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Hot off the success of the SAG Award winning Hot in Cleveland,
TV Land has picked up two new comedies and renewed Retired at 35 for another season.
Fran Drescher is coming back to TV with her ex-husband in a sitcom loosely based on their lives post-divorce. Happily Divorced is described as a “Los Angeles florist Fran (Drescher) as she deals with dating after finding out her realtor husband of 18 years (John Michael Higgins) is gay. The show focuses on how she juggles her new relationships and her ex-husband post-divorce while still living under the same roof.” Is it just me or is Drescher the new Tony Danza? You know as she can’t play a character without the same first name as her own?
That is not the only new show dealing with divorce, Wayne Knight, Donald Faison and Kristen Johnson are also coming to TV Land. “The Exes revolves around three divorced men, ladies man Phil (Donald Faison), homebody Haskell (Wayne Knight) and newly-single and needy Stuart (David Alan Basche). The men live together in an apartment across the hall from their divorce attorney, Holly (Kristen Johnston), who also happens to be their landlord. Holly avoids her own relationship and commitment issues by becoming immersed in the men’s affairs as they put their lives back together and return to the dating scene.” Interesting casting, can’t wait to see their chemistry.
If this is not enough good news for the sitcom world, TV Land has ordered two more episodes for Hot in Cleveland’s third season bringing their total to 24!
Remember before Hot in Cleveland when they were saying that sitcoms were dead? Well thanks to TV Land for bringing them back to life.
