
the network has finally announced when
SW? would return: Thursday, March 26 at 8 p.m. Yes, your eyes are not playing a trick on you:
Ugly Betty will be shelved... for a few weeks. Oh and while they were at it, ABC's Power That Be decided that
Scrubs would also move nights starting in March!
Continue reading ABC to shelve Betty for a while and to give new timeslots to comedies
Posted Sep 8th 2008 10:02AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
That line between web content and traditional television just continues to get blurrier. ABC has ordered 13 episodes of In The Motherhood. In case you missed it, the show didn't start out with the traditional pilot formula. It's a web-based show starring Jenny McCarthy, Leah Remini, and Chelsea Handler. The three of them play girlfriends and the stories told come from real stories submitted by mothers from across the country. Or, people pretending to be mothers. You can watch it at the show's site, if you're curious.
Continue reading ABC orders In The Motherhood
Posted Apr 17th 2007 2:44PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Video, Celebrities
Actress Leah Remini is moving to the internet for her
next gig, now that
The King of Queens is over. She'll star in a series of webisodes called
In the Motherhood. It's an interesting premise, really. The episodes will be based on, or at least incorporate, consumer-generated stories about being a mom. It's all on
this website, which is being promoted heavily on
The Ellen DeGeneres Show. There's a video on the website where Remini asks moms to write in about their funny stories and then vote on the other stories that were submitted. The favorites will be written into episodes of
In the Motherhood.Right now, there are five episodes planned for a ten-week stretch starting on May 11.
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