TV Comedy In Brief This Week: News for The Grinder, Grandfathered, Life in Pieces Plus What’s in Development
Lots of moves in comedy television already this week. We already posted that FX was canceling Married and HBO un-renewed The Brink.
Here’s the rest of what happened this week in comedy television– in brief.
FOX gave a full season order to freshman series The Grinder, which stars Rob Lowe. The Grinder has became the second new series this fall to get a Back 9 order, bringing its freshman run to a full-season 22 episodes. (Via Deadline)
John Stamos comedy Grandfathered also gets a full season order from FOX. The series forms an hour block with The Grinder which also received a full season pickup. (Via Variety)
CBS gave a full season order to ensemble comedy Life in Pieces which stars Dianne Wiest, James Brolin, Colin Hanks, Angelique Cabral,Zoe Lister-Jones, and Thomas Sadoski. (Via THR)
TBS greenlit and cast a comedy pilot from Ben Stiller’s Red Hour. Adam Shapiro and Jack Carpenter will star as two sensitive men looking for love and happiness in Los Angeles. (Via Deadline)
Fox is developing single camera comedy House Sitter, inspired by the real life adventure of Captain Beans, an actor-comedian, who held a second/side job as a professional house sitter for his Hollywood friends. (Via Deadline)
ABC is developing a new comedy/drama via Shondaland, described as “an edgy and comical upstairs-downstairs look at the insanity of modern child-rearing and focuses on a clique of young nannies, a trio of interconnected families and their various support staffs, all trying to help the kids grow up when they haven’t quite grown up themselves.” (Via Deadline)
Jim Parsons and Marisa Coughlan are developing a multi camera comedy for CBS based on the life of columnist and writer Alyssa Shelasky who wrote “Apron Anxiety: My Messy Affairs in and Out of the Kitchen.” The story follows a woman who decides to become a single mother in her late 30’s, and shares a building with her eccentric family. (Via Deadline)
